Dan Gravell

No, Backblaze removed egress fees (with some caveats) 6 months ago https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2023-product-announcement/

Thanks - you're right, it is a concern - but broadly egress seems to be in retreat these days following the realisation just how much of people's AWS bills are "Data Transfer"! Plus, on the really consumer grade services like Google Drive and Dropbox it simply isn't a thing.

Sorry - no idea. The email notification was addressed to me as an end-user of the service.

I've just heard that BRIO is ceasing service (rather abruptly) at the end of this month (March 2024). If anyone needs any help migrating to Astiga ( https://asti.ga - fully native streaming from cloud storage) let me know... Disclaimer: Astiga is a commercial product.

Thanks for the feedback 🙂 . Understand about the fees - egress is coming down across the board, so I think things are going in the right direction.

Via any app that either connects directly (e.g. https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/02/10/comparison-best-cloud-music-players/ ) or plays the files via an S3 compatible sync or virtual filesystem.

B2, yes.

For most people it's absolutely fine for storing music to playback from. I appreciate readers here may have different priorities to others, but music streaming seems to work for many people.

Personally I'm more of a minimalist - mo' metadata, mo' problems... Try to constrain tags to the minimum you need, plus immutable fields that won't change. So that's basic titles, identifier fields (e.g. MB IDs) and structural ones (that describe each track's position in its wider release).

I wish this would stop being repeated - it's simply not true, and arguably not even close. That said, the context of the above quote is about it being cheap at $10/month - and that I agree with, for what you get.

The move to free (ish) egress in B2 is positive - it makes the storage much more flexible.

I'm currently using Wasabi - works out well. Used rclone to upload my library and it worked pretty seamlessly.

Just use the laptop, it's going to be the easiest way. It's very, very standard to connect a laptop to a NAS and copy files there. Likely, their 'download manager' is just monitoring a standard HTTP download, and in theory you could plug the URL that is used into Download Manager on the NAS. However you'd need to find the URL, which probably isn't exposed, the URL might not be signed, so you would have to work out how to authenticate, and there might be other things to get around too. So I refer you to my first paragraph.

Looks like their download manager doesn't run on iPads... but I bet there's a way around it :-D Do you not have a Windows/Linux/macOS computer? You mentioned a laptop - just install the download manager there, make your purchases on the laptop, and move the files to the NAS.

Sorry - you're correct, that's the 1TB cost I quoted, I must've been rushing and forgot to apply it to this case. So basically quite a lot of money!