I've been slowly getting into saving data - mostly books, at this point, with about a terabyte of movies too. One big section I'm neglecting is music - I save data so that I can use it later if I don't have internet access, and I'd go nuts without my music.
At the moment, I use Spotify because it works well. I've got a ton of playlists, ton of different genres I like, but there's one big issue being that I don't actually own the music, it's just getting streamed to me.
What I'd like to do is download the music of all my favorite artists - if I had to guess, around two thousand songs - and then store it in a way that lets me easily play what I want (ie not just playing a single MP3 at a time, being able to set up playlists and such).
One problem: I don't have the foggiest fucking clue how to do that! I've hardly even used CDs in my life, never owned an Ipod or anything - yes, I'm an adult, just a young one - so I don't really know what my options are. I've downloaded a few albums and they can play on my macbook through iMusic, but again - reliant on Apple staying functional and having internet.
Is there some sort of homebrew music player I could build? Should I be looking at an iPod? Portability isn't a massive deal - maybe a bunch of CDs and a player?
TLDR: want to have all my favorite songs available totally offline, help a dude out.