What are your thoughts on finding a good level of subscriptions for online services, such as storage, photo backup, music streaming, video streaming?

Personal situation: I don’t want a ton of subscriptions. I take lots of photos. I listen to music quite a bit. I live in a household that has Android, iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Linux, … and a Synology NAS that is already filling up with old music and video stuff from before streaming, phone photo backups as well as the photos from the big camera (manually copied so far). I currently pay for two cloud storage thingies and have to free ones, 3/4 are full :P We also have Spotify Family and cut down to only (HBO) Max and public service for video plus sometimes getting something specific for a month or two.

Any experiences or other observations welcome as well!

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    24 days ago

    You can get everything under one brand with google.

    Drive Photos Yt Music Yt tv

    It’s designed to be device agnostic.

    You can also do most of this with your Synology

    • 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      1·
      23 days ago

      Do they have any bundle offers like Apple One? It really adds up quickly. I’m honestly hoping for some Black Friday deals that reduce the cost for whatever I end up choosing.

      • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        2·
        23 days ago

        You probably just need Google One and Youtube Premium, which includes Youtube Music Premium.

        Of course, if you don’t care about YouTube Premium, you could instead get a family subscription to a different music streaming service - Spotify, Tidal, and Apple Music are all leagues better than Youtube Music, in my opinion.

        I don’t personally recommend Google for anything, to be clear.