It really whips the llama’s ass
I downloaded Winamp the other month and god the nostalgia hit when that track played was amazing.
That so takes me back to 1999. :)
I don’t deserve respect, it was the style at the time and i just kinda never stopped doing it.
Closing in on 200Gb of mp3 where i listen to the same 5 on repeat
You sir, deserve all the respect.
MP3 library + Plex + Plex Amp is my choice.
Y’know most of us audiophiles are managing actual libraries… but they’re not mp3. Mines mostly flac.
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The only problem with flac is its size. My library of like 3500 tracks is about 80 gigs. I can fit it in a 32 gig usb if I convert them to mp3.
“managing” isn’t exactly the right word for whatever the fuck I’m doing
If I really like something, I get my own copy. Because I don’t like corporations deciding what I’m allowed to enjoy.
If this attitude were more prevalent, they wouldn’t feel as comfortable raising prices on streaming stuff so often.
Advice: FLAC is better than mp3
But mp3 is smaller and I can’t tell the difference in a blind test.
I’ll just leave this here: https://abx.digitalfeed.net/
Then for you it doesn’t matter. But it may matter to people you share your music with, and I think higher-quality should proliferate instead of lower-quality.
Also I listened to that A/B test - glitchy mess on my android phone for some reason, but still got 23/25 with my $10 Panasonic earbuds.
Most people can’t tell. That’s why 128kb streaming is doing so well. It’s also why “hifi” streaming is just snake oil, and FLAC and any bitrate above 128 is a waste of space. Anybody’s who’s into music should take that test and figure out if they should be storing FLACs and paying for things like Tidal.
But it takes all sorts, like for example listening to FLAC with $10 Panasonic earbuds.
Hold on, you can totally hear the difference between 128 and 320 kbps encoded MP3s, even with some generic mobile phone earbuds.
I don’t notice it on any of my sound listening options, never have but I definitely do hear it on a buddies high end setup
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You don’t? At low bitrates, cymbals start to sound like crumpling cardboard to me.
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I normally just listen to podcasts on those earbuds, but it’s what I had at the moment, so it’s what I used.
Maybe for you rich people who can afford $10 for a 256gb ssd.
Kidding aside, I’ve been collecting digital music literally since Napster, and a lot of it is mp3 because storage was a commodity for a long time - getting flacs meant I had better quality of less music.
Now that things are changing, when I want to listen to something old, and I notice it’s a lie quality mp3, I had over to see my cousin Roman. (Was that dude Russian? Does that euphemism work? How about My Friend Vlad or something. Russian torrent sites. I’m talking about Russian torrent sites.)
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Holy duck, the days of slsk chat having thousands of people in the channels, having active channels for every genre under the sun - and some that weren’t - those were the days. Straight up chill chat, no chat history, no scoring system, no hierarchies, no gatekeeping - and the only lists of friends you had were private, not like collections your could be evaluated by. The only reputation you could develop was by being an active member of the community - and you were forgotten the day after you stopped posting…
You were judged by how many files were in your share folder, and how well organized it was.
So wait are you saying it’s still alive? Could it return?? Are we taking back the Internet from Facebook and Amazon???
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Still fits in a 1 TB sd card… Barely!
A 1TB SD card costs the same as a single vinyl LP right now.
It’s not even a concern.
However, I have a box of CDs that I ripped to 96kbps Vorbis in the early 2000s, and I think this time I’ll go straight to FLAC. Plex will transcode to the flavour-of-the-month codec on the fly when listening with limited bandwidth.
I have my flacs on a 2tb nvme drive in a little usb-c enclosure, kinda like a big USB stick. It’s about half full… Also have a couple hundred records so I’m pretty agnostic on format I guess. Still use foobar2000 too to manage and play lol
over 50k flac’s perfectly sorted with MusicBrainz Picard. So used to it I don’t see any inconvenience
Loved MusicBrainz when I first found it. Saved me so much time dicking around renaming my files how I wanted them
I have the same mp3 I ripped from a cd decades ago that has a bug in one of the tracks, and I love it.
Man I love when you download a song you haven’t heard in years and it’s the same rip from when you were a teenager, there’s certain songs I can’t listen to on Spotify because they don’t have that random audio artefact.
I have so many of those. Some songs were longer than the version I downloaded, and the true version sounds wrong to me. Can’t help it.
I have a song where the riff leading into the chorus is shorter by half second and I’m constantly coming in early on the chorus unless I listen to the good copy.
I’ve been using the same off-brand MP3 player for like 15 years now. That thing is indestructible and has better battery life than my phone
My creative zen still works perfectly, even has sd storage
I’ve been using an 8 GB MP3 player I got 6 years ago for 30 bucks and a full charge still lasts for hours and hours.
Meanwhile I’m still enjoying my Bandcamp. They give me vinyl records and everything.
Exactly. I’m enjoying it while it lasts.
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*torrents syndrome
Time for some soul seeking
Mullvad doesn’t support port forwarding anymore.
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Sure, if you don’t know how to set it up properly, it is crucial for filesharing applications.
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Cry me a lagoon.
They complain about profit margin, when the margin is it costs 3 billion to make 3.5 billion. I mean, after everything is paid off, they are only left with 500 million. Can’t you see that it cost them 3 billion to make that 500 million? They just paid 3 billion for that.
I really wonder if they think that sometimes.
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Oh, don’t get me started on all the bailouts and the companies that are too big to let fail. And what about the free market? What’s supposed to happen in a free market? Even Adam Smith, the person coined the term capitalism, believes unregulated capitalism will not work.
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The guy on the left has mp3, the guy on the right has aif and the guy in the middle has flac
The owner of the mansion they’re having the party in: wav
Flac rule
.flac or bust
i have 50gb of music that accumulated over the years. my phone has 128gb drive. no way i would be able to use flacs
I have a collection of flacs but convert them for my phone to something lossless
I assume you mean lossy?
Yes, indeed
Don’t forget about .ape.
Please do forget about .ape. Proprietary, obscure format. Only advantage is that under some circumstances it can get you higher compression rates than flac. But it’s way more resource intensive to decode so that advantage is really more theoretical. Use flac, forget ape.
