I use cmus on my laptop and vanilla music player on my phone, I like things to be simple. I have never used a streaming service but I did just decide to go back to listening to the radio and ordered myself a radio good enough to pick up shortwave and am stations from around the world, should be here tomorrow and I am looking forward to it.
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#22I've settled over the years on using syncthing to keep copies on my machine and phone. After testing quite a few android players I settled on Oto Music. I'm currently back in the Mac world and use Cog. I still like to use cmus in the terminal.
For acquiring music, the bulk I get from bandcamp. I usually try hard to get my music legally, but sometimes it isn't possible, ripping from YouTube, searching torrent sites, using russian search sites which still seem to index the blogs that stored downloadable links to music like we had about 10 years ago...
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#23Audacious + Local files
Puddletag for file metadata modification
Inbuilt "song change" plugin for logging / metadata collection
Conky for Visualization
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#24I never switched away. I still have my music that I collected since elementary school. Many songs would be impossible to find nowadays. There is no reason to go strictly one way. The good news is that you can start building your collection whenever you want.
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#25People are making a things way too hard. The old way still works. Manage your music using the native app on Macs or iTunes for Windows, sync with iPhone. Music you buy from Apple has been DRM free since 2009.
you can't bring mp3 to hell
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Apple has always sold 256KB AAC and most of their songs they sell are now lossless ALAC. Yes it’s open source and Apple provides open source implementations to convert to other lossless formats.
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#26I never switched away. I still have my music that I collected since elementary school. Many songs would be impossible to find nowadays. There is no reason to go strictly one way. The good news is that you can start building your collection whenever you want.
Same. I spent several long evenings, back in the day, ripping all my CDs into MP3s and they've been copied from computer to computer ever since, and the collection has grown too of course since then.
I have weeks worth of music and I either "select all: random play", or choose an artist and listen to all their works.
For the past week I've been listening to Depeche Mode on repeat. Maybe next week I'll switch to Prince, Madonna, Hendrix, Prodigy, or Rammstein. It all depends on my mood, I guess.
Now that buying used DVDs costs no more than €1/film I've been buying a lot of physical media from charity shops. I've not bought more audio-CDs, but now and again it crosses my mind. If I stuck to used purchases again I think I'd be looking at €1/disk which is pretty reasonable.
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#27winamp - it really whips the lama's ass
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#28I've got quite a few of my MP3s that I ripped from my CDs now on my smartphone. For a few of the ones that I missed before.... the purge, you can usually find them on YouTube or elsewhere.
I used to use WinAmp, but these days I just us VLC to play them.
I miss the good old days when you could use Napster to find music, then go to Best Buy and get the CD to keep forever.
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#29You could give my app a try:
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#30My current set up is Jellyfin with Symfonium. I don't mind the £5 cost of a purchase.
The kids are gen z and love CDs now, and ripping them is easy enough.