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Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Post by sansnomme »

Grimm665 wrote: post #133
titzer wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why it's so important that we resist pressure to upload everything to the cloud. Buy a 64 or 128GiB flash drive and put your whole collection there. (plus one probably for backup). Copy it to all your local machine(s). Copy the important stuff to your mobile.

I wouldn't trust flash drives for a whole library of hard-to-replace music, they fail all the time and they're hard to recover once they do. Better to use a NAS, external hard drive, or cloud storage you pay for like S3.

A RAID NAS! Anything less won't cut it.

Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Post by toong »

edpichler wrote: post #136
sschueller wrote: post #24

What bugs me is that quite a lot of things are not available. I ripped my entire CD collection and uploaded into Google Music (not sure if that feature still exists). I have all this music available but I can not find it on other peoples google music. So if I share a song, they get an error. Most of this music is nothing special and quite mainstream but if I search on other peoples devices I can not find the songs on…

Man, I lost my precious childhood videos after "saving" on the cloud. Google deleted it because of some seconds of the background music of AC/DC's on the radio.

Aww. This will only get worse over time!

Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Post by voltagex_ »

cameronbrown wrote: post #123
hutzlibu wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With Valve (steam) involved and wine much improved, it is a thing now, but you are still very limited compared to windows.

Agreed. The only major problems right now are alternative clients and anti-cheat engines (many of which inject themselves into the Windows Kernel, yeah...) not working. Seems Valve may be leaning on publishers to fix that though.[0] [0] https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/apparently-valve-are-...

A slight hitch: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/10/08/epic-games-buyin... and https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/964284402741149698...

Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Post by fibers »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #130
titzer wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why it's so important that we resist pressure to upload everything to the cloud. Buy a 64 or 128GiB flash drive and put your whole collection there. (plus one probably for backup). Copy it to all your local machine(s). Copy the important stuff to your mobile.

Missing my 160GB iPod Classic honestly. But nowadays oddly enough Google Play Music has most of the music I want and when they dont as OP does I upload them. One thing I do is buy the music and download it locally. Google Play Music gives me proper high quality MP3s compared to Apples m3a or whatever those were. Licensing deals are stupid. Also I do see smaller artists on Google Play Music being lumped together with…

i mean...you can load a good chunk of your library on an 400gb sd card and play it on your phone. it seems more battery efficient than constantly streaming music from an online account even when the cache expires consistently

Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Post by indigochill »

titzer wrote: post #97
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #64

Worth noting here that ripping a CD is a copyright infringement, yes even for individuals, here in UK. We had about 2 years when it wasn't. Yes, that means Apple iTunes and the like provide tools for copyright infringement -- far worse than the young adult that got extradited to USA for providing links on a website (which is allowed in UK law) -- and in theory could be sued for contributory infringement.

Wow, that sucks. Ripping a CD is (still) not illegal in the US. Neither is sharing a CD with a friend.

So one could in theory create a distribution network of friends sharing and ripping CDs? We could call it... Wrapster.

Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Post by voltagex_ »

comboy wrote: post #20
munmaek wrote: post #2

I buy CDs occasionally and rip them, but it's 2019, there's no real need to amass a CD collection (unless you want to). For most of my needs, spotify works out. I don't mind paying $10/mo since I use the offline listening so much. I only buy and rip CDs for my own collection if I -really- like that album or a song on it, and a web download isn't available. Occasionally spotify doesn't have a very specific version of…

For all flac lovers: http://abx.digitalfeed.net/ I do understand the sentiment though.

Sure, but without FLAC I wouldn't be able to have my music in Opus without re-encoding from a lossy format.

Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Post by raehik »

Where are my Rockbox users at? My tiny plastic Sansa Clip+ MP3 player has been going for years, I'd be nothing without it. >10hrs playback, supports >128 GB microSD, plays OGG/FLAC/MP3/AAC/anything. The Rockbox firmware is still being developed, albeit at a slow pace.

By far the best combination of hardware+firmware I own. Unlikely to replace it for another few years. Sadly not produced any more :(

Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Post by reaperducer »

Grimm665 wrote: post #133
titzer wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why it's so important that we resist pressure to upload everything to the cloud. Buy a 64 or 128GiB flash drive and put your whole collection there. (plus one probably for backup). Copy it to all your local machine(s). Copy the important stuff to your mobile.

I wouldn't trust flash drives for a whole library of hard-to-replace music, they fail all the time and they're hard to recover once they do. Better to use a NAS, external hard drive, or cloud storage you pay for like S3.

Seems like overkill for OP's 64 gigs of music. Just buy two or three flash drives as backups. They're dirt cheap and bog simple.

Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

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Post by wiz21c »

I went the CD road too and use a squeezebox. Very fine.

Except that ripping audio cd is tedious. Does anyone know about a music player that, once it sees a new CD, plays it and rips it at the same time (so I just play my CD and, next time, magic !, my CD is ripped)

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