No privacy terrors? What short memories we have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
Brutal, but only really affects people who should have no expectation of privacy to begin with, such as Windows users.
Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
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#192What 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…
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.
If privacy is not an issue, a dump feature solves this. Available for Google services and unofficial ones are there for many more. Clouds that don't provide such a feature are probably not worth using.
Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
#193On a tangent: Does anyone here have a good solution for self-operated music playback for kids? Suitable for age 2+?
Moving away from physical media has made selecting their own music much more abstract and difficult to manage for kids.
I am aware of the Toniebox (in germany) which operates with NFC-figurines (i guess) which are pretty expensive.
Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
#194The #1 reason to use CDs / LPs:
Music "devices" have insanely bad UX. Like absolutely fucking awful.
I've got a 10 kilobuck set of speakers that take (in the highest SQ config) a digital input. The "best" solution I've come up with is to use a portable player that has a coax digital out. This is a well reviewed portable player and one that supposedly is happy driving a home stereo.
It's fucking awful.
Keeping the thing charged, free of ground loops and finding albums on it is so painful I listen to my stereo way less than I should. Oh, and the update loop for getting new music on it? Fuck.
Of course, I sold my CD player years ago and got rid of most of my CDs. Every time I struggle to turn on my stereo I consider buying a CD player, burner and a few spindles of blank CDs.
Yes, I could drive the setup with a computer and a USB / SPDIF adapter.
WHAT THE FUCK HAS GONE WRONG THAT THE BEST SOLUTION IS TO BUY A SEPARATE COMPUTER TO FUCKING PLAY THE CONTENT OF CDS?
Re: Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
RAID is not backup. It doesn't protect against accidental deletion, malware, fire, etc...
It only protects you against disk failure, and it is mostly used to make sure the data is still available as you change disks. Not for long term data protection. Overall, a RAID NAS is probably not that safer than a standard external hard drive. RAID is mostly there to make sure that you can benefit from high performance, high capacity and networking without sacrificing reliability.
If you have two disks and availability is not a problem (you can afford not to listen to music as you restore from backup), you are better off with an external hard drive used only for backup/restore operation and kept somewhere safe when not in use.
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#196I've got all my music ripped to FLAC, sitting on my file server, a little N40L microserver with 8tb mirrored storage (my music takes about 300gb total). On the server, I've got a script that uses ffmpeg to convert from flac to whatever format I want (currently aac and mp3, which my player devices support). The script also applies replaygain to keep the volume consistent. I run the script once and it processes the who…
I know it was not your intention but your comment reminds me of the infamous HN comment on why dropbox is useless and would never be successful.[1] :))
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."
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#197Where 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 :(
My tiny plastic Sansa Clip+ MP3 player has been going for years, I'd be nothing without it
I have three iPod Shuffles I keep in my work bag. The blue one has my most recent music, the red one has various work-related playlists, and the orange one has crooners and relaxing music.
I have the same music on my phone, but it's just not the same. The shuffles bring CD/cassette/album intimacy and focus to the music in a way that a do-everything contraption can't.
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#198Where 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 :(
Yeah, I really liked it. My last Sansa Clip+ broke a couple of month ago, though. I couldn't find a decent replacement yet.
Try the Goodwill auction site. They show up there occasionally, though often mislabeled as iPods.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
I once was chatting with a producer who worked for Disney for around 15 years. He said the so-called “warm” tone of vinyl vs the “harsh” sound of CDs is really that the vinyl format acts as a partial low-pass filter. So it’s really just that you’re hearing less high-freq sound on vinyl than on a CD.
Perhaps. I have heard they also master differently for vinyl since it can't provide the same dynamic, frequency, or stereo range as digital. Some listeners find the result more appealing.
Sometimes the vinyl master is in fact better, because it is less compressed, because a mastering engineer can assume that people listening to vinyl got a decent sound system, while mastering for "web" means people have phone speakers, laptop speakers, hifi systems, whatever.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, Goa works for me. Try Astral Projection, Hallucinogen. https://ektoplazm.com/ is a great place to start sampling this type of music for free.
I generally like throwing on di.fm while working, but have started to really dislike commercial breaks.
Try mixcloud.