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hear, hear!
As a public information aside, the phrase is actually "hear, hear".
Hm - either parent has edited, or you are objecting to an exclamation mark.
My New Sony NW-A55 Walkman
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While Spotify covers most popular stuff there's a huge amount of music that isn't available on any streaming service. Plus, your content might disappear any day. I use Spotify for previewing, exploring and making some buying decisions but my actual collection is mine . It's lossless, DRM-free and I plan to have it for ages to come.
This is it for me, I used Apple Music for a few years and eventually I noticed that some of my playlists would have tracks missing - sometimes a listing would be ghosted, sometimes it would straight up vanish. I called time, brought a A50 and haven't looked back: https://chanc.ee/posts/20200830-abandon-stream.html Granted my music tastes are esoteric but silently modifying my playlists felt grievous. Now I make sure…
But the nice thing about apple music is that you can add any song to it on your PC and it syncs it to all your devices. So if you have an esoteric taste, you can mix it in with the streaming service.
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#153Being inundated with notifications is not a problem with the god damned smartphone. It's a problem with you not being able to set up apps to shut the hell up if they don't have any business throwing notifications your way.
I see this argument all the time and it's completely foreign to me. I get notifications on messages, lost calls and some very specific emails regarding downtime or exceptions in production. That's it, and it works very, very well.
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#154The worst about modern MP3 players is that they have little to zero buttons.
I am on my second Sony E39X since my FiiO died a while ago. The Sony are way to expensive for the quality, but other button MP3 players are a different weight and price class.
I hate wasting battery for a fancy screen and Android like OS, like most MP3 players these days.
The reason I never stopped using a MP3 player is because I have 20/30+ hours of HQ music organized in folders, just as I like it.
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#155I am mostly confused by what the author thinks the selling point is. > I can’t describe what a breath of fresh air this is compared to how bad modern smartphone music and streaming apps have become. Well, I was hoping they would try to describe it, because personally, I would have to wear my most deeply shaded nostalgia glasses to think that MP3 player UX has ever been comparable to what Spotify offers nowadays. And…
I don't remember any of the MP3 players desperately trying to shove podcast down my throat instead of showing my music. They also never lost all my downloaded music in the first 30 minutes of an 11 hour flight due to a crash bug.
So just in those simple ways Spotify is worse.
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#156If sound quality + local music + non-android is the goal there are plenty of lossless audiophile dedicated devices with DACs and amps built in on Amazon, with some nice designs: https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-M11Plus-Resolution-Portable-Blue... https://www.amazon.com/Surfans-F35-Resolution-Music-Player/d... https://www.amazon.com/iRULU-F20-Bluetooth-Lossless-Resoluti...
Cool... But will they last?
I owned a FiiO many years ago, took it travelling, drowned it multiple times and it died underwater, still playing music on a boat after like 6 years of constant use and abuse. It's the best device I ever owned.
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#157Sony phone and spotify. What's not to like other than a lack of Sony 360 content?
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#158Question: is there any hardware related proof that this thing can play music better than any modern iPhone?
Edit: With better I mean in terms of quality of the outgoing analog signal.
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#159Can anyone recommend a good non-streaming, album-centric music player for Android?
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#160I am mostly confused by what the author thinks the selling point is. > I can’t describe what a breath of fresh air this is compared to how bad modern smartphone music and streaming apps have become. Well, I was hoping they would try to describe it, because personally, I would have to wear my most deeply shaded nostalgia glasses to think that MP3 player UX has ever been comparable to what Spotify offers nowadays. And…
> but probably not applicable in general and likely worse than the market solution. Worse, for which usecase? I as a musician like to listen to full albums (as opposed to single songs) I like to manually read up on music and then listen to that specific music from that specific world region and era. Spotify can be neat to discover some starting points for that search, but it is arguably shit at the listening experien…
> Worse, for which usecase?
For most use cases.
> I as a musician like to listen to full albums [...]
How does Spotify prohibits you as a musician from listening to an album or reading up on music or looking at music from eras? I detect nothing in any of these tasks that Spotify would make harder than any of the alternativ ways I know of. If anything it should be easier, considering the considerable amount of meta information that resides in Spotify (for example finding music from a specific era or displaying lyrics) and that you don't have to gather yourself.
> How would you do that on spotify?
I wouldn't. I would use foobar for that, because that's the right tool for the job. I also try no get confused about what the job is, what the available tools are and which tool can replace which for a specific job.