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Re: The Last Format

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Post by xte » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 10:42 AM UTC

This is a problem common to ANY "personal interested data", it's the very same for videos, mails, messages, discussions, ...

The trend is lock even better people pushing them to offload their personal stuff and this trend unfortunately keep evolving really fast.

One of the last alarming thing I discover is from my bank (Europian, big well-known, not involved in any recent big scandal etc): they offer a digital sign service so I can do more operation via internet banking... Only the bank hold the key. They simply say you go to your personal page, type your OTP and a key pin we give to you in print and that's signed. WTF?! Unfortunately I think many IT-ignorant people will find this service nice...

Re: The Last Format

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Post by lostgame » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 12:40 PM UTC

I still buy vinyl by the boatload and they come with MP3 or uncompressed audio cards, usually, so I’ve actually got a large collection of good quality MP3’s. I understand I am the outlier here.

Re: The Last Format

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Post by daveslash » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

nicetryguy wrote: post #8

This premise is ridiculous. Just visit https://youtubemp3.rip/ or any of the other thousand sites that do this. Or, you can just record the music as you listen to it using Audacity for example, and save them as an MP3 or any other format. Of course, these tasks require about a minute of minimal effort. In our fast paced modern world of music streaming, who has time to load up an audio program and hit Record? Or type…

I still have MP3 files in my collection that I recorded off the radio. I recorded them off the radio with a cassette tape while in junior high. In my latter years of High School, I digitized them by running an aux cable between the cassette player's headphone jack and a Windows 98 PC's microphone jack. I know which ones are recorded off the radio because they miss the first second or two of the song.

Re: The Last Format

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Post by ValentineC » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 4:33 PM UTC

flukus wrote: post #6

eximius wrote: post #2

> Holding music, either in your hand or on a personal hard drive, is a relic of Obama-era music consumption. How is this true in any sense?

I never used much physical media (napster generation), but I still keep a local music collection on hard drive. I tried cloud options but it's simply a horrible experience when travelling, which is where I spend most of my time listening to music. General problems that aren't going away soon are the latency between clicking next and the song starting is way too high, especially annoying when you shuffle through a few…

> Some google music specific problems were using tonnes of data even when I'm just playing cached files and things like hitting the next button twice in a row will give random results depending on which web request comes back first.

I haven't had these problems with downloaded music on the iOS version of Google Play Music.

I thought it had a pretty good player app, but I'm now trying Apple Music for discovering new stuff. The Apple Music app, in my opinion, has worse UX. Good thing I'm just on the free 3-month trial.

Re: The Last Format

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Post by pampa » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 7:13 PM UTC

lostgame wrote: post #12

I still buy vinyl by the boatload and they come with MP3 or uncompressed audio cards, usually, so I’ve actually got a large collection of good quality MP3’s. I understand I am the outlier here.

I had a huge digital audio collection of mp3's and various lossy and lossless formats, but last year I burned the ZFS raid with the collection by accident. After several month of grieving, i decided to rebuild my collection, but this time using physical media - CD's, vinyl records, cassette and reel-to-reel tapes.

It was a revelation. I found it so liberating to be able to listen to music "unplugged". I can get home from work, put on a record or cd and listen to music without having to open the laptop or mess with the phone.

It also changed the way I listen to music - no skipping tracks, listen to the whole album start to finish. I found that I missed out on a lot of music when I just skipped thru an album because I didn't like the first 2 bars.