Go FLAC or go home.

You mean there's more of me out there?!

✅ No buffering, music starts instantly

✅ No connection issues

✅ No monthly money drain

✅ No arbitrary access or availability revocation

❌ No immediate access to any song I want to hear, but

✅ I'm patient

Am I too FLAC to get these joke?

The guy on the left has mp3, the guy on the right has aif and the guy in the middle has flac

What features have been removed from Spotify?

FLAC master race check in.

To all the friends I never met:

I am running a homeserver with all my music, videos, books, articles, source, etc. here is how you do it↓

• get a old desktop computer
• install gnu/linux on it
• connect it to your router through ethernet
• install nextcloud
• install samba, create a smb partition on your new server
• mount the drive into your regular computer, phone, laptop, tv. smart-stereo.
• enjoy all your music from anywhere without cluttering your devices with music, movies or books, or articles, or , or, or
• I usually just use vlc to access any media on my smb share :D just works
• get the nextcloud-client for phone and your other devices and access your smb share that way if you like and upload fotos, video or music there. :D

Thank me later (also if you use ALL linux devices you can skip the smb part and just use netdriv

Whips the llamas ass

I'm surprised more folks on here don't like FLAC.. it fits better 😉

Yall may hate on em, but Spotify has not only made my life easier in that I don't have to first pirate then sort all my music, but has also got me through some difficult times by recommending music that I would have never found otherwise. I've found groups that I love that have maybe 2000 monthly listens. Went to concerts in places I've never been for bands I never would have found. It's more than just listening to your own music. The Monday and Friday discover playlists have been more beneficial to me than most anything else on this planet.

MULLVAD! Wireguard configuration! Quantum resistant encryption! Multi-hop!

ProtonVPN!

Qbittorrent!

Sorry...there I go again with my Tourette's syndrome, spouting off the names of random software.

You should never pirate things! How are billionaires supposed to afford their colossal mansions on huge plots of land in the most expensive areas of the world if we pirate things?!

Billionaires has to step on and fuck over so many people to get where they are now! If we pirate things, they won't be able to afford their platinum toilets covered in diamonds! Or their $50,000 watches. or their $5000 designer suits that they wear once and throw away every day.

The Enshittification has forced us to revisit the old way

It really whips the llama's ass

.flac or bust

I recently started ripping all my Spotify playlists using spotdl to put them on my Plex. Spotdl doesn't actually download from Spotify but uses it as a source for the metadata to tag the files but it gets the audio by matching to YouTube music and downloading from there. From there I import to lidarr for renaming / organization.

It's been more than 25 years of accumulating mp3, editing and cleaning my libraries, upgrading to flac, etc. Now going strong at around 600gb of music.

I don't deserve respect, it was the style at the time and i just kinda never stopped doing it.

Closing in on 200Gb of mp3 where i listen to the same 5 on repeat

Ive done the library management before. For the moment I'm still content with paying for spotify premium. I bet they will raise their prices in the future to make me rethink that, but for now i enjoy not having to manage a huge collection and my spotify recommendations arent terrible yet.

Y'know most of us audiophiles are managing actual libraries.... but they're not mp3. Mines mostly flac.

I was the kid ripping CD's not to MP3 but to ogg Vorbis

Because - open source baby! 🥹😅

My journey to mp3s was weird. Phones were already becoming common in high school but I wanted a music player after using the in-game ipod in Metal Gear Solid 4. But iPod classics were expensive and weren't drag and drop. Being on flights and in areas with spotty reception really made me see the value of portable offline music. No ads, no buffering, and no drain on my phone battery.

Yup I still use a standalone player. I got a Sony Walkman NWZ-385 first which was 8GB. It has the best ui I've seen on a player and I still have it. But now I moved on to a Sandisc with a 256GB micro sd card. Before I had to pick and choose but now I can have hours long files just dropped in no prob. And I have it a copy of everything on my pc hard drive.

Opus is the best. Anyone still using mp3s in 2023 is living in the past. Some users can still hear a difference between 256kbit/s mp3 audio and uncompressed audio while Opus reaches transparency at about 120kbit/s.

In the realm of compression transparency is when the compressed medium is indistinguishable from the source audio by a human

I still buy music CDs and rip them to mp3s. Then I sync my Music collection to the various devices. I even sync it to a USB stick that plugs into the car. I don't have Spotify; I have Strawberry.

I just bought two CDs today.

Do yourself a favor and get a record player and some records, vinyl if you can. Then sit down and really listen. Don't do anything else while listening. It pays off, I promise.

What features did Spotify nix?

Is there any piece of software that can help a degenerate like me fix my MP3 collection to not be such a fucking messy nightmare? Paid or free doesn't matter to me.

I don't add anything to it (not even sure I could) but I still use my Zune every now and then.