I still play physical CDs every day. Still buying them, although that is getting to be more difficult, sadly.
I have a nice Rotel CD player at home and a CD player in my vehicle. I got a great CD/DVD duplicator for $50 used so all those CDs in my truck are easily disposable copies of my originals that stay at home.
I should rip them all but that is a lot of work. I did rip many of them to 192 khz mp3s a while ago so that has been enough so far.
Streaming is nice but the fuckery will continue and they can miss me with that shit.
This made me remember that my five CD disk cartridge in my Volvo no longer works … it’s great to have access to physical content but mechanical things break down too.
Yes things do break down. They still sell CD players. Scamazon has many portable ones including Sony. I bought my main home CD player art worst buy ( magnolia).
I recently bought a portable CD player that outputs a FM signal. So I can play my CDs on the radio now. Which can replace a car CD player. Studebaker brand.
But IDK about new car audio with a CD player. A quick look at Crutchfield shows they do still sell CD players and DVD players.
Almost 300GB of MP3s, and I keep everything organised. All 320kbps, all tags correct, artwork done, etc… I started this years ago and simply kept on doing it. I have a separate hard drive for music, and another to back it all up. I even use a Fiio X1 MP3 player that I purchased around 2013. MP3 players were getting hard to buy as it was back then. If this breaks, not sure what I am doing? It’s all quite retro and old school, I guess?
Squeezebox. Slimserver. Redacted.
The holy trinity.
Slimserver!!!
Subscribed to Google Music when it was still a thing for about a year. Found it largely horrible for music discovery, which was surprising to me because prior to it I had discovered music mostly manually (browsing websites, etc.).
I wound up going back to running my own streaming software from my own MP3 catalog and haven’t really looked back since.
That’s almost identical to my story. After that, I found Navidrome, which started my adventure in self-hosting. I’ve never looked back
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.flac or bust
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 had 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
What features did Spotify nix?
I share mp3s via google Drive links. browsers know how to play them
I have several playlist. Largest is my “Pop” @ 4854. I add new music every week.
Never considered a streaming service.
“managing” isn’t exactly the right word for whatever the fuck I’m doing
I recently moved the old archive to a new drive and started adding to it again. The enshittification of all the things is real, seems like if it’s something I’d like to re-watch or listen to the only sane way I’ll be able to do so is by making sure I have a copy some company can’t yoyo around.
Bandcamp, Supraph Online, Ototoy, Uta 573, Steam and GOG’s OSTs and Apple’s iTunes store have been my to-go options. No DRM, no worries. Just avoid Apple’s music subscription, as it is DRM’d.
https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.zionhuang.music/
Just gonna throw that in here completely unrelated 👀
