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?

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 😉

.flac or bust

The Enshittification has forced us to revisit the old way

It really whips the llama's ass

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.

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.

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.

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

Because - open source baby! 🥹😅

If I really like something, I get my own copy. Because I don't like corporations deciding what I'm allowed to enjoy.

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

"managing" isn't exactly the right word for whatever the fuck I'm doing

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

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.

My personal mp3 collection is quite comprehensive. I use musicolet to play songs at random in the car.

I find that much more rewarding than anything Spotify has to offer.

Advice: FLAC is better than mp3

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.

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.

What features did Spotify nix?

My brother once shared an rdio playlist with me. I used the firefox dev tools to download all of the songs to my library. A few months later, rdio shut down. To this day, a piece of rdio lives on on my hard drive.

over 50k flac's perfectly sorted with MusicBrainz Picard. So used to it I don't see any inconvenience

Laughs in 8TB NAS

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

I have the same mp3 I ripped from a cd decades ago that has a bug in one of the tracks, and I love it.