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"Why play music from your hard drive? No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms"
by m1el 7y ago
"Why play music from your hard drive? No Ads, No Privacy Terrors, No Algorithms"
- taneq 7y agoYeah, I feel like people have forgotten mp3s somehow. - Storage cost is trivial even with multiple backups - Can be better quality than streaming - Available offline, forever, at no extra cost Sure, in some jurisdictions it's not legal to rip CDs you own but it's easy enough to defend morally if you're doing it for private use.
- loudmax 7y agoPretty sure you're using 'mp3s' in a general sense, but I'm going to nitpick because I love audio format geekery. If you're going to rip your CDs, you should consider ripping to FLAC and Opus. The only reason to rip to mp3 is that basically every legacy device out there understands the mp3 format and knows how to play it. If you're playing back on a phone or PC or a more modern device, you should use a modern format. Both FLAC and Opus are totally open source. FLAC is lossless and will reproduce your source CD bit for bit, but in a compressed format. Listening to music in a FLAC format is the same as listening to the original CD. Opus is a lossy format, so you lose some fidelity by necessity, but if you make that trade it's the best quality you're going to get. A double blind test had it outperform AAC and Vorbis, and significantly outperform mp3. I rip my CDs to FLAC and store those files on my NAS. Then I convert the FLAC files to medium quality Opus files and those go on the SD card in my phone. I don't use old mp3 players, so I can do without mp3s.
- taneq 7y agoTrue. My collection is all in mp3 format but any local DRM-free audio format has all the same advantages and usually fewer disadvantages.
- PretzelFisch 7y agoI guess it depends how much you trust the playback software. For me, at the end of the day I might choose a cd or record because its just simple and works and I am tired of dealing with software.