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Most people don't have the medium. I have 30Go of music files on my laptop, that I carefull update, and backup. I add to the collection once in a while. But f
by BiteCode_dev 5y ago
Most people don't have the medium.
I have 30Go of music files on my laptop, that I carefull update, and backup. I add to the collection once in a while.
But few do that anymore: no cd player in devices, and file systems are being abstracted away remember?
So they listen to music on youtube, spotify, soundcloud, etc.
They don't own the music, hence they can't chose the player.
- winternett 5y agoYouTube music offered to import my personal music library (on my phone). I declined, because the last time I allowed that to happen on Google Play Music (now retired) it was covertly deleting music from my library, and carefully picking which songs to play every time I used it. You simply can't trust free apps any more. Probably can't even trust many of the paid ones because making people buy the same thing multiple times is more profitable for opportunistic individuals. Keep backups in multiple (independent) locations.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoFree as in free beer apps no. But FOSS apps are still there for you. VLC is to this day the best video players, across all OS, and can read music. It's as not convenient to play music though.
- screature2 5y agore:FOSS music players I liked foobar2000 for music, esp. if you wanted to play lossless formats like FLAC files re:parent comment, i feel like the streaming "free" music app/services are more iterations on radio stations rather than iterations on music players since radio has ads, pseudo random playlists, requirement to be "connected" etc. Maybe unpopular opinion, but in comparison w/radio, I tend to think streaming actually looks pretty good.