But managing music isn't hard. If you still know how to use folder structures and foobar2000 then it's absolutely not hard. I don't bother with listening to mu

But managing music isn't hard. If you still know how to use folder structures and foobar2000 then it's absolutely not hard. I don't bother with listening to music on my phone because it doesn't have a 4.4mm headphone jack on it and it doesn't have a headphone jack on it and while it does support my USB DAC it's kind of cumbersome... Plus I set up a old laptop from 2008 that runs Windows XP and unofficial service pack 4 and a lightweight shell replacement with foobar. It's got my DAC amp hooked up to it and it can play DSD Or FLAC (I tested up too 192khz 24bit) straight over ASIO. I can't stand streaming services for music it doesn't make any sense. I tried to make it work so many times. I got a really nice expensive Bluetooth headset that supports all the lossless crap and it's still doesn't feel right. Sitting down knowing that my music is all there in two different places locally on that not network connected laptop and locally on my network attached storage so any computer on my network can get to it including my phone using a file browser app over SMB to transfer to the drive of my phone if I really need to play it on the go. The only thing that makes some of my music gather dust is that it's so hard to justify in modern times being okay with sitting down in a room doing nothing except for indulging yourself with wonderful music. That might just be me and I might need to work on that but... "Managing" The library isn't the issue at least for me. I'll also add that I guess for me music listening is about intentionality. I'm not a big fan of just having ambient music on with no intention behind it, no focus towards it. If I'm working on something and I want music on then yeah I load up my dedicated music machine and pipe that into my headphones while I'm working. But most of the time I like a focused approach to listening to an album. I'm going to sit down I want to hear this album right now and I'm not going to do anything else at the same time.