Dyskolos

There’s no algo in my library. I don’t stream 😉

Considering steam had it at “overwhelmingly negative” reviews a while after release… It’s maybe somewhere between 😁

Price depends on bands. Some charge a lot, some charge “what you want to give (at least 1 moneyz though)”. The latter are the best. They don’t extort me so I pay full price willingly. Those that demand fullprice can lick my hairy…u know which 😁

Tbh, I grew up with vinyl, never liked them. But only because of convenience reasons. Also I’m so ocd that I get nervous after playing it once and knowing it somehow lost quality now due to mechanics. Since CD first came out I was hooked. Convenient, fast and I could quickly choose a song etc. Then came cd-changers… Pure convenience bliss…

But with my first HD and CDROM I simply digitized every CD I had to FLAC, and now they’re just…a backup stored safe and dry. Yes they lack in quality compared to a good vinyl. Totally. Even SACDs et al can’t really compete with analogue sound.

So long story short. Can’t beat vinyl for quality if you’re audiophile enough to hear the differences. Me, personally, I’d mostly choose (SA)CDs for ease of use. Also a ripped vinyl with high Bitrate and depth is pretty close to the original yet more comfy 😑

Looks decent on a quick glance. But my library is vast and very much made around mediamonkey for 20 yrs. I need my precise auto-playlists 😉

The Genres I listen to won’t work well with that 😁

Dunno what weird music you listen too but I have no ai slop in my library.

On a phone with a cheap DAC and probably even worse headphones (maybe even wireless), it surely doesn’t matter. For the car I transcoded my stuff to mp3 too. It doesn’t really matter. Except <192kbit 😁

But for listening with audiophile equipment at home it just won’t do for me.

I do care. I only buy FLACs. Sure, the i-dont-care-streamers are the majority, but even IF I would consider streaming I’d choose tidal over Spotify for that reason.

Hearing the difference is also affected by, obviously, the hardware used for playback+listening, the genre and also the recording.

And even if you don’t hear it, it won’t degrade when transcoding and you just get the best possible source for your moneyzs. Why settle for less.

Even if. Still pretty cheap compared to streaming where you pay and never own, and it’s always a second away from being never accessible anymore for whatever reason.

Aye. Bandcamp. Buy, download FLAC, put in mediamonkey, listen in cars or anywhere else. If need be, the app is also there for streaming I guess.

…ah phew, at least its 9600 so I can finally …CARRIER LOST. Ah fuck it.

Me too. Even earlier.

But your last described problem is getting more and more obvious with the years. I always had lots of domains since there were domains for purchase. Even when it where very very expensive. Yet, despite all the progress, people so often respond to your own email with “errr...@gmail.com?” And you have to explain, no it’s just name@surname.de and they don’t understand what you’re talking about and why your email doesn’t end in gmail. And some at least know a world outside gmail, yet struggle with TLDs other than .com or .de (or other local TLDs in other countries probably)…

It hurts. And it got worse. People totally unlearned what the net even is.

Yeah. We saw the peak of the web and since then its ugly decline. Surfing today is actually more frustrating than satisfying. For me. Half the shit doesn’t work, bugs me with paywally or any other wall just to - MAYBE - finally reveal not really an answer but my problem…rephrased, dragged to five hundred words, or worse, a 20 minute video of a shit bird that shows me how he types text into notepad.

I miss the times where we had to search the search-engines. And the web would be so damn fast today if not every shit would also load 583u2 libraries of blingbling and tracktrack

That shit did work pretty decent. Yet hard to find the initial go to when you’re looking for something specific.

And guess how awesome that is with blocked google. I fucking hate lazy bastard sysops who prefer recaptcha. Half the web is basically locking me out. And cloudflare is another bad thing that monopolized infrastructure.

But first they have to care. The amount of people who don’t care for e.g. privacy - even if explained in detail - is flabbergasting. Even today I heard two times “why? I have nothing to hide” or “but WhatsApp is superior!”

I sure hope so, yet am not as optimistic as you 😑

Great idea. From a nerd 😁

But who do you think would be the target demographic? Critical users, that don’t want to use major crap but are also not suited for doing it all by themselves, either due to skill, time, money or a combination thereof?

I wouldn’t think that group is significantly large. And definitely not large enough to seriously put a dent in the major crap apps.

Better than nothing, but probably not worth investing in such a project. Sadly so, I might add.

Considering that many don’t even know anymore what a website actually is, or domains (especially TLDs that are not .com or <insert local one>)…

Also take into account that people are lazy (not meant condescending). Using the major shit is easy, “everyone else does too!” and technologically challenged people can use it.

Even IF selfhosted XYZ would be as easy as downloading something (it already starts to be “too complicated” for many) and executing it, it probably wouldn’t happen.

I, personally, fear for the future of the web. I’ve seen the peak of the web and its constant accelerated decline since.

Context is important. The man sitting in the worlds most powerful position was compared directly to one of history’s biggest monsters at a time when he’s literally following Hitler’s playbook step by step.

And? Even non-muricans see what he does. So where is the importance that he get called something? Which, I’d bet, happens every minute in the USA and even everywhere else wherever one reads the clown’s name. Context is king, but not worth “news”.