Sheesh, kids have it so easy now... Back in my day, we had to set sail along the Atlantic trade routes looking for ships full of the latest wax cylinders out of Europe and Asia. Didn't have anything to play them on but at least we owned our collections.
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I'm kinda waiting for this bad boy to come out so I can put into it all the songs I legally acquired all these years...
Over 20 years ago, the internet was revolutionized through free music file sharing. Today, Napster’s legacy lives on through websites that rip YouTube’s audio.
Is this guy a boomer or a zoomer? It sure seems like he doesn't know that what made Napster great wasn't really the downloading so much as how it facilitated discovering new music. Looking through other people's collections while the thing you came for downloaded was amazing.
Edit: I looked it up, Zoomer
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The apps is definitely a part of it for me. One if my friends got YouTube Premium, and since he has 3 profiles he can attach to it, hrs letting me use it. It's nice for the ad free videos on my TV. But it also comes with YouTube Music. It's honestly kind of annoying at times.
Like yesterday I wanted to listen to an album by a band, and they only have like 2 of 3 albums. The one I wanted to listen to is the one they didn't have. So I had to make a Playlist by finding videos of the songs.
And thats for a band that's not super underground. I listen to a lot of grindcore and black metal, and a lot of that isn't even on there.
And when you download things, you can only have it organized by albums. I can't organize it by band and then have all the albums.
It's also sometimes slow to load up stuff I've downloaded.
Over all its not the greatest experience. I'm currently looking at getting a mobile game device for my emulators so I can free up space on my phone, and then I'm thinking about just going back to having all the music on files on there and using an music player app. And like you said, I can have it organized how I want and customize things a bit more. Especially since I no longer have Comcast, so I can use Soulseek again.
@HipHoboHarold @flintheart_glomgold
Yes, I have noticed a trend of homelab hobbyists going back to something like this:
- Soulseek -> Nicotine+ for plentiful, lossless content
- Jellyfin for self-hosting
- Infuse for streaming the content remotely to save storage on your phone.
I don't endorse piracy for ethical reasons, but I get why this is trending up:
-Increasingly aggressive pricing models
-Service quality and content accessibility going down
Really makes it hard for consumers...
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