Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3?
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Funnily enough the guy who invented MP3 earned enough from royalties to barely afford a regular house in Germany. Meanwhile Apple made billions and rose like a phoenix from the ashes thanks to Apple Music and the iPod that rely on this format.
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Swapping out tubes (and opamps on your DAC) is very much a thing, and I'm convinced that I can hear the difference between a sovtek tube and a Chinese clone, but that could be all in my head, as it wasn't a blind test. Do some research on the amps, but for computer use, Fosi mc331 has an integrated DAC and puts out about 100w per channel. If my computer didn't already have active studio monitors, I'd have pulled the trigger on it by now. For $116, it's hard to resist.
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The abstraction away of the idea of files and folders is a deliberate user disempowerment strategy by app and mobile OS creators. The underlying concept is that the app owns the data, you don't. It also conceals the fact that use of standard file formats and directory structure conventions were developed to facilitate interoperability: apps come and go, but the data was meant to live on regardless. Of course, vendors want to break interoperability since doing so enables lock-in. Even when the format of the underlying content is standarized, they'll still try to fuck you over by imposing a proprietary metadata standard.
Just another example of enshittification at work.
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There's a reason I don't use Spotify. Well, there are multiple reasons I don't use Spotify, but one of them is because I live in an area where stable cell tower connections aren't a given.
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I use it to (re)compress audiobooks, podcasts and such, they still sound very good at 32 kbps.
Fun fact, Opus has been supported by a hobby OS like MorphOS for years, on ancient hardware. -
Have you ever used Bandcamp before?
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I use a combination of mp3s and opus primarily but I can't remember if opus is the open format ogg or not.
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I don't know all the details but Ogg is dead, and Opus has all the advantages from low quality (Speex) to high quality (better than Ogg). It's made by the same guys anyway. And starting at 128 kbps approximatively, it's "near perfect" quality which means your ears won't detect the difference with FLAC. So Opus should be as small as MP3, as good as FLAC. I love that stuff.
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For FLAC you have torrents, no legal way to have that. For tags I use https://beets.io/ but it's not moving tags, it's detection and looking up on a database on the internet.
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It's a sample of 1, but we hired a young guy with a CS Master's degree. I told him in polite ways that he should not use ChatGPT and his code sucked. When he was told to fix something, he rewrote it completely with a new prompt instead of understanding bugs. He didn't last more than 2 months.
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Doesn't the iPod use AAC?
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iPhones use m4a these days for their native music app.
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For Flac you have digital market places and CDs you can obtain from store fronts and private sellers like flea markets or shops like ebay or discogs.
Or torrents and DDL.
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At least the shuffle is partly coherent.
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Are you a baddie?
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And what's the extension of opus? .opus?
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Are you sure? From everything I've heard MP3 bitrates at 192 or above are generally considered to be transparent.
In case you want to do it more scientifically, try ABX testing. It's a bit time consuming but it should provide clearer results.
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Thanks, it certainly looks useful.
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I read the manual for my cars radio. It has a max file size limit of like 256 songs or so per folder. But it can also accept 256 folders.
So if your cars is anything like mine you can probably play your songs just by splitting them up into more folders.
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I actually used discogs a lot in the past. They can be quite expensive at times. Though this will be a mix of everything since not everything can be obtainable legally, at least for my archive.
