No, just something to torture the kids with xd.Long drives?
I prefer that musicians get paid for their work.Why not just stream? Spotify is 320k anyway so...
I have CDs from decades ago. The artists are making nothing from those everytime I listen.I prefer that musicians get paid for their work.
For home listening or archival purposes, FLAC-been doing that for at least twenty years.
I spend a lot of time in the car. Unless I can pick up a decent college station/show or am in a NPR mood, I play music off my phone on a random basis our of an approximately 2500 tune collection. Given how noisy cars are, I generally don't even mess with quieter tracks, so audio quality is a lesser priority than available storage space (damn modern phones) so the car tracks are 128 bit MP3s (now AAC since now using an iphone).
Let me divert this thread a bit. Is there anyone besides me that thinks iTunes is perhaps the most unintuitive major piece of software ever? I mess my android phone where I could easily drag and drop music on or off my phone. I recently spent the better part of an afternoon trying to figure out how to take an album off my phone and/or add just one new album from my home computer's library of mp3s/AAC. Never did get it done. Something that would take a couple of seconds on my old android phone (or the antiquated Windows phone before it).
Flac, and convert to 320 kbps mp3 if needed
Let me divert this thread a bit. Is there anyone besides me that thinks iTunes is perhaps the most unintuitive major piece of software ever?
FLAC or ALAC from cd/ store (Bandcamp, one sure can find any obscure artist found on YT there) because, well, if I'm going to save audio files lossless makes sense.
They are encoded as m4a (aac) via fdkaac "m4" which is a vbr mode that gives files approx as large as YT original audio m4a (which is 128kbps aac cbr) but in theory pads the sections of songs that need it with bits from other places. Tags are preserved.
I like Bandcamp because flac and you can engage with artists and I like to imagine they get paid a bit more than via youtube music or spotify. Yes, one can stream everything, that would require a more expensive phone plan as well as a streaming music service subscription and couldn't use it in my current car anyway.
Flacbox is great for iOS for playing local files.
Bandcamp has been running Bandcamp Friday about once a month (1st Friday). Thay've skipped a month here and there. Artists get all the money during them.Bandcamp accounts are free, the artists are paid instantly upon a sale, and Bandcamp gives them 85-90% of the revenue. Seems like a far superior option from an artist's perspective, especially a niche one who can simply direct their fans to their Bandcamp page (vs. a huge well known artist where people expect to be able to stream everywhere and buy from any and all music stores).
Let me divert this thread a bit. Is there anyone besides me that thinks iTunes is perhaps the most unintuitive major piece of software ever? I miss my android phone where I could easily drag and drop music on or off my phone. I recently spent the better part of an afternoon trying to figure out how to take an album off my phone and/or add just one new album from my home computer's library of mp3s/AAC. Never did get it done. Something that would take a couple of seconds on my old android phone (or the antiquated Windows phone before it).
Yet another reason, why I will never buy an iPhone.
The main reasons are that I really don't need an expensive phone, the one I use is a dual sim paid by my work, and I prefer not to subsidize Apple more than necessary.Flacbox for iOS has a several ways of connecting for transferring music files. One is "wifi drive" (webdav) which I use, it works to copy to/from the iPhone over the wifi, from the computer.
The main reasons are that I really don't need an expensive phone, the one I use is a dual sim paid by my work, and I prefer not to subsidize Apple more than necessary.