I think they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them

Oh, piss off. I just want to financially support artists for making something beautiful I enjoy. Streaming is the easiest because of space constraints. I still buy the CDs of my most favourite albums, but I cannot stress enough how great it is to NOT have to rip the MP3s every time, make sure the tags are good, etc.

It’s convenient.

If you don’t like Spotify’s new ID check, kill your Spotify account and use an alternative - Tidal and Qobuz are both excellent.

they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them

They might want to try LMS and its https://github.com/epoupon/lms?tab=readme-ov-file#music-discovery

An algorithm for them:

set rand [clock microseconds]
set len [mpc_pl_len]
set to [expr {$rand%$len}]
mpc_pl_jmp $to

Just a web-based downloader, I’m patient and simple:p

Zotify

That a porn ban does not work and people will find a way around it.

When I was a kid there weren’t all this free porn sites and most of them were paid.

So you would go to some shady site where people shared passwords. This might make a comeback

It moreso relates to what’s in hand

Can’t confirm, I can’t tell.

How about 48 kbit MP3? And more than that, for plenty of recordings that’s sufficient.

most people

Many people are ok with hearing music out of a phone speaker. Audiophiles don’t necessarily care about how “most people” perceive sound quality.

Idk man. Show someone some cymbals on a 128kbps track and it sounds like someone crumpling a plastic bag via a tin can connected to a string. In contrast flac is going to sound much more natural.

I’d agree with you regarding 320 and flac - most people are gonna have a hard time differentiating.

i didn’t care about just grabbing the 720p 600mb video file back when i was watching on a little laptop screen.

it does not hold up on the big stuff.

kinda same applies to audio?

crap sounds like crap on a phone speaker, but so does hi quality stuff.

noise and low dynamics are more noticeable on more powerful, louder gear.

just spitballing here, not an expert!

It could be the quality of your headphones.

I’m not an audiophile, but back-in-the-day I bought some analog “sennheiser studio monitors” as opposed to “just headphones”.

I actually returned the first one and exchanged them, because when I listened to a live recorded CD, I kept hearing loud “pops” that I didn’t hear with my “regular headphones”. I assumed they were defective.

The exchanged sennheiser had the same “pop” in this CD. It turns out, most “regular headphones” didn’t have the same depth in sound frequency as studio monitors and the “pops” were accidental artifacts that were mixed into the CD.

For other CD’s, I’d hear telephones ringing and sirens in the background.

Eventually, I got use to it. Then after a few years, I replaced my CD collection with mp3’s… and I could tell a different in songs/albums I was really familiar with. The base wasn’t as deep, the high sounds weren’t as high, I didn’t hear telephones ringing in the background.

I had the same sennheiser, it was just that the nature of mp3’s “flattened” the music.

Now, with Bluetooth and the disappearance of 3.5 mm jacks, there are too many layers of digital conversion happening. I’ve given up… and now just have some cheap ear buds I listen to.

There are online test you can do to see if you can successfully identify the FLAC from the MP3. I did one and failed miserably.

They say that if you have a very good DAC, amplifier and speaker / headphone system (as well as a good ear for audio), that you can hear it. But I would do the test first to see if it applies to your situation.

It is better, but it depends on the audio for the difference. Also, it would probably be hard to hear the difference playing over a phones speakers. The weakest link in the chain is always the problem you notice the most. Having a good setup for amp/speakers and you can hear the difference. Using Bluetooth earbuds to mow the lawn, it doesn’t matter. Sitting in my living room on my nice stereo, I notice.

Flac files contain orders of magnitude more data. As for the listening experience it’s only ever going to be as good as the speakers at the other end. You’ll also need a wired connection to said speakers in order to avoid some compression over Bluetooth. (Unless there’s some newfangled lossless BT protocol that I’m unaware of.)

The space it takes up is negligible in the modern era of cheap SSDs (and even cheaper hard drives).

The main benefit is not in being able to hear a difference from 320Kbps mp3 (I know I sure can’t), but knowing that you can re-encode the file as many times as you want, without any quality loss (assuming you’re going from lossless to lossless, of course). Or create an mp3 from the flac file at any time, with the same quality as a ripped CD.

So basically FLAC is great if you produce/edit/re-encode your music files often. If you don’t do any of that (and have no plans to future-proof your music collection), then 320Kbps MP3 is more than adequate for your needs.

yeh

“Keep circulating the tapes!”

It doesn’t take much for media though to parade out the “lil guy and change the opinion of people about how your basically attacking small indie creators”

Yes! Navidrome!

used CDs

I get them dirt cheap or completely for free. It’s actually reverse piracy (no I’m not serious) since no doubt the previous owners ripped everything.

The thing is, UK has had age restrictions for years on its mobile platforms. So if you want to look at porn on your phone, you have to unlock it on your subscription. And to do this, they use youre credit card. The thing that they already have. Its easy and swift. And more to the point, only one company has your data. As it stands now, you are supposed to give your personal details to every single company in the world.

Over the past 20 years, how many massive hacks have we seen that leak email addresses and passwords? Are how about all those woman that get their iclouds hacked and their nude photos uploaded? I can think of at least 10 instances in the past 10 years. And now its going to be all of our driving licences, passports, other photo IDs? And the law also requires that they scan ALL private messages. Thats end to end encryption fucked. And god forbid your girlfriend calls you “Daddy” in a sext, you get the cops knocking on your door treating you like Jimmy Saville.

The shit is insane, and people arent anywhere near outraged enough. Its coming to Europe next, if reports are to be believed. So you lot should ALL start kicking up fuck about it now.

It’s super trustworthy bro I swear

Credit cards should roughly do the same, but both of those aren’t “great” for privacy and really exists to make profiles of adults while pretending to negate the need for parents to parent (the only real way to reduce/prevent harms of kids witnessing age inappropriate media). Your ability to do financial transactions shouldn’t be tied to your speech or content you view.

Who taught you sex is a drug? As long as words mean their definitions, it’s categorically not. Plus it’s probably kinda harmful to pile on the stigma already surrounding sex by conflating it with drugs and all the stigma that comes with that.

Hopefully I’m wrong, but it’s kinda giving a nofap pseudoscience red flag to me.

Parents definitely should be teaching their kids about this stuff at the appropriate time, but they should stick to the facts.

I saw a post saying /r/period required an age check.

They’re gonna censor as much as they can with this.

That makes no sense, surely everyone has invested in green energy through workplace retirement plans, no?

not yet, but the wikimedia foundation has been fighting against it expecting that it would be a class 1 site and require it.