Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What use do we have today for a music focused media player? Is it common for people to use mp3, flac or wav for playing music? I feel like music streaming services hold the market here.
I like winamp back when it was an alternative for the basic windows media player to listen to all my music but I dont keep mp3s anymore so I don’t know if I can see the point.
Was it anything more than just a music player with eq and skins? Did I miss the point back then?
Maybe I just don’t have the vision that others have and will be pleasantly suprised when someone comes up with a good use case and develops it.
Don’t know about others, but I still have music in both mp3 and flac err I listen to sometimes.
Mostly they are rips off CDs that just aren’t available for streaming anywhere, but also just music I bought as digital before streaming really was a thing.
I use musicbee and MP3/FLAC.
My music collection is to large and keyed to my tastes to throw away, and I don’t want to pay for Spotify.
I’ve been building my music collection since I was ripping CDs by hitting play, recording via Sound Recorder and running the .wav through LAME. Nowadays everything’s in flac. I see no need to pay a subscription to listen to my music, when I can just use that same money to buy and own the albums and not worry about them disappearing.
Also Navidrome + Symfonium means I can still stream to my phone so the only benefit Spotify etc has is new music, but YouTube (+ uBlock) gives me that.
My music library is hosted on my server, automatically synced locally on fixed devices and played from local files most of the time. Streaming services combine the advantage of sometimes disappearing, altering, removing content with the other advantage of needing an active internet connection at all time. That’s neither a good thing nor an efficient thing when the alternative is cheap and works all the time from everywhere.
Of course, I know this is not the most common use case; most people usually don’t care about any of this (and usually complain when something break). But it exists.
Mine is mostly mp3, and the player is MPV. I would not notice higher quality amidst the street noise or listening through laptop’s subpar speakers anyway.
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I have a big library of music, mostly MP3 or OGG and don’t really see myself pivoting solely towards streaming services where access to songs could be revoked at any time or could be changed/censored like movies or series sometimes are on streaming platforms. I do use YouTube for listening to new music and when I like it enough, I buy it to download (or acquire it in a different way if it’s not available).