• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    It’s mostly hipsters with modded iPods, everyone else just streams music. You can stream it in lossless quality on some platforms and download most played songs to your device if your mobile bandwidth is limited.

    Hell I’m a weird hipster who likes to have local copies of things and even I’ve given up.

    • daggermoon@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Audiophiles like me listen to local .flac files through external DAC’s for better sound. And I’m not a hipster. Also lots of music I like isn’t even on streaming.

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        2 hours ago

        it’s better if you hear this sooner than later but you are the dictionary definition of a hipster

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      8 hours ago

      I use Foobar and Plexamp to listen to my FLAC collection. I have a lot of magazine CD inserts not readily available on the streaming platforms. Just feels really good knowing companies like Spotify aren’t making a dime off me.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Never heard of foobar, and honestly surprised it doesn’t have a linux version. It has a windows phone version, but NOT linux.

        I know I shit on linux a lot on this site for having a small userbase, but COME ON!!! You make a windows phone version but NOT a linux version??? At least linux has something like 5% of the pc market userbase. And while that may be mockingly small, windows phone probably only ever had 5 users total!

        You know it’s bad when I’M the one insulting a program for not having a native linux port.

        • errer@lemmy.world
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          2 hours ago

          Well, Foobar is ancient software and barely has any developers. It’s intended to be a WinAmp clone. I’m sure there’s an equivalent piece of Linux software that does something similar.

        • Sickday@kbin.earth
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          For you and anyone else curious to find something similar to Foobar2k on Linux, there’s DeaDBeeF. I used to use it way back before I switched to ncmpcpp