| ▲ | wvh 14 hours ago |
| I've been building a music collection in FLAC format for 25 years, and last year I bought an (Android) phone and a MicroSD card of 1TB that fits all of my music. It's been a long project for technology to catch up, but now that it's possible to have all of it in my pocket, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm sure I can't be the only one that doesn't want to be a renter, give up control and stream anything the industry wants to push or deal with ads. It's cool to see some even go to great lengths to write their own application. |
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| ▲ | eviks 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Technology has caught up many years ago, it's just that you insist on an format not fit for purpose. With good reencoding you get transparent audio quality (impossible to hear a difference) to fit all of your music on a much smaller card. (and as a backup you can always have those FLACs on the desktop) |
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| ▲ | legends2k 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Even if we agree on a format I don't want someone to quietly say a song I like is gone from my library while I wasn't looking due to some reason. | |
| ▲ | hulitu 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Technology has caught up many years ago citation needed. Youtube still gives you crappy, unlistenable 153kbps crap. |
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| ▲ | blacklion 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You are very good collection curator!
Only ~25% of my collection is FLAC/APE/ALAC/WavePack and still I have more than 3TB. It is what stops me from listening music on the go — I cannot choose what to put in mobile device in advance :-) |
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| ▲ | sshagent 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I solved this by running a music stream. All songs i "like" are in a collection, and ices/icecast randomly select one song after another (i can also request things via discord bot) and i just fire up VLC and listen when i need music. Yeah its a little too random at times, but its also fun. | |
| ▲ | BeFlatXIII 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I have a Pi in my kitchen that I use as a Navidrome server. Of course, this only works so long as my phone has data reception. | | |
| ▲ | blacklion 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I've tried many media servers (but not Navidrome, though, I'll try it too!) and all for them mangle my collection. Albums shown twice (because there is FLAC and CUE files, for example), albums splitted into to tracks (each track seen as its own album, I don't know why), problems with non-unicode tags in old files, 6 ways to spell "Bjork", some don't understand FLAC with embedded CUE (and don't show tracks in such files at all), and, as a cherry on the top, none of them understand such abomination as ISO image with WavePack and CUE files inside (format which was popular on one big tracker some time ago).
Files without tags are also a problem.
So, each of these servers show 75% of collection Ok and 25% as hot mess. Each software has its own 25%, of course. And I don't have any willpower to fix all tags and formats in 3.5TB collection (for example, to re-code all lossless zoo to FLAC and fix all MP3 tags for IDv2.4 format and Unicode). |
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| ▲ | Matl 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There are DAPs with two SD card slots such as [1].
There's now also 2TB sd cards, be it they're not cheap yet. [1] - https://hifigo.com/products/hiby-rs2?variant=43134031167727 |
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| ▲ | Eavolution 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I've always had the issue on Android of the cover art/title being unreliable i.e. I change it and it just doesn't change, or it does then randomly changes to a random cover. As far as I could tell this was a bug in Android, did you run into this? |
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| ▲ | Matl 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I have also been building a personal collection of exclusively FLACs, be it for a lot less than 25 years. It's past 1TB but https://www.navidrome.org as the server and https://symfonium.app as the client has been great. Granted, 2TB sd cards are now a thing so once they come down in price, I'll probably get one. |
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| ▲ | nullwarp 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Never seen Symfonium before going to have to give that a try looks great!. I've been using Plex+PlexAmp for a while but have been really wanting to move to something outside of that. |
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