Jonas WisserI truly can't express right now how mad I am about music streaming generally and the absolute decay of Apple's iTunes ecosystem in favor of Apple Music specifically.
Do yourself a favor: own a copy of your music. Don't use a streaming service.
Several times tonight I've had to torrent albums I've paid for because Music.app simply won't let me download a non-DRMed version. Instead, it repeatedly serves me the DRMed Apple Music version.
The iTunes ecosystem had literally one job. Fucking embarrassing.
It's getting harder and harder to recommend Apple anything to family or friends. But the big problem is that nothing else is getting better at the same rate Apple software and ecosystems are getting worse, so I'm increasingly tempted to tell them "Just avoid using computers”.
I am *this close* to telling everyone I know that CDs and Discmans are the future.
I legitimately think I'm going to invest in a USB CD drive and buy all my future albums on CD. That way I can rip to lossless but also just have a physical music library.
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Nelson@jwisser Any physical media is the future, IMHO. Personally I've been buying vinyl and even cassette tapes lately, but that's in part because I'm cursed by a lack of working CD players (my Discman seems unrepairable, but my older Walkman works fine, go figure). Anyway I already have enough CDs in my collection to last a lifetime when I do get a CD player working again.
P.S. Avoid computers.
mbrdev@jwisser minidisc was my jam, if there was a phone that could double as a minidisc player I’d switch to it in a heartbeat.
Emily King@jwisser I'm glad I never got rid of my CD collection.
Baron Vonskinnback@jwisser when everyone was purging their CD collections I was buying up their now unwanted collections for absolutely no money, I did the same with DVD's & Blu-ray's, people would come round my house & mock my cabinet full to bursting with these apparently dead mediums, the fact that I had to take time to rip them all to a digital format & store them like an animal on a NAS drive & run them through media apps & create NAT rules on my internal network to access them when away from my home...
D.Hamlin.Music@jwisser Lenovo is apparently rolling out an Android PC in the near future, maybe that'll end up being good.
@jwisser if you think that's bad, you should see the nightmare that YouTube Music has become. Google Play Music was a solid product, but YTM is a goddam insult
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Tom Lorenz@jwisser I have a 2009 Mac Mini with macOS 10.4 and iTunes 9 on it. I keep that thing around as the Source Of Truth for my local music collection. I’ll either rip CDs or digitize vinyl and put the tracks on it. Version 9 was the last one Apple released before they started making some awful (for me) changes in its functionality, so that’s what I cling to. I also keep a copy of that music library up on my server so I can access it via either Plex or Synology Audio.