…and now the subscription turned to shit and they need to find FLACs of all their favorite music, because they encoded their MP3s in shitty quality in the 2000s.
Soulseek is right there if you want to sail the high seas. Bandcamp and other online retailers have offered FLAC for decades. If you didn’t trash your CDs you can still rip them to FLAC, an external drive (if you need one) is like $30.
I get it, I have hundreds of GB of old shitty downloads from YouTube, poorly done cd rips, downloads from god knows where. All in various stages of completely absent labelling and tagging.
But I’m not going to pretend it’s anyone’s problem but my own due to my previous choices, and I’m not going to pretend like there aren’t plenty of tools to help fix it like MusicBrainz Picard.
Gen X: “We are Big Mad about all the format changes”
Gen Z: “We just pirate everything”
Gen X: “You’re stealing all our money!!!”
The complaints about stealing money are from the boomers. Gen X generally doesn’t give a damn.
Metallica was the OG “pirates stole our money” gang
Yup, Lars was born in 1963, boomers are born between 1945 and 1964.
Dig out that old mp3 player bro, it still plays music just fine.
Phones play MP3’s just fine. I have 70GB on mine that I play with VLC.
Also, you can add to your collection easier than ever with some handy Linux tools.
hell yeah brother. I’ve got a 50GB SD card just for music myself. Library is currently 1200 strong