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(DIR) Post #Amvg91ZEMH33R4hOim by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T11:54:20Z
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Sometimes Ali-Express labels clothing designed mostly to appeal and be sized for women as "female sweater" or "female vest" and even "middle aged female overcoat" and once "old woman sweater"This has made me have some uncomfortable silent questions about how the clothing is... raised? Hatched????Then there was "Old man radio big numbers radio clock MP3" which I bought to play SD cards. I hope it's not too old... I will take good care of him.
(DIR) Post #AmvgQdJjG3UnRDqRAO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T11:57:31Z
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My students are *fascinated* by my mp3 collection. I explained that I used to rip CDs and tapes and keep folders with every album I've bought. Now, I'll buy it on Apple Music or whatever but then I always make a clean copy and put it on one of 3 SD cards. The poor children have only ever known streaming. "If you buy music you should have a copy of it." radical stuff these days. (I do need to do another export from Apple Music, I've gotten a bit lazy.)
(DIR) Post #AmvgUGsacg4X0UsxF2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T11:58:11Z
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Yeah there might be some pirated tunes in there from the limewire days but we shall not speak of that.
(DIR) Post #AmvgxPus6SaLQqqnAm by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-10-12T12:03:25Z
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@futurebird I have Napster downloads older than some of the people I work with.
(DIR) Post #Amvh5ijg16dO7GZciu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:04:55Z
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@ColesStreetPothole A well organize MP3 collection is more forever than diamonds IMO.
(DIR) Post #Amvh6xei1xPeg9qFAe by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-10-12T12:05:09Z
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@futurebird Old Man Radio sounds like a comic book antihero.
(DIR) Post #Amvh8zhDPoHhaPz1ZQ by venya@musicians.today
2024-10-12T12:05:32Z
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@futurebird In my studio engineering class, we have several people who buy vinyl, but I was the only one who admitted to buying CDs any more.
(DIR) Post #AmvhA7NoJwM5iVRW2i by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-10-12T12:05:34Z
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@futurebird 😂
(DIR) Post #AmvhOt1TzelZWW2cPg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:08:24Z
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@venya A CD is a great way to get a nice clean file of older music. And they are dirt cheap mostly. I got a whole box of Bowie (everything he ever did!) for like $20
(DIR) Post #AmvhTNdi6UWlda44au by smirk@mastodon.world
2024-10-12T12:09:12Z
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@futurebird Limewire!
(DIR) Post #Amvha07fw86yjFEnDs by WorkWithKirk@mstdn.social
2024-10-12T12:10:23Z
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@futurebird "Old man radio big number clock radio mp3 player" that's sounds like they made it just for me. Those descriptions also sound like long-tail search terms. That's kinda clever. Do they have "old man jeans no flat butt." Asking for a friend.
(DIR) Post #AmvhqzDmXdfcr7C2Qy by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:13:28Z
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@futurebird I'd like to know how much energy has been wasted, and how many more natural resources have been used up making chips, simply by the corporate mandate that streaming be the normal way to do things, rather than reserved only for live events.
(DIR) Post #Amvi04uSlHKt6WUZcm by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:15:08Z
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@smirk My greatest copyright crime was making an audio-book Sci-Fi library for my father-in-law when he was recovering from an injured hip. The guy loves classic Sci-Fi so I bought one of those little mp3 players on Ali-Express and a bunch of SD cards. Made tiny labels with the book covers and put one book on each. So it was dead simple to use. 3D printed a little case for the cards too. It was a super cute gift and he loves it. I ought to make one for myself for some dark possible future.
(DIR) Post #AmviDCyW5OF7soeIxE by waffles@masto.yttrx.com
2024-10-12T12:17:28Z
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@futurebird my gf only listens to music that she’s ripped from albums that she physically owns.There are times when a new album drops and I’ll have to keep quiet about it while she waits for her cd to arrive in the mail.I love how much that system works for her.
(DIR) Post #AmviKbnkBHM6uK8gO8 by vilejelly@regenerate.social
2024-10-12T12:18:49Z
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@futurebird @smirk light reading for dystopia 📚
(DIR) Post #AmviLzksbgAFULSbrc by james@bark.lgbt
2024-10-12T12:18:56Z
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@futurebird That really surprises me, But I guess it shouldn't be surprising. You're inspiring me to try to unearth my old mp3 collection
(DIR) Post #AmvibKFCi8tVNUxF1U by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:21:51Z
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@Nonya_Bidniss I used to have all of the audiobooks from Ian M. Banks. But now I'm somehow missing one because some licensing fight it's no longer in Audible. Every time something like that happens I start backing everything up again because the cloud is madness. Pure madness.
(DIR) Post #AmvixTGlpsxZjxFNaK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:25:52Z
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Like... I will pay for music and books. I'm happy to pay. But, I have this quaint notion that if I buy a song I should be able to go back and listen to it again years later without paying again. Also, I always have it in the back of my mind that I might at some point have no income. And the idea that not having income would mean no music? Which I own so much music and ways to play it? Come on. No "new music" OK fine. But literally no music at all? unacceptable.@Nonya_Bidniss
(DIR) Post #AmvizjrT7PV5mJUfDs by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-10-12T12:26:13Z
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@futurebird I had to buy a usb CD player about a year ago when I decided to stop streaming music. A) the quality can be inferiorB) there was music I knew was out there but not streamable C) I'm sick of my music tastes being analyzed by creeps (the end of year report thing really didn't make me happy at all) D) renting music is not the same as owning it, true for everything these daysE) just revisiting C--I don't want ANYONE spying on me ever.
(DIR) Post #Amvj9uJb6gKt5zV1X6 by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2024-10-12T12:28:10Z
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@futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss Buy vinyl
(DIR) Post #AmvjCpv5u8sQKhR1bk by GinevraCat@toot.community
2024-10-12T12:28:38Z
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@futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss This is how I feel about books!
(DIR) Post #AmvjEhrCqugxuEVYeW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:28:59Z
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I'm thinking back on how the theatre tech teacher at my high school showed me his reel-to-reel in the projection room and how he literally CUT and TAPED bits of magnetic tape together to make "mixes" ... and also soberly reflecting that me sitting there holding an SD card is the modern equivalent. Feelin real old right now.It feels good though.
(DIR) Post #AmvjiBVnfxjcHCYH4q by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-10-12T12:34:17Z
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@futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss there's someone on here that does a great job of explaining this. Modern corpratists are trying to move everyone from buying things to *renting* things. People think this is capitalism. It's actually not capitalism--it's feudalism. Capitalism is based on owning, selling and trading capital where everyone theoretically can own at least some capital. Feudalism is where only a few can own things and they rent it, controlling the prices, the capital and revenue.
(DIR) Post #AmvkDYCvLPJvdtgABk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:39:58Z
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I try my best to minimize the expense that I have that are "rents" ironically mastodon/fediverse it one of them, but I'm OK with that since like internet access, water, electricity and phone I'm paying every month and getting something every month. The idea that I should have to pay rent to use software, listen to music, is an anathema. Avoiding anything with a reoccurring fee does wonders for your savings. But, it feels like swimming against the tide. @philip_cardella @Nonya_Bidniss
(DIR) Post #AmvkG8aX3JH33RxHCS by thecrushedviolet@mstdn.games
2024-10-12T12:40:17Z
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@futurebirdI've had that thought about books and video games a lot. I currently have a library of hundreds each but I know it's getting closer to the day I'd have exactly zero without a steady income. It's so depressing.
(DIR) Post #AmvkIdwBT3gwrUHFy4 by Tooden@aus.social
2024-10-12T12:40:52Z
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@futurebird I buy CDs. I shall have music wherever I go. I have 'some' physical books, and a library of eBooks...due to not enough room for the paperbacks. I have DVDs aplenty. Sod the bastards that force 'renting of pleasures' on the poors. So them for destroying spontaneity with their planet destroying Clouds, and LLMs. @Nonya_Bidniss
(DIR) Post #AmvkVtKLYnqMMAte76 by wcbdata@vis.social
2024-10-12T12:43:16Z
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@futurebird I remember using Ky-read to see the striping on videotape to splice it cleanly!
(DIR) Post #Amvkgc2cAZn5vkiNIe by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-10-12T12:45:12Z
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@futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss a big eye opener for me was what HBO did when it decided to screw over masses of people whose work was distributed on HBO. They changed their name to Max so they could end contacts with content created for HBO. The big one for me was Westworld. A very rewatchable show imo that can't be streamed anymore on Max.
(DIR) Post #AmvkoaQS3mNtEjfO2S by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:46:40Z
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If a business wants people to subscribe rather than delivering a single product for a fee they are asking the customer to trust that they will still be around in the future. There are more opportunities for soft and hard fraud with reoccurring charges. What if there were an additional tax on products sold in such a way? The tax would fund fraud prevention & redemptions for the people who are harmed by such schemes. But also discourage literal "rent seeking"@philip_cardella @Nonya_Bidniss
(DIR) Post #AmvkrKQK0nI8TYugRE by InkySchwartz@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T12:47:09Z
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@futurebird This is a huge problem in my wife's dance dept since she is the production manager for the dept and runs all/most student shows. And every time, when requesting music for the student choreographed pieces, my wife gets a pile of streaming links and has to say "no we need files not links" and "you need to have the right to play this music".*Confusion abounds until they are sorted out, sometimes never.
(DIR) Post #Amvl2631nhZZ4l9Vs8 by CuriousMagpie@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T12:48:34Z
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@Nonya_Bidniss @futurebird I would love to do these backups but don’t know how!
(DIR) Post #Amvl3MQ6PmNO8uY2fQ by ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
2024-10-12T12:49:15Z
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@futurebird I was a film projectionist in the early 1980s and let me tell you some stories. 😂
(DIR) Post #AmvlE5zXpqrGNPFEjg by jerzone@techhub.social
2024-10-12T12:51:14Z
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@futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss Took family van on recent road trip and remembered it had a CD player. Garage has boxes of CDs from 90’s/00's and it was great to find they still worked. I’d also ripped them years ago, but the logistics of figuring out what device to xfer the files to and then navigating/playing them was way more complicated than just pulling CDs out of travel sleeve and popping into stereo.
(DIR) Post #AmvlIXOts5XYXgDrw8 by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-10-12T12:52:03Z
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@futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss right? But the streaming is more than controlling rents, of course. It's also about spying on customers. Even if you go around that scam you've got TVs, including the highest end LGs, that are monitoring your *screen* so even if you plugged in a VCR it could analyze what you're watching. Try finding a non "smart" TV anymore. They exist but are rare. And BluRay players usually want Internet access too -- to report usage. We're inviting Big Brother in.
(DIR) Post #AmvlNSD4b8IztK2ELY by gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-10-12T12:52:57Z
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@futurebird one of my favorite thing in the internet was radioblog. There was a flash player widget to play mp3 file from your website and an interface to search for songs. You would usually get multiple hit for a single song, each pointing to a different website with it's own playlist/mix. It was a nice way to find new music
(DIR) Post #AmvlYiHpAKqSwBcseu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:54:59Z
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@joelmeador Artist, Album (if it's an artist that did albums)But ... then there is the "singles" folder... and ... Listen buddy I don't want to talk about it OK? I do my best... leave me alone. :(
(DIR) Post #Amvla6VcamyuLsk76W by caseyjonesed@awscommunity.social
2024-10-12T12:54:59Z
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@futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss well said!
(DIR) Post #Amvlz4oc1hy0L3X8ca by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T12:59:46Z
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@joelmeador There are some files with names like "petersong.mp3"and "_03.mp3"and.... I know what they are ... it's FINE.
(DIR) Post #AmvmFPT10nb91QDh68 by promovicz@chaos.social
2024-10-12T13:02:32Z
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@futurebird @joelmeador that floppy disk, where it just says "Monday" and it's "Monday, Monday".
(DIR) Post #AmvmrSgjU3FO15mSUS by llewelly@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T13:09:36Z
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@futurebird @joelmeador I'm terrible at organizing files and keeping track of files, but I go through phases in which I rename lots of files which have names I don't understand.
(DIR) Post #AmvnWcrcYWJJRsVBlg by benroyce@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T13:16:58Z
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@futurebird @joelmeador i know exactly what every single song is
(DIR) Post #AmvnsHhRvLA4BF4Wrw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T13:20:57Z
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@rgegriff @joelmeador ... uhsome of them certainly have those tags... but I may have tried using an alternate system for a bit that involved ... um... please don't laugh.... FileMaker Pro. OK I said it. But I don't do that anymore. And... there must be some tool to fix this... right?
(DIR) Post #Amvntm8aF7Wys2TUw4 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T13:21:12Z
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@rgegriff @joelmeador *sobbing noises*
(DIR) Post #AmvoONgXCqqw0fwtiy by cpm@spore.social
2024-10-12T13:26:44Z
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@futurebirdFM Pro FTW!@rgegriff @joelmeador @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AmvoWMxJnlOm44bn6m by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T13:28:12Z
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@cpm @rgegriff @joelmeador FT... costs too much to run a server anymore.
(DIR) Post #AmvodJaAk3ybd65tMu by geonz@mathstodon.xyz
2024-10-12T13:29:25Z
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@futurebird @rgegriff @joelmeador FileMaker Pro. INDEED.
(DIR) Post #AmvoggLAaJ9z55gMV6 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T13:30:03Z
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@geonz @rgegriff @joelmeador It was so powerful and yet so... goofy.
(DIR) Post #AmvpE1q9fb7XJl4nGi by paulc@mstdn.social
2024-10-12T13:36:04Z
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@futurebird @philip_cardella @Nonya_Bidniss I like buying. I now extend that to I like buying stuff that I can use in the future. My preference of board games over video games is paying off.But when it comes to software there are time I prefer the rent model. Some software, especially complex software, needs to be frequently updated due to bugs and compatibility with updated OS. Many people underestimate the work involved and revenue stream is important to authors.But other software I buy.
(DIR) Post #Amvq5nLFn5PHzOGByi by quantensalat@astrodon.social
2024-10-12T13:45:47Z
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@futurebird The beautiful thing is that nowadays one can simply do a lossless compression of the audio stream even and store that if the audio files are encrypted
(DIR) Post #AmvqfmbM1KuI7Nx3JY by MichaelBishop@mastodon.world
2024-10-12T13:52:17Z
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@futurebird I like buying hard media such as DVDs, CDs, VHS. Some day we might now have easy and affordable access to the content we enjoy.
(DIR) Post #AmvrcV4yoLQerLo6qm by verita84_automata@poster.place
2024-10-12T14:03:34.910213Z
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@futurebird my kids never showed interest in doing it like we do
(DIR) Post #AmvrdtGeMhrcARvdyq by Kierkegaanks@beige.party
2024-10-12T14:03:08Z
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@futurebird does apple music allow you to save music without encryption?
(DIR) Post #Amvrhp3dxWRMGlihaC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T14:03:53Z
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@Kierkegaanks Technically yes. But they do NOT make it easy or fun.
(DIR) Post #AmvrnModsIq6PrLZxY by fuknukl@noauthority.social
2024-10-12T14:04:57Z
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@magicalthinking @futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss
(DIR) Post #Amvs5pglGTsHAzSx8q by riotnrrd@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T14:08:10Z
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@futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss This would be why I just bought a brace of new gigantic HDDs for my NAS, because it was full (again). It’s not *all* media, it also hosts TimeMachine backups of three MacBooks, but it is very very full.
(DIR) Post #Amvs72lI933u0lA87E by flying_saucers@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T14:08:13Z
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@futurebird beside the point, but I'm not sure I'd trust SD cards with backups 👀 aren't they notoriously prone to the flash memory failing? Or is that outdated knowledge?
(DIR) Post #Amvs9tGDvUNfPezJlQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T14:08:56Z
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@Kierkegaanks You know what, I'm confusing "Apple Music" and "iTunes" they are not as it turns out the same. Apple Music is the subscription service. But you can still use just iTunes and the store and buy tracks and save them and back them up.Not true if you just use Apple Music.I think they wish they could get rid of iTunes.
(DIR) Post #AmvsJVaMnwcssizouG by lhp@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T14:10:40Z
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@futurebird @venya and the booklets! Some are really nice. The major reason I have sat through the pain of setting up my scanner recently is archiving all my CD booklets.
(DIR) Post #AmvswlJWGFOExJpjZQ by fullyabstract@fosstodon.org
2024-10-12T14:17:46Z
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@futurebird @Kierkegaanks To make things even a little more confusing, there is iTunes Match, where you can pay to have songs you have purchased stored in the cloud, and can listen to them on all your devices. This is separate from Apple Music.
(DIR) Post #Amvt8pvevaLYkDQkro by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-12T14:19:55Z
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@futurebird @rgegriff @joelmeador I use foobar2000 to rename all files that have accurate metadata. Which is 99% of all my music files. Can't beat artist_albumyear_albumsequence_albumtitle_discnumber_tracknumber_tracktitle.filetype
(DIR) Post #AmvtHkiJgfFzAyRPLU by Kierkegaanks@beige.party
2024-10-12T14:21:26Z
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@futurebird it’s not like apple makes it easy to tell them apart
(DIR) Post #AmvtfIJIwSkw2By33g by SCBenny2k@mstdn.social
2024-10-12T14:25:48Z
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@futurebird @SallyStrange I'll never forget the time I showed a record to my students and they asked me if it was a really big CD 🤣
(DIR) Post #AmvthCwjr8PfyfKCuG by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T14:26:11Z
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@flying_saucers What is better though? Not DVDs or CDs those have failed on my more often than SD cards. Maybe a hard drive... but those also fail. I keep the most important stuff in two places on hardware and one in the cloud and recopy it every few years. I have like a dozen copies of my music library in various stages of its evolution ...
(DIR) Post #AmvtlQAwc1rGAIyjmi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T14:26:56Z
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@SCBenny2k @SallyStrange I mean....
(DIR) Post #AmvuBmdTjDZpLytb7I by flying_saucers@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T14:31:42Z
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@futurebird afaik the best option is redundant harddrive storage, but that's expensive. Hard disk drives can fail if they experience vibration in operation and ultimately you get what you pay for, but even the worst should be more reliable than SD cards. SSDs from reputable brands are more expensive but probably the best of both worlds? Personally I'd go with an external harddrive though. If you do want to get swanky, look up NAS storage and different RAID setups
(DIR) Post #AmvuPKhmN288mZMtRQ by r0k@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T14:34:08Z
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@futurebird @rgegriff @joelmeador This is the tool I use to fix everything (naming, tagging... all of it): https://beets.ioI have one perfectly curated folder path I use as my music library that beets has processed and another folder that is a "to do" with stuff I haven't figured out how to get recognizable enough for beets to process yet.It works incredibly well and high school/college me wishes I had these superpowers
(DIR) Post #AmvuR5Se1Dn25C7qU4 by vruz@mstdn.social
2024-10-12T14:34:27Z
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@futurebird And bring about the gospel of Nicotine+https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus
(DIR) Post #AmvuXP9jhpaIu4IHR2 by platypus@glammr.us
2024-10-12T14:35:35Z
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@futurebird I recently had a balding 22 yo trick me into co-reminiscing about limewire before telling me he’d learned about it from his parents because he was just barely born when they did most of their downloading. 💀 👵I learned from a mutual friend that he likes to lean on his /sigh older /sigh pop culture knowledge to get people his parents’ age to think he’s much older than he is, then tell them how old he really is. Well played, kid.
(DIR) Post #Amvum2t8mLpMBXVqd6 by viq@social.hackerspace.pl
2024-10-12T14:36:06Z
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@alwirtes @futurebird you can get 1TB MicroSD cards 🤯
(DIR) Post #Amvum4986ODA5Q08Bs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T14:38:13Z
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@viq @alwirtes Yeah... I don't trust those. Too damn big.
(DIR) Post #Amvv20xdiFfOqBEQ5Y by airfive@techhub.social
2024-10-12T14:41:07Z
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@futurebird i will NEVER forget my Walkman cassette player(s) 🥹https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman#/media/File%3AWalkman_WM-SXF33.jpg
(DIR) Post #AmvvMurPaakI0AHkJM by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-10-12T13:43:09Z
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@paulc @futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss one of the big turn offs for me on rents WAS software. I was paying Adobe $600 a year to access their suite and THEN they decided that wasn't enough, they were going to train their AI on my content. Bye forever, Adobe. I replaced Acrobat with free software and bought stuff with permanent software to replace Illustrator, Photoshop, Lightroom and InDesign for $200 only paid once.
(DIR) Post #AmvvMw5d1DiBoXwc6q by paulc@mstdn.social
2024-10-12T14:38:37Z
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@philip_cardella @futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss For personal use I use the Affinity suite which is a one time purchase. I do some side work that must be done in InDesign so I am just using my work license (thankfully Adobe CC licenses can be used on 2 different computers). Once I retire I will probably rent InDesign as I get work and use Affinity Design and Affinity Photo.At work there is no substitute for the Adobe suite. InDesign and InCopy are integrated via another system.
(DIR) Post #AmvvMxQw1ULhyuv8xU by philip_cardella@historians.social
2024-10-12T14:43:28Z
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@paulc @futurebird @Nonya_Bidniss my desktop publishing used to be higher need when I was running a non profit. Now? Affinity is getting done what I need so far. Despite several "AI" features in Skylum luminar neo, which I don't use (and I'm not sure most are even generative ai), the core photo editing software on that and rudimentary photo cataloguing has been fine for me.
(DIR) Post #AmvvMyoMtqgiFstN7g by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T14:44:53Z
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@philip_cardella @paulc @Nonya_Bidniss I love Affinity! I was mad about learning new software for a few days, but it's not that different from photoshop in the end. For simple stuff which is all I need. And it's a half decent painting program too.
(DIR) Post #AmvvOLQCJyrKfXElkW by edwardchampion@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T14:45:11Z
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@futurebird Thank you for this perspective. It's important to consider that entire generations are growing up without physical media. Does this create more artistic disposability?
(DIR) Post #AmvvZmOcN3s3Vwx1Dk by stacey_campbell@aus.social
2024-10-12T14:46:20Z
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@flying_saucers @futurebird Recently I looked at some SD cards written a decade ago and the jpegs on them are full of bit errors. (Everything on them was backed up back then.)The most reliable backup medium I've found in the last 20 years has been redundant mechanical hard-drives.
(DIR) Post #AmvviTFMw7jkjLlk8W by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-12T14:48:48Z
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@stacey_campbell @flying_saucers To be honest for music, if I haven't listened to it for so long that it's rotting on an SD card I would be OK with buying a new copy. However that isn't as easy as it ought to be. I can either try to find an CD and rip it. Or buy it on iTunes and do unspeakable things to get a "real mp3" (it is possible, legal, allowed, just annoying)
(DIR) Post #Amvw2IwmwLicZuXGwT by cshlan@dawdling.net
2024-10-12T14:52:21Z
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@futurebird@philip_cardella @Nonya_BidnissI'm ok with streaming as a service. Like my Mastodon server, I'm paying someone for the electricity, server maintenance, software upgrades, employee pay, etc. Streaming has its place. But I want things like software and media to be available to me on my own computer exclusively in some cases and in those cases I do not want to pay rent on something I'm doing the keeping of already.I've moved from Quickbooks to Gnucash for this very reason.
(DIR) Post #AmvwyVmzLtHhCchuDo by paulc@mstdn.social
2024-10-12T15:02:51Z
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@futurebird @philip_cardella @Nonya_Bidniss I've been doing some projects in Affinity Publisher just to get a feeling for what it can and cannot do. For the most part Affinity Publisher is solid. And Affinity Designer is much easier to use than Adobe Illustrator. The Affinity suite hits the spot for many people.But in my magazine publishing day job only ID works. I need it integrated with InCopy and a management system to get editors and designers working with each other.
(DIR) Post #Amvx8l9d4zhVkjBSAi by faraiwe@beige.party
2024-10-12T15:04:44Z
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@futurebird Still do buy physical media *and* make a rip back up of them. I OWN the music I buy, and I sustain the artists that self-publish, too.My kids just got onto streaming services, these past 1-2yrs. In the cars, I have a usb drive with *some* music. They like to play streamed stuff from their phones, via *single* channel bluetooth. They are starting to get annoyed at interruptions, hiccups and ADS from the streaming services. They don't mind the low quality of the stream because it's mostly pop stuff, in which *quality* of the music isn't a top priority from the get go, anyways ( ::snark:: )Somehow, I never get ads, hiccups from my little usb drive. And the full digital, over 192kbps multi-channel of quality comes through in full glory.What a thunking...
(DIR) Post #Amvy96AJ3rl2s4E4K8 by dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-12T15:15:59Z
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@futurebirdOne quick trick ...In Linux Format your SD card as btrfs and make the data profile DUP, it will store two copies of each block of the file and btrfs scrub can recover but errors. Of course it cuts capacity in half. Would be nice if there were an error correcting code version that used like 25% more space but could recover sparse bit errors in scrub.@flying_saucers
(DIR) Post #AmvyqUFdO0N21ZPJ5s by econads@mendeddrum.org
2024-10-12T15:23:51Z
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@futurebirdDownload Wikipedia and selected IA stuff while you're at it.. @smirk
(DIR) Post #Amw0G1BiAIrRMyJIw4 by cordova5029@dragonscave.space
2024-10-12T15:39:41Z
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@futurebird I have gigs of mp3s. Some i acquired via the internet, others are rips of my physical media. Almsot everything i have I have owned, on some form of physical media. I haven't ever gotten down with streaming services. i don't knock anyone for using them but I will defend physical files, yes to me files are physical, because it's a thing you can move, and coppy, and send to someone, sure it's just 0's and 1's, but you can miniuplate those 0's and 1's as you see fit. YOu can import them in to an audio editor, or dj controler software, to mix and play with. YOu can't cut and scratch on spotify. I still have most of my tapes, cd's and records. i"m only 34 but I grew up with my folks media. The first media I remember working with were tapes, then records, then cd's, in that order, actually... no, cd's came before records but only by a few months. I"m blind and autistic, so I was more likely to have a fasenation with that sort of stuff.
(DIR) Post #Amw4wtPrqEbEO9J7OS by mmin@mastodontti.fi
2024-10-12T16:32:14Z
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@futurebird One of the worse things that happened to me while learning Linux with more eagerness than knowledge was that I once accidentally deleted my entire mp3 collection. No backup, nothing. Luckily I don’t remember much of what I lost, so honestly I haven’t really looked back. Made me realise that stuff on a hard drive is not forever.
(DIR) Post #Amw5d8SwHIDjE5t3I0 by harmonygritz@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T16:39:53Z
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@futurebird A sorta-meta social media thing: Sometimes the second post is the one that makes a thread, or resonates with the reader. I had NO idea where this was going, and now I’m having flashbacks to MP3s and the first iPod. 😅🥲
(DIR) Post #AmwBcZCC0jFnYyALui by faassen@fosstodon.org
2024-10-12T17:47:01Z
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@futurebirdIt's funny. I am all right streaming music and media but ebooks I got to own. So I got a server full of clean copies of ebooks I buy.
(DIR) Post #AmwDeLyMLRDZ2Wfvcm by melunaka@eldritch.cafe
2024-10-12T18:09:45Z
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@futurebird I’m curious, what are the export options for Apple Music? Can I buy from them without an Apple devices? For artists that aren’t on Bandcamp, I don’t have a lot of option except Amazon’s mp3 or pirating stuff
(DIR) Post #AmwNhvSvq0MXWvJkGm by promovicz@chaos.social
2024-10-12T12:08:37Z
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@ColesStreetPothole @futurebird Yeah, I used to trade files from Napster at a local uni as an intern. We had 100 mbit and people made literal appointments to get files for their friends and family. Even the admin department... "let's consider this free access under academic morals".
(DIR) Post #AmwNhwLAaLkQF8h3oG by xilebo@norden.social
2024-10-12T20:01:45Z
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@promoviczNapster was the first social media I used. Talked to some very nice people from all over the world, because we liked the same music.@ColesStreetPothole @futurebird
(DIR) Post #AmwRkbntnPv1Eeewim by seawall@mastodon.nz
2024-10-12T20:47:43Z
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@futurebird one of my music professors taught us to do that at Mills College. So retro and fiddly, but also weirdly satisfying (yes, I really should have been diagnosed by then...)
(DIR) Post #AmwUTiAPBXKZuRoxLU by katzenberger@mastodon.de
2024-10-12T21:18:18Z
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@futurebird 3 decades ago I ripped all of my CDs to #MP3.2 decades ago, I deleted all MP3s, and ripped everything again to #FLAC.Having had punished myself painfully like this, I decided to avoid lossy compression at all costs in the future.
(DIR) Post #AmwXmn8FFTdKfnbGlM by ecoscore@aus.social
2024-10-12T21:55:14Z
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@futurebird @Kierkegaanks Another diehard iTunes + hard drive user here. I only use iTunes for ripping and storing. As a player it sucks so I use Fidelia with no compression. It’s very easy on the ears 😊
(DIR) Post #Amwfsf9WczExIRVek4 by dotsandlines@c.im
2024-10-12T23:26:05Z
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@futurebird Ages ago I used it to organize cassette tapes (mixes, recordings, etc) and I could print out the box inserts right from the app.
(DIR) Post #AmwgGfG1tCaQZVzrSy by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-10-12T23:30:24Z
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@futurebird Introducing kids to "How to X without a Y" is fun.They always assume we just didn't do X before Y was invented.And seeing their little minds blown is a wonderful thing.
(DIR) Post #AmxPdG7c0OzZDECvzs by zwolf59661@rubber.social
2024-10-13T07:58:43Z
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@futurebird I've had adults and people my own age look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them I don't stream music. I have it all saved locally on my PC, on my iPod, and most of it backed up to CDs if I don't have the original CD.
(DIR) Post #AmxpsuIpUfIWz1ZorA by jornane@ipv6.social
2024-10-13T12:52:52Z
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@futurebird What do you mean with a “clean copy”? The iTunes files I get are DRM-free.
(DIR) Post #AmzPFA678kjttXw7gO by lufthans@mastodon.social
2024-10-14T07:03:47Z
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@futurebird such editing stories/recollections always get me to think of Heinrich Böll's "Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen" ( Murke's Collected Silences ) short storyThe main character is collecting the silences between words of interviewsI had forgotten that it's also covering a "right to edit" as a character wants previous recordings changedWikipdia covers the story more in depth with spoilershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murke%27s_Collected_Silences
(DIR) Post #An0aEjRbWvctsuwhdo by vr@mamot.fr
2024-10-14T20:41:40Z
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@futurebird @joelmeador trance.mp3 @ubermuda