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I think the core lesson of the story is knowing if your hobby is listening to music or curating a music collection. Optimize for one or the other. I went from
by montagg 22d ago
I think the core lesson of the story is knowing if your hobby is listening to music or curating a music collection. Optimize for one or the other.
I went from meticulously curated MP3 collection on Linux to letting iTunes do it for me, and I realized that the meticulous curation and hunting down album art and everything was a hobby I didn't actually love. But if you do love it, great! Different tools for different jobs.
- jack1243star 22d agoiTunes is trash on both of the jobs you mentioned though. Still waiting for a worthy alternative to foobar2000 on either Mac or Linux...
- fami-com 15d agoBut foobar2000 already has an osx version (https://www.foobar2000.org/mac https://www.foobar2000.org/mac), I've been using it for years.
- bombcar 18d agoSubmitting to iTunes made syncing to the phone much easier, but I've been using claude to rebuild/repair my 20+ year old library, and have learned that iTunes has very weak if any support for "work" - a feature it has to split up classical music the way the CD does (once file per movement). Frustrating that there will likely never be a high-quality syncing player that works well with iPhones.