#MP3 player bluetooth​

[whetstonefires]

hey, random question! what platform/method do you use to keep your robust digital media when ripping CDs? i havent done it since i was a kid with itunes (when itunes let you upload your own stuff....) and wanted to start again

Platform...they are files?

Like, mp3s; I keep them in my hard drive and thumb drives and so forth. My 'music' folder has subfolders, mostly by artist, which have subfolders per album. I just. Have the files. In my computer. Very basic method.

I organize and play them through VLC mostly. Or, on devices that still have it, I have kept using Windows Media Player, because I'm comfortable with the UI and why not, but they're actively phasing it out so I can't recommend adopting it lmao. And ofc if you're in the apple ecosystem it's not remotely an option.

I don't know that much about macintosh tbh but afaik they do let you have a file directory where you put your files that you own, which is definitely what I consider to be the most sensible baseline, if you have a device with enough memory. And memory has gotten pretty cheap.

I don't know of any cloud client service that's actively catered to letting you upload stuff you own and then stream those files on any device you please without having to jump through extra hoops, and suspect it might not be a thing at this point because there is no profit in that and it's not free to provide. They really want you to have to pay money to access content that you don't own. Sorry.

I bet you could figure out a way to keep a reasonably large music library in the amount of free storage google gives you with an account, and then play from there, but I don't think it would be very seamless. Maybe even less so on iphone.

But if your phone of whatever type has or can be modified to have sufficient storage space, you really can just. Keep your music in it. And then play it. VLC is open source and very good, and they have it for apple; I definitely recommend it.

But you don't like, keep files in it, it's just a player and sorter. So it doesn't feel like it answers the question you asked exactly, sorry.

[arctic-hands]

I have joined the society of bluetooth earphones

[kof-xiii]

LOOK at this chunky thing of an mp3 player its so cool looking im still mad its 130 bucks and bluetooth is apparently really dodgy with it but it has buttons it has the wheel that you can spin its got a little hook thing inside to tie a little strap or keychain i love how tactile it looks

[kaiasky]

usually i kinda scoff at "tech is magic" posts but this usb-c charger charges everything except my mp3 player, and my mp3 player charges with every usb-c charger except that one. and it feels like the only conclusion is that the embedded anima are incompatible

[venacoeurva]

I found my old Coby mp3 player again (which surprisingly had 4bg of storage, I swore it was like. 1gb total), and I was like "aw neat why did I stop using this, I can just use this one instead of buying a new one!" then I had the gall to jostle the headphone cable in the most minute way then remembered why I stopped using it aside from the era of music streaming being more of a thing after like 2012ish

I did get to listen to Life in Technicolor ii and have a nostalgia trip though, so that's nice

[seawitchkaraoke]

My phone being able to do the tasks of 20 other tools is cool and all but sometimes having a thing that just does one thing might actually be better

Anyway I'm gonna get an alarm clock so the literally first thing I do in the morning isn't grabbing my phone (and then of course checking tumblr and twitter and the news and-)

And I'm also considering getting an mp3 player (or finding the one I had 10 years ago and seeing if it still works) bc then I can go to the library to study and have my music while leaving my phone in the locker downstairs where it can't distract me

[viscerast]

our new phone doesnt have a fucking audio jack?? girl who do you think you are an iphone??

[windrunner]

Making some actual progress on moving away from primarily using Spotify / Youtube / etc. for music by finally setting up Foobar for ios and tbh. I would have done this sooner if I knew there were cute themes for it and it has a built-in FTP server in the settings

[the-plantman-is-queer]

Me: *tied to a chair and spitting blood* "CDs aren't dead"

Planned obsolescence: "hit him again, Vinny"

[shinobicyrus]

Why do you need your earbuds to have a wire so badly?

I am assuming this is about a post I reblogged like six months ago when I went off on forced technological enshitification and the slow erosion of consumer options. But sure, I'll bite.

Why do I "need" my earbuds to have a wire? I dunno, Anon, maybe I:

Don't want to have to worry about recharging my earbuds.

Don't want my earbuds to be even easier to lose.

Don't want my earbuds to need separate accessories that are as easy to lose as the earbuds.

Prefer to have bluetooth turned off on my devices for security and safety reasons.

Like being able to seamlessly plug my earbuds into my computer, my MP3 player, or any other device with a headphone jack.

Don't want to spend 50 dollars on decent wireless earbuds when I can do all the above things with a pair of solid earbuds that cost me like $12 during the Obama administration.

Don't care about what kinds of headphones or earbuds people wear but don't like what it says about our society when other people apparently care what kind of earbuds I'm wearing so much they have send an Anonymous ask to interrogate me about it.

And I guess, more abstractly, because fuck Apple. That's why.

[sol-flo]

i stg i don't understand what's going on with itunes. every time i try to add an album to my ipod it syncs my entire library for like 20+ minutes then wipes the ipod so i have to sync (20+ minutes) again. hello.

[six-of-ravens]

okay so, client meeting was not the confrontational disaster I thought it would be, however my fucking PC had a full nuclear meltdown about my headphones connecting, would not recognize them as existing, skype crashed and wouldn't relaunch when I tried to do a call, teams wouldn't recognize my device as even existing, ended up trying to restart my computer at which point it WOULDN'T TURN ALL THE WAY OFF AND RESTART SO I HAD TO HOLD THE BUTTON DOWN LIKE I WAS DROWNING IT.....

anyway that was embarrassing. if any of my neighbours heard me shouting "WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO DIE????? WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO KILL MYSELF???? I'LL KILL YOU!!!!" it's because I'm in an abusive relationship with a 2018 HP piece of garbage.

[1slur]

That would hurt sales, unfortunately, as consumers have become very comfortable with the accessibility, even though it's at the expense of "You downloaded a file! Where is it? lmao fuck if i know". Making a more capable phone that would require some basic understanding of computers to be usable makes for a less user friendly experience.

this can't be true can it

[cadygroves]

hi guys so I'm angry