I’ve started to think that I should do these weekly, so here’s your weekly music library post, I suppose. I really oughta make some other posts to vary it a bit more, but that’s a problem for later.
As of today, my music collection officially (as opposed to unofficially) reached 136 GB!
You might be wondering: “Wait, your collection quadrupled, but the size only grew by about half???” Yes, and that was on purpose. Very quickly I decided to give up on this whole hi-res thing, since, again, I can’t tell the difference between 96kHz and CD quality. Therefore, while I’m still getting FLACs when possible, they’re all CD quality (44.1kHz, 16-bit), which is perfectly adequate for me, not to mention that they’re easier to find. Plus, since they’re lossless, I can easily transcode them down the line to something else without having to worry about transcoding from lossy to lossy and making the quality suffer a bit.
As for my music player: I gave up on WACUP literally the day after my last post, which is pretty funny in retrospect. But to be honest, the limitations of WACUP were starting to annoy me. For one thing, it does not support disc numbers, so any multi-disc albums aren’t properly sorted, which is very annoying. And there are some very minor nitpicks, like the little spectrum analyzer on the player not working that well with higher sample rate stuff. Still, they and the more major issues got to me, so I switched to a very suitable alternative, and that is foobar2000!
I really like this music player a lot. The interface is very pleasing to me (and to be honest, I functionally prefer it for browsing a music library), the spectrum analyzer works brilliantly with anything I throw at it, and I can even minimize it to a tray icon! In general, it’s worked brilliantly for my needs the past week and I don’t really see myself using anything else in the future. I do plan to try other alternatives as a fun side hustle, but foobar already does everything I want it to do, so it’s unlikely I’ll switch, but who really knows.
I still use Spotify for my phone, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon, but I am still buying albums from Bandcamp and downloading them. I personally have more attachment to music if it’s something I legally bought. While Soulseek still works great for the music I want, there’s something about music I bought for my own money that gives me more sentiment for it.
(I literally bought Super Ghostbusters the moment I found out that it existed on Bandcamp.)
So yeah, that’s been the progress so far. I’m slowly running out of albums that I’ve heard of before to download on Soulseek (in fact I probably already did, minus any Bandcamp releases I wish to buy for myself, of course), so at this point it’s mostly getting stuff from artists or bands that up to this point I only listened to one album from. Really, the music discovery is kinda what enticed me to use Soulseek and to start my library in the first place, so if I find anything cool I end up liking, I’ll make sure to share it here!
Sep 6 2023
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I’ve started to think that I should do these weekly, so here’s your weekly music library post, I suppose. I really oughta make some other posts to vary it a bit more, but that’s a problem for later.
As of today, my music collection officially (as opposed to unofficially) reached 136 GB!
You might be wondering: “Wait, your collection quadrupled, but the size only grew by about half???” Yes, and that was on purpose. Very quickly I decided to give up on this whole hi-res thing, since, again, I can’t tell the difference between 96kHz and CD quality. Therefore, while I’m still getting FLACs when possible, they’re all CD quality (44.1kHz, 16-bit), which is perfectly adequate for me, not to mention that they’re easier to find. Plus, since they’re lossless, I can easily transcode them down the line to something else without having to worry about transcoding from lossy to lossy and making the quality suffer a bit.
As for my music player: I gave up on WACUP literally the day after my last post, which is pretty funny in retrospect. But to be honest, the limitations of WACUP were starting to annoy me. For one thing, it does not support disc numbers, so any multi-disc albums aren’t properly sorted, which is very annoying. And there are some very minor nitpicks, like the little spectrum analyzer on the player not working that well with higher sample rate stuff. Still, they and the more major issues got to me, so I switched to a very suitable alternative, and that is foobar2000!
I really like this music player a lot. The interface is very pleasing to me (and to be honest, I functionally prefer it for browsing a music library), the spectrum analyzer works brilliantly with anything I throw at it, and I can even minimize it to a tray icon! In general, it’s worked brilliantly for my needs the past week and I don’t really see myself using anything else in the future. I do plan to try other alternatives as a fun side hustle, but foobar already does everything I want it to do, so it’s unlikely I’ll switch, but who really knows.
I still use Spotify for my phone, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon, but I am still buying albums from Bandcamp and downloading them. I personally have more attachment to music if it’s something I legally bought. While Soulseek still works great for the music I want, there’s something about music I bought for my own money that gives me more sentiment for it.
(I literally bought Super Ghostbusters the moment I found out that it existed on Bandcamp.)
So yeah, that’s been the progress so far. I’m slowly running out of albums that I’ve heard of before to download on Soulseek (in fact I probably already did, minus any Bandcamp releases I wish to buy for myself, of course), so at this point it’s mostly getting stuff from artists or bands that up to this point I only listened to one album from. Really, the music discovery is kinda what enticed me to use Soulseek and to start my library in the first place, so if I find anything cool I end up liking, I’ll make sure to share it here!
By yoshi • Music Library • 0