RIP Google Music

Re:RIP Google Music by WalterBright on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:24AM (#25068402)

> Hook it up to his stereo - him being in his 70's he might still have one - and he can use it as a jukebox, playing through the speakers without having to fiddle with Bluetooth.

Haha, I still have my stereo from 1980 or so, run it all day every day. Only these days, I drive it with a Grace Digital media player that sucks the files off of the desktop through the wired LAN.

I don't play directly from my desktop because I strongly dislike the bleeps and bloops from the computer, and those stupid autoplay websites. Easier to just disable the sound from the computer.

The computer stereo output also underlays an extremely annoying 60 cycle hum.

The sound quality from the computer DAC is horrible. Nice to use a real stereo (Carver amp and preamp for the win!).

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Re:RIP Google Music by Yetanfou on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:06AM (#25070616)

I have a number of them, strewn around the house, connected to USB DACs which are hooked up to the server. On that server I run mpd which is controlled through either ncmpc in a terminal session, MALP on mobile. The server also runs Airsonic since that is more efficient for remote streaming than mpd+icecast. No bleeps or bloops since the USB DACs are only used for audio streaming and also because they're on a server which doesn't produce any bleeps or bloops to begin with.

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