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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by thenoblesunfish on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @04:41PM (#27200776)
Hallelujah. iTunes slowly became so intolerable that after using it for 20 years, I switched to my own cobbled-together system of mpd, ncmpcpp, Decoupled (for iPhone), scripts, and a folder full of audio files. A pain, but better than iTunes was.
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Re:Dear Apple, I don't want your god-damn lossless audio by croutonwagon on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:26PM (#27203516)
IM somewhat torn.

Within the apple ecosystem it does okay. I dont like that i cant play FLAC but otherwise its mostly fine for my use. I dont really stream, everything i own outright and have on a NAS, which syncs to my phone.

With the said....outside of the ecosystem its nonexistant.

For example. Working on my linux partition....no music. Can will browse my library and make a playlist in say....audacious, but nothing Ive used before.

Same with windows.

I have strongly been considering just spinning up a VM and using navidrome and maybe play:sub on my iPhone or something.

But then thats another VM i have to tend to, even if i automate like 99% of tasks.

iTunes/Music syncing while my phone is on network also means i dont need my VPN or to DMZ navidrome...which is nice i guess.

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