Re: Actually listening to music again juli 10th, 2020 This a somewhat late response to solderpunks phlog entry on "Actually Listing to Music again" [1]. I've never been a huge fan of Spotify, but the kids use it a lot, so we have a family account. Previously, I have used Deezer, but I was never able to find or get a Linux client, and even less so a client for FreeBSD. Streaming works great for music discovery, so my primary usage is checking out new albums and deciding which albums to buy. Other than that, my primary source of music are ripped CDs. I recently made the transition to FLAC files, so I'm in the process of ripping my CD collection once more. Adios, MP3 and OGG. My master colletion of digital music is stored on my FreeNAS machine, and from there I copy the whole or parts of the collection to my daily used machines. I also have a (not so recent) copy on a microSD card on my phone for easy access. The FreeNAS collection is also accessible through Sonic (I have setup using duckdns.org to be able to access my colletion from outside my home). So sometimes I use the Ultrasonic app to access my online collection. Kind of my own streaming service. Recently, I bought some second-hand Jazz CDs, and I wanted to dive deeper into listening to these without any distraction. That's what I use my Sansa Clip for. I've written about it in an earlier phlog post [2]. It stores only 8GB of music, which is enough for a handful of albums in FLAC format. The sound quality is fine, and I finally can listen to albums again and again, until I'm fed up and transfer new albums on the Sansa Clip. I guess that's the kind of listening that also Solderpunk was talking about. After reading Solderpunks phlog post, I started looking at MiniDisc players, just for fun and without any intension to buy one. I never had one in the 90s, mostly because they were way too expensive in the old days, so I had my cassette Sony Walkman which worked quite well. Unfortunately, it was stolen at some point, and I never replaced it. This week, a Sony MZ-R700, accidently the same model as Solderpunk bought, appeared on the local craigslist eqvialent, in perfect shape and at half the price than the players I looked at before. So I bought it. I'm still waiting for the package to arrive, but here I am: a Sony MiniDisc walkman owner. It will be interesting to see where this goes and how this will affect my music listeing habits. My best guess is that it will replace my Sansa Clip at some point. Let's see. [1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/actually-listen [2] gopher://jan.bio/1/phlog/20190922-music-library-cleanup (DIR) Back ______________________________________________________________________________ Gophered by Gophernicus/3.0.1 on FreeBSD/amd64 12.3