• Neato@ttrpg.network
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      9 months ago

      You can’t hear flac. But no it doesn’t do 2tb. Is this $250 device water resistant? Does it have a clip? Does it have an FM tuner?

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        I can hear flac is better than mp3. maybe I can’t hear all flac has to offer, but its a better listening experience. also the page 100% says it supports up to 2tb sd. the things you listed literally dont matter to me

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          9 months ago

          That depends on way more than just the file format of your music. With a device like this one, you literally wouldn’t be able to tell them apart.

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          9 months ago

          I mean no one can even hear all the way up the bitrate of MP3s. So no one can actually hear FLAC.

          also the page 100% says it supports up to 2tb sd.

          No I was answering your question that the Sandisk didn’t support that.

          e things you listed literally dont matter to me

          Cool. I was asking what is so interesting about this $250 iPod and how does open source benefit it? Besides holding so many songs you’ll never listen to them I mean. It doesn’t appear to have functionality a player 1/5th it’s cost does. And no one has given me an answer on what functionality open source could enable for an mp3 player that isn’t already available.

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            They don’t answer your questions because they don’t like the answers, simple as that. My advice would be to not waste any more of your time on this. That’s what I’m going to do at least. You can’t argue with fanatics.

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      9 months ago

      It supports FLAC but goes only to about 64 GB micro SD cards. Although they made newer models since, but every one seem to have missing important features, like Bluetooth only or lack of SD cards support.

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        Making a lower quality copy of a file to save a minimal amount of space is a waste of my time. Besides 2TB is enough space for over 7,000 hours of basic 44.1kHz 16-bit FLAC listening.

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          9 months ago

          Totally. Dropping a folder to fre:ac and clicking 2 buttons takes an enormous amount of time.

          Also, 7000 hours of FLAC 16/44.1 is about 4.44 TB so your math is pretty off.

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            That’s what I get for using an online calculator.

            Still I’ve got almost 40,000 FLAC files of various quality levels with a duration of roughly 2,700 hours taking up only 1.2 terabytes. Still within the same order of magnitude and still plenty of space in 2TB for a collection I’ve been curating for 25 years. I don’t think it’s worth my time to suddenly manage a lesser quality copy of each of those just for a portable player.

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              I don’t want this question to sound like it’s in bad faith but how much of this do you listen to, and how much of it just sits there forgotten? My catalogue is about 361 GB (CD rips and purchased downloads) of flacs and I had to make separate folder that I named “!threat of irrelevancy”, that is 36 GB in size, for what I believe is an obvious yet personal reason. These numbers are far exceeding any logical timeframe.

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                Yeah, this is a question in bad faith from a child to someone that’s been curating a collection of music for more than a quarter of a century.

                This isn’t even my entire collection, I’ve got at least a couple orange crates packed with vinyl, CDs, mp3s, concert videos, and even some cassettes for nostalgia. Do I listen to everything I’ve gotten digitally? Not yet, but I don’t plan on stopping my listening any time soon and drive space is cheap, so I figure that I’ve got time.

                Your “logical timeframe” is both naive and deeply insulting. I’m going to enjoy my library hobby anyway, but you can just fuck off with your negative attitude.

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                  Is it really “naïve” to claim there is simply not enough time itself to listen to music and do everything that we do in out lives? Or is it naïve rather to claim otherwise. And that actually was not in bad faith as I struggle to listen enough on my own. So you can fuck off with your weird ass superiority mister ‘more equals better and smarter’.

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                    People like what they like. I like to collect and listen to music. It’s NOT cool to shit on someone else hobbies and interests just because you don’t get it. If you can’t understand that, then yes you are being a naive jerk.