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I Built My Own Audio Player

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292 points nexo-v1 | 4 comments | 22 May 25 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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wvh ◴[23 May 25 08:00 UTC] No.44070862[source]▶
I've been building a music collection in FLAC format for 25 years, and last year I bought an (Android) phone and a MicroSD card of 1TB that fits all of my music. It's been a long project for technology to catch up, but now that it's possible to have all of it in my pocket, I'm pretty happy with it.

I'm sure I can't be the only one that doesn't want to be a renter, give up control and stream anything the industry wants to push or deal with ads. It's cool to see some even go to great lengths to write their own application.

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eviks ◴[23 May 25 08:48 UTC] No.44071116[source]▶
Technology has caught up many years ago, it's just that you insist on an format not fit for purpose. With good reencoding you get transparent audio quality (impossible to hear a difference) to fit all of your music on a much smaller card. (and as a backup you can always have those FLACs on the desktop)
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duped ◴[24 May 25 00:33 UTC] No.44077870[source]▶
People should use wavpack for archiving instead of flac, to be quite honest. It feels like FLAC has mindshare and name recognition but it doesn't support hybrid encoding (which is great for storing audio for archival and playback) or more than 8 channels of audio.
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eviks ◴[24 May 25 04:25 UTC] No.44078765{3}[source]▶
Music has 2 channels, so that feature is of no use. The other feature is cool as it avoids the need t maintain 2 sets of tags, though as far as I understand, it's not widely supported, especially in smartphones
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1. duped ◴[24 May 25 15:38 UTC] No.44081793{4}[source]▶
Music absolutely uses more than two channels. Or less. You don't need special "support" either any more than flac, you just decode it and write the bytes to your output buffer.
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2. eviks ◴[24 May 25 15:45 UTC] No.44081832[source]▶
How prevalent is music with >8 channels???

And it wasn't "special", it's just apps don't support playing the format

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3. duped ◴[24 May 25 20:23 UTC] No.44083583[source]▶
You don't pick an archival format for the common case, you pick it for all cases. But to answer the question, virtually every film soundtrack for the last 10 years.
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4. eviks ◴[25 May 25 04:19 UTC] No.44085488{3}[source]▶
That doesn't make sense, you don't pick to suffer from poor support if you have a zero ore tiny niche case for it, you preserve it for that case only.

And you didn't answer the question, this discussion is about personal music libraries, like in the case of op collection of 25 years.

I'd bet almost all of them are stereo and not >8 channels