I Built My Own Audio Player

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292 points nexo-v1 | 1 comments | 22 May 25 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.329s | 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]▶

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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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1. wvh ◴[25 May 25 13:04 UTC] No.44087519[source]▶

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Perhaps. I've never gotten into the effort of re-coding everything, though I have converted some to MP3 to take on runs with me before memory cards exceeded the size of the data. I'm happy we're getting at a point not having to care anymore about disk space – that is, those of us not locked into a walled garden forcing expensive upgrades for more storage.

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