Do you pay to stream music, and other blabbing

[alexjack]

I've got approx 115 GB of music and use Deadbeef and Quodlibet on computers. Quodlibet is the one I keep coming back to.

Sorry to not stick to the topic, slap my hand and all that, but I can't find a plugin for Quod Libet to find/subscribe/manage/listen to podcasts. Do you know if there is one anywhere?

I sorta like QL's song info using DuckDuckGo embedded browser -- gets a helluva lot of stuff -- but wish the full lyrics would show. Any way to get that to happen?

Sorry I don't know. Never looked though. I'm happy with AntennaPod on my phone.

[AVLinux]

I have payed for Spotify from the day it was released. I use it quite rarely though. There comes periods that I listen to my favorite music from yesteryears. Its nice to have all music in one place and find "new" old music I never heard before. I specially like their algorithm that gives suggestions based on what I have listened to, I find it surprisingly accurate.
Before that it was MP3s. I think it is 20+ years or so since I bought my last CD, or listened to them. Still have them somewhere in the closet though.
But I am contemplating buying a record player and listen to old LP's, I also have them somewhere in some closet. I remember that the sound was more pleasing or "full" so to speak than CD.

I agree about finding music new and old... I love that all ages and styles and genres are there in this big ocean of music to be discovered whether it's an old dog like me finding an exciting new artist or my kids discovering somebody like Neil Young for the uhm.. ahem.. 'first' time. My kids and I are on the Spotify family plan, it is great to send each other song links through texts and share playlists. I laugh when my son sends me songs and groups that are 'so cool' from 50 years ago like the Velvet Underground and he's surprised that i know all of it from high school..lol

If you're thinking of a new turntable some of the new ones have Bluetooth so are very portable to use anywhere with a Bluetooth speaker, don't listen to any of the scientifically incorrect stuff around the internet about the Bluetooth streaming degrading the uhm 'quality' of turntables it is total subjective BS.. I love having the portablity to bring my turntable out the the patio or anywhere with just a good BT speaker..

[Durhammer]

I need to fire up Audacity and capture the best of my LPs, but then I'll have to massage them to de-clickify and such, which is why I have yet to do it....

Gtk Wave Cleaner does a marvelous job declicking and dehissing. I did my albums years ago.

I also have Cantata on Windows, but the last port that Mr. Drummond made for it was 2.2, so I use the excellent Windows-only music beast, MusicBee

We have latest Cantata (2.4.2) in the MX-19 Test repo. I use mpd on a mini itx machine connected to my Stereo to play my music from Ario, Cantata, or mpc.

Thanks, Tim. Yep, I know about Wave Cleaner, it's all just something that takes time to do. What I need to do is figure out just WHAT of my collection I can't find on the interwebs. Even weird stuff like the Soft Machine is available, but gems like "Subway Tokens" recorded live in Raleigh by Carol Sloane and Paul Montgomery probably not (guess I'll have to look now!).

[Update -- I should have known! The entire, fabulous LP is preserved track by track on Yew Tewb! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... DVoNRT7CAu Not to be missed, Jazz aficionados! If nothing else, the last track!]

And yep, I was quite pleased to find the latest version of Cantata here! Craig might not be adding enhancements anymore, but what he does fix makes that jewel of a music player soooo much better that I can't see giving it up. I AM trying to warm up to Quod Libet, but it still seems to be a work in progress (can't play two of my radio streams, and the UI doesn't have the fine features of Cantata, so I might fiddle with it on the side until Mr. Drummond finally pulls the plug on Cantata when he's done with his new project).

[Durhammer]

I've got approx 115 GB of music and use Deadbeef and Quodlibet on computers. Quodlibet is the one I keep coming back to.

Sorry to not stick to the topic, slap my hand and all that, but I can't find a plugin for Quod Libet to find/subscribe/manage/listen to podcasts. Do you know if there is one anywhere?

Sorry I don't know. Never looked though. I'm happy with AntennaPod on my phone.

I've been playing with it. Their podcast support, such as it is, is in their "Audio Feed" mechanism. You already have to have the podcast RSS URL (though maybe not if it's on iTunes?) and plug it in. No discovery service, but it works except for one (the iTunes 'cast).

And yeah, I had AntennaPod on my phone for a while. Switched back to Deezer when I figured out I could fool my 2013 F-150's Microsoft-supplied "SYNC" system to think Deezer was one of its sanctioned apps (Ford and MS dropped support for the apps, but the stubs are there, so you can still use Deezer as a Sync "app." Sorta.).