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Amir

@Amir@lemmy.ml

EN/NL PhD @ TU Delft CGV Loves EDM, LoL, TFT and MTG

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For a second I thought this was loss

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Link? I just find graphite dev which is not related to drawing

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Only one of them gets to make the decision to fire the other

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Opus at max bitrate is only like 1/4th the size of FLAC. At that point, why not just store it in 10GB while keeping the full quality?

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Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there’s tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account “forever”.

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Spotify’s encoding (vorbis 320kbps) should be transparent at the maximum bitrate. However, it’s possible that the files uploaded on there are mastered differently, for average consumer consumption instead of the full dynamics of most source material. I know SoundCloud enforces “loudness” mastering with presets when uploading for example.

The real reason Spotify’s quality is inferior to others is that, if you have the music files, you can apply in-app parametric equalization on every platform and compensate for imperfections of your output device.

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Isn’t YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I’d rather not even bother ripping that lol

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If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don’t get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.

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Does this have any selling points over the cheaper Pixel 8A?

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year’s $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...

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Check if they’re on Tidal, Deezer or Qobuz, then your problem is solved

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The reason is that you can find lossless rippers for all of them, so you could archive the files and use them anywhere

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It’s unfortunately broken on Sync

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Past week I got a lot of time outs when commenting

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Predecessor is the best MOBA I’ve ever played, and it’s not even out of early access yet. Right now just grinding Brawl because it’s braindead action but the normal gamemode is also good.

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Time to create my own planet without humanity

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Apologies for still being annoying about this, but I’ve been donating €10 monthly for a year now through Patreon and am still not on the donators page. Will this ever be updated?

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tech like 5G (which is not available in Europe}

wtf are you talking about

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You can use a win10 key for win11 and vice versa, so you could just see it as an update if it wasn’t for the tpm requirement

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Bluetooth ANC IEMs/earbuds were rare a decade ago, and now I see half the people around me wearing them all day

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