how does a music streaming service not know how to do a fucking volume slider correctly

@ivesen
Modern programmers are literally incapable of making a good music playing program. Winamp 2 has better features that what modern normies are given access to.

@alyx @ivesen and this is why I still use Winamp to listen to music. Btw Winamp 5.9 was released just a few weeks ago.
@newt @alyx @ivesen ncmpcpp sucks, DeaDBeeF i would have used if they had full feature parity with f2k, but last i checked (years ago) there was an unfixed issue, and i havent bothered retrying because i replaced my tagging with https://beets.io/

so now everything's just commandline purely, mpd's very stable for opus playback
@opal @alyx @ivesen @newt beets looks very cool :comfyeyes:

i use audacious and/or quod libet and manually do my tagging with ex false.
@icedquinn @alyx @ivesen @newt i avoided musicbrainz for a while because i didnt like the concept of autotagging, but looking at their tag policies, it's grown on me and i contribute there now

@opal @ivesen @icedquinn @newt
I personally have trust issues with anything that claims it can autotag. I have too many house/techno remixes that won't be found in any database and are likely to be butchered, and for other stuff, I often have certain criteria I use to manage songs easier.

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@opal @ivesen @icedquinn @newt
Me too. But when some of these things are just a DJ live session recording, they don't really have proper titles.

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@alyx @ivesen @icedquinn @newt i mostly just have albums in my library, and the rest i pretty much keep unsorted

@opal @alyx @ivesen @newt

icedquinn@astaraline ~> xbps-query -Rs beets [-] beets-1.6.0_2 Media library management system for obsessive-compulsive m...

:blobcatthinkOwO:

@opal @alyx @ivesen @newt

According to MusicBrainz style, featured artists are part of the artist field. That means that, if you tag your music using MusicBrainz, you’ll have tracks in your library like “Tellin’ Me Things” by the artist “Blakroc feat. RZA”. If you prefer to tag this as “Tellin’ Me Things feat. RZA” by “Blakroc”, then this plugin is for you.

:blobcatwaitwhat2: i’ve actually been moving featured artists to the performer field because quod libet indexes those as “people.” so the title is blah ft. bar with bar as a performer so you can find it under either name.

but then i do uh. a little bit of nonstandard tagging :blobcatnervous2:

@icedquinn @opal @ivesen @newt
I move the featured artists to title to easily view them, while maintaining compatibility with shitty music programs that don't know how to group by album artist, like they should.

>nonstandard tagging
Oh, I'm sure I have a lot of that. But I don't care. My tagging is my own, to make my life easier.

@alyx @ivesen @newt @opal yeah i just tried to import from youtube and it almost got it right but two tracks are tagged backwards and my options are to accept it or reject the whole batch. :blobcatpain:
@icedquinn @alyx @ivesen @newt i have been exposed

lol who maintains that package, void is wack

@opal @ivesen @icedquinn @newt
I've been a good boy with anything new I add, and keep them well sorted, tagged, replay-gained, album cover-ed, etc. But some of the old stuff is not necessarily in the best condition, and it's those that are harder to get right, cause they're either individual songs from weird sources, or unofficial TOP 20 from random radio station.

@alyx @ivesen @icedquinn @newt lot of tsundere violence releases are mp3-only and i like having my music library in opus so this makes things more difficult for me :^(

@opal @ivesen @icedquinn @newt
If I have a choice in the matter, my preference goes flac, any-other-lossless, opus, aac, mp3, any-other-lossy. But as far as tagging goes, haven't had many issues with the multitude of formats. Although opus is far from ideal... doesn't technically handle replay-gain correctly and I've had issues with Android where it wouldn't handle embedded covers over a certain size, so I did some resizing.

@opal @alyx @ivesen @newt my tiny player only takes mpegs :blobcatpain:

speaking of i should set up a script to transcode the library.
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