Hi ! I’m looking to buy my first DAP, what’s your advices ?
It has to have those features:
- budget around 100€
- buttons navigation (if touch screen, has the possibility to control my music in the pocket)
- can handle at least 500go sd card
- can play big files like flac
- usb c is a plus
- Bluetooth is a plus
- easy to navigate and play by album in the good order
- smaller than a smartphone
- better sound quality than a smartphone
- I’m not into streaming so I don’t mind if it doesn’t have this feature

Thanks !

I know this is mostly preference but I want to get an idea of what people prefer. I'm about to rename/retag 4TB of music using Picard. When I'm not using Spotify I mainly use Plexamp and Apple Music for local media playback. A good portion of my library consists of remastered, reissue, deluxe edition versions. So far writing a script to handle these consistently has been very difficult. I'll post a few naming structures below. Brackets, parentheses, both? For me, any reissue/remaster is a must to have the reissue year in the album title as well as the original release year. I switched to Mac OS from Windows in the last couple years if that makes any difference. Let me know which you prefer.

• Faith No More/Album Of The Year (1997)
• Faith No More/(1997) Album Of The Year
• Faith No More/[1997] Album Of The Year [2016 Deluxe Edition Remastered]
• Faith No More/[1997] Album Of The Year [Deluxe Edition Remastered 2016]
• Faith No More/[1997] Album Of The Year [Deluxe Edition Remastered][2016]
• Faith_No_More-Album_Of_The_Year-DELUXE_EDITION-CD-FLAC-2016

Zimtohrli was evaluated by measuring how closely its results matched those of public listening tests conducted by human listeners.

Full text: https://www.reddit.com/r/AudioCodecLab/comments/1w33bed/zimtohrli_the_best_objective_perceptual_audio/

Hey redditors,

I've checked FLAC file (same track of the same artist) downloaded from Tidal, Deezer, Qobuz, Amazon Music, and Spotify and used these 4 online analyzers to check their bitrate:

• Fabl
• Vibes
• Brizm
• WhatsMyBitrate

The verdict of all except Brizm was "upscaled lossy" (128kbps for particular this file). Honestly, that was a shock for me. I know streaming platforms rely on media distributors and not all of platforms possibly care of the true quality of media, but MP3 128 instead of FLAC is too much imo.

Can it be that [these] online analyzers fail to do proper quality/bitrate analysis, or I need to just accept that true FLAC media is only available on streaming platforms for a limited range of artists/releases and that's it?

Thank you!

Hey, I recently bought a Qobuz Studio subscription and want to rip/download a lot of music for my Navidrome server (on my NAS).

What is the current best tool for that that still works well (ideally with Linux support)? I would like to preserve the highest available quality and keep metadata, cover art, folder structure, etc. organized properly.

I would also appreciate any additonal tips for the Qobuz Ripping with Navidrome workflow and library-management.

Has anyone had issues with their Qobuz account being banned or restricted from doing this? If yes, do you have any tips to avoid bans?

Thanks a lot!

Ive tried cracking keyscape and i think i got it but it says i need like a download file like .dmg where do i get that

So like how some people put stuff just under Rock or decide to have your Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Soft Rock Etc...

But then i've seen where some of these genres also have sub genres

Also does anyone use more modern Classifications of genres like instead of Heavy Metal because it's old enough it's Classic Rock or other stuff that is now technically Adult Contemporary which i'm kinda trying to stay away from it

Like I'd rather have a Judas Priest Song be Heavy Metal or Hard Rock rather than Classic Rock or Unbreak My Heart by Tony Braxton be more under R&B then Adult Contemporary

So you'd have your classic and modern Heavy Metal stay together and such

Also to me it seems that some genres need sub genres but some might not or stuff splits off into two Genres like Grunge and Post Grunge

Hello fellow musichoarders,

I have been hoarding digital music since about 2000, and by now I have a pretty nice collection.

I mainly like full albums, but over the years I have also downloaded quite a few "playlists" that are basically folders full of songs with the same mood, but all from different albums and artists.

When I import these into my library (Navidrome), they end up as a bunch of one-song albums (with e.g. track number 3). At first I didn't really care, but later it started to annoy me.

My current approach is to tag these as a Various Artists album, make a custom album cover and name, and give the tracks new track numbers so they form one album. It's not great, but it works as a workaround.

Another option would be to download the full albums for all the songs and then create a playlist from them. But I don't really care about the other songs on those albums (I mostly make these kinds of playlists for genres I'm not that deeply into). Also, doing this for a lot of songs would take a ton of time.

So my question is: how do you guys deal with this?

Do you have a similar approach, or is there something else I haven't thought of?

I would love to know the easiest way to get all my music files to the Google Drive Android App I'm currently using The Musicolet Music Player App.

All my Music Files are 90% WMA Music Files and I have 1,550 songs on my Fold 7 Device. Some of my music files are also AAC, MP3, and MP4 too. What Music Files aren't supported on The Google Drive Android App?

I want to make sure that I can get all my Music on The Google Drive Android App from my Fold 7 and that all of my 1,550 songs will play on the on Google Drive without any issues at all.

I already have The Musicolet Music Player App but I read that the music files won't transfer

over to the Google Drive Android App.

Please everyone share your experiences when you had to transfer all your WMA Music Files to The Google Drive Android App. Was it a hard and difficult process for you? Did the Music Files play on The Google Drive Android App without any issues at all?

The WiiM Home app for LG Smart televisions running WebOS has been released. The photo is of it running on mine. It can be installed via the App menu on the television itself.

'The WiiM Home app unifies your music and device settings in one place, enabling effortless control of your WiiM devices and enhancing your overall listening experience.'

https://us.lgappstv.com/main/tvapp/detail?appId=1298120&catCode1=&moreYn=N&cateYn=N&orderType=0&headerName=%EC%A0%84%EC%B2%B4&appRankCode=&sellrUsrNo=&curPage=1

I recently got a HiBy R1 and have been wanting to use it for lossless music, I just don't know where to get the files. For my more mainstream taste I can find about 60% of what I need as FLAC files on internet archive but for the more obscure stuff I have no idea where to go, could you help me out?

I'm working on a research project and I need music data that evolves over time. RYM has been the best I've found so far. I've had some luck getting some of the data but it's SO arduous with how it's currently setup.

Has anyone managed to set something like this up successfully?

Ciao a tutti,
ho una collezione abbastanza grande di musica fisica, composta da CD, vinili LP, 45 giri e cassette.
Vorrei gradualmente abbandonare Spotify e costruirmi una mia libreria musicale digitale partendo dalla musica che possiedo, in modo che i file rimangano miei e sotto il mio controllo, senza dipendere da un servizio di streaming.
L’idea sarebbe quella di avere tutta la musica archiviata a casa e poter:
ascoltarla facilmente da telefono e computer, anche quando sono fuori casa;
ascoltarla attraverso il mio impianto hi-fi/amplificatore;
creare e gestire playlist;
avere una libreria ben organizzata e con un sistema di backup;
non essere legato esclusivamente all’ecosistema Apple o a un’altra piattaforma, così da poter cambiare dispositivi in futuro senza dover ricominciare tutto da capo.
Parto praticamente da zero per quanto riguarda server musicali e NAS, quindi mi interesserebbe soprattutto l’esperienza di chi ha già costruito un sistema del genere e lo usa quotidianamente.
Come lo impostereste oggi?
NAS, server musicale, streamer, software per gestire la libreria, formato dei file, backup, accesso da remoto ecc.
Non sto necessariamente cercando la soluzione più economica. Preferirei costruire qualcosa di semplice, affidabile e che possa durare negli anni, espandendolo man mano che digitalizzo la mia collezione.
Mi interessa anche capire come avete organizzato concretamente il vostro sistema e quali errori evitereste se doveste ricominciare oggi.
Grazie!

I ripped a CD i own for use digitally via an MP3 player, I've successfully transferred the MP3's to my laptop, but the files had no metadata and appeared as 'Track 01, 02, ect', I've manually added the data and transferred it to the device, but it's still appearing as unknown Artist/Album and no track titles when i test it out. how do i fix this

Does anyone know how to find the song "Just a Dream" by Hidden Secret—in WAV format

alguien sabe un ruta de encontrar la cancion ¨just a dream¨ de hidden secret,
en formato wav

I am working on this, and am interested if anyone else is in the same space.

I’m trying to figure out the cleanest approach for organizing my music library, particularly when it comes to the Album artist field/tag.

For example, with a compilation album containing 15 different artists, would you use “Various Artists”, leave it blank, or use another approach?

I’m especially interested in what people consider the best practice for music library organization and metadata, rather than just what a particular player happens to require.

I like to listen to my collection from my iPhone. I was using Doppler but today it started freezing and I couldn’t fix it no matter what I tried, so I resorted to deleting and reinstalling the app. It still freezes but I think even if I get it working again I will have to re-import all my music which will be a huge pain.

Are there any apps that are better than Doppler for iPhone? I’ve heard people recommend foobar2000 but I saw that it isn’t CarPlay compatible. I would prefer one that works with CarPlay, but I guess if it’s way better at everything else, I could live without.

I saw people recommend Roon, but that seems like it’s geared towards managing a music server. Maybe that’s what I should do but I’d rather just have the music on my phone. Right now my music takes up about 500 GB on my phone.