Platform change again

[jfetter]

Am I alone in ditching Apple as a music platform?

My timeline (music ripping and backup) was Linux for a few years with lame converter. It did the best I have heard on mp3.

Then the Apple itunes m4A files, many iPhones ,osx laptops and mac desktop era.
Now have gone back to windows.
I'm typing this on a Windows phone.

ITunes is on the win 10 for now.

I ditched Apple for lots of reasons, too many to list does not really matter anyhow.

I don't trust windows itunes going forward either.

Just thinking out loud here.....

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[MAAC0]

My only Apple product is an iPod that was gifted to me.
I don't like to be forced to use a program (iTunes) for feeding it with music.
Mp3 players should appear as thumb-drives when connected.

 

[jfetter]

Guess I'm behind the curve. I installed foobar2000 and giving a try.
It's available too for the win phone.
I can go back to lame encoder too...

 

[nigelwright7557]

There is little reason to purchase music now.
I usually listen to youtube videoes.
Youtube pay performers so much for every view.
If you feel the need to download then you can find youtube to mp3 converter sites. Beware some have viruses but some are ok.
I just listen online.

 

[scottjoplin]

Nigel, have you tried YouZeek for finding YouTube videos? It's quite handy

 

[nigelwright7557]

Nigel, have you tried YouZeek for finding YouTube videos? It's quite handy

Thanks for that.

 

[scottjoplin]

You're welcome, I like Deezer but I've found very obscure albums via YouZeek I couldn't find elsewhere

 

[jfetter]

I just have a bad gut feeling about depending on a tcpip stack for hires music.
My library is both mp3 320k and m4a bit stuffed.
I keep buried backups etc. I also have physical cd s of the library but they are gradually failing when I pull one out.

Of course I have rock,alt ,country,folk,classical,blues and so on.
YouTube is a Google company so extreme user tracking there.

Guess you could say I'm striving to be 'off grid' on music.