Music thread

@Dashie41 YT
I haven’t heard it quite yet, but I don’t think I’ll be impressed either.

I just discovered that there’s a slow jazz cover of Whole Lotta Love sung by Tina Turner.

On this day 21 years ago, iTunes was launched for the first time. It was only available to Mac users at the time and the cost to buy and download a song was 99 cents.

I didn’t know Jennifer Rush did a Spanish version of Power of Love, it’s very good.

@Mr.Myoozik
Pretty revolutionary, I think the only reason it was released on Windows was so iPod users without a Mac could manage their iPod.

@Mr.Myoozik
I’ve never once actually used iTunes

@midob
that’s the only reason I use it, just to get all my music on my iPod x3

I still have my iPod video from 2007, it’s redundent now though; I just use my phone with a 512GB sd card.

@clandestine
@♬𝕸𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝕽𝖍𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖒♪
I never liked it, was always laggy on Windows back in the day, and “Bonjour.exe” annoyed me, my brother swears by it though. I use a combination of foobar2000, Winamp and VLC.

@midob
As for me, I had used WinAmp for a few years between 2002-2004 (between the ages of 11 and 13), but since then (apart from my Sony mp3 player sometimes), I almost exclusively listen to music through either Windows Media Player or YouTube

My father used to have the iPod nano 5th gen in 2009 and it contained thousands of burned songs of 80s-90s after migrating from being a CD guy for 15 years to that.

Unfortunately was one of the many gadgets that got robbed in a major house heist here back in 2017.

@♬𝕸𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝕽𝖍𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖒♪
Windows media player is actually not bad nowadays.

To source music I used WinMX, Limewire, Frostwire and currently Fopnu (made by the guy who originally developed WinMX and Tixati). I use torrents for albums, however I always support less successful/small time artists and buy their music.

I use YT for music occasionally, but it really pisses me off when a song suddenly becomes unavailable, usually due to some copyright bullshit. If you’re running android, check out Newpipe, it’s a 3rd party YT app that has no ads and supports downloading videos; the only caveat is that you can’t sign in with your account, so you have to manually re create all your playlists.

@𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
Damn, hope he had a backup of all those songs.

@𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
That sucks, especially if you lost those songs

@midob
I do think WMP has improved in recent years. It does crash on me every now and then, but that is very, very rare.
I also used to use WinMX and Limewire, years before my YT to mp3 days. And speaking of which, yeah, sucks when videos in YT playlists are unavailable… doubly so when there are no other videos featuring a song!
Newpipe sounds interesting, but if I have to rebuild playlists, that may be a tad too frustrating for me

Roughly a year ago I brought a USB headphone amp, I was somewhat skeptical as to whether it’d be worth the cost.

I can wholeheartedly say it was well worth the investment, it drives my open-backed headphones superbly; open-back headphones are bloody brilliant.

@♬𝕸𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜 𝕽𝖍𝖞𝖙𝖍𝖒♪
Cool, fellow WinMX bro, and yes re organising playlists is a PITA.

I just listen to my music on Spotify or YouTube

@midob
Both of those services gave me good times and not-so-good times back in the day: Good as in it helped me discover lots of music, and not-so-good as in trying to (and failing at least once) avoid fake files disguised as trojans/viruses

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When I’m at home, I either listen to music on YouTube, or on iTunes. I’m on my third laptop in fourteen years, and I’m oddly proud of the fact that I de-authorized the first two laptops before they died, so I’m still only using one of my five authorizations.

I still have a 16 gig 7th generation iPod Nano. My phone can hold more music, and I do have a lot of music on it. However, my job has me constantly getting in and out of my car, and I usually need to take my phone with me. So it’s more convenient for me to have a dedicated device for music that I can just leave plugged in to my car.

Album of the month is Voidkind by Dvne a Scottish Progressive Metal band from Edinburgh

Man… As a progressive rock fan, this one hurts. Days of Future Passed is a super groundbreaking album for the development of prog, and Pinder’s Mellotron was a huge part of their distinctive sound.

@TheHappySpaceman
He practically pioneered the instrument!
He was truly amazing

Congratulations to Taylor Swift for her 12th number one song with “Fortnight” featuring Post Malone. All right behind We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, Shake It Off, Blank Space, Bad Blood, Look What You Made Me Do, Cardigan, Willow, All Too Well (Taylor’s Version), Anti-Hero, Cruel Summer and Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault). She just keeps on winning.

Album of the week Tombstoner- Rot Stink Rip

Man this album is just fn nasty for death metal fans and there’s a song called fn Nasty

Kendrick released his Drake diss and he cooked with this one

So many golden lines

I love Chechen music.

@𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫
Too bad Chechnya is Europe’s Detroit.

Doesn’t matter. The lyrics speak thousand souls worth good understanding. No wonder why my idol Khamzat Chimaev’s walkout music was so good.