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I think a couple of the Android MP3 player apps offer library syncing with PC music library managers. I think that Gone Mad Music Player will sync with MusicBee over Wi-Fi.

Personally, I wound up just loading files directly to a DAP because it’s just easier with the amount of music I’m loading at any given time.

What I do is download an album, pass it through music brainz picard to fix the tags, drop the files to my DAP, and then backup the files to my NAC. Pretty simple really.

Don’t tell him where horses came from.

Don’t forget that they fork over millions of dollars to Joe Rogan while they are doing it.

I’ve tried explaining this to me peers that just quietly bust their asses while noisy jerks (including me, but to a lesser extent than most) get perceived as high performers because they engage with their bosses and work on things that have high visibility.

I think it depends on your source.

If we are talking about a downloaded good high bit rate MP3 and a FLAC, then yeah, I can’t hear a difference.

For streaming, I CAN hear a difference between the default spotify stream and my locally stored lossless files. That difference might come down to how they are mastered or whatever spotify does to the files, but whatever it is the difference is pretty perceptible to me and I don’t have especially sensitive ears.

I buy headphone cables based on how nice the cable feels, if it transmits noise when it rubs against stuff, and how well the connectors fit into the devices I am using.

My favorite is when people get picky about cabling for digital transfer. The ones and zeroes either get there or they don’t, nothing in-between. They work or they don’t.

I think the best thing to do is to assess your ability to hear difference. I can absolutely hear the difference between my Bluetooth earbuds and a decent wired IEM, so I use wired headphones for listening to music. I CANNOT hear a significant qualitative difference between the $25 Chinese IEMs that I use and more expensive options that I have tried, so I use the cheap ones.

To be sure, there ARE perceptible differences between wired headphones, but those are more a matter of EQ and personal preference. I can achieve my maximum perceivable level of quality with pretty inexpensive hardware. It doesn’t mean that other people cannot, that isn’t my problem.

Geographic obstacles exist in other countries too. No country on earth removes every geographic obstacle to create a shortest possible-straight line walking path between every structure that exists. The idea that literally anyone would do this is absurd.

Yes, there are plenty of countries on earth that don’t pave over their rivers so that you can build a business wherever you want without obstruction. What a stupid fucking notion.

We’re supposed to have the entire federal government protecting the regular people.

So it’s not theft when AI steals our stuff, but it is when it produces stuff that looks like Disney shit?

You think a shock article in High Times is a barometer for what “most people” took away from the movie?

I think the biggest mistake that the current administration is making (at least in terms of domestic commerce) is the complete failure to understand that consumer protections are NOT altruistic services given away to people. They are devices intended to increase consumer confidence and therefore consumer spending. A properly regulated market means that customers are confident that they will be given fair terms and will get what they have paid for. If you erode those protections the result is that consumers spend less.

The governments role in a capitalist nation is to serve as a guarantor of the integrity of transactions within its jurisdiction. If it abdicates that responsibility people will curtail their spending commensurate with their perception of increased risk. In short, people stop buying shit when they view those purchases as risky.

Since Trump and his cohort have never actually engaged in LEGITIGIMATE business they view these regulations exclusively as impediments when the reality is that they greatly benefit corporations in a consumer driven economy.

That is a fair assessment. I should have said “fake progressive”.

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As long as our standard is “are they better than the worst imaginable person for the job?” this is the kind of candidate we can expect to get.

There are a whole bunch of people that will jump your shit if you criticize anyone that even pretends to be a good progressive, they will accuse you of giving purity tests and being a Trumper.

The most recent example was the actual fucking nazi blackwater mercenary that is running as a progressive in Maine. Point out the fact that he was literally a NAZI MERCENARY and somehow that is you supporting Trump because this nazi is comfortable with lying about being a “progressive”.

Not a single person who knew him before says this is a surprise.

Here’s a good example if how this happened.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialDemocracy/s/b8IISKdAPO

Here is a discussion with people who are almost certainly genuinely leftists. They were given clear information from people who know the guy that he’s full of shit. No one wants to accept that narrative because it leaves them in the position that all American leftists fund themselves in eventually: no one on their ballot actually supports their interests.

He was a fake Democrat before his stroke. What he shows is how easily people are duped by a person that says what they want to hear.

It was a NEST camera from Google, which is only a meaningful distinction because it means they ALL do this shit.

They aren’t really making a ton of games that justify a costly upgrade anyways.