My library is reaching around 100 GBs of ALACs, since I was an iTunes for Windows user before I started using a Mac.Now, the problem is that the Apple Music app is horrible. It's INCREDIBLY slow if your music is on a SMB or NFS network share, so I had to use a spare SSD to store my music on. Obviously this sucks as now I have an SSD dangling off my laptop. It seems to be just iTunes but with Apple Music features added on. They've done no optimization at all.What are my options? I'd like to use Last.fm, which is why I stuck with the Apple Music app since the desktop scrobbler supports Apple Music/iTunes on Mac, and the iOS scrobbler works, even though I need to manually press scan to submit to last.fm.I'd also like to sync to my iPhone, although I am thinking about modding an old iPod or buying a dedicated FLAC player so I can quit using the built in Apple Sync and so I can quit using ALAC.I originally posted this on /mu/ but I'd also like to ask /g/ about what you think.
>>109019286just... copy/paste the music to your phone? i do it the fancy way through adbsync with a single click on a .bat file>to my iPhoneoh i understand the problem nowstop using ewaste.
>>109019286>alac
>>109019286your network share must be really shitty or set up wrong or your router is shitty, because i can stream a 14GB movie from a raspberry-pi 4B without any issues lags or delaysall you do is add the NAS folder on your iPhone, it stays connected forever when you are on the same network, if you have a good router you can set up home VPN over wireguard, your iphone will always think its on your network and you will have your music access everywhereall i have to do is connect to VPN and suddenly my phone has access to the NAS drivealternatively ALAC can be synchronized via itunes so its in the music app, for that you need to enable manual something, idr what but its some manual checkmark, which allows you to manually synchronize songs, but back in the day when i did that, it would fuck all your streaming music playlists, maybe they fixed it by nowone negative is that songs on NAS wont play via apple music or at least i couldnt get them to play there, they open in the VLCif you have a music player, you can go to files, and link the NAS drive, then all your music will just appear and any other files from the NAS like movies in the app of your choice, but again native music app wont work unless you itunes synchronize, which has its benefits because iirc it will find album art and stuff
>>109019436Bro I know it's dogshit but I gotta escape this ecosystem. Thankfully I can convert my entire library to FLAC with XLD without losing audio quality
>>109019489My "Network Share" is actually a ZFS pool set up on my Desktop PC. I'm still using the residential infra I got from my ISP since I moved in so that's probably holding things back. It works fine when I mount the folder to watch movies. I usually just cd into the movies folder and just use mpv. But for some reason it's incredibly slow when I set the media folder to the share on iTunes, which makes me think it's a problem with the Apple Music app on MacOS.
>>109019286Convert that shit to Flac and use Strawberry.
>>109019286As much as I love macOS, Windows powers my music library. I mainly have video game music, so I use foobar2000 for all of it. I can then export it to different formats like aac for iPhone. I basically don't, though. I got a 1TB iPhone and don't even bother putting my music collection on it.
>>109019286>Music Folder -> subfolders -> more subfolders
Have you tried doubletwist? It supports alac.. but use the free version first to make sure it's not slower than apple music before buying the pro version
>>109019811>I can then export it to different formats like aac for iPhoneor you could just install foobar2000 or any other media player on your iPhone so you can play whatever actually good format (such as Opus or Flac) rather than be stuck with a patent encumbered mess from the 90s that still doesn't have an encoder of usable quality outside of the Crapple ecosystem.I don't understand why iToddlers don't simply do this...
>>109019286I use MusicBee. I'm not sure how big my collection is but at least 60GB. I rate all the songs which are linked to a dynamic playlists for every genre that holds all 4 and 5 star songs. I also have generic "Singles" albums for genres like pop, jazz, heavy metal, etc for songs I like but the album is trash. They also sync to those same playlists. Everything goes on my 300gb sd card and I use Black Player on my phone. All playlists are set to dynamically update from the sd card there too (so I never have to refresh playlists when I sync).I used to have a iPhone and I remember when they forced us to sync to iTunes and it was fucking ass. It was part of the reason I switched, I need full control of my music. >it seems to be just iTunesyeah that sounds on brand. i complained for years about it. they just wont change
>>109019286Why not pay the annual fee to use iTunes match and sync all of your stuff? It's a separate service from Apple Music
>>109019286Switch to Linux.Fooyinhttps://fooyin.org
there's players that support last.fm and syncing to older ipods without having to flash the firmware. fuck itunes.
>>109019286I just leave my music in a neat folder structure. I can play an individual song or an album pretty easily, which is all I want.
>>109019286Switch to GNURufinhttps://github.com/screwys/Rufin
>>109019286>keep flac on desktop>convert to 192 kbps aac for phonei dont understand the issue
I have Plex running on a container on my unRaid server and then just use plexamp on my phone. I'm sure I could do dlna or whatever its called now to serve to other front ends, but whatever this works for me. Everything is in folders by artist and album with proper meta data because I'm not a low IQ simpleton to gets music and adds it without tending to it.
>>109020288>qtdropped
>>109021105I am trans btw if that matters
beets to organize folders on home server -> navidrome -> feishin/symfoniumsyncthing to sync it to offline music player
>>109019286I have a 32gb music folder sourced from nicotine+. I use foobar2k as my music player. When I'm on linux I use audacious. Both are fine music players, but I prefer foobar.
>>109020426>i dont understand the issuethe issue is you're not using opus retard
>>109020419How did you find that? It looks nice and it's even made in Rust.
>>109022487Flathub rss
>>109019286ytdlp / bandcamp to downloadrsync to put it in my phone / backupcmus and booming music to listen
>>109019286Unless you have the headphones to match, there is no reason to use lossless. Compress them down to oggs and high quality mp3 and use musicbee
>>109019286>unironically using slowTunesyou get what you deserve
>>109019286with shift + deletewho downloads music in 2026 lel
>ALAC
>Foobar2000>File operations>Move files to...>%artist%/%album%/%title%The file system is my library.I only use 320 or VBR MP3s btw
>>109019286Use deemix, download all the music on streaming services, convert to opus 96kbps and done.
>>109019286>audio/anime-and-games/{show-name}/**/*.mp3>audio/independent/{artist-name}/*.mp3Then I just use whatever player I want.
>>109020288I just installed this and it seems to be a pretty good Foobar2000 clone.
>>109025712I have one question, how do playlists work in Foobar2000? I'm still iTunespilled, so I'm a bit confused. When I click save playlist, I can save as fpl or m3u8.Should I just make a Playlists folder in my media folder and save the m3u8s there? Am I meant to re-save the m3u8 file whenever I update the playlists?
I use beets to sort everything and navidrome to host
>>109026268>I have one question, how do playlists work in Foobar2000?Like playlists in any other audio player, you just create a playlist and add songs to it.If you use colums UI (you should) you can create a playlist viewer and move it around, I have it set up to the right and my library on the left. If I want to add songs I just navigate using my library on the left and drag them to the playlist I just created on the right.>Should I just make a Playlists folder in my media folder and save the m3u8s there? That's what I do. m3u8 files are just absolute file paths so they look like C:\Users\fag\Music\Iron Chic\Demo '08\In One Ear.mp3a line for each song>Am I meant to re-save the m3u8 file whenever I update the playlists?Yes for safety, I don't know where foobar saves the temp files if you don't hit save but if you close and reopen the program the playlists are still there. Probably some temp file somewhere but I still save.Also use m3u8 for better compatibilty poweramp on android also saves as m3u8 and transferring playlists is super easy between PC and android
>>109026523Awesome, thank you so much. I already converted my files to FLAC and I'm setting things up in Foobar now.One last thing, if I move my audio files somewhere else, or move the m3u8 file to a new computer, will it break things? Is it a hardcoded path or can I just keep the m3u8 on my NAS.On MacOS network shares are mounted in /Volumes/<share>, so I assume that's the path that's gonna appear in the m3u8.I just don't want things breaking if I use the same m3u8s across my Mac and Linux machines.
>>109026593>One last thing, if I move my audio files somewhere else, or move the m3u8 file to a new computer, will it break things? Is it a hardcoded path or can I just keep the m3u8 on my NAS.It is an absolute path hardcoded so if you move them from drive C: to drive D: or whatever your share NAS is your playlists will break, but since they're all the same you can use notepad++ to mass replace the parts that no longer match like in picrel.This is how Poweramp saves m3u8 playlists but I can just mass replace the initial part of the path with my windows drive location and drag and drop the modified m3u8 file into Foobar and it just works since my music is inside the /Music folder on both devicesNot sure what you'd use on Mac but any half decent text editor will have mass find and replaceIt's a bit cumbersome but it's the price you pay to drop streaming sites for good.
>>109019286mostly 320 some flac
>>109027147Alright, that seems simple enough.Thank you so much! My library is now all FLACs and I'm enjoying my experience with Foobar already. There's even a special network share option in Foobar's settings, and it seemed to index my library very quickly.
>>109019286>music librariesby using Spotify of course!?
I have a folder of YouTubetomp3'd mp3s on my desktop accumulated over my lifespan
I just keep it in folders like this. artist -> year -> album -> source details if known. Im rebuilding my collection. Classical is kept in a seperate folder organised by composer. i get all my artwork online and keep it in the folderInstead of a dedicated music player i just use mpv
I use Spotify for most devices, but I also keep a personal library on my server for my favorite songs and songs that aren't on spotify: /srv/jellyfin/Music/<artist>/<album>/<song>.<idc-about-the-format>. As the path imply, I access it through Jellyfin.I also rsync this folder to my flip phone over MTP to have something to listen to when I go out without my wife or any friend to take the aux.
