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Obtainium is great for updating apps hosted outside the playstore, big upside being you don't need to bother with FDroid releases

I just think it's quite funny that in their justification, they project their own arrogant judgemental attitude towards those they justify their own behavior against.

[it's justified because] best case scenario, [the reason why] you don't [have social media] is probably from having some sort of arrogant judgement value about people who do

seriously? I think that's where people disagree.

it'd be different if they said:

a single woman setting up dates is going to use what limited info they have to avoid stalkers, cheaters, red pillers, and anti social people. That this might filter out perfectly normal people along with the creeps is the cost of maintaining safety and not wasting time, which is pretty much par for the course in dating

but that's not what they said, and that's not what people are responding to.

Imagine if some guy said:

"honestly, dating women who have social media is a red flag, at best they're probably attention whores, but there's also a good chance they're a cheating slut."

now imagine if someone responded to the "rustled jimmies" with

well, obviously they meant ((something else))

same thing, they should've said that then

I can only think of one extension that I'd really like on mobile right now (nitter redirect), but this is great for the future of Firefox

Managing a digital library is not appealing to 99% of people.

I wouldn't say that's true. Probably 99% of people who use a streaming service still manage their library on that platform in some capacity (playlists, etc.)

Now if you're talking about "owning and managing your entire library" then yeah, I'd say most people probably don't care or are too lazy to bother with it. (and I don't mean that as an insult)

Still, for people who like or listen to music that isn't included in their primary music streaming service's library, owning portions of their library will often give them the capacity to mix in the rest of their music to their platform of choice. I wouldn't say that's irrelevant when talking about streaming services. Sadly, Apple makes this process more difficult than it needs to be.

I don't think his post is meant to be hostile. It's not pointless, but it would add more of a discussion to elaborate on the topic.

On the topic of choosing to own (download (without DRM)) your music, one of the benefits is that it allows you to have all your music available in whichever music player (app/program/streaming service) you like. You can access the music while offline, without being required to pay some subscription fee. If downloading, it's generally also very easy to switch between different players if you so desire to in the future. You can control the metadata (swap album art, edit track info, etc.) You can sometimes even use owned media in tandem with streaming services to put all your media in one place within a streaming service's app/program. Usually, doing this requires less purchases/downloads to get all your media in one place, but still requires a sub.

On the topic of using Apple Music as a player.. I'm not sure if it's still this way, but you needed to use iTunes (on a PC!) to import local MP3 files to Apple Music, which, iTunes, love it or hate it, requires you to not only own a PC, but it has its limitations such as FLAC files being unsupported... That being said, Apple Music does provide a great convenience for many people and it's often cheaper than legally purchasing all of your songs. You can even add your downloaded songs from a PC (but not locally from an android device for some reason??)

I prefer to own my music. For anyone who likes the idea but doesn't know where to start, I can give some recommendations for convenience.

For music acquisition, use a legal website like Bandcamp to purchase your music, most of the money goes to Artists, compared to some other platforms. Alternatively you could pirate.. (illegal! I don't care if you pirate, but I'm not gonna write a tutorial.)

If you want to sync owned/downloaded files, use: SyncThing - free software that lets you automatically mirror file directories between your devices, syncing your libraries with no fees required. Available on Android/Win/Linux/Mac

For players, I recommend:

Android:

PowerAmp - trial & one time purchase, has theming support, massive customization options

Oto Music - lite version or one time purchase, supports downloading & embedding lyrics

PC:

MusicBee - free, has theming support, allows loading network files (local or remote)

Plenty of players available for different functional needs and/or aesthetics, but these are what I currently use.

why do you care so much about other people's hobbies?

yeah, in total you've only spent a couple seconds on forums, right?

You can also turn off the ad in the manager via a toggle.

It's nice, but I wish it had sponsorblock support, though I'm not sure if it's something they'll add.

might have something to do with their motto "don't make us popular"