It’s terrible with direct streaming lossless Dolby Atmos (TrueHD) streams, not only where it’s not possible but there are workarounds (AppleTV / Infuse), but also on each and every platform it’s being done by other apps (Android, Xbox, PC / Kodi).
I only use it because I paid peanuts for lifetime premium and alternatives have egregious UX that I can withstand but my extended family cannot.
Is it possible you’re using your desktop’s GPU for ffmpeg encoding, and not the CPU, by chance?
I have to demonstrate to my friends every time how my MBP M2 blows my Ryzen 5950x desktop out of the water for my professional line of work.
I can’t catch quite the drift what x86/x64 chips are good for anymore, other than gaming, nostalgia and spec boasting.
I was there when Microsoft COFEE released on WhatCD. And it appears I’ll be there when the certain villains’s coke party released on RED.
That being said, I left Spotify after 18 years recently because my money wasn’t going to artists I listen anyway. Bandcamp + SoulSeek + Lidarr is the way.
Sound designer here. I always liked to tinker with digital stuff, and while I think %90 of the self hosted apps must’ve been simple .EXEs, I’m having fun setting them up around.
You don’t even have to be using the strong contender. I’ve switched to Ecosia and my reach to interesting stuff increased tenfold. SearXNG also spewing what I’m exactly asking for.
It would still take 6075 twitter mass subs cancellations to deplete Musk’s wealth though.
Android people here often have a Spec Champion phone… and a Daily Driver one.
I only have a daily driver iPhone I bought 6 years ago and it can still daily drive me.
Director had a wonderfully bad take about last two CIV games that’s still been on Steam’s daily concurrent top 100 games after all these years.
Sophia Petrillo will be exhilarated.
Minecraft singlehandedly created a genre called “Survival”.
I think most of the games around 2005’s Indie Game Boom created lots of brilliant mechanics that’s been copied still.
Game Dev here. More specifically, audio director. Used to be tech sound designer and composer. I find it hard to explain even over here, among the geeks like me.