AIMP on Windows (and probably Wine). Has good converter and tag editor as a bonus. You can try v2 or v3, they are pretty different. Both support Last.fm scrobbling if it’s still relevant. The android app is nice too but I haven’t used it that much. It kept my evergrowing library nicely structurized, mostly folder-based, with a little effort. It’s russian, but I haven’t noticed it doing anything funny, and it’s probably too niche since most people use streaming nowadays.

Media monkey is pretty ok last I remembered, but I’ve been going back to CDs lol

Why not, y’know, just use Winamp? It’s still available to download and you can even get installers for older versions if you prefer.

Hah! I’m as old as MS-DOS 2.0! (But really got comfortable using computers on my own with Windows 95/98/NT 4.0)

That still makes you a young’un then, maybe just an old soul?

I just finished a Windows XP rig so I could relive some of my classic gaming moments. From my college years…

Still used for CAD software for whatever reason. I had to setup a SVN server for schematics.

They said Album order: track 1, then track 2, etc

I have an old copy of “American Pie” from Napster just like that. Couple little glitches at the start that gave me a twitch for years if I didn’t hear it.

It’s also what I tell people who like the sound of vinyl. The pops and hisses of vinyl are objectively wrong, but you can get subjectively used to hearing things a certain way. It’s not better, it’s just what you have always done.

Even that all said, I do like listening to vinyl because the whole process of listening to it is very deliberate. Like I’m preparing for an event and this is what I’ll be doing for the evening.

100%! There’s a whole second breakdown in Jamiroquia’s Virtual Insanity that I never knew about.

What’s stopping you from doing that now?

I bought a CD of Green Day’s “American Idiot” and tried to rip it. The version still sold these days has some kind of copy protection on it that gives rippers fits (which isn’t very punk rock of them). Tried a few different things, and then gave up and downloaded somebody else’s flac rip.

Or go to the library, rent the CDs, rip them, and return them. Good times

You still can. I do it all the time.

It’s entirely possible that I’ve missed more recent legislation, so take this with a grain of salt. Canada has a “blank media tax” courtesy of the record lobby back in the recording tape days. There was much pushback from consumers when that fee was applied to things like video tapes, recordable CDs, hard drives, etc, but still exists as far as I know.

The recording industry was pushing for laws more in line with other jurisdictions, primarily the US. The government was open to it, but would then abolish the fees on blank media. Industry backed down because they get more from that fee distribution than they would ever get by having more restrictions. Of course, that doesn’t stop them from trying to shame us or blow smoke up our asses.

That means we are already paying a licence fee allowing us to copy recorded or broadcast material for personal use. “Personal use” is defined by what it’s not: rebroadcast, playing for the general public, and reselling. Thus, making a strictly personal copy is fine, as is making a copy for a friend, copying from an original you’ve borrowed (from a friend or from the library), recording legal broadcasts (like from radio, etc), and recording concerts unless the terms of admission expressly forbid it, etc.

Definitely did. Dad was a stoner, I was too young to get stoned, we both sat and watched it for ages while dad shared his favorite tunes with me. Ah, good times.

I was a fan of Goom.

Ok