I’ve personally started buying music from Bandcamp and iTunes to have my own music collection outside of a music service and better support artists.
I’ve personally started buying music from Bandcamp and iTunes to have my own music collection outside of a music service and better support artists.
I use Foobar2000 on my HTPC and also the FB2K iOS app, which is great, but not perfect. Everything is FLAC (16/44 for the most part).
I also have Spotify, but I only really use it for alarms – mostly their mixes, which are pretty good for the most part.
How do you get the music to play it with Foobar? Any preferred services?
A mix of straight stealing via the main two trackers and also usenet or bandcamp – it depends on the band. With classic records I am picky when it comes to pressing, so bandcamp and other not-legal avenues aren’t always the best option.
The two trackers are great and its pretty easy to maintain a good ratio with a home connection. Usenet doesn’t have as much music, but its really nice since there’s no seeding or any of that ‘gotta keep it around’ business.