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Claudius

Heard this song playing at one of the DC block parties for Biden. One of my all time favourites.

MistaT

[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]You don't need the bullet when you got the ballot[/font][/size]

[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]Are you up for the downstroke, CC?[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]Chocolate City[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]Are you with me out there?[/font][/size]

[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]And when they come to march on ya[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]Tell 'em to make sure they got their James Brown pass[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]And don't be surprised if [/font][/size][size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]Ali[/font][/size][size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif] is in the White House[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]Reverend Ike, Secretary of the Treasure[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]Richard Pryor, Minister of Education[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]Stevie Wonder, Secretary of fine arts[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]And Miss Aretha Franklin, the First Lady[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]Are you out there, CC?[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]A chocolate city is no dream[/font][/size]
[size=medium][font=Programme, Arial, sans-serif]It's my piece of the rock and I dig you, CC[/font][/size]

Claudius

Ha! Great choice. Was actually listening to this in my Sunday playlist with a spot of P-Funk, Shaft,

MistaT

Just a lovely set....been flying at work while listening to this lately.

Claudius

Was listening to this earlier and thinking it both banged and painted a vivid picture of Kingston. It‘s a bit like when rap was still authentic and rappers represented and kept it real.

KingslandBarge

I think I'm tired of Apple taking so much dominion over my music files and now peddling Apple Music so hard (slipped in with the Big Sur OS update). Anyone have any guidance on how I can commence a detachment from this behemoth to a different neutral, less invasive media player (on Mac)? Think main hindrance I sense is that 60% of my music files are an Apple-specific format.

Claudius

Hahaha.
I have both Vox and Apple Music. It's easier to manage old libraries with Vox. It's less feature-rich unless you pay for 'premium' features like EQ, etc. There are a lot of other players out there though. I have VLC for video playback but you can use that for audio as well. And Clementine's supposed to be good.

I don't think there's any getting around those annoying M4P files as well. I stopped buying them a long time ago. Part of my why I just use Apple Music for new music so I don't have to deal with non-portable formats. Get conversion software and convert them en-masse.

And you should drop Apple Podcasts as well. There are lots of good alternatives in that space. And hopefully, they'll improve mouse accessibility with the universal interfaces.

Qwiss

I hate Apple Music with a passion. I hated it when I had an iphone and I wont use it now that I have android. Every now and then I have to install it to fix my wifes ipad but I delete is as soon as I've done whatever I need to

QuincyAbeyie

I don't think I've met a person who uses something else than Spotify. Are any of the other options better?

Claudius

I find it's well made, particularly vs iTunes which was an absolute CPU-sucking bumbaclat. As long as you don't need to interact with local files. The minute you need to do that, good luck. I've had so many mates calling asking what happened to my files. LOL.

Klaus

I mostly listen to local files (and everything else I Spotify) so itunes is still the best option, which must be very embarrassing for everyone else who develops software that plays and organises music. I don't understand how everyone can be so bad at this. I've tried stuff like MusicBee (among others) just to escape Apple, but it's just a piss poor approximation where you have to mod in basic functionalities, and even then it's fucking ugly.

Qwiss

Quincy Abeyie wrote:
I don't think I've met a person who uses something else than Spotify. Are any of the other options better?

I was talking about playing stuff from the hard drive. I mostly use Spotify but for stuff thats not on it I used winamp, cos I'm old fashioned like that.

Qwiss

Claudius wrote:
I find it's well made, particularly vs iTunes which was an absolute CPU-sucking bumbaclat. As long as you don't need to interact with local files. The minute you need to do that, good luck. I've had so many mates calling asking what happened to my files. LOL.

Its used to actually be fine with local files, now its much, much worse.

QuincyAbeyie

Qwiss! wrote:
Quincy Abeyie wrote:
I don't think I've met a person who uses something else than Spotify. Are any of the other options better?

I was talking about playing stuff from the hard drive. I mostly use Spotify but for stuff thats not on it I used winamp, cos I'm old fashioned like that.

I see. I very rarely play local files, but Spotify does have the option to access audio files from the folders you've selected. When you've done that they show up as regular songs, but they can only be played from that device I think.

Claudius

Apple Music is largely fine. Their database identifies most Western songs, including ones Apple doesn’t carry. So if you have music in your library you just drag it in, and it will become incorporated in your Apple Music library and available across devices. Whenever Tidal musicians have held back music, that was the fix. Easy. The only tricky thing will be where music isn’t tagged, so some dance remixes and some African artists. Then I don’t know the work around is for exporting to the cloud

Burnwinter

From memory the Linux clones of iTunes / Winamp were pretty acceptable—I think JuK is the best one that's still going. Just won't run on Macs.

jones

Klaus wrote:
I mostly listen to local files (and everything else I Spotify) so itunes is still the best option, which must be very embarrassing for everyone else who develops software that plays and organises music. I don't understand how everyone can be so bad at this. I've tried stuff like MusicBee (among others) just to escape Apple, but it's just a piss poor approximation where you have to mod in basic functionalities, and even then it's fucking ugly.

I used to use CopyTrans manager back in 09 when I had an iPhone/iPod to get my music on the device, never understood why you had to sync everything to get one new album on the device especially if you had more music on your hard drive than on your device. Those were dark days

For listening I use foobar on Windows, BlackPlayer Ex and USB Audio Player on my V50, if there was an app with the layout of the former and the audio capabilities of the latter it'd be perfect.

MistaT

We've done this in past years, and it worked well to find some new tunes....so, Top 5 Albums of 2020?

Have to admit, I'm struggling to find many as it feels like a bleak year for music and especially so after a strong 2019.

Kurt Vile - Speed of the SOund of Loneliness
RTJ - RTJ4
Ben Bohmer -- Live Above Cappadoci
....

Jens

Set My Heart on Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius and Shortly After Takeoff by BC Camplight are two that spring to mind.

Segway

Yeah not the best year but RTJ4 is a great album. My favourites:

1: Fleet Foxes - Shore
2: RTJ4
3: Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
4: Future Islands - As Long As You Are
5: Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Alfredo

Fleet Foxes was at their best. They made an absolutely beautiful yet light and easy-to-listen-to album.
Can never get enough Tame Impala even though this is weaker than his previous album 'Currents'.

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