I know this is logically true and I’d probably immediately hear the difference with flacs (and I do have a few of one of my favorite artists, but they’re the exception) but I’ve been listening to a library full of YouTube Rips for so long that I’m scared I’d never be able to go back if I started listening to all of my music in flac… and then I’d need Navidrome instead of being able to syncthing-sync a ~5Gb folder of about 3,000 youtube rips onto every device i listen to music on 😬

It was hard enough migrating from Streaming back to an actual audio library. I still come across songs where my conversion script grabbed the wrong YouTube video for a song, so I have the live version or a cover/remix that’s just tagged like the actual album version. Maybe beets could help find those? But I still shudder to think of using beets. It’s going to be time consuming and probably very frustrating, based on my only other attempt at using it (granted, I didn’t spend too much time on it before throwing up my hands and giving up before)

Hey, honestly, thanks for being mature and real about this. I 100% am going to be migrating away from systemd after seeing how quickly this happened at the project and yhat Microsoft can basically decide they want code added to it; but I’m not gonna drag this random junior dev… I’m gonna choose to direct my hate at Microsoft instead. If they orchestrated these changes, that is the story here. When did that corporation get its fingers into the cookie jar, and how do I now make sure my entire software stack is free from projects where Microsoft can have this level of influence? That’s the tactical picture that matters.