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Discussion Thread ๐Ÿ™‚ Thursday 16 July 2026 (aussie.zone)
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[โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Listening to music by opening VLC, going "Add Directory", and choosing a bunch of albums to queue up. There might be better ways but this is what I'm used to and nothing beats it.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Used to do that until my laptop exploded. Then I was too lazy to go and redownload all my music. Now I'm a slave to Spotify ads

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago

    It's worth doing. I still have all these mp3s I got off my brother who got music off another guy. He was into metal and was a big Mike Patton guy so I think having that library of music helped develop my own taste because there was so much interesting stuff to just find amongst the folders.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    vlc is the best , luv it still , I use it to play very old dvds and cds

    and I have sent the guy payment!

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago

    The classic adage that "If VLC can't open it, you're screwed" still holds true. I haven't sent them any money but I wonder if they have a marketing team I could become part of, I'd love to help get the word out more

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Check out Navidrome (server) and Feishin (client). It remembers how many times you have played things and you can also rate the tracks or favorite them then later just play favorites or let it auto DJ. Supports playlists too. Between them they find cover art so you can pick by album cover rather than rummaging about for file names in weirdly named folders. They also find the lyrics and display to help you singalong. VLC is great though for consuming media in odd formats - it will play anything.

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