Thank you! I’ll take a look :)

My phone does not have expandable memory and storage is expensive in my country anyway.

Thanks, I’ll have a look into it! :)

I was considering doing that sort of thing if I couldn’t find anything automatic. It’s just annoying as I buy new music and have to convert along the way, especially as I have memory impairment and can forget to clean up afterwards.

I’ll give that a go, thanks :)

I don’t want to stream at all because I don’t want to be reliant on having an internet connection :)

You are correct and I don’t normally like to listen to anything less than 320kbps. BUT, my phone does not have expandable memory so it’s hard limited. And where I listen to most of my music while travelling is in the car using the car’s speakers which aren’t going to make much difference listening to 128vs 320. Even when streaming music, I’m not going to get 320. I may go up to 192kbps instead of 128 but I doubt it will make much audible difference with shitty car speakers.

I don’t want to be reliant on an internet connection to play music. Hence, why I prefer everything to be local on my phone. I also don’t want to open our home server up to the outside world.

Technically its illegal in New Zealand (after the great John Key and The Hobbit saga) but the ISPs don’t give a shit. Never used a VPN and only got one letter just after the law took effect. Nothing since. So many people here do it it’s unenforceable.

As a long time poor person myself, please don’t give this sort advice. It doesn’t help. When your poor, getting something like OPs competition win can make life feel not so glum. What you’re saying is to sell happiness for slightly more security that will only last so long. Once the extra runs out, you’re back where you were with zero ability to buy that ‘luxury’ back. Having something nice when your poor can make a big difference to mental health.

Also please don’t assume that poor people don’t know how to budget and that they need unsolicited financial advice from strangers who don’t have any idea what their day to day circumstances and finances are.

My spouse is a tech and tells me he has all the patience for stupidity because he gets paid for it. Once upon a time, I was going to go into IT but turns out that no amount of money was worth it for me because my tolerance for stupidity and willful ignorance is next to zero.

TBF, I still smile and tell family members it’s all good, no problem to fix and then vent my inward seething later on to my spouse 😅

Drives me nuts computer illiterate family members praising me for fixing the most basic, basic shit for them. They think its because I have lots of experience. But no, its because I learned the absolute basics of computer literacy and the experience I now have is grounded in that. I don’t want praise for “working magic”, I want people to fucking spend a small amount of their time learning the most BASIC of IT skills so I don’t have to waste my time fixing shit you should know.

Sorry, my frustration might be showing just a little.

And not many consider the environmental impact of this either. Sure storage might be cheap (not in my country but I digress) but more space still requires more storage and across thousands of computers and then millions of computers that’s not an insignificant increase. We should be increasing technological efficiency not what were doing at the moment which seems to be just throwing more power and resources at the problems.

I know this is an older thread but I don’t know why you’re getting down voted. I am long haired and always move my hair out of the way bending over and whatnot. I love long hair but I don’t like it getting in my eyes or tickling my nose so it becomes habit to hold it out the way of my face.

This is very cool. I run a website for a charity and this had certainly made me reflect on how I could reduce its power consumption (even with it hosted on 100% renewable power servers)

Couple this with SLDL which can use Spotify URLs. I haven’t used it (yet) but was recommended to me for the same thing you’re wanting to do.

https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl

Oh look, I can get Google search results without using Google. And my privacy and sanity is protected.

They serve two different purposes - Gimp for image editing, Inkscape for vector graphics.

Or just ditch the Windows partition/drive and use a VM instead.

Thunderbird is independently developed from Mozilla and has been since 2020. It’s driven by the Thunderbird Council which is community elected. Its only link now with Mozilla Foundation is that it’s a financial subsidiary. But as others say, there’s also Betterbird if one still fanatically hates Mozilla.