This month in digital music libraries - October 2024
October 21, 2024 in digital music by Dan Gravell
This month: music download site Qobuz gets hit with possible future redactions, new music players for Linux and building an organ with GPU fans (not a typo).
Redactions affect download too
Even if you resolve to use a download store to purchase copies of albums, odd tracks and more, you can still get hit by redactions. Qobuz has been sending out emails warning this might happen in the future. Make sure you’re fully backed up, it’s a reminder this can affect non-streamers too!
Music already purchased from @Qobuz may be withdrawn from download in the future, so make sure you download and keep a backup https://t.co/Us3l9Kcn77 Thanks @audiophilestyle pic.twitter.com/mUQc08cNlk
— bliss (@bliss_music) October 2, 2024
… but even though streaming gets a pass on this one, let me just quickly put the boot in…
Music hits different when it's not on streaming services fr
— Alex 🌟 (@Twyfell) September 19, 2024
New music players
Some more niched music players this month. Here’s a quick potted list of Linux music players you might like to try…
A list of #linux music players by @andreyorst https://t.co/sQph6hdxRN pic.twitter.com/q1e7OnozQK
— bliss (@bliss_music) October 13, 2024
… and even more niche, who remembers Microsoft Zune from the 00s? Surprisingly I do see a lot of nostalgia for this platform online, so this new music player might get a lot of love:
Do you miss the Zune or Windows XP era aesthetic? No, me neither, but for others there's https://t.co/OicMcsrq89 (yet to offer pre-built binaries so you've got your work cut out) pic.twitter.com/qoAlDgfiJF
— bliss (@bliss_music) October 11, 2024
Something to do when you’ve finished your latest LLM project…
Use the GPU fans to build a pipe organ of course!
An organ made with GPUs that works by varying the speed of their fans. Probably not a sentence you expected to read today. https://t.co/degZRr8R76 by @matdryhurst pic.twitter.com/ZsGEUn7dfO
— bliss (@bliss_music) October 15, 2024
Photo by Bruno Bučar on Unsplash
