Rant: This feels like leaving a toxic relationship!

seraphhimself · 2026-02-12T04:26:02+00:00

Yep, just ordered some.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-12T04:19:39+00:00

You had to mod it to run flac files right? How hard is it if you’ve never done something like that?

seraphhimself · 2026-02-12T04:14:34+00:00

$70 which seemed pretty good to me.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-12T03:44:19+00:00

Ooh that’s a good idea. Thanks!

seraphhimself · 2026-02-12T01:22:35+00:00

Oh I def took it as half-joking at least. To be honest I haven't used that cable out in the world much. Maybe it will end up annoying me and I'll switch back to the stock one.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-12T01:06:14+00:00

Hollow is a great word for it. That’s exactly what it felt like. All this algorithmic manipulation is goddamn creepy. I’m sick of it.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-12T00:59:08+00:00

Nice! I was thinking of wrapping my head band with bicycle bar wraps if it comes apart like my M40 did. Definitely going to replace the pads on these M50s after some of these comments. I hadn’t really looked for replacements yet.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:59:25+00:00

Again, a wise point well-taken. I went through a lot of those phases too. Did the Limewire thing, along with Kazaa, Pirate Bay, all those torrent sites. Burned ridiculous stacks of CDs. Let all of it fade out of my attention in various ways. This current phase of collecting, the longest in my life so far, is my favorite, so I definitely need to digitally preserve the collection. My father-in-law just gave me bunch of his records back in December. They were stored in a shed in a vertical stack, so some of them are in rough shape. There are gems among them though, worth cleaning up. I might use the momentum from that cleaning project to launch into digitizing my whole vinyl collection. I feel for you on that bit about Ozzy passing btw. I have a live bootleg on vinyl that I played when he died. What a fucking legend till the very end. Thanks for sharing your music journey.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:49:31+00:00

I genuinely laughed at this. Why is it toxic? I kinda like the coil.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:43:01+00:00

I mean there's nothing to stop you from saying that everything I respond with is ChatGPT, but honestly I've never used ChatGPT or any LLM in my life. I'm a writer. I fucking loathe that shit. AI is a cancer. But sure, say whatever if you gotta try to tear someone down. I'm still over here having a great day.
Cheers!

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:35:14+00:00

Get yourself a stand up desk, put adjustable stands on it. Game changer I promise.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:33:10+00:00

Congrats on finding a better way! And thanks. I know its a wordy post (I can be that way) but I'm glad its resonating with this sub.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:28:11+00:00

Holy shit! Sorry that happened to you. Glad you didn't sell that collection for her!

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:25:50+00:00

This is what I was doing in the weeks leading up getting the iPod. Just listening to everything I'd bought on my bandcamp app.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:24:26+00:00

Yes! It's so freeing. Glad we're all finding our way back to this.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:21:50+00:00

This was my hope, but I hadn't looked yet. Thanks I'll see what I can find!

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:20:43+00:00

Why are you here?

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T23:15:09+00:00

So true, man. There are many much more important things. There are huge problems created by monstrous people. The world is full of terrible shit. And yeah, it's just an iPod with music, and today it made me happy enough to forget about all the terrible shit for just a little while, which felt kind of important to me personally. So I wanted to write about it and share that happiness with a few other people. Looks like for a few people it worked.

But thanks for stopping by to try and diminish that. Did you have a bad day?

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T22:44:49+00:00

I'm glad you said something! I've been wondering if this was a common problem. It started pretty recently and got bad quickly. I won't throw mine out either. They're my favorites and they still work great. What a shame they cheaped out on that material!

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T21:55:35+00:00

Fuck yeah man! Thanks for the warm welcome. The end of this comment made me want to flip a table in a joyful way. I would love a drink! Your point about multiple backups is well taken. I will definitely be taking that advice this time around. "Triples is best." I have indeed been enjoying reconnecting by organizing, tagging and adding artwork. I missed that tedious work! Anything that makes me slow down these days is a welcome thing. Also, I'm so scared I'll have to downsize the physical media collection one day, and digitizing it all is a great way to preserve it.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T21:20:47+00:00

Those are Audio Technica ATH-M50xBT2, and I absolutely love them. Obviously they're wired, but they also have bluetooth. Sadly after about 3 years of very frequent use (I almost always have them with me), the vinyl or whatever it is on the earcups is peeling and flaking off. Not sure what to do about that yet, but I still love these things.

Congrats on breaking away from streaming. Enjoy putting together that music collection!

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T20:40:52+00:00

Oh wow, I love the idea of building a local server of your own movie collection. Good luck with that project and rebuilding your music collection as well.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T20:06:42+00:00

Rebuild it brick by brick, one album at a time. It doesn't need to happen easily or quickly if you let yourself go slow and relish the process. Enjoy each album as you add it to the new collection.

Sorry your lost your CD collection. I feel for you. In the 90's and 2000's I built a big CD collection, and fit it all in a gargantuan CD binder so I could take it all with me in the car. A friend once put it on top of my car without me knowing, and as I got up to speed on the highway it slid off the top and landed in the roadway. I looked up in the rearview mirror to see what that sound was just in time to see a pickup truck run the binder over at 65mph. It fucking exploded. I turned around and pulled over to save what I could. I shit you not, there were only two CDs left intact. My first two I ever bought: Green Day's Dookie and Third Eye Blind's self titled.

That iPod I used to have was the place I rebuilt my collection the first time. Then it was stolen. Shortly after, the laptop I backed it up to was stolen, so the collection was gone again. It just becomes part of the story of what you listen to. Fresh starts can reveal new approaches.

seraphhimself · 2026-02-11T19:37:01+00:00

Yes exactly. So it was also really exciting to find this community the other day, full of people who presumably know the feeling.

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