I have definitly looked too at a DAPS.
My budget is still limited but it's something I am heavily looking at.
I am using Deezer HIFI for my music, but have been wanting to buy the albums I love on Qobuz from ShakaPonk Stupéflip and Rammstein too.
Today form my 48gb of music Downloaded I still iften want to listen to other playlist I have that are not loaded right now
I took the time to go try some DAPS at a music store, I tried a 300€ one running android from Sony, which was nice, and the sound quality was also a bit better than my Qudelix. But It was a bit slow, and didn't have PEQ like the Qudelix. I also tried for the laught the the M11 hand Holly Hell is it good
There is definitly a future in 5 to 10 years where I am rocking a Android DAP that can do DAC for PC aswell, and a midrange phone.
And there is a definit possibility that the DAP will be more used than the phone itself heh
Funny you talk about it, I've been looking at raspberry pie server today. It's just that I don't know what type of wifi I'll have in September, I'm going in a University and living on campus and I am doing research as I am writing on connecting Pi servers to Free Wifis (You know this where you can click on the wifi and have to enter a Username and Password)
It was the same if I'm not wrong for Dota 2 when moving to Source 2.
But as a CSGO player with "Only 600" I am very hyped. It's subtle things, but I love them, sample fixes everywhere in every small corner. Game runs better which was not possible before? Yeah, before everything passed by one CPU core, now it's fixed, everything will run faster. By tweaking some mechanics the game will play differently. CS2 is not like when a new Monster Hunter game gets out, Its taking a good game, and recreating it in a new place adapted to the world of today, with tricks we learned in the last ten years.
Yeah it's not a new game, yeah it's not innovative at all, the only innovation would maybe be how they baked the light with a blend of old tech and new tech.
For Christmas I accidentally restarted my phone, and saw my nephews for the first time. Wanted to make some videos of them. Turns out for some reason the phone was in 4k 6fps (yay)
i'm guessing Creator money as the 10$ you pay is split depending of the time you listened too each artist.
And also as they are podcasts and have constant sound changes, the file could be heavier than usual, which costs more bandwidth to send, or at least more place to store
8 of them is Signal discussions for me (I've converted all the people I talk to the most, which I might say yay!) then it's 2.6 gb WeChat, 1.5 TikTok, 1.2 Reddit, 1.1 Google then all are under 1gb
Since I've made my pot I've deleted 5gb in apps too
I am not directly blaming cloud, I am blamming the lack of options that are presented to users "Back in my days" When I got my OnePlus 7 Pro, users had the choice between 124, 248 and 516 in the Middle High category. That was 4 years and 3 months ago, since then prices have dropped. Making phones with only one Storage size (7a) and no SD Card is not cool, and having to pay 100 € Extra when a 248 gb SD card can be found at 30€ is not cool too.
Now when they offer you 3 months of Google One and Youtube Premium behind, the message is passed, you can use Cloud Servers (Especially ours) to store what you have. Not even talking about the fact taht clouds have a certain carbon footprint, and it f I can lower mine a bit my Downloading musics I listen to alot I'll be happy
And I am even more happy that people are able to make their own cloud servers on their houses, its trully a life goal for me too, ask people around me that know me, I've talked about it already. It's just not for now.
And it's great that it exist, but I don't want that for certain things, I want a bit more space that's all.
The Heaviest one being Signal (8gb) because I have all my discussions of the last 9 Months, after they are around 1gb and lower, since i posted my messag, i've deleted 5gb of app too.
I also need to check those photo, I have to move some to my drives, and I have I am certain a lot of them that can be destroyed
Yeah, If Android Dap where good enough at a correct price I'd go with maybe pixel 7a and an Android Dap to use with my Dusks and sell my Qudelix, this would be an alternative Id like
I used to download the top of the month musics only, to get a cool panel of music's I liked only for when I'll need them. Well in lossless they took after a year more than 110GB of storage. I stopped when seeing it so large
And I am not writing this at all to say it's bad to have only 64gb If you need 64gb, I simply want a solution that is not Cloud and that helps me get the amount of Storage I need. I'm also working in a low signal area. I've tried to listen to other songs and they just cut all of the time so I keep to the playlist I make
I have definitly looked too at a DAPS. My budget is still limited but it's something I am heavily looking at. I am using Deezer HIFI for my music, but have been wanting to buy the albums I love on Qobuz from ShakaPonk Stupéflip and Rammstein too. Today form my 48gb of music Downloaded I still iften want to listen to other playlist I have that are not loaded right now I took the time to go try some DAPS at a music store, I tried a 300€ one running android from Sony, which was nice, and the sound quality was also a bit better than my Qudelix. But It was a bit slow, and didn't have PEQ like the Qudelix. I also tried for the laught the the M11 hand Holly Hell is it good
There is definitly a future in 5 to 10 years where I am rocking a Android DAP that can do DAC for PC aswell, and a midrange phone. And there is a definit possibility that the DAP will be more used than the phone itself heh