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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 13148 votes
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- By the end of 2026, how useful do you think agentic/multi-agent AI systems will actually be in your daily work or personal projects? Posted on March 11th, 2026 | 40 comments
FLAC (Score:1)
Always lossless.
Re:FLAC (Score:5, Funny)
They are not always lossless... I copied mine to a drive somewhere and now I don't remember where I put them.
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(I think this is how most modern music is produced.)
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My hearing has been mostly destroyed. MP3, streaming, FLAC, Speak-n-spell,- they all sound the same to me.
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Play my own instruments (Score:3)
But seriously, how about a mixture?
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thought so...
I hear with my ears, but I listen with my heart... /unicornrainbows
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How do I listen to music?
WITH MY FUCKING EARS!!!
Other (Score:3)
I guess I'm too old, I still listen to the radio
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You must be flumuxed at non auto doors. (Score:2)
Whether it's a door on a house or a radio in a house: Turn The Knob!
I turn my knob to 100.3 The Q!
Where do you turn yours?
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I turn my crank to Frank!
More Reba!
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I don't think so. You use radios differently.
No need to sign up, or have a working Internet connection, or bump into a data cap. Just turn on, and occasionally tune.
Also, no data collection on what you listen to.
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Correct, radio is a broadcast [wikipedia.org] medium, while streaming [wikipedia.org] supports multiple 'single-casts'
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That link to streaming strongly implies that radio is in fact a form of streaming media.
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Also, no data collection on what you listen to.
You obviously haven't heard of these: Portable People Meter [wikipedia.org]
They tried to persuade us to wear them, but it turned out we weren't eligible, as my adult son (who lives in a different city) works in the movie business.
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I just can't. Same reason I stopped watching TV. Too many ads. I'll turn on the radio and it's *song* *ad* *ad* *ad* *song* *song* *ad* *ad* *station id*
I have CDs in the car, CDs in my stereo, and the phone for all my ripped tunes.
The Apple iTunes app on Windows is horrible though. For some reason it doesn't transfer all the tunes I have ripped to the phone so I'll get grayed out songs for no good reason.
[John]
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I also don't understand how people still listen to the radio. Unless you are listening to news, or traffic. I don't drive, so there's probably something better for traffic than the radio though. I wouldn't know. Streaming services or just your own files on a phone are so much better than radio that I can't believe that anybody still listens to the radio.
I think the station ID is a requirement, which I think they should remove in the future as all stations can broadcast their station ID and have it displa
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Do you mean RDS - the "Radio Data System"? It's relatively complex with a lot more than station ID transmitted. Retrofitting it to an analogue radio is a non-starter, or so I was told a number of cars ago.
Re: Other (Score:2)
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I don't understand why people pay money to stream music.
If you give Pandora $5/month, you get no ads and unlimited skips. For $10 you can select tracks. For me, that's well worth it. On a normal day, I smoke at least $10 worth of weed, so a $5/month recreational expense doesn't bother me too much.
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For my car, I've ripped the CDs to MP3, and then put them on a 32GB "stub" USB stick: that way, I can play RANDOM( 3000 files ), which is rather more convenient than having to keep swapping physical CDs.
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Most car-players nowadays can play music off a USB stick.
For my car, I've ripped the CDs to MP3, and then put them on a 32GB "stub" USB stick: that way, I can play RANDOM( 3000 files ), which is rather more convenient than having to keep swapping physical CDs.
Same thing here & at least in my car, and probably most newer cars, all of the ID3 info pops up on the infotainment screen, very convenient.
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Radio? You can't appreciate music until you've heard it on the original phonograph cylinder. Now pass me that recording of The Lost Chord and make yourself comfortable...
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Vinyl, The way Edison indended (Score:1)
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I feel the same about my Wax Cylinders.
Re: Vinyl, The way Edison indended (Score:2)
Cable TV service (Score:1)
There's something called Stingray Music on the cable TV service that I have. I have a set of computer speakers plugged into the digital cable box, and I play the "70's channel" in my living room on that pretty much all day every day. It keeps both my bird and me entertained.
Radio (Score:2)
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Other... (Score:3)
Missing option: All of the above.
And don't forget to mention radio, TV, youtube, DVD and live music.
I listen from various sources (Score:2)
When driving, i listen mainly to FM radio ad some CD or CD/MP3.
When commuting I listen FM radio or some MP3 i have on the smartphone, ripped from my CDs typically..
At home i listen to CD, FM radio, AM radio, streaming radios or watch Youtube videos, records and cassettes..
And I also listen to live music, where I tend also to buy the CD most..
And I try to play myself music..
Many many ways (Score:1)
Cable TV radio channels (Score:1)
A mix. (Score:2)
In the car? MP3 in an old ipod, controlled by the steering wheel audio controls. Or Sirius satellite. Or maybe a podcast.
In the house? Sirius if background noise while I do [thing], on CD or LP if I"m actually listening to the music. MP3 sometimes, I honestly treat Mp3 as a replacement for tapes and the mixtape. Remember those? My PC occupies the tape loop in my receiver, I can (and do) rip LP to Mp3. Youtube if I'm on the hunt for the strange and unusual. Like modem music. Yes, it's a thing.
Out a
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My CDs have all been ripped to MP3 and stored on my media center. If listening at home on my stereo receiver, I'm playing these files. I rarely ever take out and play a CD anymore (although my 6 y/o daughter has some CDs that she plays on her karaoke machine in her room)
MP3s are also loaded into Google Play music for easy access on my smartphone from anywhere. Unless the file has been downloaded to my device, I am technically streaming these ov
vinyl to hear classic arrangements (Score:2)
How was music arranged back in the days? How did a band sound like in 1912? Sheet music may not tell all. Vinyl records are very durable so one can hear how the tunes were played back then.
There is a ballroom dance party held once a month in Palo Alto called Castle House Vintage Dancing. They play ballroom dance music of the 1910s and 20s. The band consists of piano, horns, and strings. They can include drums but typically do not. Dancing to this music for the first time(s) what really tripped me up was
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Sheet music is really an approximation of what something is supposed to sound like. It's kind of up to the person playing the music to interpret what's on the paper and make it into something that sounds good. Individually small changes in accents and timing can turn a ballad into a swing tune and vice versa.
This is why a "perfect" midi performance never sounds as good as what an actual musician can produce. It's the slight changes and imperfections that you get from a live performer that make the music
Reel-to-reel (Score:2)
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Phonograph cylinders (Score:3)
Nobody uses phonograph (wax) cylinders anymore? They'll play in any standard Edison cylinder player. There's something to be said for more newfangled technologies like wire recording or minidisc.
I can't listen to music (Score:2)
This should be Multiple Choice. (Score:1)
MP3 / FLAC
CD
Radio
Vinyl
ALL of the above!
It depends on the location and available equipment.
Recorded music: it's just files (Score:2)
Mostly FLACs ripped from my CD collection, though a few are very old Vorbis files that I haven't re-ripped yet. (And yes, I still buy CDs, and all my new music comes to me on CD, either through the mail or from the merch table. Some day that will change, but that has not yet become necessary. There's just one downside: al the damn boxes [c-span.org] of my "backup media.")
On the outside patio it's FLAC-streamed by mpd to a Chromecast-enabled ghettoblaster-style-speakers. (I assume some day the Chromecast will suddenly s
Mix (Score:1)
Missing Option (Score:2)
Holographic cube storage (Score:1)
Squeezebox (Score:2)
I have a terrible musical taste... (Score:2)
So, xm,mod,it,sid,nsf,gsf,psf,gbs,hes,vgz,2sf,usf,adx,mid,..
satellite (Score:1)
SIrius XM
i listen to music with my ears (Score:2)
Unsure (Score:2)
Is that CD, file or streaming?
My ears (Score:2)
I've tried to interpret the vibrations through aural bone conduction, but I far prefer my original ears, and digital pulses in a datastream just don't cut it.
Files ripped from CD (Score:2)
FLAC ripped from own CD
What about radio?! It's XM but still Radio. (Score:1)
I hate fumbling with my phone in the car, but XM has good variety, few commercials, it doesn't fade or lose signals when driving long distances and doesn't use cellular data.
Other Options... yes I know... (Score:2)
Given the crowd, I think HiFi format should have been an option really. Plenty of us use FLAC, or DSD or other HiFi formats. Heck some of us even play for Tidal to stream music at CD or Master quality, so the options given aren't even orthogonal and mutually exclusive.
The there's the issue that even if you're using FLAC, and bluetooth headphones, you're not actually getting FLAC, you're getting AAC, or SBC or the hi fidelity whatsit format that I temporarily forgot that's also lossy.
DSD/SACD/DVD-A when at
Third place goes to "None" (Score:2)
Something to bear in mind when you're trying to design a store, game or whatever to be maximally annoying. Include music for maximum annoyance.
other (Score:1)
Predominantly MP3. But CD and vinyl as well. I still have ability to play cassettes and have some, but it has been many years, whereas MP3 has been played nearly daily, CD within the week and vinyl several times a year.
I listen like everyone else (Score:2)
Combination (Score:2)
loudly (Score:2)
Combination of methods (Score:1)
Old School (Score:2)
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I have about a dozen recordings in both