for me even if i'm bumping the local files it's nice to get those songs in the highest quality possible because a lossless dsp stream will be way higher quality than the 128kbps mp3 we prob had before

and sometimes they remaster them too which is also great, only downside is when they have to remove samples or someone goes george lucas on their s*** and f***s it up

Do people really not know how to add/edit local files in AM in 2026???

I don't use AM as you can infer from me struggling with that

you're acting like that s*** actually works properly, most of the time when i had AM it was buggy as f***, same with spotify

they both have weird quirks which make them nowhere near as easy to use as a standard file player app

op doesnt realize

no man the average person just uses whatever ecosystem comes on their phone/iPad/computer or whatever their family is using for streaming. Or YouTube because that’s universal

Yall do all this posturing about needing to be “in touch” or “finding the next big thing” yet yall think everyone is going to yt.mp3 or saving local files on their phone or rotating the satellites 3 times so they can listen to some unreleased joint 20k people have heard of

Literal boomer forum man

I think most people on KTT have local music we still use streaming services though. Hey even if it's pennies, streaming does support the artist to an extent, while your local files do not

This ain’t the limewire generation OP

I find it ironic how AM users move like Android users with the "yall don't have this?" "x can do this for years" attitudes lol.

But yeah generally the thing with Local Files on either app is that it's manual and inconistent and I would prefer to have these songs officially on DSPs, especially if they're niche enough to only have LQ versions. I have whole albums on Local Files and even AM wasn't much help with trying to get the songs and details to show up on Spotify.

I also stream music on different devices so it's mundane to only be able to hear a song I like when I'm on my phone or it's downloaded to my pc

what devices you using other than the pc and phone for music big slime

u rockin psp and zune out here plus the car trunk cd player with the silver stereo console

El cinco
My ipad
I guess sending playlists to people counts as a separate device too

i buy the CDs for these albums, that's more than some pennies

There’s not one song in the world that imma go through the effort of googling a song, finding a download that isn’t a virus, having to upload and tag it right in iTunes, and then uploading it to the cloud that barely works

y'all are so technologically illiterate man

It’s worked properly for 10 years now lol

unless you're a student or office worker or gamer most people don't even use computers like that tbh

yeah i've never really had any weird quirks except one time i added a dave east album to my library and it matched with the clean version of one song even though it was explicit so i had to change all the metadata temporarily and then change it back

people talking about local files

s*** is too much work to do

if you're on spotify maybe

on apple you can literally just drag the files into itunes

local files don’t show up on your AM Replay or Spotify Wrapped, so it’s nice being able to see a more accurate picture of your listening in the app

also, you can’t just toss it on a shared playlist if it’s not on streaming

and when you wanna share a song with friends who don’t get computers (which is getting more common now that AI exists) they don’t understand the concept of a song not going on streaming

this too

and we can also finally buy the mixtapes on iTunes if we spent a decade loving the music

yea there’s occasionally an issue with the matching feature but usually it solves itself if you just wait a couple weeks & retry it