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I use the Pulsar music player on Android which has an Audioscrobbler built in. I have my entire mp3/flac collection extra compressed into opus files, so that my 120GB of music is only taking up 43GB on my phone. When I'm listening in the car or on the train I really can't tell the drop in quality.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Last.fm is now independent"}, {"id": 759701856, "item_id": 47481366, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481366", "by": "ballsweat", "date": "2026-03-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Pulsar IDE lol", "excerpt": "Everyone should vibe code a VCS from scratch in their fave language. It\u2019s an awesome weekend project, you can have fun visualizing commits in different ways (I\u2019m experimenting with shaders), and importantly: This is the way forward. So much software is a wrapper around S3 etc. now is your chance to make your own toolset. 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