It was pretty good 10+ years ago I’d say, then it slowly got worse and worse

I’ve had the same experience you did but didn’t feel like writing it all out. Thanks !

I meant to steer the conversation on amazon being worse quality than it used to, not quite to aliexpress…

I’m familiar with it, I’ve ordered more than 100 items off aliexpress.

And I feel like the modern amazon experience got worse and is closer to the intense searching required to find the good stuff at the right price from aliexpress.

I wouldn’t say aliexpress stuff is good, but rather that amazon stooped down to aliexpress-levels of quality, to which we got ourselves used to.

Using VLC is easy. Having good musical taste and finding the time to renew your library so it doesn’t grow stale is hard.

I know, I used to download all my stuff and now I just get YouTube music started on a piece I like and let it autoplay forever while I work, do a tabletop campaign, play videogames… I find that this way, I find the music it plays to be in the right mood 98% of the time.

It disgusts me to say it but it just works and saves me a lot of time.