Yes, can’t remember the name, but there’s an old short story about alien explorers who find a dead Earth with futuristic buildings.
They revive a knight who attacks them and gets killed, a hippie who they kill off after questioning, and finally a future human with psychic powers who steals the revival device.
If you’re willing to pay for proprietary software, I’ve been incredibly happy with Roon for music organization. Handles 99% of albums I add without an issue, great multi-room support, best suggestions of any existing service (Rest in peace Google Play Music). They added remote streaming a few years ago and it’s all I use now.
That's some serious price. If you're a professional music maker and need top-of-the-line audio production software, Ableton 12 Suite is ~600 EUR, and that's for making music, not consuming.
I have friends that use Roon and say it's great, and has some nice features for room-based EQ, however I want to spend £0/mo standing cost (all extra goes to bandcamp).
You can control the playback via a phone if you need to play music through a Linux system though.
Music playback via a PC isn’t really what Roon seems to be going for though, so much as allowing you to control music playback through proper audio systems via a PC or other device.
I'm trying to picture a room full of <s>people</s> developers agreeing letters are numbers too!
Lets give the little people a slider but lets call it a range!
I really feel like they are trolling.
You start with a neat database table then you engage in an endless struggle trying to allow the user to edit a single row of it. It really feels like you are not suppose to do it. As if it was intended to be as annoying as possible.
Other fallen status symbols that come to mind, although lower costs were the reason over better alternatives.
Aluminum before better material science dropped the price. Dishes, utensils, the cap on the Washington Monument.
Pineapples before Dole setup plantations.
Gelatin had two phases: before refrigeration, it needed hours of work in the kitchen. Then the status came from electrification and owning a refrigerator.
Even in the harsh penal environment of early America, some colonies had laws against feeding lobsters to inmates more than once a week because it was through to be cruel and unusual, like making people eat rats.
