I used OS-X merely as an example of another popular flavor with obvious benefits over the Win environment. You may be aware it is Linux based.
I think the difference is that Bill uses file based music on a casual basis only and has no concern for future changes. Despite being an old f*rt, I cannot imagine not having access to all the applications on my iPhone used on a daily basis. You and I have left the spinning plastic disk world and live in a server based environment that is continually changing. As an IT professional, I choose standardized, open source options for all my solutions. Both of my renderer / endpoints use Linux at their core as it has a smaller footprint, less overhead and higher performance than Win based playback applications.
Oh, I knew what you meant.
I truly don't know where I'm going digital music wise. At the moment I'm a Windows guy with computers and an Apple guy when it comes to phones(and digital music playback). My FLAC, MP3, and WAV files live in a Windows world and get shot to an Apple world. It all works well for me now, but I know I'll be moving onward and upward at some point.
I've been in a bit of a limbo state about it. We bought a new W10 machine awhile back, but my wife is having a hard time migrating away from this old laptop. She hates tech change. My plan was to dabble in Linux once she was done with this one, but she keeps coming back for odds n ends jobs.
I'm really leaning towards the Raspberry thing. Get the music stuff besides the ripping on its own computer.
Yeah, I'm no power user, but I love the tools my phone give me.
Yesterday is a great example. I hung a flat panel for a customer who lives way across town in the next community over. I used the google map thingy to check the traffic before leaving, and again to find the house without looking at a map while driving, texted the homeowner who then texted her neighbour to let me in, used the DeWalt construction app to convert the VESA metric specs to imperial, used the internet to confirm that the TV wasn't too heavy for the mount they bought, took a pic of the work done(for the customer and for my records), and took a pic of the bill for my accounting purposes.
I haven't left that spinning plastic world yet. I've still got a whack of CDs to rip, and have a healthy vinyl collection.
I'll get there with the CDs, but no way am I ripping all that vinyl. I've got the space to keep it all right now, but I am looking onward to the day when I won't. If I can reduce a pile of clutter via CDs being stored away, I'm all for it. And being as standardized as I can be with that process is nothing but good.