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by causi 1288 days ago
If some app is not updating - there is not much use for it.

That depends entirely on the program. My CD ripper/burner is going on twenty years old and it works flawlessly. Same with my audio recorder and the sensor viewer for my phone. On the occasion I need to make a slideshow or write a document, Office 2007 works just fine with no bullshit, granted I don't view third-party files in it. ES File Explorer Pro is still by far the best Android file manager despite not being updated in three and a half years. I wouldn't be particularly upset if I had to use a version of VLC that was ten years out of date.
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bscphil 1288 days ago
> My CD ripper/burner is going on twenty years old and it works flawlessly.

This is probably a good example though. The state of the art in CD ripping has advanced significantly over the last 15 years. If you care about bit-perfect rips or even just reliable error correction, it would pay to know about the advances in Exact Audio Copy (Win), XLD (Mac), or Whipper (Linux). All of these have seen releases since 2020. If you have a newer CD drive model, having an updated database in your ripping program can help you get perfect rips, as same-model drives typically have identical bit offsets. In addition, bug fixes can prevent (admittedly rare) ripping issues.

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causi 1288 days ago
Good to know if I ever hear an error in a track I ripped. Hasn't happened in two decades so far, but you never know.
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bscphil 1287 days ago
The odds of it ever being noticeable are indeed quite low.
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opan 1288 days ago
>ES File Explorer Pro is still by far the best Android file manager despite not being updated in three and a half years.

Is there something special about it? I'd typically recommend either Ghost Commander or Simple File Manager from f-droid to someone.

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causi 1287 days ago
The way it handles separate windows and also network file shares. Even highly-acclaimed managers like Total Commander only support two windows at a time and don't really do customization. When I open ES my first window is my internal storage, swipe right for my microSD card, swipe right for my network drives, and swipe right again for another copy of my network drives. As many windows as I want, in any default configuration I want, with no screwing around with mounting or unmounting network shares. Also the built-in equivalent of SpaceSniffer is quite handy.
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