Can anyone suggest a minimalist music streaming platform? I'm looking for a digital substitute for collecting CDs, something similar to the old iTunes. Maybe Apple Music is the right choice, or are there other options available?
Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
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#12Can anyone suggest a minimalist music streaming platform? I'm looking for a digital substitute for collecting CDs, something similar to the old iTunes. Maybe Apple Music is the right choice, or are there other options available?
Bandcamp might be what you're after. It's where I get 95% of digital music especially when bundled in with physical media.
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#13Can anyone suggest a minimalist music streaming platform? I'm looking for a digital substitute for collecting CDs, something similar to the old iTunes. Maybe Apple Music is the right choice, or are there other options available?
People usually suggest Roon when it comes to actually substitute a CD collection, it works with a couple of streaming services but it is an extra expense.
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#14(Android) It also gets easily confused with Wifi and whether or not I'm online (because I'm in a room with bad wifi reception). It sometimes blocks on playing downloaded content when there is no internet (when listening in bed and internet is turned off). This has not changed in the last ten years. Not sure why they have thousands of programmers, and tribes and squads and who knows what else. It's barely usable for r…
Yes absolutely. This is why I moved away. I live in London and take the tube semi regularly so offline content is non negotiable.
I migrated to Deezer then started downloading flacs from Deezer and serving them with Plexamp.
Re: Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
#15For those unaware, it's possible to use alternative clients for Spotify using a 3rd party daemon.
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#16The iOS app feels much buggier in the past few weeks. Lockups when returning to the app, phantom pausing, and worst of all, clicking the podcast I’ve been listening to doesn’t take me to the right episode… I have to scroll to find it.
Not great when you’re trying to listen to a 700 episode series!
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#18Yes Spotify UI/UX is absolute garbage. It's not even possible to simply view a list of all songs by an artist. Also I had to turn off autoplay because the recommendation engine wouldn't stop autoplaying the same song.
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#19For me the Android mobile app is sometimes skipping songs or not switching to the next one when swiping or tapping the next icon. Often recognizing another device as playing doesn't work. If it recognizes it then editing the song queue doesn't work more often than not (especially removing songs from the queue). I hate it. It is so bad, I'd be ashamed having so many users, so much money but such an bad app.
Re: Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
#20For those unaware, it's possible to use alternative clients for Spotify using a 3rd party daemon. https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
For those unaware, spotify is not a podcast player. Most podcasters get no money from spotify. Podcasts are a wild ecosystem, spotify is a business that feeds of that. Some audio productions are labeled spotify exclusive podcasts. Well, they are not podcasts. They are, like audible, audio productions on a single platform.
Fun fact, AFAICT the fastest growing major podcast platform is re-uploads of podcasts to youtube. Which makes no sense on most mobile platforms, but at least the visibility of entries to the public will be high.