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Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

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post #49

Would love to see a Spotify integration. Yes, I know. Thats probably not the devs bad, but Spotify makeing it impossible to write a legal integration. Happy new DRM world.

https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy-spotify

You can live in the future...TODAY!

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#82
post #69

The thing that really chaps my hide about the proliferation of these terminal based apps is that now I have all these terminal instances open. For each cool app like this or terminal based chat apps or terminal slack that's another 2.4mb just for overhead! I'm looking at my process monitor right now and I have 250, 250mb , allocated to terminal apps. It's insane!

For people who aren't being sarcastic: tmux is great. It even allows you to ssh into your machine, do `tmux attach` at the command prompt, and get all your terminal programs right there, from anywhere in the world. And when you're done with the ssh session, detach and log out, and everything stays running.

Some terminals (like urxvt) also support running as a daemon and spawning a new window just attaches to that terminal daemon. Faster and it saves you a megabyte or two over actually opening a whole new terminal.

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#83
post #35

Please could someone explain why it's necessary to use 24bit/192k - I thought due to Nyquist/Shannon theory that 192k was overkill. In fact, doesn't it create more ear strain listening to higher frequency sample rates?

I was just about to reply that using only 44.1kHz means at higher frequencies, you're getting hardly any samples per cycle, and representing a high-frequency sine wave with something more like a square wave - ie not an accurate representation, and really harsh.

However! Xiph.org has a video demonstration using oscilloscopes, showing that high-frequencies at 20kHz still are perfectly represented even with just 44.1kHz recording. It's here if anyone is interested, switch the Chapter Selection on the video to the Stairsteps chapter:

https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml

Re: Show HN: Musikcube, a terminal-based music player, library, and streaming server

#84
post #49

Would love to see a Spotify integration. Yes, I know. Thats probably not the devs bad, but Spotify makeing it impossible to write a legal integration. Happy new DRM world.

I might be out of date, but it was possible to integrate for premium accounts. Free users couldn't use that, of course, because then they wouldn't get the ads.
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