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Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by syshum »

m-p-3 wrote: post #42
syshum wrote: post #39

Spotify has followed the same model as many other companies, like Netflix They are open with data, have good API's etc until they get market dominance then they stop supporting many of those same things. They have dropped their support for Linux Clients, they closed most of their API's, and various other things It is a repeating pattern with companies that are disrupting a market

You scared me for a minute, I thought you said Spotify dropped their Linux client https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/

They did, from the page

"and it is currently not a platform that we actively support."

it is a spare project from a few engineers, with no offical support from the company, if the few engineers that support it ever leave it is Dead

and it was dead for several years before the engineer got enough support to be able to do it as an unoffical project.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by tachion »

ceejayoz wrote: post #37
pmarreck wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "someone problematic" hahahaha this BS again. God forbid someone has an opinion different from you or, even more indirectly, hosts someone with an opinion different from you.

> God forbid someone has an opinion different from you... My opinion is that Rogan is problematic. You needn't share it, but you appear to endorse my right to hold that opinion, while simultaneously telling me to "get the fuck out"? I'm somewhat confused.

Out of pure curiosity, what's wrong with him? I don't feel his vibe so I never got into listening to him, but I was under impression he's popular and quite liked.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

#103

Post by DangerousPie »

bthrn wrote: post #38
csunbird wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, for starters, they do not support Apple Watch, which is very problematic for me.

I think it’s more that the Apple Watch doesn’t support Spotify than the other way around. Apple prioritizes its own music service for the watch.

Other 3rd party apps can sync content for offline playback (eg. Overcast for podcasts) so I don't think there's any technical reason Spotify are not supporting it.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by Vespasian »

I guess I'm lucky that this particular problem is not one that bothers me much.

My playlists tend to be

a) quite short ~30 songs I listen on repeat until the mood changes and / or work requires a different rhythm and

b) are not that many. Only around 10 in active use at any time. I tend to delete older lists to not clutter "my library"

This leads me to the conclusion that a one time (GDPR) data dump would be sufficient to migrate the data over time.

Since Music is quite fungible, the one benefit Spotify offers over other services is their recommendation engine which is arguably better than the competition.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

#105

Post by ceejayoz »

pmarreck wrote: post #98
matthewmacleod wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feeling that a platform invests in or promotes dangerous or harmful content is a totally valid reason to want to use that platform less, or to stop giving them money. Really super strange that you don’t immediately see that.

Please show me where Rogan promotes "dangerous or harmful content". Also show how mere information can be harmful. Reading "Mein Kampf" won't turn me into a Nazi, but it might make me understand Nazism better.

> Also show how mere information can be harmful.

Any scenario where critical context is left out, like "some vaccines contain mercury, a deadly neurotoxin!" memes.

> Reading "Mein Kampf" won't turn me into a Nazi, but it might make me understand Nazism better.

There are substantially better ways to understand Nazism than reading Mein Kampf.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by pmarreck »

calvano915 wrote: post #68
ddorian43 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you include the "trans" stuff here ?

Sure, though his position hasn't changed much on trans. I've always agreed with him that people who switch genders shouldn't be treated equally when it comes to contact sports like UFC. He's just been more distasteful about discussing it over time IMO. If I had to sum up how Rogan has changed, he reminds me of many older men who just start to become aholes to everyone and everything, and believe that everything alway…

> he reminds me of many older men who just start to become aholes to everyone and everything

This smacks of ageism AND sexism, all at once! Congratulations, you've violated your own morality code. And you were SO close to the -ism hat trick, had you only referred to him as an "older white man" ;)

It took a while for gay marriage to become broadly accepted. Trans is fighting the same battle now. He's a very typical older cismale and this population segment is, by and large, just not going to "get it" yet.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

#107

Post by SirAiedail »

Hnrobert42 wrote: post #9

This seems less like an article and more like an advertisement.

No surprise there. It is very common for startups or small to mid-sized companies to start a blog as a companion for their product, with articles of the schema "Very broad description of some common problem/need, followed by very specific guides - often times even step-by-step - on how to use their product to deal with said problem/need."

It widens the spectrum of keywords that they can be found with a lot and thereby increases traffic to their main page and product.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

#108

Post by sabellito »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #64
sabellito wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a little surprising to me that you'd expect better customer support from a service with >248 million[1] monthly active users. Having worked for/with departments like this, they have to heavily optimise for their response rate, and use as many macros to respond as possible, which's probably your case as I'd assume that many customers contacted them with the same question. By all means, always speak with your wall…

I don’t necessarily disagree that Spotify’s response was unsurprising, but is the number of Spotify users relevant? Logically, the number of support staff ought to scale with the number of customers. It’s not about size, it’s about where Spotify has decided to invest.

I absolutely agree that it should scale with the numbers of customers. However, from my experience working for companies that have customer support, that was definitely not the case.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by read_if_gay_ »

tachion wrote: post #102
ceejayoz wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> God forbid someone has an opinion different from you... My opinion is that Rogan is problematic. You needn't share it, but you appear to endorse my right to hold that opinion, while simultaneously telling me to "get the fuck out"? I'm somewhat confused.

Out of pure curiosity, what's wrong with him? I don't feel his vibe so I never got into listening to him, but I was under impression he's popular and quite liked.

Yes, he has one of the most popular podcasts in the world. But if you are involved in particular political flavors, you might deem him as "problematic" because he hosts guests who you also deem so, even though objectively speaking, his guests are generally very diverse and his own political opinions are pretty mainstream.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

#110

Post by pmarreck »

tachion wrote: post #102
ceejayoz wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> God forbid someone has an opinion different from you... My opinion is that Rogan is problematic. You needn't share it, but you appear to endorse my right to hold that opinion, while simultaneously telling me to "get the fuck out"? I'm somewhat confused.

Out of pure curiosity, what's wrong with him? I don't feel his vibe so I never got into listening to him, but I was under impression he's popular and quite liked.

It's like people's feelings on Ben Shapiro. If you are center or right, he seems like a smart young feller. If you are sufficiently left, you can't stand him and he seems detestable.
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