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FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by Fogest »

tapland wrote: post #11

There are some problems like this that I’ve ended up solving with a scrolling capture screenshot (ShareX on Windows) and the first fitting google result for an OCR service.

Man I have been using ShareX for quite a while and didn't even realize they had that scrolling capture feature. I just keep finding their tool more and more useful.

I like your approach to getting your playlists out. I just used https://exportify.net/ and it gave me all my playlists in a CSV format with lots of information on each track such as things like genre. I feel like maybe this option may be a bit more useful to you if you want that kind of extra information.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by slothtrop »

pelario wrote: post #197
slothtrop wrote: post #179

This, on top of songs disappearing from my playlists, rendered unavailable. I organize everything in foobar now, both local music and streaming playlists with the help of extensions. You can add Youtube sources to your playlists. Even if the links break, you can automatically fix them, keep the name and structure. Have not tried the app versions.

Oh man, how do I wish a foobar that runs natively on Linux :(

Yes. Failing that, it's possible with wine - https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=54933.0

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by psychometry »

nixpulvis wrote: post #225
slothtrop wrote: post #179

This, on top of songs disappearing from my playlists, rendered unavailable. I organize everything in foobar now, both local music and streaming playlists with the help of extensions. You can add Youtube sources to your playlists. Even if the links break, you can automatically fix them, keep the name and structure. Have not tried the app versions.

Just give me the fucking mp3 or flac files, subscriptions should be advertised as radio, not a music "library". I've been bitching about the industry burning down my shelves for years now... it's unfathomable how much people rely on these stupid streaming services. That said, I'd still gladly pay for the music discovery, I just have started to feel cheated out of my money over the years doing so. Should I really be p…

last.fm is still going strong. Send your plays there from pretty much any service/app and you'll start getting recommendations.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by psychometry »

tobyhinloopen wrote: post #211
HeadsUpHigh wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a million music apps for linux. What exactly are you looking for?

That’s the problem: a million apps, but none of them are decent

Yeah, none of them even have the feature set of iTunes from 10 years ago.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by psychometry »

notyourwork wrote: post #209
jraph wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clementine [1] is pretty cool. It does everything I need: - cross-fading between songs - a real queue that is separate from the playlist so you can program what plays next and in which order easily (CTRL+D to add / remove, and a advanced window can show the queue) - a remote control with an Android app - stop after this song - a giant search / filter bar. It does not has to have the focus to start searching, just typ…

+1 When I ran linux everywhere, Clementine was my goto player. This was over 5 years ago, I'm sure its only gotten better.

According to their website, the most recent release is from 2016.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by psychometry »

crazygringo wrote: post #213

So if people are hating on Spotify now... ...what's the alternative? People hate Google, they hate Amazon... I remember people used to hate Apple Music years ago because it was missing tons of basic functionality. Is it better? Is Apple Music the "accepted" streaming platform now? Do they all suck in their own way? Or is there another platform that's the good one now?

Apple Music (fka iTunes) is still perfectly good as a music library. No need to subscribe to anything.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by djeiasbsbo »

codazoda wrote: post #171

This exact problem has prevented me from creating playlists in the first place. I'm a non-iphone Apple Music user, but the same still applies. I have no playlists because I assume I'll lose all that curation work someday. So, I just don't do it. I wonder how many others are the same way and how that negatively affects their revenue.

Totally understandable... because playlists are tricky.

I have a medium sized local music library and up to a few months ago have used an iTunes-like app to manage it all. Then I decided to move my music library... everything was still in the same folder, just on a new server but the playlists were all empty. I certainly was a bit freaked out when I realised that the m3u playlist files contained absolute paths to every song, instead of relative paths. Turns out that the player/manager I had used did that by default... took me a few weeks to correct everything!

I sometimes envy people with vinyl or cd collections, must be easier to deal with...

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by Fogest »

Vespasian wrote: post #104

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 sufficie…

This is actually part of the problem I have. I only really have a few artists I may listen to on a more frequent basis, but other than that I am usually just using random playlists from Spotify that fit my mood rather than spending time making my own.

However I have been having a couple issues. Everything was working fine, but then I started using Spotify at the gym almost daily for workout music. The music genres I like to listen to while working out are vastly different from what I listen to at home. To further compound this problem I often listen to podcasts in the car and don't listen to Spotify much at home. So a good chunk of my usage of Spotify is listening to music at the gym. As such my recommendations are complete garbage. I don't care to be suggested music related to gym music as I just pull up random playlists anyway. But what I do want is suggestions for what to listen to when I am at home. Problem is that Spotify has no incognito mode or any way to tell it to "ignore this from recommendations".

That was actually one of the biggest draws for me was using stuff like "Discover Weekly" and the "Made for you" stuff. But now it is essentially useless for me. Now I have been trying to transition to Plexamp as I already use Plex. My problem is that now I have zero suggestions of what new songs to acquire and I feel stuck.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by djeiasbsbo »

blunte wrote: post #19

I haven't studied the fine print on this service, but I wonder about the (high?) value of knowing a person's music tastes in this level of detail. I have hundreds of playlists on spotify, and I bet you can state a lot of things about me by knowing what music I like.

Just a tought I've had but what if it will actually reveal more insights about their recommendation and curation algorithms than about your music taste?

This data would be more interesting over time. What new artists have been added to the playlists and have any new songs from already known artists been missed...

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by MildlySerious »

slothtrop wrote: post #179

This, on top of songs disappearing from my playlists, rendered unavailable. I organize everything in foobar now, both local music and streaming playlists with the help of extensions. You can add Youtube sources to your playlists. Even if the links break, you can automatically fix them, keep the name and structure. Have not tried the app versions.

If it helps, in the settings you can enable an option to display songs even when they are unavailable. It's not perfect but I find it much easier to compromise on that as opposed to Youtube's practice of slowly rotting away playlists until all that's left is a mix of [Deleted Video] and [Private Video]
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