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Good idea!
Not necessarily. Some people actively abhor such dopamine dispensers.
Nobody should force "most liked" music on you, but it's a nice option.
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
People hate listening to music they like?
Some people really prefer novelty. Try listening to say WFMU for a while, you might hate it but it’s likely to hold your attention in ways personalized streaming doesn’t.
This. The like button all too often acts like the "echo chamber": you're going to go around in circles. Writing a good recommendation system is very hard, and it gets harder as the number of users grows (because primitive algorithms will get more and more certain of their predictions, and diverge less and less from the favorites).
Anyway, the service is called loc "serendipity".
Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works
#53Congratulations, very cool. BUT... I can't help but feel this is an... impolite?... use of archive.org?
I see archive.org as being a repository, not a streaming service. I would rather they spent their money on content ingestion and resilient content storage, not on having to scale up their outbound bandwidth capacity.
What would polite look like? Download the content off archive.org, then stream it from your own server.
Now, I know the IA are perfectly happy to let you do this, and of course part of their mandate is to make content accessible, which necessitates having low-friction ways to download it. But still, I would hate to see IA become a CDN-first, archive-second.
Maybe a compromise would be to suggest that users make a donation?:
Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works
#54You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically.
[1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...
Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works
#55Congratulations, very cool. BUT... I can't help but feel this is an... impolite? ... use of archive.org? I see archive.org as being a repository, not a streaming service. I would rather they spent their money on content ingestion and resilient content storage, not on having to scale up their outbound bandwidth capacity. What would polite look like? Download the content off archive.org, then stream it from your own se…
donations are a fine thing, so is discovery, anything that helps to surface quality will long term perhaps help the archive prove its worth and ensure a positive attitude towards their endeavours.
Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works
#56You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically. [1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...
You just need to listen to more WKHR! (wkhr.org)
It’s a radio station in a Cleveland high school with octogenarian djs playing 78s!
Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works
#57You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically. [1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...
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#58You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically. [1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...
It's been years, and I'm still very suspicious about this one:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo
Re: Show HN: An infinite record playlist of out-of-copyright works
#59You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically. [1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...
Small aside, all those songs in fallout are not satire nor new. They're authentic pieces from the forties and early fifties.