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For anyone else who wants to do this, just set up the absolutely amazing Volumio on your RPi or any other computer. https://volumio.org/ The web app is great for use in your house, the Spotify plugin is first class - it's supported as a target in your Spotify app, or you can browse straight from the webapp, which means even a guest on your wifi can easily pop on and help pick the music.
I wonder if there's something like this that supports Plex?
We should just be cutting out the middlemen like Spotify, and buying music directly from musicians. Then, we can just use standards compliant hardware, of our choosing, to play the music in any format we want (many modern musicians release as flac, old school musicians still sell CDs; either play as lossless, or recompress to chosen target).
Sure. But we’ll need some sort of centralized market or exchange on which to discover these artists and send them funds. Oh wait….
We should just be cutting out the middlemen like Spotify, and buying music directly from musicians. Then, we can just use standards compliant hardware, of our choosing, to play the music in any format we want (many modern musicians release as flac, old school musicians still sell CDs; either play as lossless, or recompress to chosen target).
Sure. But we’ll need some sort of centralized market or exchange on which to discover these artists and send them funds. Oh wait….
https://rateyourmusic.com for discovery.
If you are in the apple ecosystem an airport express provides a similar feature set (airplay to analog stero line out) and can output to multiple airports (in different rooms) simultaneously. Granted its not as headless. a iDevice (or airplay compatible source) needs to be running. I have analog stereos in a few rooms and the airport express provides a nice way for anyone in the house to cast music from whatever app…
One major issue is that Spotify for Mac doesn't work with AirPlay. It's confounding. They refuse to build it. Spotify has also refused to integrate with HomePod. The options are either stream all audio output, download something like AirFoil to stream only a single app (inconvenient, not friendly for non-technical users), or switch to Apple Music.
Being in the ecosystem already, Apple Music just makes sense. Does Spotify even have an Apple Watch app yet that allows on-device downloads for running, the way Apple Music does?
We should just be cutting out the middlemen like Spotify, and buying music directly from musicians. Then, we can just use standards compliant hardware, of our choosing, to play the music in any format we want (many modern musicians release as flac, old school musicians still sell CDs; either play as lossless, or recompress to chosen target).
Audius.co uses blockchain and ipfs to host files. Also Royal by 3LAU is pretty interesting.
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Sure. But we’ll need some sort of centralized market or exchange on which to discover these artists and send them funds. Oh wait….
It's called Bandcamp
Now I just use Spotify and don’t care. I don’t need the extra work in my life.
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Sure. But we’ll need some sort of centralized market or exchange on which to discover these artists and send them funds. Oh wait….
It's called Bandcamp
I still pay for streaming due to the convenience of typing most songs and playing it instantly... but if I like something enough to click the heart button I'll often hop over to Bandcamp to see if I can pay the artist more than the $.0001 they get for the stream. Even dropping someone a dollar is literally 10,000 times more support.
We should just be cutting out the middlemen like Spotify, and buying music directly from musicians. Then, we can just use standards compliant hardware, of our choosing, to play the music in any format we want (many modern musicians release as flac, old school musicians still sell CDs; either play as lossless, or recompress to chosen target).
Audius.co uses blockchain and ipfs to host files. Also Royal by 3LAU is pretty interesting.