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Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by IanCal »

bayindirh wrote: post #7
Reubend wrote: post #3

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free. Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless. I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's…

It's not bypassing anything. It gets the playlist data from Spotify, and streams the song from YouTube, arguably still providing income for the musicians.

So it shows the ads from YouTube?

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by anotheryou »

bayindirh wrote: post #2

Nifty. Please be aware that this is not a "spotify client" per se. It gets the data from Spotify, and plays the audio from YouTube. It's an interesting invention, and worthy of the first page, if you ask me.

oh ok...

I'd have tried it, but I pay for good audio quality so I won't :)

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by unnamed76ri »

gnfargbl wrote: post #11
bayindirh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not bypassing anything. It gets the playlist data from Spotify, and streams the song from YouTube, arguably still providing income for the musicians.

YouTube pays less per stream to the rights holders than Spotify, however.

I don’t know where you get your info but Spotify just effectively demonetized the majority of music on their platform. They’ve decided they have the right to just stop paying small time artists so they can funnel more money upwards to the record labels.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by drcongo »

Reubend wrote: post #3

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free. Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless. I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's…

Claiming that the same people who complain about ads are also those who won't pay for services is just wrong.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by WilTimSon »

iamsaitam wrote: post #17

"It is still recommended to support the creators by watching/liking/subscribing to the artists' YouTube channels or liking their tracks on Spotify (or purchasing a Spotify Premium subscription too)." I hope musicians can pay bills with likes, since ponying up €10.99 is a huge ask. PS: not that many musicians are able to pay bills with their spotify checks, but that's not the point.

> PS: not that many musicians are able to pay bills with their spotify checks, but that's not the point.

What IS the point, though? You seem to be criticising people who don't purchase a Spotify Premium while also admitting Spotify barely pays them anything. Yes, this client gives nothing to the artist, Spotify gives next to nothing, both are bad in different ways.

If anyone genuinely wants to support musicians - buy their merch, go to their concerts, buy their albums on Bandcamp or physical media. No streaming platform pays them their dues.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by drewdevault »

Reubend wrote: post #3

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free. Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless. I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's…

Direct your passion for getting musicians paid to Spotify and the distribution system, not to this. If everyone who uses this software were to use Spotify direct, ads and all, in the long run it would make pennies for the artists at best. You're better off listening to music however you please and buying albums on Bandcamp to support the artists; a lifetime of spotify listening will make less money for an artist you like than buying a single album from them on Bandcamp.

Even if you only listen to one artist, 8 hours per day, 365 days a year, they will earn a whopping... 100 bucks from Spotify.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by hutzlibu »

unnamed76ri wrote: post #23
gnfargbl wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube pays less per stream to the rights holders than Spotify, however.

I don’t know where you get your info but Spotify just effectively demonetized the majority of music on their platform. They’ve decided they have the right to just stop paying small time artists so they can funnel more money upwards to the record labels.

Sources please?

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by kevincox »

monsieurbanana wrote: post #4

For something that puts "not using electron" so prominently I didn't expect it using flutter. I admit I don't really have much experience with it, I thought it was like react-native (but better?), still far from truly native apps. Im here to being told I'm wrong. I would love to, specially since we can transpile clojure to dart

Flutter is pretty native as far as resource usage goes. The language does use a VM and GC but it's performant enough. There isn't native look and feel though. (They can emulate it a bit, but it isn't perfect)

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by jsnell »

bayindirh wrote: post #13
gnfargbl wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube pays less per stream to the rights holders than Spotify, however.

I don't know the numbers. What I was trying to point out that there's no nefariousness going on.

No, you weren't just pointing that out. You claimed that it is "arguably still providing income for the musicians". How is it arguably providing income for tyhe artists given the app is obviously not playing ads?

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by __warlord__ »

vdaea wrote: post #16
Reubend wrote: post #3

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free. Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless. I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's…

People here all day defending p2p piracy but when you are taking the bandwidth from a multibillion, multinational corporation then you're the devil himself :'( :'( :'( :'(

I think the "hacker" part of "hacker news" doesn't mean much anymore.
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