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Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by GaryNumanVevo »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #289
seanthemon wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My problem is region locking, if I can't access the content in any way without potentially purchasing a very expensive TV package, I'm left with only one choice. A lot of music on spotify can't be accessed in my region and same with movies/series.

> My problem is region locking, if I can't access the content in any way without potentially purchasing a very expensive TV package, I'm left with only one choice. Do you mean that literally? Because I'd think buying physical copies, or forgoing access, would also be options.

Physical copies (Blu-rays especially) are heavily region locked. A Japanese region coded Blu-ray won't play on an EU coded player, unless you're able to flash the firmware to unlock it. And a lot of Japanese movies, especially classic films, never get a Europe release.

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Post by guluarte »

swozey wrote: post #179

The lengths that literal engineers will go to to not have to pay $10/mo for music or $3 to rent a movie in 4k immediately. Can't believe I have adult friends who make 70-300k and they still pirate based on money, not quality/directors-cuts/anti-cheats, etc. I quit pirating when I got a real job and could afford to pay developers and movie teams for their effort. I write software. I want to get paid too, right? Why sh…

have you seen some apps? yt music is shit and already have yt-preimum, why would I pay for another music service?

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Post by CoastalCoder »

beej71 wrote: post #298
CoastalCoder wrote: post #289

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My problem is region locking, if I can't access the content in any way without potentially purchasing a very expensive TV package, I'm left with only one choice. Do you mean that literally? Because I'd think buying physical copies, or forgoing access, would also be options.

Some programs aren't available on DVD in my region. But I suppose DVD players are cheap, so people can just buy one per region. ... Or does piracy sound like a better experience?

It probably comes down one's personal ethics, views about civic virtue, etc.

I want my neighbor's pile of firewood. They probably wouldn't miss one or two logs, but I have other reasons for not taking any.

I'm not trying to persuade anyone that my view is correct, I'm just saying that I think this is one aspect of how different people approach the question of how to obtain digital entertainment.

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Post by linsomniac »

voidwtf wrote: post #284
swozey wrote: post #179

The lengths that literal engineers will go to to not have to pay $10/mo for music or $3 to rent a movie in 4k immediately. Can't believe I have adult friends who make 70-300k and they still pirate based on money, not quality/directors-cuts/anti-cheats, etc. I quit pirating when I got a real job and could afford to pay developers and movie teams for their effort. I write software. I want to get paid too, right? Why sh…

Last night the family and I tried to watch Thor on Disney+. Everything appeared to be fine at first, but something was obviously off. The audio mix was screwed up really bad to where I could barely hear them speaking, and all the sound effects were basically non-existent, but the ambient music was extremely loud. I flipped over to Amazon Prime and rented it so we could continue our movie. I pay for Disney+, Disney go…

I've heard that some of those problems are related to the audio settings; the video being configured for one of the surround sound formats that your audio system doesn't support. Not saying the audio wasn't jacked up, but just wanted to put it on your radar to go into the video settings (like where you set up captions I think) and try a different audio format.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by felixbraun »

Worked on an open source cloud player 10y ago: idea was to have one place to curate playlists and your music library in general -- basically an access and authentication platform where the underlying providers can change over the years without impacting your collection.

Still feel this is the right way to think about collecting and curating music going forward…

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by hedora »

apwell23 wrote: post #103
drewdevault wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Live shows are generally the largest source of revenue for musicians.

So what? You think only ppl listening on bandcamp go to live shows? How is it relevant to the current topic.

If the purpose of Spotify is to pay artists, then it's objectively a failure.

If you want pay musicians for their music, then you'd be better off buying albums on bandcamp or attending concerts. Paying Spotify is marginally better than just lighting your money on fire.

If the purpose of Spotify is to allow you to listen to music with minimal effort and cost, and don't care if the bands get paid then it does a middling job among paid services. It's probably more convenient than piracy, but I don't know what the state of modern music piracy is (I could imagine a gray-area Internet group that does a better job with metadata and recommendation algorithms than the paid sites do, and that links to a popcorn time style torrent thing.)

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Post by ponector »

swozey wrote: post #179

The lengths that literal engineers will go to to not have to pay $10/mo for music or $3 to rent a movie in 4k immediately. Can't believe I have adult friends who make 70-300k and they still pirate based on money, not quality/directors-cuts/anti-cheats, etc. I quit pirating when I got a real job and could afford to pay developers and movie teams for their effort. I write software. I want to get paid too, right? Why sh…

Spotify app is rubbish, and you cannot listen on different devices with the same account.

Also Spotify have censorship issue, they are removing some songs. Other are not available due to copyright issues.

If you don't want to listen playlists with new random music it is more convenient to have a local mp3 library.

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