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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by shiroiushi »

pazimzadeh wrote: post #76

The youtube music matching didn't work for the first two songs I tried: Two Words by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/62wtttQzoIA9HnNmGVd9Yq?si=b1b... Went to Two Words by Milabel Ranque: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64cFG9dfYo Never Let Me Down by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/34j4OxJxKznBs88cjSL2j9?si=7ec... Went to Never Let me Down by Depeche Mode: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sn…

I don't see the problem here: it looks like it's working extremely well, and in fact doing you a huge favor, if it redirects you from Kanye West to anything else. Why on earth would you want to listen to Kanye West when you can listen to Depeche Mode instead?

They do need to fix the bug with the album art though.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by mixmastamyk »

ethagnawl wrote: post #72
jonhohle wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it’s more of a treasure hunt, I really enjoy browsing for and buying physical CDs, especially second hand. Albums are often $1, they sound as good as when they were released and they’re easily convertible to any other audio format, including lossless, 16-bit, 44.1khz formats. The only thing better is SACD, but finding that is like a diamond in the rough and ripping it is its own challenge unless you have the ri…

A few years back, I did an apples-to-oranges test of an album I had on vinyl and CD. The vinyl version probably sounded better (usual BS about warmth and whatnot) but the CD sounded very, very good and it was way closer than I was expecting. It had been ~15 years since I'd listened to a CD on a real stereo and I'd totally forgotten how good they can sound. I'd certainly been swayed by the vinyl enthusiasts in the int…

Disc rot is not a thing for factory pressed CDs, assuming normal storage. Cheap CDRs from ~2000 or so did have the issue. My CDs from the 80s and CDRs from the 90s are working fine.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by orblivion »

toastercat wrote: post #79
askonomm wrote: post #8

I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?

The most sustainable way to "buy" music IMO, is to pirate it, and then buy merch from the artist as support. Or just buy off Bandcamp if its an option.

I Don't Have Spotify should add Bandcamp support. Bandcamp is great for just playing the music too.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by reaperducer »

Gigachad wrote: post #80
reaperducer wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Analog hole. It takes a bit of time, but if you really care about the music, it's worth it. Note: I suspect that the streaming services watermark the songs. I have some from Apple Music that it refuses to sync over its cloud service. Doesn't bother me, though, because I primarily sync via wire.

They don’t have to watermark them to do that. They can just do the regular content ID thing YouTube does.

But it works fine for songs ripped from vinyl. It's only things from streaming that gum up the works.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by vivzkestrel »

leddt wrote: post #39

I made a very simple chrome extension that automatically redirects you to your preferred music service when visiting another service. In my case I have it set to YouTube Music, so if I click a Spotify (or other) link in Slack, I'll be redirected to YouTube Music. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-link/gnhphofp...

sounds amazing, how did you map the urls manually?

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by Night_Thastus »

afranchuk wrote: post #11
askonomm wrote: post #8

I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?

I've enjoyed the selection on Qobuz, which is all DRM-free and allows mp3 or lossless flac formats.

I like Qobuz too, but have a couple issues with it:

* The prices are a lot higher there than anywhere else

* They don't remember my payment information. I would opt-in to this if it's a legal concern. It's so annoying every single time having to enter it in all over again. I'd do PayPal but they charge a fee these days.

* Their tar'd up download format sucks, and requires me doing a lot of re-naming and re-foldering things to get it to a sane format.

* They started removing some of the things I PAID FOR from my account. Not cool. It's fine if you have to remove it from sale but removing it from my account should not be legal.

* Many popular tracks from otherwise not-so-popular albums are locked so you can't buy just that song, you need to buy the whole album

* If you've bought a few songs from an album, you don't get an appropriate discount if you later decide to buy the whole album - which some digital stores are good about.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by paranoidrobot »

leddt wrote: post #39

I made a very simple chrome extension that automatically redirects you to your preferred music service when visiting another service. In my case I have it set to YouTube Music, so if I click a Spotify (or other) link in Slack, I'll be redirected to YouTube Music. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-link/gnhphofp...

Do you have a Firefox version of this?

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by lelandfe »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #86
leddt wrote: post #39

I made a very simple chrome extension that automatically redirects you to your preferred music service when visiting another service. In my case I have it set to YouTube Music, so if I click a Spotify (or other) link in Slack, I'll be redirected to YouTube Music. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-link/gnhphofp...

sounds amazing, how did you map the urls manually?

https://github.com/leddt/music-link/blob/8faa5ceb0caa620499e...

I guess this is a free service? E.g https://api.song.link/v1-alpha.1/links?url=https://open.spot...

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