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Goodbye, Slopify

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Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by LeoPanthera »

muppetman wrote: post #57

I can't understand how people use Spotify. It was great ~10 years ago? It's terrible these days. Pushing Podcasts at you (no thanks, Podcasts are terrible. If I wanted to hear idiots laughing at each other I'd listen to the Radio DJs), terrible music, the UI getting harder and less intuitive to use. It's a shame all good things have to slowly tend towards sucking, instead of getting better. Bitwarden, one of my belov…

> no thanks, Podcasts are terrible. If I wanted to hear idiots laughing at each other I'd listen to the Radio DJs

When you inject personal opinions like this which are obviously at odds with millions of other people, it's difficult to take the rest of the comment seriously.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by jazzyjackson »

pjs_ wrote: post #46

Recommend getting an MP3 player. Just feels good man. 500GB of music, no ads, no network, no subscription, no distractions.

Public Service Announcement: there’s a healthy marketplace of refurbished and upgraded iPods from the 2004 era on eBay, the Classic 5.5 comes highly recommended with solid DAC from the factory but iPods mini with upgraded DAC, fresh battery, and large flash memory swaps for the old spinning disks are readily available.

I subscribe to Qobuz and buy a lot of lossless DRM free music and can recommend them as well, tho there was recently a big swath of the available music dropped due to licensing issues (hence the utility of downloading DRM free music). I also price shop against the digital albums and often a CD on eBay will be cheaper, I don’t mind missing out on the “24bit 192khz hifi” to save a few bucks.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by doubled112 »

pjs_ wrote: post #46

Recommend getting an MP3 player. Just feels good man. 500GB of music, no ads, no network, no subscription, no distractions.

I’ve been strongly considering refurbing the 6th gen iPod Classic I have in the garage. The disk died years ago, and I imagine it would need a battery by now.

Now I’m wondering if anybody sells a USB-C adapter to iPod dock connector.

One of these days the parts are going to end up at my doorstep. Boredom and a couple of beers away.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by muppetman »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #61
muppetman wrote: post #57

I can't understand how people use Spotify. It was great ~10 years ago? It's terrible these days. Pushing Podcasts at you (no thanks, Podcasts are terrible. If I wanted to hear idiots laughing at each other I'd listen to the Radio DJs), terrible music, the UI getting harder and less intuitive to use. It's a shame all good things have to slowly tend towards sucking, instead of getting better. Bitwarden, one of my belov…

> no thanks, Podcasts are terrible. If I wanted to hear idiots laughing at each other I'd listen to the Radio DJs When you inject personal opinions like this which are obviously at odds with millions of other people, it's difficult to take the rest of the comment seriously.

Fair point.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by davesmylie »

vFunct wrote: post #52

Are these made by Spotify themselves so they don’t have to pay artists?

Pretty much - either they pay gig musicians an hourly wage to record "human" slop that spotify has the rights to and can stream effectively for free, or just out right ai generated slop

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...

https://www.fastcompany.com/91170296/spotify-ai-music

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by jsheard »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #53
swyx wrote: post #11

without any hate to the well intentioned engineers working on the thing, spotify has just exceedingly poor product taste in any number of dimensions - the godawful ai dj they tried to force on pple - buying gimlet media and running it into the toilet. some of the world's best and favorite podcasts, gone because some swedish billionaire decided to throw all his money into foie grasing a perfectly fine niche media comp…

They also deprecated their library (libspotify) which had previously been used to build alternative third-party clients and playback-capable integrations for paying Spotify users. They promised a replacement, but that never happened… the best we ever got was a set of watered down APIs that’s curiously missing what one would need to build a third party client. They couldn’t allow for users to opt out of the constant A…

> They also deprecated their library (libspotify) which had previously been used to build alternative third-party clients and playback-capable integrations for paying Spotify users. They promised a replacement, but that never happened…

It exists... but only for employees: https://xcancel.com/rogueops/status/1656349863968112680

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by idontwantthis »

When does this actually happen? I can imagine it on their background music playlists (and wouldn’t really mind it) but I’ve never encountered it on any playlist at least as far as I’m aware. Is it only electronic music or will they AI you an entire 5 piece rock band?

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by jim-jim-jim »

pjs_ wrote: post #46

Recommend getting an MP3 player. Just feels good man. 500GB of music, no ads, no network, no subscription, no distractions.

My criteria are:

- 500GB+

- Ability to sort by the albumartist tag (listen to heaps of compilations)

- Ability to export play log

- Functions like any other external storage device for transfer purposes

Anything out there? Last I checked (10 years ago) there was nothing that hit all these marks. I had a Sansa Clip with Rockbox and just dealt with the low storage capacity.

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