Of all the problems that I have with Spotify - its frequently changing selection of music, its hostility to power users, its shuffle algorithm, its artist hostile rates, its frequently changing-for-the-worse interface - I can't really say that AI music is one of them. If I come across some and enjoy it, great! I'm not going to let that impact my enjoyment of music as a whole.
Goodbye, Slopify
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Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#72I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.
The most hilarious startups are all called "get(name)" I guess the hope is they won't end up in the toilet and they might, in the future, be able to buy a domain not prefixed by "get"
My personal favourite is PostHog, which sounds like something one might say on Grindr.
Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#73Of all the problems that I have with Spotify - its frequently changing selection of music, its hostility to power users, its shuffle algorithm, its artist hostile rates, its frequently changing-for-the-worse interface - I can't really say that AI music is one of them. If I come across some and enjoy it, great! I'm not going to let that impact my enjoyment of music as a whole.
I have put on "I Glued My Balls To My Butthole Again" on YouTube Music, unironically, several times. I don't actually hate AI music.
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#74Recommend 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 t…
But an iPod from the 2004 era is both hard to use and very heavy. You can get a tiny flash-based modern mp3 player for $30-$40, which is below the apparent price of a 2004 iPod on eBay.
Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#75Recommend 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.
I’ll do you one better, how about swapping the port on the iPod to USB-C ?
Have you got the old iTunes installed? I was pleasantly surprised Apple still offers the old binaries for download
Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#76I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.
The most hilarious startups are all called "get(name)" I guess the hope is they won't end up in the toilet and they might, in the future, be able to buy a domain not prefixed by "get"
It worked for thefacebook.com.
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#77Does anyone have any good tools for migrating off of spotify? And where to go? I’d like Apple but their apps are horrendous and they completely bastardized the classic Music app pre streaming.
You can use exportify to get playlists and likes off of there. After that maybe make a script to search for entries on whatever service you're using.
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#78Recommend 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.
iPod video 5th gen w/ Rockbox custom firmware. Then do the bluetooth mod and you're in music heaven. Probably fairly easy to write a plugin for the functionality you mentioned.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 t…
But an iPod from the 2004 era is both hard to use and very heavy. You can get a tiny flash-based modern mp3 player for $30-$40, which is below the apparent price of a 2004 iPod on eBay.
Mmm agree to disagree, iPod classic is not a heavyweight device and the UX is what we had when I was a kid so easy AND nostalgic, but agreed the little sandisk clips solve the problem just as well.
Edit: I can't imagine swapping HDD for flash saves more than a few grams, can it?
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#80Are there any good AI-generated songs out there that are actually good to the point that you'd add it to one of your playlists?