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> [regarding spotify] At the end, I had nothing to show for it. My carefully curated “library” was not mine Not just your library, but your listen history and your playlists. I was very annoyed that I had to pay a 3rd party company to export this data so that I could import it into listenbrainz and navidrome. Not to mention there's a song that Spotify removed from my "Liked" playlist that to this day I can't quite re…
> [regarding spotify] At the end, I had nothing to show for it. My carefully curated “library” was not mine Not just your library, but your listen history and your playlists. I was very annoyed that I had to pay a 3rd party company to export this data so that I could import it into listenbrainz and navidrome. Not to mention there's a song that Spotify removed from my "Liked" playlist that to this day I can't quite re…
Can't you GDPR request that data?
> [regarding spotify] At the end, I had nothing to show for it. My carefully curated “library” was not mine Not just your library, but your listen history and your playlists. I was very annoyed that I had to pay a 3rd party company to export this data so that I could import it into listenbrainz and navidrome. Not to mention there's a song that Spotify removed from my "Liked" playlist that to this day I can't quite re…
You can get your listen history? How?
Maybe it's just me, but I still like the plainness of MPD + ncmpcpp.
TBH the only thing I care for (except maybe for playlist management) is gapless playback. There's no word about it, but I constantly find out that the new players do not really care about the gap, while the music I am listening to is always ripped from my personal CDs and they mostly have music continuing on two or more tracks. Why nobody cares about it? Do you know this feeling when you get towards the High Hopes on…
My guess is not everyone is annoyed by that, or knows about the option. It was a nice surprise of qmmp, it switches to the next song without an extra pause. I use it with a winamp skin from https://archive.org/details/winampskins , to add to the options. Not sure about streaming support, I use it with local files.
It depends on the genre, I’d guess. For metal, there’s rarely continuous songs, mainly sometimes intro -> 1st proper song.
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Can't you GDPR request that data?
I'm not in Europe, but, otherwise, that's a great idea.
Worth noting that most of these GTK4/libadwaita players are going to look out of place on anything that isn't GNOME. If you're on KDE or a tiling WM, Strawberry or one of the Qt-based options will integrate much better
I need a waveform, a playhead, a good browser that can do both metadata based libraries and dumb folders fast and without lagging, a way to build/save/view/load playlists and a way to queue songs.
Most players are just too basic or make the wrong or to many assumptions about my collection. Or the interface is just too cute and dysfunctional for my actual daily use.
This means on Linux I currently use either mixxx or just VLC player, but I surely haven't tested every possible mediaplayer.
Worth noting that most of these GTK4/libadwaita players are going to look out of place on anything that isn't GNOME. If you're on KDE or a tiling WM, Strawberry or one of the Qt-based options will integrate much better