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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by mcmcmc »

dylan604 wrote: post #9
nan60 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> radio for discovery Would you be willing to share a bit more about this setup? The only thing keeping my on streaming is the fact that its almost impossible to find new music otherwise. I know LastFM exists but it just doesn't click for me the way that streaming does. I like discovering music organically.

> radio for discovery was a big question mark I had as well. The Clear Channel and iHeart stations are not known for discovery. Now if you find a college station or by some miracle an independent station you can get some new stuff. My favorite local college station is also ad free. They also have an app which I lean on as it's not the strongest transmitter so their coverage is spotty. Maybe there's other indy station…

Public radio is great, NPR and the member stations have some great streaming channels. KEXP and KCRW are two favs

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by msmagh »

nan60 wrote: post #6
wilted-iris wrote: post #2

Spotify is in the process of killing the librespot project that this and most third party Spotify players are built on. I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end. I’ve migrated to a self hosted library with streaming and radio for discovery. I hope we’ll see many projects in the space flourish. Many, like Navidrome and the whole OpenSubsonic ecosystem, seem to be doing quite well.

> radio for discovery Would you be willing to share a bit more about this setup? The only thing keeping my on streaming is the fact that its almost impossible to find new music otherwise. I know LastFM exists but it just doesn't click for me the way that streaming does. I like discovering music organically.

using nts.live and and fip radio -> https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip at the moment for same purpose. Radio France allows to save liked track names in profile to look up later.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by mcmcmc »

Walf wrote: post #12

Fuck Spotify. Even if you don't care about the ethics of Daniel Ek's investments, the platform itself is crap. One of the lowest paying to artists, not paying at all unless they hit a threshold, and the catalogue is filling up with AI slop, which they push on users via 'radio' and 'mix' playlists, so they can pay even less royalties. No, thanks.

I left when they forced podcasts into my music app and never looked back

Re: Fastpotify

#34

Post by wahnfrieden »

wilted-iris wrote: post #2

Spotify is in the process of killing the librespot project that this and most third party Spotify players are built on. I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end. I’ve migrated to a self hosted library with streaming and radio for discovery. I hope we’ll see many projects in the space flourish. Many, like Navidrome and the whole OpenSubsonic ecosystem, seem to be doing quite well.

CIUT has some great shows and most are available online. University of Toronto.

Re: Fastpotify

#35

Post by nalekberov »

Without looking at the codebase I am pretty sure it’s a vibe coded rust app, because this is what today’s most programmers understand about software.

Re: Fastpotify

#36

Post by zcrar70 »

SuperMouse wrote: post #16
Walf wrote: post #12

Fuck Spotify. Even if you don't care about the ethics of Daniel Ek's investments, the platform itself is crap. One of the lowest paying to artists, not paying at all unless they hit a threshold, and the catalogue is filling up with AI slop, which they push on users via 'radio' and 'mix' playlists, so they can pay even less royalties. No, thanks.

I've tested Deezer for half a year. The software quality was horrible. Had a lot of crashes, it often took many many seconds to change between the songs and often getting stuck, the buffering algorithm was nuts and eating a lot of bandwidth. Everything on a standard Pixel. Full 5G coverage was available. Alternatives?

Qobuz have the highest per stream payout rate for artists [0], and have the best audio quality of all streaming platforms (better even that Tidal imho). They have desktop, mobile and android auto (and presumably carplay) clients, and an equivalent to Spotify Connect whereby streaming can be switched to a different client.

Downsides are no native client (same webview approach as Spotify), not as strong recommendations (though slowly improving), good but slightly quirkier UI (also slowly improving). For me the trade offs are worthwhile.

[0] eg. https://resources.onestowatch.com/ethical-music-streaming-pl...

Re: Fastpotify

#37

Post by yedpodtrzitko »

rixed wrote: post #23

Another site tricking users willing to look at the code into starring the repo instead. How desperate do you need to be to resort to this?

I had to read the comment a few times. Do you mean "starring" instead of "starting"?

Re: Fastpotify

#39

Post by ronjakoi »

zcrar70 wrote: post #36
SuperMouse wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've tested Deezer for half a year. The software quality was horrible. Had a lot of crashes, it often took many many seconds to change between the songs and often getting stuck, the buffering algorithm was nuts and eating a lot of bandwidth. Everything on a standard Pixel. Full 5G coverage was available. Alternatives?

Qobuz have the highest per stream payout rate for artists [0], and have the best audio quality of all streaming platforms (better even that Tidal imho). They have desktop, mobile and android auto (and presumably carplay) clients, and an equivalent to Spotify Connect whereby streaming can be switched to a different client. Downsides are no native client (same webview approach as Spotify), not as strong recommendations…

I've been happy with Qobuz as well. I use the third party open source QBZ client on Linux desktop.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by selcuka »

jarym wrote: post #20
wilted-iris wrote: post #2

Spotify is in the process of killing the librespot project that this and most third party Spotify players are built on. I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end. I’ve migrated to a self hosted library with streaming and radio for discovery. I hope we’ll see many projects in the space flourish. Many, like Navidrome and the whole OpenSubsonic ecosystem, seem to be doing quite well.

> I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end There was a world before Spotify. Though the music labels didn’t much like that world we can easily go back to it.

> There was a world before Spotify

There was, and it was definitely not "the golden age of music streaming".

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