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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by mixedCase »

nalekberov wrote: post #30
echelon wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end. It's just getting started. We're going to vibe code the entire enshittified internet to be ours once again. The dream of the 90's and 00's is alive again. The indie web is going to become unstoppable. We can build anything of size and scale with the limited spare energy we have now. Every product will be reborn without big tech tendrils.

> We're going to vibe code the entire enshittified internet to be ours once again. It’s such a wishful thinking, but no it doesn’t and won’t work this way. Code != useful product. Plus today’s web is all about fabricated content, AI bots, cloudflare challenge walls and all other annoying stuff. The very idea of being able to create something in seconds is already killing internet.

Garbage being created at unprecedented rates does not diminish the fact that LLMs are acting as a positive multiplier for useful tools; this very item being one.

No one in all these years had gone through the effort of replicating the Spotify client with a snappy fast interface for a reason. Everything had been an integration into already existing software, or simpler interfaces, because the effort was not worth it. The equation has changed.

Re: Fastpotify

#42

Post by famahar »

ralfhn wrote: post #3

It takes five minutes to make a website look less obviously AI-generated.

If it was a site made with AI it would be stuffed with way more ad copy, components, UI toggles, and small text. If this was made with AI, they seem to have restrained it from going on the gaudy UI mess of most AI generated sites that are what I like to think of as "Maximalist Minimalist". A hodgepodge of a design library.

Re: Fastpotify

#43

Post by veeti »

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.

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Re: Fastpotify

#44

Post by hyperadvanced »

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.

Call me a boomer but I’ve had a ton of fun with XM radio. I can find new music on Bandcamp but nothing compares to hearing some classic from the 80’s that you would have never thought to put on when you’re driving home after work on a Friday.

Re: Fastpotify

#45

Post by pixelatedindex »

bubblemoth wrote: post #25
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.

I left spotify around two years ago for a self hosted option (I mostly use navidrome+feishin). Music discovery was a concern for me as well, but then I realized that I didn't like the idea of spotify curating which music I discovered. So far, this is what has worked for me: - Actually listening to the music I have now. I think the art of listening through full albums has slowly died, but there is so much music we're…

Epic bought bandcamp many moons ago. Did they enshittify it or is it still going strong?

Re: Fastpotify

#48

Post by HaloZero »

colordrops wrote: post #26
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.

Why are they killing librespot?

Probably for the same reason Twitter killed their API, more control over the experience and to serve ads/cross-promote. More cross-promote for Spotify.

Re: Fastpotify

#49

Post by mappu »

If you're focused on lightweight, native and fast, I don't think you should use an immediate-mode GUI toolkit. Why does an app like this need to hit a 60fps framerate? It's not a game.

Re: Fastpotify

#50

Post by echelon »

nalekberov wrote: post #30
echelon wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end. It's just getting started. We're going to vibe code the entire enshittified internet to be ours once again. The dream of the 90's and 00's is alive again. The indie web is going to become unstoppable. We can build anything of size and scale with the limited spare energy we have now. Every product will be reborn without big tech tendrils.

> We're going to vibe code the entire enshittified internet to be ours once again. It’s such a wishful thinking, but no it doesn’t and won’t work this way. Code != useful product. Plus today’s web is all about fabricated content, AI bots, cloudflare challenge walls and all other annoying stuff. The very idea of being able to create something in seconds is already killing internet.

You can look at the glass half full all you want, my glass is overflowing.

This is the best year in all of my 20 years in tech. I'm creating so much stuff and it's all I've ever wanted.

This is the dream of the 2000's, and big tech can't stop us anymore.

I think I'm going to write my own music player soon that behaves exactly like I want it to. Maybe this weekend. Or maybe right after my home automation project. But I can probably squeeze them both in.

It's like Christmas every day now.

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