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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by jbarberu »

progbits wrote: post #146

What do you all use to buy music these days? I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files. Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

My personal tier list is:

- Bandcamp

- CD

- 7digital

I host the media on a Jellyfin server and use offline playlists on my phone with Finamp for Android, works quite well for me!

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by NoboruWataya »

Wow, I was going to say I assume the pic in the top right is of the official Spotify client, which seems confusing, but it seems this actually just looks really like the official client. Which is good but possibly makes it more likely Spotify will come after you.

The UI feels a lot less sluggish than the official client (which in my experience seems to have gotten way worse lately) but in many cases I am just sent to a loading page which ultimately takes a similar amount of time to load the content. So it seems a lot of the slowness is coming from the Spotify server side, it's just that the official client seems to freeze while waiting for a response whereas this doesn't.

Hopefully Spotify don't kill librespot. As I understand it you can basically only use it with Premium accounts, so it's not like they aren't getting paid anyway. If some other provider were to come along and offer access to the same content as Spotify with a stable API that you can use with any client, I would pay more for that than I currently do for Spotify.

As an aside, ncspot is another good and more minimalise Spotify client, which is a TUI.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by _kidlike »

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?

Also, I know it's a bit niche, but Deezer does not have an equivalent of "Spotify Connect" protocol, which means that Network Integrated Amplifiers (like Onkyo A-50), CANNOT implement a player with good UX. Spotify is now king since they introduced lossless quality which is enabled by default in such amplifiers. The benefit is that there is no local streaming (e.g. Bluetooth) and no latency. The data come from Spotify directly to the amplifier and then your speakers.

So, Deezer that had a audiophile target audience, has effectively lost the game.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by sznio »

progbits wrote: post #146

What do you all use to buy music these days? I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files. Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

I go to the weekly flea market and sometimes find something that interests me

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by cromka »

0fflineuser wrote: post #83

If anyone is interested in selfhosting or wants to stop using spotify without losing the discoverabily: I use explo+slsk+lidarr+navidrome, for access on my phone I use dsub2000 or symfonium but mainly dsub2000. Explo is the software used for the discovery https://github.com/LumePart/Explo It automatically downloads daily jams, weekly jams and weekly exploration playlists from your listenbrainz account(free) using you…

Is there a way to get Music Assistant fit into this nicely?

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by Ciantic »

Very cool. I'm cloning the repo, just in case it gets taken down. I've been using EGUI, but its biggest problem is that LLMs really struggle with it. There isn't enough good examples of it. This codebase seems to have a lot of good examples, so given this as a reference, one might make a lot of progress much faster.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by sznio »

IshKebab wrote: post #99
sznio wrote: post #92

I've been thinking recently about buying an AI-capable GPU and using it to reverse-enginner and debloat apps I use every day. It seems like a task that even a dumber AI model could do. Disassemble the app, then either cut the things I don't care about, or just implement it fresh in a correct way.

I don't think models that run on single GPUs are capable of that yet sadly. You still need to spend ~$100k to get an actually good local LLM. Correct me if I'm wrong, local AI guys. It's really hard to get actually numbers on this stuff, but to run e.g. GLM 5.3 Flash as far as I can tell you need one of those super expensive 8 GPU machines.

if i tasked it with "create spotify" I'd need that much.

asking it to "disassemble Spotify and find out the minimal code path needed to play a song" is much more in reach. I don't need it to oneshot it. If it gets stuck, I've read enough disassembled C to figure it out and get it unblocked.

Instead of banging my head against a binary for 5 hours, I'll have my agent bang it's weights for 20 hours, then put in my 1 hour of polish.

My first task would be to fix the Android version of Facebook Messenger. My friends still stick with it because they have iPhones, and that version works fine. I have been putting up with broken image previews for 2 years now. I'll fix that fucking wild pointer they don't care about and make it usable as a chat app. And I'll remove the ads while at that.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by occz »

fishgoesblub wrote: post #4

Spotify used to use Qt for its desktop client. Good times.

This is actually wrong, it was never QT. It was however not built with web technologies back in the day

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by jcarrano »

alexyoung wrote: post #141

I realise I’m pissing into the wind here, but I find the LLM text on the homepage and docs quite funny/ awkward. > “Ctrl+M turns it into a tiny player that wears any classic Winamp 2 skin, spectrum analyser, equalizer, and playlist included. 2000s vibes, pixel for pixel.” Everything is said with too much intensity, and phrasing that sounds impressive but doesn’t really mean that much. Like “wears any classic Winamp 2…

If it can transform into Winamp I don't care if the code is LLM generated, typed by infinite monkeys or found in some ancient scrolls.

Jokes aside, how can you be sure that the official Spotify app (or any app, or Windows) was not written by a LLM without supervision?

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by smcleod »

progbits wrote: post #146

What do you all use to buy music these days? I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files. Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

Bandcamp, and I have on several occasions emailed the band directly and asked if I could purchase directly from them.
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