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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by Shorel »

echelon wrote: post #57
nalekberov wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Buddy, it’s the same big tech gave you this opportunity. You are creating so much stuff, but most of them are useless garbage that no one cares about.

> You are creating so much stuff, but most of them are useless garbage that no one cares about. Are you so sure of that? One of my projects is at $5M ARR in just six months. I passed $400k in sales this month. It's an open source project. I'm teaching my wife to code and we're going to make a video game together. Surely you can see the value in that bonding experience? She never would have been interested prior to Cl…

I am very interested in your projects. Particularly the music player.

Tagging for Latin America music is basically a cluster fuck of misleading misunderstandings, there's not a single salsa, merengue, son, charanga, or bachata song that has been correctly tagged in any streaming platform o scrobbler. It's like the people using the platforms are deaf to the rhythms. WTF is Latin Jazz doing in a salsa song? Exactly.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by Retr0id »

Interesting. I've always wanted something like this. The official Spotify player sucks in many ways, but the UI/UX is decent, or at the very least I'm used to it now.

All the other lightweight Spotify clients roll their own UIs in ways that I don't like, so I really appreciate that their LLM has taken the time to clone the UI 1:1.

But now I have to decide if I want someone else's vibecode on my computer. I think not.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by som »

Love the Winamp feature - but more so that it comes with milkdrop! That is next level.

What would YouTube music support look like? And another random feature request - universal playlist import / export (i.e. take my YouTube playlist and convert it to Spotify and vice versa - Rosetta stone style)

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by prinny_ »

This may be a low effort comment but I just wanted to say that there was a missed opportunity to call this project Spotifast.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by maxibenner »

embedding-shape wrote: post #215
bko wrote: post #210

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> I feel like if you can’t be bothered to write the code, at least document it yourself and write the marketing copy so I know you understand the product. Do you not understand it? This person doesn't owe you any work. He's providing a product for free and this is a reasonable enough description of the product. > Did the LLM generate some amazing rm -rf somewhere, or another blunder that wrecks data I might care abou…

> The mythical "rm -rf" random LLM insertion is not a real threat. Every time I see stories about this kind of issue, it's almost always preceded by basically prompt poisoning. It is real, typically happening when dumber models (haven't personally seen any of the SOTA ones on reasonable thinking/reasoning level do this) try to clean up stuff via bash and forget to assign a variable. Things like "rm -rf sessions/$id"…

Just recently, Opus 4.8 almost deleted a bunch of important files (I caught the issue before) because it failed to consider that two-way-sync would delete files from my NAS if deleted locally.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by Retr0id »

arajnoha wrote: post #222

Just came to say that official client (all its processes combined) uses 1.1Gb of RAM on my macbook air, while this, playing the same track from the same playlist and nothing else, gets only up to 280Mb

That's an improvement for sure, but 280MB also seems like a lot.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by Shorel »

punarinta wrote: post #29

Software has finally started to get faster, and I love it. Pls don't consider this a spam, but if anyone is interested in a fast native Slack client, I'm building one, since Slack themselves don't want to: https://msga.app

Love it.

I did the same for Postman/Bruno.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by rot256 »

Spotify is, without doubt, the worst piece of software that I still use on a daily basis. It's incredibly buggy, incredibly slow, and the UI has so many "usability inconsistencies".

I find the Android app particularly bad, just a couple of examples:

- Under a playlist you get a list of suggested songs, the UI element looks like a "regular song", but unlike every other "song" element the user has been trained to recognize, the "swipe right to queue" does not apply to these elements. For some reason.

- When you don't have connectivity, e.g. you walk into a Faraday cage, then the search tries to reach the internet and won't show you results before it either: 1) does so, 2) times out. Which means you can't browse your local library before some websocket times out. Just show me the local results first?

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by frogulis »

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

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> 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…

RRR and PBS in Melbourne both stream online and are both fantastic for music discovery. Go the former if you lean indie and the latter if you lean international.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by Shorel »

sznio wrote: post #167
IshKebab wrote: post #99

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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 hou…

Qwen 3.8 will do it, but it will probably require 72 hours or more.
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