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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by rplnt »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #459
rplnt wrote: post #394

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't it just another ad distribution platform? The amount of ads they started to push to paying(!) users recently makes me want to cancel it every day (but I'm also too lazy to seek alternatives).

> The amount of ads they started to push to paying(!) users I have never in the history of paying for Spotify had an ad play.

I get ads in podcasts. Not sponsored segments that the podcast creator inserted/narrated themselves (like used to happen), but ad served by Spotify itself, injected into the podcast. Easily 5 minutes in 30 min podcast[1], though this varies and I'm sure it is configurable by the podcast publishers.

1. This is not by feel, Spotify leaks it by displaying the original length and then updated one once it loads.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by flyingshelf »

I never understood the complaints about Spotify. Apple Music behaved like crap with something as simple as being offline, to me it's always been a no-brainer to use Spotify over anything else.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by demibabs »

bramhaag wrote: post #218
cirelli94 wrote: post #207

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I would use the phrase "Responsible Use of Generative AI", from https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte

I wouldn't. > The Debian Project nevertheless expects that all contributions submitted to Debian, regardless of how and with which tools they were produced, satisfy the same standards of quality, correctness, maintainability, and legal compliance. Slop text on the homepage does not scream "quality" to me. The code is worse, somehow. Endless paragraphs of comments that say nothing: https://github.com/crmne/fastpotify/…

Wtf? It’s putting its whole chain of thought in comment form, that’s insane.

No wonder people can’t get Claude to stop commenting if this is what it does unrestricted.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by cityoften »

sbarre wrote: post #455
short_sells_poo wrote: post #303

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No they can't. The construction crew - which includes the manager - can say that they built a skyscraper. If the construction manager did lay the bricks or did the majority of the work in all aspects, they could claim to have built a building. Otherwise they contributed work, no denying that, but they can't claim credit for building it. Same way that architects can't claim they built the skyscraper, even though they…

I think you're being pedantic to the point of losing all credibility. And you're gatekeeping in the worst possible way. Your argument that using an LLM means you didn't "make" a thing could just as easily be used to say that if you used a framework or a library, you also didn't "make" a thing, because you didn't write all the code yourself and you didn't understand everything. Would you say the authors of YT-DLP didn…

People do care - lots of people do. Maybe you don’t, and maybe the argument the other poster made wasn’t fair, but you make just as spurious claims when you say „who cares how you made it or how long it took?”

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by wilted-iris »

echoangle wrote: post #292
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.

It seems like there's an official alternative to librespot now: https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-08-13-introducing-sp...

Yes! This launched after I left Spotify but I agree it looks neat. I find the three month build expiration concerning, but I also have a low risk tolerance for my music experience.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by jtbayly »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #438
jtbayly wrote: post #433

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I canceled my subscription and moved to Apple Music

> Spotify has 777 million monthly active users worldwide, which includes 300 million paying subscribers. > Generates approximately €4.8 billion ($5.5 billion) in revenue, representing a 14% year-over-year increase, alongside a record gross margin of 33.4%

Oh, I know they are doing fine without me. lol

But if you don’t like what they are doing, vote with your wallet. In this case, there actually are choices, which is nice.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by pqdbr »

Carmine is cooking. His work on RubyLLM has been incredible, even going as far as upstreaming important work about fiber usage into Rails Solid Queue so that we reap the Async benefits, which are essential in this LLM age.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by demibabs »

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…

Did the landing page text get updated? Didn’t click as ai generated to me.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by schnevets »

samcrawford wrote: post #277
rot256 wrote: post #238

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 recog…

I switched from Spotify to Amazon Music about 9 months ago, and cancelled Spotify Premium as a result (due to price, not bugs). Amazon Music is so much worse. 1. If you have no connectivity, the app will frequently get stuck in the offline state, playing the spinner indefinitely, even after connectivity has returned. I had similar issues on Spotify, but Amazon Music is so much worse. 2. I had Amazon Music eat my enti…

I canceled Spotify a few months ago have been using a free Amazon music trial. It's staggering how the Amazon interface is just worse in every single way.

Concurrent to this streaming evaluation, I inherited a Sonos system and by the gods is that app pitiful! You would think the premium sound solution that is supposed to "just work" would prioritize UI.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by AtNightWeCode »

rot256 wrote: post #238

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 recog…

I am a user since the beginning and had premium for almost as long. The state of the app is bad. Crash fest. They pretty much brags about that they slop code it. But was it better before? Let me give you a hall of fame of historical bugs/features.

1. Impossible to purge the play queue. Had to delete every track one by one. 2. Completely broke liked songs years after the feature was launched. 3. They broke offline mode like a billion times. Just download everything again. Especially annoying back in the days when mobile data was expensive. Still does not work like half of the time. 4. Changed to a yellow typeface! I am not even kidding. 5. Included some bittorrent like file sharing in the background.

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