HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music • Hacker News Board

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by vidyesh » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:11 AM UTC

daGrevis wrote: post #5

The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don't think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening. That aside, the app looks really polished and I'm glad it has Linux support backed in.

Don't forget all the services you mentioned have region restrictions and most are pretty much legally bound to those restrictions. Also they are more or less a freemium service.

I guess HipHop isn't.

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by skimmas » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:20 AM UTC

YungLean wrote: post #15

Where are the tracks coming from?

youtube

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by scotchmi_st » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:21 AM UTC

d135_1r43 wrote: post #17

As a part time musician who needs to spend around 10k for a new album I find this frustrating.

With due respect for you as someone trying to make money as a musician, your problem is that no-one knows your music, not that people are 'stealing' it.

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by vsakos » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:24 AM UTC

It's actually a well-designed youtube client that doesn's show the video to the users, just the music, am i right?

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by sudhirj » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:25 AM UTC

daGrevis wrote: post #5

The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don't think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening. That aside, the app looks really polished and I'm glad it has Linux support backed in.

Only in the few first world countries that these services operate in.

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by duiker101 » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:26 AM UTC

lawl wrote: post #19

daGrevis wrote: post #5

The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don't think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening. That aside, the app looks really polished and I'm glad it has Linux support backed in.

Spotify randomly deleted my offline library on android. Of course when I was traveling and didn't have a data plan. Canceled my premium subscription a month ago or so. This happened multiple times to me. Yup I'm at the point again where maintaining my own library is more convinient again. It's exactly the DRM shit I won't put up with. Also spotify, rdio etc. Are exactly the same price with the same restrictions per p…

Spotify did the same to me, multiple times. Last time yesterday when my pc randomly lost permissions for offline storage.

But that is not an excuse. The music industry in trying to provide alternative ways, and I extremely appreciate it and think that we need to be supportive. Only by supporting this changes we will ever see any improvements, we need to find a middleground that can satisfy both parties. Spotify offers a great service on a great platform. It can have his hippicus but that can happen with everything. What would happen if the player app you are using to play your offline library breaks and you have no data?

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by Fuxy » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:27 AM UTC

lawl wrote: post #19

daGrevis wrote: post #5

The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don't think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening. That aside, the app looks really polished and I'm glad it has Linux support backed in.

Spotify randomly deleted my offline library on android. Of course when I was traveling and didn't have a data plan. Canceled my premium subscription a month ago or so. This happened multiple times to me. Yup I'm at the point again where maintaining my own library is more convinient again. It's exactly the DRM shit I won't put up with. Also spotify, rdio etc. Are exactly the same price with the same restrictions per p…

I use Spotily for streaming however I don't use it to create a offline library exactly for this DRM shit.

I'd rather outright buy the songs somewhere else and have them backed up on another computer as well with btsync just in case these DRM apps try to pull some crap.

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:29 AM UTC

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Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by tragomaskhalos » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:29 AM UTC

What's the catch?

Re: HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music

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Post by Fuxy » Thu, Jun 05, 2014, 8:32 AM UTC

sudhirj wrote: post #25

daGrevis wrote: post #5

The main selling point of Popcorn Time is that it allows to watch movies more easily than solutions that asks money for that. I don't think music industry has this problem — there are services like Spotify, Rdio and many more that offers painless listening. That aside, the app looks really polished and I'm glad it has Linux support backed in.

Only in the few first world countries that these services operate in.

True... Luckily I'm in one of these countries at the moment.

However I'm certain my country of birth is still not covered by these services so in that case this is a good alternative.