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I want it for music. Would be perfect for parties as an alternative to spotify, grooveshark etc. Need queuing and support for a bunch of weird open formats and then we're good to go.
Well there was hiphop https://github.com/hiphopapp/hiphop but it seems it is offline for now
I want it for music. Would be perfect for parties as an alternative to spotify, grooveshark etc. Need queuing and support for a bunch of weird open formats and then we're good to go.
it's a fork of hiphop by the original team and seems to have some of your reqs
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Too expensive. Try buying your way to a thousand song library that rotates about a quarter of the songs per year. When that becomes cheap enough for a minimum wager like me without having to weigh the tradeoffs against necessities, I'll be a buyer.
Is free Spotify with ads too expensive? (or even premium at $10 per month) What's the price point you're looking for? "thousand song library that rotates about a quarter of the songs per year" means 1k at start, then 250 per year. Taking spotify as an example, that's $0.01 per song the first month, then $0.48 per new song at your rate of cycling through the library.
Renting (streaming or otherwise) video should be no more than ten percent (10%) of an hour of minimum wage with no commercials. So a typical movie would be about $1.10. A half hour sitcom with commercials stripped out about $0.25.
A rented song should be about one tenth of a percent (.1%) of an hour of minimum wage per listen. So about a penny per song. (What you said.) But a purchased song at a dollar is too much (a dime is about right).
Tying entertainment to minimum wage also has the neat benefit of having one sector of business fighting to raise minimum wage too.
Spotify and their ilk are fine, but last time I looked they didn't have much in the way of the music I liked. (I'll take another look at Spotify and see if the catalog has grown to encompass my tastes.)
FYI popcorn time is still being actively developed and is open source. https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-app/ it isn't the original team but they have been maintaining it for the past few months and seem committed to keeping it alive.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
E: one of the links was wrong. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm...
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F-That! Of course it's occurred to me I can't afford "such a lifestyle." That's why I steal the content! Just because I was born into poverty, barely made it out of high school, and lack the genetics, wherewithal and mental acumen to move myself into a better life doesn't mean I'm going to deny myself life's pleasures. Screw you rich people who _can_ afford the lifestyle. If you want me to play by the rules you've ma…
Is your position "I'll break the law because I probably won't face consequences"? Would you go to jail for your principles? I'm honestly just curious.
Take out the middle man and let the market decide what the price should be. I suspect it will be much less that what's being charged now and, without the middle men, the content creators and performers themselves will make significantly more.
And no I would not go to jail for stealing music, movies, etc. What kind of a society would jail someone for such a minor offense. Oh wait, a corporate oligarchy like most of the first world has become!
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How about actually paying for music instead of committing a crime?
I pay for music, I don't pay for copies of music. Copying music is effortless and doesn't merit reward.
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Is free Spotify with ads too expensive? (or even premium at $10 per month) What's the price point you're looking for? "thousand song library that rotates about a quarter of the songs per year" means 1k at start, then 250 per year. Taking spotify as an example, that's $0.01 per song the first month, then $0.48 per new song at your rate of cycling through the library.
Total entertainment (not discretionary) spending should be 7% of total income after taxes. Depending on where you live, that makes about $1,100 available per year. Renting (streaming or otherwise) video should be no more than ten percent (10%) of an hour of minimum wage with no commercials. So a typical movie would be about $1.10. A half hour sitcom with commercials stripped out about $0.25. A rented song should be a…
That being said, how did you arrive at 7%, may I ask?
Also, by your numbers you say you play a typical song 10(=dime/(cent/song rental)) times? I suppose it's highly dependent on the person, but I personally would say ~25x. (Mean of the playback numbers of all songs I have that I have played at least once is ~21, and I occasionally play songs off of my mp3 player, etc, so it's really higher than that.)
Personally, I'd love a service that was both a micropayment enabler and music player - ~one cent per 5 minutes, period.
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Is your position "I'll break the law because I probably won't face consequences"? Would you go to jail for your principles? I'm honestly just curious.
No, my position is, "I should not be denied base level entertainment pleasures just because I'm poor." Same goes for base level health care, food, shelter, etc. Take out the middle man and let the market decide what the price should be. I suspect it will be much less that what's being charged now and, without the middle men, the content creators and performers themselves will make significantly more. And no I would n…