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Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by pixelrevision » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 1:51 PM UTC

sweeneyrod wrote: post #98

csunbird wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish the TV industry can accept way of Spotify is the way to go. Instead, now we have dozens of streaming platforms with exclusive contents.

They can't, because they have a different business model. For TV content producers, consumers paying for content (with either dollars or eyeballs) is their main source of income. But for musicians, most of their money comes from playing live shows. So Spotify can be much more relaxed about revenue than HBO.

It also costs a good deal less for a band to put out an album than it does to make a season of game of thrones.

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by d--b » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC

Why isn’t Spotified concerned about people making apps that rip their content?

Is audio piracy not a thing anymore?

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by jaysh » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

d--b wrote: post #102

Why isn’t Spotified concerned about people making apps that rip their content? Is audio piracy not a thing anymore?

Spotify are not enabling audio piracy by much because they don't provide an audio stream for songs via their API (beyond a short sample).

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by glitcher » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:03 PM UTC

sweeneyrod wrote: post #98

csunbird wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish the TV industry can accept way of Spotify is the way to go. Instead, now we have dozens of streaming platforms with exclusive contents.

They can't, because they have a different business model. For TV content producers, consumers paying for content (with either dollars or eyeballs) is their main source of income. But for musicians, most of their money comes from playing live shows. So Spotify can be much more relaxed about revenue than HBO.

Or t-shirts!

https://cdm.link/2019/12/tshirts-sell-spotify-doesnt/

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by nobleach » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

piracy1 wrote: post #5

This is cool. I've been wanting to modify Spotify to use the WhoSampled API to auto-suggest, Amazon Prime X-ray style the songs a given song samples. Maybe i'll do it now.

This is a fantastic idea! I love listening to music that samples my favorite tunes.

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by cruano » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 3:12 PM UTC

hemans wrote: post #37

piracy1 wrote: post #5

This is cool. I've been wanting to modify Spotify to use the WhoSampled API to auto-suggest, Amazon Prime X-ray style the songs a given song samples. Maybe i'll do it now.

Can you ELI5 I'm interested in knowing more

Amazon Prime Video has an X-Ray feature that shows stuff like which actors are in a scene you are watching. In a lot of music is very common for Artis to use "samples", i.e. you take a small piece of a song and incorporate it into your new song.

Who sampled lists every sample a song used. Take good life by Kanye West for example https://www.whosampled.com/Kanye-West/Good-Life/

So I think what he means is using who sampled data and Spotify music to create a player where you can click x-ray and it shows you the samples from that segment of the song

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by selectodude » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 4:12 PM UTC

pixelrevision wrote: post #101

sweeneyrod wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can't, because they have a different business model. For TV content producers, consumers paying for content (with either dollars or eyeballs) is their main source of income. But for musicians, most of their money comes from playing live shows. So Spotify can be much more relaxed about revenue than HBO.

It also costs a good deal less for a band to put out an album than it does to make a season of game of thrones.

And an album provides far more recurring revenue than a movie does. I’ve listened to my favorite albums hundreds of times. I’ve watched my favorite television shows twice, three times at most.

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by jlengrand » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 4:28 PM UTC

bransonf wrote: post #2

This is an iOS app, but if it isn’t what you were hoping for, check out these other projects. A CLI UI for Spotify [0] Spotify as a daemon [1] [0] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui [1] https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd

Thanks for taking the time to share :)

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by hombre_fatal » Tue, Dec 24, 2019, 4:31 PM UTC

csunbird wrote: post #93

dannyw wrote: post #67

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"Laws can definitely help, but it doesn't take away the problem. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy and at the same time compensates the music industry – that gave us Spotify." - Daniel Ek (Spotify co-founder)

I wish the TV industry can accept way of Spotify is the way to go. Instead, now we have dozens of streaming platforms with exclusive contents.

What's the "way of Spotify" in your post? One single company toll-gating all content? That doesn't sound like the ideal to me.

Re: Open-Source Spotify App

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Post by dannyw » Wed, Dec 25, 2019, 2:45 AM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #109

csunbird wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish the TV industry can accept way of Spotify is the way to go. Instead, now we have dozens of streaming platforms with exclusive contents.

What's the "way of Spotify" in your post? One single company toll-gating all content? That doesn't sound like the ideal to me.

Multiple companies having libraries of essentially all content. I can choose between Spotify, Apple Music, whatever Google rebrands their product to every month, etc.