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Re: Spotifyd

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Post by fearface »

winternett wrote: post #102
nzoschke wrote: post #16

Always great to see new ways to integrate with Spotify. I think that if you're paying for a Spotify Premium subscription you should be able to stream music wherever you want! However Spotify doesn't agree. If this is based on librespot its using stuff Spotify doesn't support and could easily shut down for unauthorized clients any time. Their supported paths are iOS and Android SDKs for mobile, and the Web Playback SD…

Just one minor tweak of what plays next can totally rip off independent artists on the platform. We have reached an era where algorithms aren't transparent, so artists like me are bewildered that for all the promoting we do on our own music, we rarely get any views and listens unless we literally spend thousands of dollars on advertising to break the visibility barrier... For example, if I tweet a link to my own song…

What if you link it to a playlist that starts with your song?

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by avinassh » 

  > Common issues

  > The device name cannot contain spaces
That's interesting. I wonder why this would be causing an issue

Re: Spotifyd

#123

Post by rjzzleep »

SleekoNiko wrote: post #40
nzoschke wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could be. When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time. The biggest change I personally suffered from is when they pulled out of their integration with Djay, a DJ app. This integration was amazing for bedroom DJs like myself, being able to use Spotify to organize DJ music and DJ directly from it. Then they sunset the entire integration. N…

> When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time. This is somewhat tangential, but I feel like this happens often, as internal power and culture shifts away from being developer-driven to consumer- or manager-driven. This doesn't happen for every company, thankfully.

> This doesn't happen for every company, thankfully.

It happened to Twitter didn't it?

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb »

idiotsecant wrote: post #110
winternett wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just one minor tweak of what plays next can totally rip off independent artists on the platform. We have reached an era where algorithms aren't transparent, so artists like me are bewildered that for all the promoting we do on our own music, we rarely get any views and listens unless we literally spend thousands of dollars on advertising to break the visibility barrier... For example, if I tweet a link to my own song…

This is a problem inherent with walled garden social media. Their garden, their rules. Instead of trying to police behavior we don't like in those walled gardens (which is mostly like trying to walk in quicksand) we should be supporting open protocols and systems that don't require a walled garden at all, like the internet used to be.

An open garden cannot compete with Facebook, Twitter or Spotify. We need regulation and legislation which clearly outlines what is and is not okay, while creating black box behaviours that is impossible to navigate.

Re: Spotifyd

#125

Post by nvarsj »

darknavi wrote: post #98
bobleeswagger wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You guys still don't own your music? Laughs in Lidarr

Which front end do you use to listen? I am really digging Plex Amp these days.

Plexamp is great. Even has built in EQ so I can use autoeq profiles on iOS etc. Reminds me a lot of Winamp of old.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by zephyr9 »

winternett wrote: post #102
nzoschke wrote: post #16

Always great to see new ways to integrate with Spotify. I think that if you're paying for a Spotify Premium subscription you should be able to stream music wherever you want! However Spotify doesn't agree. If this is based on librespot its using stuff Spotify doesn't support and could easily shut down for unauthorized clients any time. Their supported paths are iOS and Android SDKs for mobile, and the Web Playback SD…

Just one minor tweak of what plays next can totally rip off independent artists on the platform. We have reached an era where algorithms aren't transparent, so artists like me are bewildered that for all the promoting we do on our own music, we rarely get any views and listens unless we literally spend thousands of dollars on advertising to break the visibility barrier... For example, if I tweet a link to my own song…

Do you not remember high school? Nerds hate artists.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by winternett »

fearface wrote: post #121
winternett wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just one minor tweak of what plays next can totally rip off independent artists on the platform. We have reached an era where algorithms aren't transparent, so artists like me are bewildered that for all the promoting we do on our own music, we rarely get any views and listens unless we literally spend thousands of dollars on advertising to break the visibility barrier... For example, if I tweet a link to my own song…

What if you link it to a playlist that starts with your song?

The platforms always counter your moves. At times I've found that shared links simply don't work, or they divert to a 404 page. It's often hard to figure out what is happening unless you have several different workstations over several different IP addresses.

It would be wild if a YouTuber did some documented video tests on this issue at some point.

Re: Spotifyd

#129

Post by neura »

nomel wrote: post #18
nzoschke wrote: post #16

Always great to see new ways to integrate with Spotify. I think that if you're paying for a Spotify Premium subscription you should be able to stream music wherever you want! However Spotify doesn't agree. If this is based on librespot its using stuff Spotify doesn't support and could easily shut down for unauthorized clients any time. Their supported paths are iOS and Android SDKs for mobile, and the Web Playback SD…

> However Spotify doesn't agree. My naive assumption is that Spotify would love to, but the record labels don't agree.

Your assumption is correct. The record labels are their business partners. Spotify does not dictate the terms while the record labels hold all the popular content.

Re: Spotifyd

#130

Post by iJohnDoe »

Kind of off topic. Can someone recommend a way to backup liked/favorite songs from Spotify? Simply a text based list would be great. Thanks.
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