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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by devmunchies »

Syonyk wrote: post #91
orblivion wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I Don't Have Spotify should add Bandcamp support. Bandcamp is great for just playing the music too.

It's not. Artists will often enough remove old albums so you can no longer play them. Buy it, download as FLAC, put in your preferred local infrastructure to play. Plex/Plexamp works well, as does local file storage and a good command line music client if you're less GUI-friendly or don't have the resources for running them.

Wait, all the music I bought on bandcamp can disappear if the artist removes it from their public inventory?

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by Springtime »

netr0ute wrote: post #102
Springtime wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Qobuz removed a range of releases a couple months ago at short notice, including from users' accounts. Hopefully their catalog remains strong as it's about the only online-only store with lossless that has a wide variety of mainstream artists. I'll also mention: Bleep.com, Boomkat, Ninja Tune (label that directly sells), Junodownload.

> Qobuz removed a range of releases a couple months ago at short notice, including from users' accounts. What was the deal with this?

It wasn't explained officially. I assume some distribution arrangement changed but the artists/releases were so varied and from various labels that I can't determine the relationship. I'd bought a handful of releases there and all of them were affected.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by cdrini »

devmunchies wrote: post #120
askonomm wrote: post #8

I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?

I recently learned about buying Mp3s on Amazon. Most CD purchase pages have a "purchase options" and you can do Mp3s. I do that for mainstream things for my kids that aren't on bandcamp (such as music from a kids TV show). I'm actually working on a IoT device where one of the main goals was selfhosting audio content for my kids. Uses AI for the user interface. Similar to Alexa but battery powered. Still in private be…

What a beautiful website! Absolute joy to explore it.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by Aeolun »

devmunchies wrote: post #120
askonomm wrote: post #8

I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?

I recently learned about buying Mp3s on Amazon. Most CD purchase pages have a "purchase options" and you can do Mp3s. I do that for mainstream things for my kids that aren't on bandcamp (such as music from a kids TV show). I'm actually working on a IoT device where one of the main goals was selfhosting audio content for my kids. Uses AI for the user interface. Similar to Alexa but battery powered. Still in private be…

It exploded. I get only server errors now.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by sphars »

plausibility wrote: post #94
carlgreene wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are you downloading from Tidal?

Tidal has lots of downloader clients you can install due to its often technical but niche user base. May I suggest Tidal-Media-Downloader[0]? Now if only there was a way to download things from YouTube Music with a Premium subscription. It's practically impossible to search for "YouTube Music download" without falling into the 'youtube-dl YouTube mp3 audio tracks!' SEO hole. Vague naming on Google's part. [0]: https:…

You can 100% download higher quality audio tracks from YouTube using yt-dlp. You have to use session cookies from a browser that you've logged into your premium account with to get the higher quality tracks. There are options with yt-dlp to help with this.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by gertlex »

This is a bit off-topic, but: am I just dim or could the README be a bit more informative? What it's for, who it's for, etc. (I'll give partial blame to me or github for the About section/link being there... it's offscreen by the start of the README, so I missed it)

(I also... don't use spotify... so had less-than-average context to guess the purpose of this project with.)

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by JadoJodo »

pivic wrote: post #127

I use this page to create a page with links to all kinds of music providers: https://odesli.co Works per artist, album, or song. Create a login to customise URLs. I'm just a user; I don't have a dog in this race.

They also have Slack integration (/songlink {url})

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by nunez »

mkhalil wrote: post #103

I know of a even more impressive website that will transfer playlists from Spotify (or 20 other platforms, including text files) to 20 other platforms or a text file. I will share the link, but don't hug it to death y'all. :) https://app.tunemymusic.com/transfer

Soundiiz does this also. I've been using it for years. Great service

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by nunez »

askonomm wrote: post #8

I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?

iTunes and record stores still exist!
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