Goodbye, Slopify • Hacker News Board

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by lern_too_spel » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:04 AM UTC

aprilthird2021 wrote: post #45

andrewfromx wrote: post #18

But the future is obvious right? If an AI citizen pays taxes, contributes to society, and has the same rights as humans, why would their creative expression be considered less "real" than a human's? They would be a legitimate member of society expressing themselves through music, just like any other citizen.

Woke up today not knowing people even thought AI could be citizens. Wish I could go back to that time

Johnny 5 became a citizen in 1988. You're at least 35 years behind the times. In real life, Saudi Arabia granted a robot citizenship in 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171110114747/https://cic.org.s...

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by 4d4m » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:05 AM UTC

This is why I offer free mp3s on my site :)

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by pryelluw » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:10 AM UTC

I cancelled Spotify last year when that started happening. YouTube playlists are my thing now. Not as good but can get around this crap and it’s free

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by cdfuller » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:18 AM UTC

tmendez wrote: post #98

dlcarrier wrote: post #2

I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.

My next startup will be called Rifyly

getrifyly.app is available.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by nialv7 » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:19 AM UTC

For people moving off Spotify, have a look at https://listenbrainz.org. You can sync your listens to there and it will give you weekly recommendations. From my experience so far they are decent.

Note they don't host songs themselves, but will auto-search youtube/bandcamp/etc. and play the closest match. So YMMV.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by phil917 » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:21 AM UTC

I can't even properly put into words my hatred for AI generated "music"

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by photon_collider » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:22 AM UTC

numbsafari wrote: post #107

antigeox wrote: post #89

My Spotify experience was poisoned as soon as I signed up some 8 years ago to try it; I realized there was no way to remove the popular but garbage music from the dashboard. It was essentially advertising space for slop. So I cancelled my subscription within 1-2 days. I instead ended up going with Youtube Music which doesn't try to push propaganda on me and instead either shows me what I have in my library already th…

My wife continues to mourn the loss of Grooveshark and brings it up at least once a year. It was pretty amazing.

Ah, I remember Grooveshark. I discovered so much good music there.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by sangnoir » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:23 AM UTC

dlcarrier wrote: post #2

I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.

These days, it's -ai. All those SomethingAI names won't age well, and will be dated sooner than the proprietors think

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by joshvm » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:24 AM UTC

jazzyjackson wrote: post #62

pjs_ wrote: post #46

Recommend getting an MP3 player. Just feels good man. 500GB of music, no ads, no network, no subscription, no distractions.

Public Service Announcement: there’s a healthy marketplace of refurbished and upgraded iPods from the 2004 era on eBay, the Classic 5.5 comes highly recommended with solid DAC from the factory but iPods mini with upgraded DAC, fresh battery, and large flash memory swaps for the old spinning disks are readily available. I subscribe to Qobuz and buy a lot of lossless DRM free music and can recommend them as well, tho t…

Newer Sony Walkmans have lossless support and some can also act as a USB DAC. Unfortunately the UIs are still terrible (no search, only oversensitive alphabet scroll?), proprietary cables and the device slowly re-indexes every boot. Organizing music hasn't improved since 2000 with some albums being split into 10 artists if they have collaborations. Still, at least we don't have to use Sonic Stage any more, mine has a uSD slot, and mass storage largely works. It's a shame Zune went nowhere, the HD was a wonderful device.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by sangnoir » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 2:26 AM UTC

tmendez wrote: post #98

dlcarrier wrote: post #2

I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.

My next startup will be called Rifyly

RifylyAI to keep up with the times.