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Re: Spotifyd

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Post by thatguy0900 »

zephyr9 wrote: post #126
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…

Do you not remember high school? Nerds hate artists.

I've never heard of such a thing, to be honest. Many in my nerd group painted minis and made their own cosplays. It's not like theater kids were in the popular group looking down on us so I'm really not sure what other kinds of artists there would have been in high school

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by dicknuckle »

jonas-w wrote: post #39

What i find the most interesting is the zeroconf option [0]. For example you can set up your spotifyd daemon on a raspberry and have it always connected to speakers. Now when someone is in your local network they can choose your spotifyd daemon and play spotify over the speakers without connecting to the speakers directly via bluetooth etc. [0] https://spotifyd.github.io/spotifyd/config/File.html (after the configura…

Volumio does that.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by dicknuckle »

Daunk wrote: post #5

Has anyone ever gotten this to work? I must have tried it a dozen times by now, but never once gotten it to work.

Use Volumio. It works better as a Spotify music receiver than my Google Home mini ever did.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by cortesoft »

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.

How would you make any money as an artist with open protocols?

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by idiotsecant »

cortesoft wrote: post #134
idiotsecant wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How would you make any money as an artist with open protocols?

If your money making model depends on hoping real hard that a giant megacorp throws you a few pennies once in a while I would argue your whole premise needs a rethink.

But to answer your question directly, artists make money the same way they always did - making art for rich people that appeals to their tastes.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by isolli »

harry8 wrote: post #75

I used something different. Basic details for your entertainment/edification/comedy source material follow mostly so you can shortcut a comparison if you're building something at your place. 1) Pi-zero running shairport-sync (couldn't get them, got orange-pi zero 2 which works great) https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync . I have a few of these. 2) Class D amp, Aiyima, Fosi, Loxjie etc Aliexpress is one place t…

Nice, I have a similar setup:

- Raspberry Pi with Max2Play [0] and optional HiFiBerry DAC

- running the LMS squeezebox server (still supported by the community after Logitech discontinued it)

- which supports multi-room audio and AirPlay

- controlled from my phone with iPeng [1]

- with a pair of JBL LSR305 active speakers (and a Mackie Big Knob passive to control the volume and allow for a second source).

[0] https://www.max2play.com/en/

[1] http://penguinlovesmusic.de/ipeng-8/

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by pdntspa »

ubercow13 wrote: post #120
Godel_unicode wrote: post #92

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I’m what sense is that, exactly? I can sell my discs, play them however often and in whatever device I want. I can also rip as many times as I want onto as many computers as I want.

In the sense that you own the physical CD but only have a license to use the music on it. Ripping a CD is not legal in many countries including UK and probably the US [1], so do you 'own' the music any more than someone who has pirated it? I guess, in some sense. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Legality

The license is meaningless if you hold the physical bits and choose to ignore everything else

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by phpisthebest »

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.

That is who they always blame, but it is just a ploy. Like netflix, the dominant player always wants control

Remember when Netflix first started they had amazing API's and all kinds of cool things where built off them, then one day they got big enough and shut them all down, of course they claim it was the "evil industry" that made them do it, but I simply do not believe them, nor do I believe spotify.

This pattern has been repeated over and over since the dawn of the internet, Early Platform is open, and dev focused to bring people in, then over time they wall off the garden to only their apps...

Google, Netflix, Twitter, Facebook, and countless others all follow this pattern.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by anonomousename »

slondr wrote: post #114

Hi, I'm one of the spotifyd maintainers, happy to answer any questions people have - though I'm coming to this thread awfully late... We recently cut a new release for the first time in over a year, which is very exciting for all of us (and I'm guessing why the project has been submitted here now :D)

Does the team plan to have an official Windows release? I’m using an older version and with a few changes, was able to create a fork for windows. It works fine for my purposes but was wondering if it was ever considered.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by vladvasiliu »

dicknuckle wrote: post #132
jonas-w wrote: post #39

What i find the most interesting is the zeroconf option [0]. For example you can set up your spotifyd daemon on a raspberry and have it always connected to speakers. Now when someone is in your local network they can choose your spotifyd daemon and play spotify over the speakers without connecting to the speakers directly via bluetooth etc. [0] https://spotifyd.github.io/spotifyd/config/File.html (after the configura…

Volumio does that.

Yeah, but it's kinda clunky. It also uses the same librespot (or one of the various forks) under the hood.

And now they've also "improved" their default interface with ultra-skinny fonts. Granted, I have a ridiculously bad 1080p laptop screen, but the font is so skinny that I only see colored pixels instead of white.

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