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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by spondyl »

gertlex wrote: post #126

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.)

Anecdotally speaking, Spotify has become a sort of cultural default for a bunch of people.

If you're in a DM or a group chat, you may not hear "You should listen to X by Y" but rather "Check this out: https://open.spotify.com/blah"

At my current workplace and a previous one, both had Slack channels for sharing music and they were 99% Spotify links.

Partly because of genuine Spotify usage but even not using Spotify at the time, I would find the Spotify equivalent for my own recommendations (to reduce friction for the majority so they'd be more likely to actually listen to the recommendation)

Presumably for those few users not using Spotify, rather than having to find the equivalent song via text search, which may or may not contain a result for Provider Z, this service straight up just converts the Spotify link you've been given into all of the other provider equivalents.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by sweca »

gertlex wrote: post #126

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.)

the repository description sums it up already: Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by nunez »

reaperducer wrote: post #31
paxys wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iTunes and Amazon have pretty much every song you'd want to buy.

iTunes and Amazon have pretty much every song you'd want to buy. Nope. Not even remotely. Only if your taste in music is very narrow. Just this weekend I tried to buy some Christmas songs that were popular and common on the radio in the 80's. I could only find about half of them on Amazon or Apple Music. Most had some version available, but not the canonical one I grew up with. Some didn't exist at all.

Record company pulled he albums or they are stuck in rights limbo. EBay and record shops are your best bets for these tracks

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

#134

Post by nsfmc »

devmunchies wrote: post #121
Syonyk wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

this has happened to me once, appropriately enough with some hauntology tracks. the songs are weirdly enough still available in the ios app to play but not to download via the web. presumably they're still somewhere in bandcamp behind a boolean, but i never got around to downloading them (to be fair, i have them on a _cassette_ that originally included bandcamp codes, so i mean, i really can't complain, i knew what i was getting into)

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

#136

Post by wintermutestwin »

spondyl wrote: post #131
gertlex wrote: post #126

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.)

Anecdotally speaking, Spotify has become a sort of cultural default for a bunch of people. If you're in a DM or a group chat, you may not hear "You should listen to X by Y" but rather "Check this out: https://open.spotify.com/blah " At my current workplace and a previous one, both had Slack channels for sharing music and they were 99% Spotify links. Partly because of genuine Spotify usage but even not using Spotify a…

Apple Music = few users??

From what I could tell when choosing AM over Spotify, the latter has a lot of playlists for discovery and I would never use my streaming service for discovery as it encourages the service to promote music it is paid to promote.

Of course AM is annoying too because 3 out of 5 navigation icons along the bottom of the UI are for discovery. But AM has Siri integration, which works some of the time… :-/

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by kcrwfrd_ »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #136
spondyl wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdotally speaking, Spotify has become a sort of cultural default for a bunch of people. If you're in a DM or a group chat, you may not hear "You should listen to X by Y" but rather "Check this out: https://open.spotify.com/blah " At my current workplace and a previous one, both had Slack channels for sharing music and they were 99% Spotify links. Partly because of genuine Spotify usage but even not using Spotify a…

Apple Music = few users?? From what I could tell when choosing AM over Spotify, the latter has a lot of playlists for discovery and I would never use my streaming service for discovery as it encourages the service to promote music it is paid to promote. Of course AM is annoying too because 3 out of 5 navigation icons along the bottom of the UI are for discovery. But AM has Siri integration, which works some of the ti…

Apple Music also integrates with your own music library, which is the killer feature for me.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by johnisgood »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #107
vzaliva wrote: post #52

I have to deal with spotify links sent to me often and this is great. The better link would be to the actual service page, not github repo: https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/ It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday.

Why do you get Spotify links sent to you often?

Probably because his friends use it.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by dustincoates »

kcrwfrd_ wrote: post #137
wintermutestwin wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple Music = few users?? From what I could tell when choosing AM over Spotify, the latter has a lot of playlists for discovery and I would never use my streaming service for discovery as it encourages the service to promote music it is paid to promote. Of course AM is annoying too because 3 out of 5 navigation icons along the bottom of the UI are for discovery. But AM has Siri integration, which works some of the ti…

Apple Music also integrates with your own music library, which is the killer feature for me.

As does YouTube Music

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by plausibility »

sphars wrote: post #125
plausibility wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is kind of the confusion I mean. Sometimes YouTube Music has audio tracks that you are seemingly different to the "X Artist - Topic" videos you can find on YouTube proper. I'll have to revisit this again to see if it's all the same now, because the last time I was looking into it a few years ago not everything I had organised in playlists on YTM was available via regular YouTube playlists I could rip with yt-dlp.
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