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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by hakfoo »

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?

Used CDs are dirt cheap. Local thrift stores here tend to price them at $1-$1.50 each. Of course, the dedicated "record" stores tend to be closer to $6-10, but they're more likely to have things other than thousands of country albums.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by amatecha »

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.

plex alternative: jellyfin + finamp or fintunes. This is my new setup (alongside bandcamp if I haven't yet imported the bandcamp purchase into my jellyfin library). No cloud shit, no subscriptions, but I still support [most of] my favorite artists. Ones which aren't on bandcamp, well either I still have the CDs kicking around or some mp3s from wherever (yt-dlp + ffmpeg is useful when lazy too)

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by rendaw »

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 happened to me a bunch. I think in one case an artist released an album, but wanted to disallow buying individual tracks so they relisted it after I bought one track.

The most infuriating thing is that bandcamp gaslights you on it. I eventually confirmed that yes, I had bought that song, after tracking down the receipt in my email provider or something (it was hidden from purchase history, bandcamp "I can't find my music" link didn't mention this, etc etc).

This isn't just an issue for playing music though - if you buy a bunch of stuff but don't download it right away you could loose it too. I bought the track I mentioned right after it was released, and the substitution happened within a day or two of that.

Like, I get it, if there was some legal issue (pirated work - and then they should issue refunds). But the fact that bandcamp tries to hide it just means that they know they have no moral grounds here.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by Kiro »

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.

Doesn't Spotify as well?

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by amatecha »

_r4nc wrote: post #70
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?

When I moved country and updated my credit card in Spotify to my card from the new country Spotify also changed my “region”. As a result there are so many songs I have “starred”/“added”/“liked” (whatever fucking language they’re using for it now) are just greyed out and unplayable. Anyway as for actually getting copies of the music I listen to I think we should just pirate it completely unashamedly.

some time ago when I canceled spotify, they show this special playlist like "we'll miss you" or whatever, and each of the song names, in order, spell out this little goodbye message. Ironically one of the songs in that playlist was greyed out and unplayable. Like, great job reminding me why I'm canceling :)

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by Kwpolska »

joshdavham wrote: post #114

Nice work! It got me thinking how useful something like an "I don't have instagram" app would be. Unfortunately I suspect it would be impossible to implement.

Finding equivalent content elsewhere is probably not going to happen. The best the service could do is show you Instagram content without requiring an Instagram account.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by hutattedonmyarm »

mey wrote: post #100

This service connects to a few more services, but you can't just paste in an existing URL. https://odesli.co/ it's more link tree type service but since you can search for songs and albums it makes it easy to find things. Example https://song.link/i/1051394215

You can paste in an existing url: https://odesli.co/https://open.spotify.com/track/1Yk0cQdMLx5...

The placeholder in their search field even says "Search or paste URL"

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

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…

Spotify doesn't require you to create an account to hear a song from what I recall, so why wouldn't someone send you a link? That's what the web is for.

That said once you have heard it on Spotify, yeah you might want it on your service provider of choice so as to add it to whatever equivalent of playlists there are.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by theshrike79 »

freetanga wrote: post #142
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…

I find the user experience of Apple Music to be subpar, and keeps pushing young genres in which I have zero interest. I use Cider on my desktop but mobile is still a challenge.

On the other hand Spotify has literal porn on it along with Joe Rogan.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by rzzzt »

imperialdrive wrote: post #90
grahamj wrote: post #66

This is great, thanks! I left Spotify when they signed Rogan.

I don't follow. Is he anti music or something? Afaik he's on Apple, Amazon, and Youtube as well. Do you not use anything related to him? I'm honestly curious for some reason.

His podcast was exclusively on Spotify for a while, for a measurable amount of money (the article is from February when that portion of the deal ended): https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/joe-rogan-renews-spoti...
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