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Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

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Re: Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

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Post by willio58 »

falkensmaize wrote: post #130
willio58 wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hop on plex amp. Take control of your music. I realize that sounds like an Ad but I’ve been using it for a few months and I feel like I’ve rediscovered my joy for music again.

Given that Plex just bumped their lifetime subscription price to $750, I can no longer recommend them. They are clearly more interested in becoming another streaming service, and are I think trying to push out their core users who probably make them very little money.

Interesting, their price bump announcement actually just went and made me upgrade to lifetime (at $250 while I could) instead of write them off completely.

Netflix will never allow you to pay a one time fee for life, neither will any other streaming service on the planet.

Meanwhile, plex is a company that has employees. If I like plex, use it heavily, and want to support them I can do so with money. There are alternatives that are completely free, but I don’t like them as much and the minimal cost for plex is totally worth the value for me.

To each their own!

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Post by hananova »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #69
827a wrote: post #5

For those against this: I'm curious to hear your take on how you'd stop/mitigate scalping.

In the UK they're making it illegal to resell tickets for more than the original cost. That should deal with the majority of the problem.

Scalpers will just do two transactions, one high one for the privilege of being able to buy the ticket, and then the sale at the listed limit.

No, the real solution is to make tickets strictly id-bound and non-transferable in any way.

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Post by HDBaseT »

babypuncher wrote: post #139
trvz wrote: post #136

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It’s worth 750, which is about ten years worth of yearly subscriptions. Plex is 16 years old and the Lindy effect applies.

There is so much good free software out there for playing music that I have a hard time believing PlexAmp is worth $750. They know it's not worth it either, they just want to push more users to the monthly subscription for that sweet ARR.

As a long time Plex member, on Lifetime (originally purchased for If you're paying $750 you might as well use Roon like the rest of the audiophile freaks.

Jellyfin has a Music Server although a bit limited compared to Plexamp.

Navidrome is a Music Server with similar functionalities.

Symfonium is a Music Player which can connect to various Music Servers like Navidrome, Plexamp, or just files on the network.

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Post by cdrnsf »

I listen to all of my music via Navidrome. It sits in an S3 bucket that I rclone new albums to.

For concerts, I built a PWA that pulls my Navidrome artists and queries the Ticketmaster API for shows that match within a 75 mile radius once a day. It displays them in a list with their name, the venue/location and a link to buy tickets.

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Post by mega_dean »

gonzalohm wrote: post #148
browningstreet wrote: post #71

I’ve almost entirely given up on managing music. Just done with it. I listen to soma.fm and radioparadise.com .. I read one music magazine and listen to some of the music recommendations from there, but following any of it, over time, is a lost cause for me. I was just remarking to someone how music apps are the least interesting, personal, and innovative of all the things I live with. Examples: we still can’t manage…

How would you like to manage those things? I listen to a lot of music and I'm pretty happy with Spotify. When I want to discover new music, I pick an artist I like and start the artist radio. I always get good new recommendations

I’ve never really had good luck with the artist radio, but I’ve found a lot of music I like by starting at a band I like and going through the Related Artists. It’s a little strange because I’m sure the artist radio includes a lot of songs from the Related Artists. It’s probably a psychological thing, wanting to feel like I’m in control instead of the app choosing for me.

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Post by jdmichal »

afavour wrote: post #142
falkensmaize wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given that Plex just bumped their lifetime subscription price to $750, I can no longer recommend them. They are clearly more interested in becoming another streaming service, and are I think trying to push out their core users who probably make them very little money.

Their site says $250? https://www.plex.tv/plans/

Your very same link also has a huge yellow banner at the top of the page stating: "The price of a Lifetime Plex Pass is increasing on July 1, 2026."

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Post by babelfish »

joshl32532 wrote: post #10

This is the problem with public listed companies that need to "maximize shareholder values" and look for infinite growth. I just want Spotify for music (playlist, recommendation, lossless audio). I don't need their podcast, audiobook, ChatGPT, concert tickets etc. This just makes their app bloated for features I will never use.

So just use it for music. Who cares if the app bundle is bloated? If that's really your main criteria, just use the web player

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Post by dylan604 »

gonzalohm wrote: post #148
browningstreet wrote: post #71

I’ve almost entirely given up on managing music. Just done with it. I listen to soma.fm and radioparadise.com .. I read one music magazine and listen to some of the music recommendations from there, but following any of it, over time, is a lost cause for me. I was just remarking to someone how music apps are the least interesting, personal, and innovative of all the things I live with. Examples: we still can’t manage…

How would you like to manage those things? I listen to a lot of music and I'm pretty happy with Spotify. When I want to discover new music, I pick an artist I like and start the artist radio. I always get good new recommendations

I gave up on Spotify after 3 months. I did not like how it just kept repeating the same songs. With a catalog as large as they supposedly have, it was not entertaining me hearing the same things so frequently.

Way back when, I had a very impressive iTunes catalog of actual media files that I had locally. I spent hours curating my CD rips and even the recordings from vinyl. I added id3 tags and artwork. It was glorious and was larger than my 80GB iPod could handle, so my iPod had curation as well.

Then iTunes went all streaming and wiped out my local library, not the media files, just the library. Gone. Poof. And just like that, I was done. I recently dug out the hdd with the media, and using iTunes now to find local stuff loaded onto my device is a constant fight with trying to avoid its clearly preferred Music+ nonsense.

I'm close to getting back to looking for a better music app to source my large local library. Just haven't quite gotten there yet.

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Post by weaksauce »

epiccoleman wrote: post #76
pavel_lishin wrote: post #33

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> Of course then you've gotta setup a whole stack to store it, make it available to your devices, etc etc. I have avoided building my own stack by uploading everything into Youtube Music (which used to be Google Music, which ... whatever.) It gets a little worse every day, and one day it'll get bad enough where the pain of sysadmining something new will be preferable to them.

I haven't set up my own stack for music, so I'm just guessing tbh, but administering Jellyfin has been completely painless. Let Claude write a docker compose file, toss it on the server, haven't had to think about it again. I bet there's something equally good out there for music management.

navidrome is pretty good.
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