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Post by bryanrasmussen »

doublerabbit wrote: post #143
alexyoung wrote: post #141

I realise I’m pissing into the wind here, but I find the LLM text on the homepage and docs quite funny/ awkward. > “Ctrl+M turns it into a tiny player that wears any classic Winamp 2 skin, spectrum analyser, equalizer, and playlist included. 2000s vibes, pixel for pixel.” Everything is said with too much intensity, and phrasing that sounds impressive but doesn’t really mean that much. Like “wears any classic Winamp 2…

I too enjoy wearing the RealPlayer skin of the 90's. Makes me look very chic.

If the last twenty years of horror movies have taught me anything it is that maybe you can't be a real player, but you can always wear their skin!

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Post by embedding-shape »

progbits wrote: post #146

What do you all use to buy music these days? I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files. Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

Saving everything until Bandcamp Fridays for the ones on Bandcamp, otherwise pretty much Beatport or not buying it at all. Some labels I've listened to for a long time (like Liquicity) I buy the music straight from their store, figure the artist/label gets the most then.

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Post by earcar »

mijoharas wrote: post #140
earcar wrote: post #112

Author here. Happy to answer any questions!

I was curious about the choice of an immediate mode rather than retained GUI toolkit. Could you speak a little more about the trade-offs and decisions there w.r.t. performance. (Nice work btw, seems very interesting!) C.f. this comment[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519099

Thanks for the link, I responded there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519723

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by aorth »

progbits wrote: post #146

What do you all use to buy music these days? I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files. Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

After discovering music I like on YouTube or whatever, I buy albums on Bandcamp and Qobuz if possible, and Amazon as a last resort. Then I host them on my personal Navidrome server to enjoy without involving any big tech.

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Post by dotancohen »

progbits wrote: post #146

What do you all use to buy music these days? I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files. Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

Are compact discs no longer available? I used to rip from those - every album I've ever downloaded and kept I have the CD for. Some bought before the download, many bought after.

But it's been a long time since I've heard anything good enough to purchase.

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Post by mrmincent »

I would pay reasonable money for a similar native MS Teams client. I now run teams on a separate laptop to avoid it killing my main work machine.

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Post by VilleSalonen »

progbits wrote: post #146

What do you all use to buy music these days? I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files. Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

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Post by VilleSalonen »

dotancohen wrote: post #155
progbits wrote: post #146

What do you all use to buy music these days? I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files. Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

Are compact discs no longer available? I used to rip from those - every album I've ever downloaded and kept I have the CD for. Some bought before the download, many bought after. But it's been a long time since I've heard anything good enough to purchase.

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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by yard2010 »

bubblemoth wrote: post #25
nan60 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> radio for discovery Would you be willing to share a bit more about this setup? The only thing keeping my on streaming is the fact that its almost impossible to find new music otherwise. I know LastFM exists but it just doesn't click for me the way that streaming does. I like discovering music organically.

I left spotify around two years ago for a self hosted option (I mostly use navidrome+feishin). Music discovery was a concern for me as well, but then I realized that I didn't like the idea of spotify curating which music I discovered. So far, this is what has worked for me: - Actually listening to the music I have now. I think the art of listening through full albums has slowly died, but there is so much music we're…

While moving from spotify to youtube music a few years ago I bought a vinyl player to listen to full albums and fell for it. Then when I moved to curate and self host my collection with Plex and Plexamp I realized I'm not using the player anymore since I'm using Plexamp to listen to albums. Plexamp is not perfect and not open source unfortunately, but it's a really good non-enshitified product.

I had to migrate away from youtube music since the experience was infuriating me every time. I love making playlists on the go. In youtube music after adding 30 tracks to the play queue, tapping 1 track accidentally deletes the play queue and plays this track. This made me feel bad every time it happened.

I don't see how it is just accepted to lose progress in 2026 as if we're using win95. It feels like 80% of the sw I use provides a caveman UX, not leveraging the tech, leaking implementation details and being constrained by technical reasons. On the other hand, working on Prepbook[0], I realized how hard it is to create the perfect experience and how it's even harder to justify it financially.

I'm doing discovery by talking to people, I love it. Every time I listen to Monolink I recall my co worker that just said "check out monolink" when he heard I love Ott. I love that it makes the experience about connection to people as well.

[0] https://prepbook.app

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