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Why did I do it? Kind of stupid actually. I wanted to listen to the same music that I listen to on my laptop, but on my phone. Overkill? Probably, but 100% cool.
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There is no human with music tastes as specific as mine besides me. But an algo can take all of my listening history and recommend whole genres I didn't even know about. I don't think Spotify's is one that can be gamed.
What in the world makes you think it can't? I can think of a TON of ways this could happen at MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS. Is it open/transparent? Okay, then they could just be lying. How does it weigh things? There's no such thing as "objective" here. Okay, from the outside, what's stopping me from "ddosing" fake streams from vps' or similar? It strikes me as utterly naive to presume "fairness" here.
I tried to make this after Google Play Music died, but I never found any success. Here's my site. You can try it for free: https://inter.tube It supports almost all of Subsonic (highly recommend play:Sub on iOS). FLAC works. I never re-encode your songs, they are kept byte-for-byte. It doesn't support Last.fm (yet?) but I don't think it would be too hard to add. It respects metadata tags. There are still some glitche…
While I understand the sentiment in the article and this thread. Streaming services like Spotify have unparalleled recommendation and discovery systems. Even if I were to store my music locally, how would I discover new ones to add to my playlist?
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This is even assuming physical media exists to rip in the first place. Plenty of smaller labels these days only do vinyl and streaming. CD is a dead format.
It’s no more dead than vinyl was 15 years ago. Not everyone makes CDs these days but plenty do.
Vinyl has outsold CD's in dollar terms for years now, and for the last several has sold more in raw units as well.
I tried to make this after Google Play Music died, but I never found any success. Here's my site. You can try it for free: https://inter.tube It supports almost all of Subsonic (highly recommend play:Sub on iOS). FLAC works. I never re-encode your songs, they are kept byte-for-byte. It doesn't support Last.fm (yet?) but I don't think it would be too hard to add. It respects metadata tags. There are still some glitche…
This is awesome. Why do you think you never found success with it?
I tried to make this after Google Play Music died, but I never found any success. Here's my site. You can try it for free: https://inter.tube It supports almost all of Subsonic (highly recommend play:Sub on iOS). FLAC works. I never re-encode your songs, they are kept byte-for-byte. It doesn't support Last.fm (yet?) but I don't think it would be too hard to add. It respects metadata tags. There are still some glitche…
This is awesome. Why do you think you never found success with it?
Currently I have exactly 2 customers, who are pretty much friends helping me test. The good news is the site is optimized for being set-it-and-forget-it (all serverless arch) so just having one customer is enough to break even.