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edit: personally if I just use my playlist spotify is fine for me, except the 4GB ram issue on 64bit but that's rare/may be old news now
Goodbye, Slopify
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Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
But an iPod from the 2004 era is both hard to use and very heavy. You can get a tiny flash-based modern mp3 player for $30-$40, which is below the apparent price of a 2004 iPod on eBay.
Mmm agree to disagree, iPod classic is not a heavyweight device and the UX is what we had when I was a kid so easy AND nostalgic, but agreed the little sandisk clips solve the problem just as well. Edit: I can't imagine swapping HDD for flash saves more than a few grams, can it?
Ipod classics have a spinning rust hdd. They are heavy. The 2004 4th gen 40 GB is 176 grams and is a bulky 110 cm3. That's quite a bit more than my pixel 5, which is 151 grams and just 81 cm3. In fact, could buy nearly any old phone and do better, immediately, and have a much nicer display and better bluetooth codecs and the ability to play lossless formats.
Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#163I dig my YT music quite a bit. Love the plethora of mixes they give me with various smatterings of artists I listen to that go together nicely, plus some new artists in the same vein layered in.. And their holy grail My Supermix rarely misses for me..
Haven't noticed anything AI-created yet. That would really suck if it did happen..
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#164Years ago, I saw a sign at a junkyard mechanic's shopyard: "We screw the other guy and pass the savings on to you." I laughed, as one does. A little dark humor goes a surprisingly long way, though the darkness feels stickier and the levity more trivial as you realize that maybe the laugh is meant to take the sting out of the truth that you may never know if you're the other guy or not. This is what Spotify was from t…
> you may never know if you're the other guy or not
The older I’ve got, the more I think on kindness.
With kindness, there is no ‘other guy’. Sure, this was funny. It is funny. It really is! But it’s _not that funny_. And I feel I couldn’t have said it wasn’t that funny until I’d seen enough (got old enough?) to understand.
Like you I think I’ve thought about being the other guy or not. As for Spotify — I don’t subscribe. I don’t want to be part of it.
> the darkness feels stickier and the levity more trivial
I edited to add: what extraordinary wording.
Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
My personal favourite is PostHog, which sounds like something one might say on Grindr.
I am obviously incredibly ignorant (not that I’d normally think so — but here I have no idea!) but I can’t think of what this means. Would you mind explaining please?
Grindr is a hookup app for gay men. "Hog" is slang for penis, so one might ask someone to "post hog" if they would like him to send a picture of his penis.
Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#166Recommend getting an MP3 player. Just feels good man. 500GB of music, no ads, no network, no subscription, no distractions.
My criteria are: - 500GB+ - Ability to sort by the albumartist tag (listen to heaps of compilations) - Ability to export play log - Functions like any other external storage device for transfer purposes Anything out there? Last I checked (10 years ago) there was nothing that hit all these marks. I had a Sansa Clip with Rockbox and just dealt with the low storage capacity.
I just rotate music on a microSD for mobile. However, you can optionally self-host a music server and connect with a client on your device to stream. It's also possible to SSH from outside home network, if you really want to.
Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
My criteria are: - 500GB+ - Ability to sort by the albumartist tag (listen to heaps of compilations) - Ability to export play log - Functions like any other external storage device for transfer purposes Anything out there? Last I checked (10 years ago) there was nothing that hit all these marks. I had a Sansa Clip with Rockbox and just dealt with the low storage capacity.
Anything that takes SD cards should make storage a non-issue and make file transfer dead simple. Even microSD cards can hold over well over 5TB Dedicated players are getting harder to find though. I had a Cowon mp3 player for a few years which was pretty nice. Maybe see if they've got something you like? http://www.cowonglobal.com
SD cards of that size may not be compatible with many devices though.
Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spotify can't tell the difference. You're not going to be forced to upload an Ableton project and video of you recording the instruments. AI music usually is heavily processed and arranged by a human anyway, it's not yet like pushing a button (if you want to get listens). At most it's the 'artists' self-admission of copyright via stuff like Distrokid + some automated analysis for sample royalties. So likewise AI at m…
I think you are missing the point. The criticism is that Spotify are actually using third parties to create AI generated music in order to pay lower royalties. There was an article in the last month or so on HN that explained the process.
There were recent articles about musicians being employed to churn out tracks, are you thinking of that?
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...
ctrl+f "summer afternoon in Brooklyn"
Re: Goodbye, Slopify
#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
> no thanks, Podcasts are terrible. If I wanted to hear idiots laughing at each other I'd listen to the Radio DJs When you inject personal opinions like this which are obviously at odds with millions of other people, it's difficult to take the rest of the comment seriously.
It's at odds with millions of people but also in agreement with millions of others. I also don't listen to podcasts for the same reason. Spotify shouldn't push something that so many people detest without letting them opt out.
I don't know if you think this opinion (expressed in this way) makes you seem insightful, but just so you know, it just makes you seem uninformed. It's like saying "Listen to music? No thanks, I don't want to listen to a guy in makeup screaming about satanism into a microphone". Like, yes, that type of music does exist, but it's uninformed to make the claim that that's all music is.
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#170I'm reading these comments and I'm thinking "are we using the same Spotify?" I don't see any AI music, I don't get Podcasts pushed on me, the UI is fine, playlists are fine and I get new music I like suggested to me often.
"I'm not seeing a problem so how is there a problem" is not the right critique in an era where the selection algorithm is so personalised. Spotify is awful for me, I concur with the original article. YouTube Music is heading slowly the same way. At this rate I'll have to cast around for another phone that can take an SD card again. The service I really miss is eMusic, they had little in the way of well known music so…
Get a standalone music player and you will have full control (but you also may have some upfront work to do your music downloading and create your playlists but worth it imo). I got a Miyoo Mini game emulator for my kid and ended up getting one for myself, all for ~$50. Being offline (by choice, the device does have wifi) and being able fully customize the thing, backup the SD it's really great. It's such a whiff of fresh air to be honest, you get no popups, no attention misdirects, everything is there waiting for you and no corp messes up you.