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As an alternative to Spotify - I've been working on TidalFS as a way to mount Tidal like a local filesystem. You can then use literally any music player to play your music as if it was all local files. You can even search. https://github.com/bjesus/tidalfs
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How would you make any money as an artist with open protocols?
Open protocols don't make for open platforms. Mastodon is "open" yet big server admins are free to block anyone else they don't want, going back to the closed garden model. It is for good reason of course, there always be bad actors, but open or not it's all to easy for organization to use same tools to further their own goals
Even though that's the case, I think email is much more open than WhatsApp or Signal, and a big part of that is the fact that it's a federated open protocol.
Unfortunately the MPRIS interface works weird. For example it didn't let me change the volume.
On top of that spotifyd seems to sometimes get "split brain" where it continues playing but I can't control it from my phone (Spotify Connect). My phone instead wants to play locally. Which is weird because Spotify normally only lets you play only from one device at the same time.
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Just one minor tweak of what plays next can totally rip off independent artists on the platform. We have reached an era where algorithms aren't transparent, so artists like me are bewildered that for all the promoting we do on our own music, we rarely get any views and listens unless we literally spend thousands of dollars on advertising to break the visibility barrier... For example, if I tweet a link to my own song…
This is a problem inherent with walled garden social media. Their garden, their rules. Instead of trying to police behavior we don't like in those walled gardens (which is mostly like trying to walk in quicksand) we should be supporting open protocols and systems that don't require a walled garden at all, like the internet used to be.
Actually, the EU has passed the DMA which will prevent exactly that for very large (i.e. Facebook/Twitter scale) providers.
I suspect some companies/features may not be available in the EU because of this, but I hardly lament this if it means the garden walls are being torn down.
Spotifyd is good to have considering Spotify deprecated and cut off the C library, thus breaking for example mopidy. Unfortunately the MPRIS interface works weird. For example it didn't let me change the volume. On top of that spotifyd seems to sometimes get "split brain" where it continues playing but I can't control it from my phone (Spotify Connect). My phone instead wants to play locally. Which is weird because S…
What i find the most interesting is the zeroconf option [0]. For example you can set up your spotifyd daemon on a raspberry and have it always connected to speakers. Now when someone is in your local network they can choose your spotifyd daemon and play spotify over the speakers without connecting to the speakers directly via bluetooth etc. [0] https://spotifyd.github.io/spotifyd/config/File.html (after the configura…
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You guys still don't own your music? Laughs in Lidarr
Which front end do you use to listen? I am really digging Plex Amp these days.
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.extreamsd....
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> even if the link goes to Spotify, they do a ton of things to siphon listeners that came for my music away from listening to my music, including NOT playing more of my music after the intended song plays If always playing songs from the same artists is what people wanted (e.g. lead to more overall listening time), Spotify would 100% do that. You can't pick what a radio station plays next after starting one of your s…
Users don’t know what they want. This is hugely true of the on-play from spotify or any other service. They’re delivering something that works, but who is to say there aren’t 50 other algorithms that work as well?