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Kind of off topic. Can someone recommend a way to backup liked/favorite songs from Spotify? Simply a text based list would be great. Thanks.
Actually, I have this on my TODO list for a long time, maybe someday I'll finally implement it.
[^1]: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
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
Kind of off topic. Can someone recommend a way to backup liked/favorite songs from Spotify? Simply a text based list would be great. Thanks.
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Volumio does that.
Yeah, but it's kinda clunky. It also uses the same librespot (or one of the various forks) under the hood. And now they've also "improved" their default interface with ultra-skinny fonts. Granted, I have a ridiculously bad 1080p laptop screen, but the font is so skinny that I only see colored pixels instead of white.
I exclusively use it for Spotify Connect like I would a Chromecast Audio (if I had one).
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This has never been the dichotomy; but now that you mention it -- actually, yeah. I'd rather spend thousands of dollars on CDs (in that environment where shopping for them was like it used to be) than iTunes (etc., which I've tried but never found worth continually paying for)
There are still music stores, nothing is stopping you from buying music like we did before Napster let the cat out of the bag. People are allowed to have different utility functions and preferences, sorry yours seems to be going out of fashion.
Honestly -- just why ? We now have a few years of experience with music streaming. And what we've learned is that -- sure, it's convenient -- but honestly hasn't much improved the lot of artists and musicians. It's a new exploitative system that's perhaps slightly better than the old exploitative system. We can do better. Literally, locally, and for friends. I used to do MPD, but now I'm glad for things like mstream…
The fact that this is receiving downboats and 'but muh convenience, artists deserve to get fucked over because Spotify found a better way to exploit human psychology!' is truly an orange site moment. I pirate the majority of the music I listen to (and most artists except for super rich mainstream ones would rather their music spread as much as possible than receive literal pennies from a Spotify stream) and buy stuff…
I'm glad this exists, but it's unfortunate that the reverse-engineered librespot that this depends on is necessary, thanks to Spotify backpedaling on their promises of a streaming-capable replacement for libspotify.
You guys still don't own your music? Laughs in Lidarr
I rip my own songs, but I want something that's better than Spotify to listen to it. Then again, I listen to music on my Alexa too, so I think it would be hard for something to interface with that.
I keep an old raspberry pi with rAudio-1 running under my desk, with a nice 60 dollar DAC HAT, that runs into a small amp with 2 rca cables, and then into speakers.
Generally I keep it playing a private shoutcast running music from my nas, but having spotifyd means I can interrupt it with anything I was just listening to on my phone - in the car, mowing the lawn, etc.
The continuity without the hassle is the kind of thing tech promised long ago. If it could make it one more step, the gap would be gone ... I should be able to just have all this software talking to each other, and knowing where I am, and playing automatically to whatever seems best, but the interoperability between them keeps it 1 foot from perfection.
Maybe I'm missing something but why don't more ppl just built their own (web-based?) media player and drop-in mp3s and mp4s...? It's not that difficult and is easily hosted on a server available anywhere behind a basic authenication gate. This solutions is esp. useful if you have any NAS setup. What's the rationale for not building homebrew media players instead of railing against Spotify...?
So I need to purchase the MP3's in order to do this? Then I need to spend time on other web sites for music discovery? This would work if you almost never venture outside of your existing music catalog. If that's you, it's probably also a better financial decision to just purchase your own music in stead of 'renting' it. According to my 'Wrapped' I listened to 4600 different songs this year, from 3000 artists. Most o…
Aye, aye.
> Then I need to spend time on other web sites for music discovery?
One cost of cultivating tastes, as opposed to being fed by a recommendation algorithm, is the risk of possibly hearing music you might not like, as well as the time required spent doing so.
There are open-source music recommendation algorithms but having survived radio payola I consider that approach a step backward.
> This would work if you almost never venture outside of your existing music catalog.
I favor bulk music downloads (more than I could ever listen to) and randomized playlists, but then, I may have a higher tolerance for my tastes not being pandered to.
> I can't even contemplate pirating all these songs,
Seems to me that you are doing precisely that.
> since I find that morally wrong because the paid services (for music) are decently affordable and provide good value.
Wait, you find it morally wrong to infringe copyright (a specious proposition in any case) because the paid services are affordable? What is the price point that makes piracy moral, then?