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Re: Spotifyd

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Post by trasz3 »

disintegore wrote: post #15
svnpenn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I‘m kind of amazed that this is still working. this is why: > Spotifyd requires a Spotify Premium account which is actually not true. you can change some code in the source, to allow playback on free accounts. Spotify hunts down anyone who posts code like that though

Isn't there a better way to do this? Rate limiting, splicing ads into the audio signal for non-paying users, providing a stable API for paying users only, etc. Beats siccing your lawyers on hapless geeks.

Sure there is - peer to peer. Spotify, and music streaming in general, is useless from technical point of view, thanks to cheap storage.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by timetraveller26 »

musicstealer wrote: post #19

This uses librespot for the actual communication with Spotify's servers. Note that to get it to support Spotify Free, you need to compile a custom librespot with this part of the code commented out, that checks for Spotify Premium: https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/blob/6dc7a11b09b5... And then use this with spotifyd instead of the original.

But please don't, otherwise you may get the lib killed for everybody.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by nzoschke »

nomel wrote: post #18
nzoschke wrote: post #16

Always great to see new ways to integrate with Spotify. I think that if you're paying for a Spotify Premium subscription you should be able to stream music wherever you want! However Spotify doesn't agree. If this is based on librespot its using stuff Spotify doesn't support and could easily shut down for unauthorized clients any time. Their supported paths are iOS and Android SDKs for mobile, and the Web Playback SD…

> However Spotify doesn't agree. My naive assumption is that Spotify would love to, but the record labels don't agree.

Could be.

When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time.

The biggest change I personally suffered from is when they pulled out of their integration with Djay, a DJ app. This integration was amazing for bedroom DJs like myself, being able to use Spotify to organize DJ music and DJ directly from it. Then they sunset the entire integration.

Now Djay and even bigger apps like Pioneer Rekordbox integrate with Tidal... Do the labels prefer Tidal over Spotify for some reason? Or did Spotify decide to get out of this game for reasons of their own?

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by jrm4 »

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 that make this sort of thing even easier. I hope funkwhale and other federated things do better as well.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by richwater »

jrm4 wrote: post #24

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…

> but honestly hasn't much improved the lot of artists and musicians

As a consumer of music, why is this my problem?

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by Kuraj »

musicstealer wrote: post #19

This uses librespot for the actual communication with Spotify's servers. Note that to get it to support Spotify Free, you need to compile a custom librespot with this part of the code commented out, that checks for Spotify Premium: https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/blob/6dc7a11b09b5... And then use this with spotifyd instead of the original.

Haha I always thought it was Spotify who enforced this requirement on their end

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by dtx1 »

jrm4 wrote: post #24

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…

Meh, I always pirated music before Spotify. Then I got a free test account and now am a happy paying customer for forever. As soon as someone with a reasonably similar library and better linux integration than a half abandoned electron app comes along i'll switch.If Artists feel so bad about they should form a union and collectively bargain for a better position.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by fullshark »

richwater wrote: post #25
jrm4 wrote: post #24

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…

> but honestly hasn't much improved the lot of artists and musicians As a consumer of music, why is this my problem?

Potentially great music is not being made as a result of people not devoting time and energy to the craft I guess. Also just general empathy.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by iamacyborg »

richwater wrote: post #25
jrm4 wrote: post #24

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…

> but honestly hasn't much improved the lot of artists and musicians As a consumer of music, why is this my problem?

This is a rhetorical question, right?

If you consume music then surely, you want the artists and musicians you support to be paid fairly for their work.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by Bluecobra »

jrm4 wrote: post #24

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…

I'm sure someone will find a use case for this. For example, a long time ago I hooked up a Raspberry pi to my receiver/speaker system and used mplayer to keep a persistent connection to a remote Internet radio stream. Whenever I wanted to listen to it, all I need to do was turn on my receiver and select that audio interface.
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