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Re: Spotify Down

#21

Post by Zealotux »

ohgr wrote: post #6

Not surprised. Spotify crapping out constantly and songs disappearing drove me away from streaming. So in 2023 I stopped paying for streaming services entirely and have gone back to actually buying CDs and ripping them or hitting bandcamp for FLACs etc. Life is much better. No one can take my shit away, I don't depend on some transient service existing or license or any external competence and I can choose how much I…

Is there a way to sync a library of FLACs for example across devices? Like a music player that syncs with a private S3 bucket?

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Post by ohgr »

silverquiet wrote: post #13
ohgr wrote: post #6

Not surprised. Spotify crapping out constantly and songs disappearing drove me away from streaming. So in 2023 I stopped paying for streaming services entirely and have gone back to actually buying CDs and ripping them or hitting bandcamp for FLACs etc. Life is much better. No one can take my shit away, I don't depend on some transient service existing or license or any external competence and I can choose how much I…

I think I was born an old curmudgeon because I've essentially always felt this way. That said, Spotify got me to subscribe at least for a bit because I could not match its catalog and convenience. I also try and keep a FLAC archive of all music I might want, but some things just don't exist on other mediums these days.

Unfortunately I was seduced by the iPod years ago. I ripped then sold mine and the ex-wife's CD collection totalling some 1800 albums years ago. Then went streaming and as about 99% of that was covered, deleted it all because I couldn't be bothered to manage it all.

I wish was that old curmudgeon you mention back then!

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Post by ohgr »

Zealotux wrote: post #21
ohgr wrote: post #6

Not surprised. Spotify crapping out constantly and songs disappearing drove me away from streaming. So in 2023 I stopped paying for streaming services entirely and have gone back to actually buying CDs and ripping them or hitting bandcamp for FLACs etc. Life is much better. No one can take my shit away, I don't depend on some transient service existing or license or any external competence and I can choose how much I…

Is there a way to sync a library of FLACs for example across devices? Like a music player that syncs with a private S3 bucket?

I just plug my iphone into my mac and drag the files into VLC.

Last thing I want to do is make things even more complicated or have to maintain and pay for my own homebrew spotify.

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Post by pirates »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #18

Huge fan here, sad to see people so up in arms. Spotify offers two valuable things: of course, every song ever with no need to tag them, manage your library etc etc But most importantly it’s insanely good for discovering new cool music. It’s the latter - discovery - that I pay for. Song radio, artist radio, “discover weekly” get me through the day. Spotify outages are rare enough no one thought it could go down. They…

My self-managed on-device music library has 100% uptime. I don’t know why you think managing your own library has to include everything you mentioned.

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#26

Post by quickslowdown »

dylan604 wrote: post #20
cupofjoakim wrote: post #3

I hope they post a post-mortem afterwords. Given that the outage seems to be on an infra-level (support domain is far from the app stuff) I take it something really funky has happened.

over/under on it being DNS??

It's not DNS.

It can't be DNS.

It was DNS.

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Post by heyparkerj »

cadamsdotcom wrote: post #18

Huge fan here, sad to see people so up in arms. Spotify offers two valuable things: of course, every song ever with no need to tag them, manage your library etc etc But most importantly it’s insanely good for discovering new cool music. It’s the latter - discovery - that I pay for. Song radio, artist radio, “discover weekly” get me through the day. Spotify outages are rare enough no one thought it could go down. They…

“Every song ever” is a frustratingly inaccurate summary, as someone who’s had their songs pulled off the platform with no notice that I wouldn’t hear them again.

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Post by Jellyspice »

cupofjoakim wrote: post #3

I hope they post a post-mortem afterwords. Given that the outage seems to be on an infra-level (support domain is far from the app stuff) I take it something really funky has happened.

looks like someone might have nuked their entire Kubernetes cluster again

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#29

Post by afatparakeet »

Zealotux wrote: post #21
ohgr wrote: post #6

Not surprised. Spotify crapping out constantly and songs disappearing drove me away from streaming. So in 2023 I stopped paying for streaming services entirely and have gone back to actually buying CDs and ripping them or hitting bandcamp for FLACs etc. Life is much better. No one can take my shit away, I don't depend on some transient service existing or license or any external competence and I can choose how much I…

Is there a way to sync a library of FLACs for example across devices? Like a music player that syncs with a private S3 bucket?

Not sure if S3 is a hard requirement for you. But many in the self-hosted community use Plexamp/Jellyfin.

I personally really like: https://github.com/sentriz/gonic

Put it behind tailscale or similar vpn and listen to your music anywhere!

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#30

Post by 72deluxe »

ohgr wrote: post #6

Not surprised. Spotify crapping out constantly and songs disappearing drove me away from streaming. So in 2023 I stopped paying for streaming services entirely and have gone back to actually buying CDs and ripping them or hitting bandcamp for FLACs etc. Life is much better. No one can take my shit away, I don't depend on some transient service existing or license or any external competence and I can choose how much I…

Yes I also host a Navidrome instance at home and connect using subtracks on Android or Feishin on macOS/Windows, and have a Wireguard VPN for connecting when out-and-about.
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