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That sounds quite neat, however, this only works for your (spotify) account, right? The appeal of spotifyd from an end-user perspective is that anyone on the network can control it.
I'm pretty sure all Spotify clients also act as "Spotify Connect" targets. Anyone could use it (also I could run an Airplay target on it, but I don't bother)
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> So I need to purchase the MP3's in order to do this? 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…
> Aye, aye. Honestly, at about €1 per MP3 (which is on the low end, looking at Beatport), I couldn't afford listening to the amount of different music I do now. > fed by a recommendation algorithm As opposed to being fed by the maintainer of some web site? > I may have a higher tolerance for my tastes not being pandered to > Seems to me that you are doing precisely that. > What is the price point that makes piracy mo…
Six or seven years ago there was genuine independent acts breaking through Spotify. Today, the ones who get played on the so-called recommendation algorithm are seriously propped up by a small team of relatively private, inaccessible curators of the major editorial playlists who only answer to established music industry professionals with their corporate agendas. Spotify's recommendations are not the fair system that you think it is, and is worse than radio tastemakers of the past as they have no skin in the game thanks to their anonymity.
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
Has anyone integrated this with airplay successfully? I would love to be able to use spotify connect to stream to my airplay speakers without leaving a phone or laptop engaged
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An open garden cannot compete with Facebook, Twitter or Spotify. We need regulation and legislation which clearly outlines what is and is not okay, while creating black box behaviours that is impossible to navigate.
Oh, but it can. And already does. Maybe not for your exact use-case. But "open" doesn't need large numbers, market saturation or a monopoly: those are traits that come from investor-fueled business-models. A mastodon account that has great communication with seven other accounts is a 100% success! It doesn't need access to billions of people, it just needs to fulfill a need: talk to several fine people. And it often…
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I feel like promoting your own music has always been a massively uphill struggle, and the successful ones still got there by playing hundreds upon hundreds of shows. There's a huge element of luck too, who happens to hear you, whether or not you strike some chord with the public in some way. But mainly, it's just hard work. Many artists took a very long time, playing shows in small venues for years, building up local…
> the successful ones still got there by playing hundreds upon hundreds of shows... it's just hard work. This is the vision of the music industry we all would like to have. Hard work, pluckiness, some element of luck and "striking a chord" with the public and you, too, can be a success! It is a dangerous fallacy that drives many musicians into the trap the top comment is complaining about. The reality is a lot uglier…
For my part here, I go to (a lot) of local shows, and buy their merch/vinyl/tapes whatever. I tell everyone I know about them, and urge them to go along too (they mostly don't, but it's always worth a try).
I've read both those articles, they're quite well-known, and I'm sure they were on the money at the time. However, the fact remains, that playing gigs is the way. It doesn't guarantee success, a significant part of it is luck. But if you can't pull a crowd, you're not going to get anywhere.
This is somewhat orthogonal to exploitative music contracts - which perhaps have got a little better? Those articles are 22 and 29 years old, surely things have changed in the interim.
Of the local musicians I know, only a handful are professional. And they play in covers bands mostly. However, those that have made it overseas (Aldous Harding and Marlon Williams) are doing great. I don't think they're trapped in unfair record deals, but I suppose I could be wrong. They both got there playing shows, not by putting links on twitter and complaining that nobody listened to their music.
Sorry, but if you can't fill local venues, what chance do you stand internationally?
Hi, I'm one of the spotifyd maintainers, happy to answer any questions people have - though I'm coming to this thread awfully late... We recently cut a new release for the first time in over a year, which is very exciting for all of us (and I'm guessing why the project has been submitted here now :D)
Does the team plan to have an official Windows release? I’m using an older version and with a few changes, was able to create a fork for windows. It works fine for my purposes but was wondering if it was ever considered.
Hi, I'm one of the spotifyd maintainers, happy to answer any questions people have - though I'm coming to this thread awfully late... We recently cut a new release for the first time in over a year, which is very exciting for all of us (and I'm guessing why the project has been submitted here now :D)
Is there an existential threat looming? Could Spotify make an API change that would completely break libespot and Spotifyd? Any insights as to why/why not that might be likely? Also, any plans to add the ability to save the tracks that are streamed? (for e.g. offline playback or for exporting to mp3 etc.)
Definitely no plans for saving tracks.
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You guys still don't own your music? Laughs in Lidarr
As someone who does own his music, but has Spotify for convenience: What OSS app provides a good experience across my Linux desktop and Android mobile? 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 had Navidrome hooked up to my Sonos system as a test. Ultimately you are at the mercy of the walled gardens if you choose to use them, some are free-er than others.
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applying a patch to make something work - that seems super normal to me but I guess I'm a geek. Applying patch to a thing to use a service that advertises it supports free accounts? Why wouldn't it support a different client? Thatt seems kind of weird. Is it actually intentional or did they just screw up the library so you've got to work around the breakage like literally everythig in software? So if you listen to a…
It literally says, all over the documentation, requires Spotify premium. Spotify’s docs say that things like this require Spotify premium. They also very clearly enumerate features that are only included with the premium tier, which this provides. Without saying too much, the modification is very clearly to remove a “did you play us, if not die” check which is quite intentional. You should be aware that this thing wh…