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Post by Semaphor »

fragmede wrote: post #212
nextlevelwizard wrote: post #161

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Do the spotify links not just open the song in some kind of web app if you dont have spotify installed? I always thought giving a straight link to the thing was better for all. If they had Spotify it would open there and without ads if they had the subscription and if they had neither it would still open the web app and let them listen to it with ads and stuff.

That was true in the past but it's no longer true. I don't know when it changed.

That’s absolutely still true. I just disabled Spotify app link handling, and then Spotify opens in Firefox on my phone. And on Desktop it works the same way.

edit: misread parts of grandparent. Yeah, the 30s previews are gone, didn’t even realize anyone used those.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by Semaphor »

spondyl wrote: post #131
gertlex wrote: post #126

This is a bit off-topic, but: am I just dim or could the README be a bit more informative? What it's for, who it's for, etc. (I'll give partial blame to me or github for the About section/link being there... it's offscreen by the start of the README, so I missed it) (I also... don't use spotify... so had less-than-average context to guess the purpose of this project with.)

Anecdotally speaking, Spotify has become a sort of cultural default for a bunch of people. If you're in a DM or a group chat, you may not hear "You should listen to X by Y" but rather "Check this out: https://open.spotify.com/blah " At my current workplace and a previous one, both had Slack channels for sharing music and they were 99% Spotify links. Partly because of genuine Spotify usage but even not using Spotify a…

I’m in a dedicated music discord, about 70% of links are Bandcamp, 20% Spotify, 10% Tidal. BC percentage could be higher, but good enough, most of the time it’s only for those weird bands that don’t sell on BC anyway ;)

That said, I do miss Songwhip. It was a website where you could search for a release, and then generate all links for it, including streaming services and bandcamp.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by fragmede »

Semaphor wrote: post #221
fragmede wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was true in the past but it's no longer true. I don't know when it changed.

That’s absolutely still true. I just disabled Spotify app link handling, and then Spotify opens in Firefox on my phone. And on Desktop it works the same way. edit: misread parts of grandparent. Yeah, the 30s previews are gone, didn’t even realize anyone used those.

When I open a Spotify link as a webpage, I can't play that song unless I have an account. At some point in the past you didn't have to.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by herrherrmann »

pivic wrote: post #127

I use this page to create a page with links to all kinds of music providers: https://odesli.co Works per artist, album, or song. Create a login to customise URLs. I'm just a user; I don't have a dog in this race.

Yes, I also really like Songlink/Odesli! Their search also works faster than Spotify’s or Apple Music’s search.

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Post by conradfr »

_DeadFred_ wrote: post #50

Now that the app algorithms are horrible can we all go back to something like last.fm so I can discover new music?

You need to use webradios, there's lot of them.

But you can't skip to the next tune so you need to skip to the next webradio instead ;)

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Post by crossroadsguy »

djsavvy wrote: post #144
crossroadsguy wrote: post #117

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Or this https://playlists.cloud/

Thanks for sharing! I didn't want to sign up for a monthly subscription to transfer my music...

Agreed.

Having said that I have used https://ko-fi.com/zzzrod to support (if it can be called that) the dev (the link is from app homepage) as per my personal capacity. Because it is such an excellent service and provided for free and also because it isn't behind subscription. So thought I will share that. But of course it is perfectly fine to use it for free as well if one wants to. Cheers.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by lcmatt »

rumori wrote: post #169
wintermutestwin wrote: post #136

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Apple Music = few users?? From what I could tell when choosing AM over Spotify, the latter has a lot of playlists for discovery and I would never use my streaming service for discovery as it encourages the service to promote music it is paid to promote. Of course AM is annoying too because 3 out of 5 navigation icons along the bottom of the UI are for discovery. But AM has Siri integration, which works some of the ti…

I used to use Apple Music but when my Credit Card expired I missed two months payment and Apple happily deleted all of my playlists and library. I don’t think they realise how bad this is, but I will never use it or subscribe ever again.

I don't understand why AM doesn't use iCloud to store playlists. You have the storage anyway and a good chunk of people pay for an additional increase too.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by spondyl »

SpotifyClosed wrote: post #185
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #158

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Spotify doesn't require you to create an account to hear a song from what I recall, so why wouldn't someone send you a link? That's what the web is for. That said once you have heard it on Spotify, yeah you might want it on your service provider of choice so as to add it to whatever equivalent of playlists there are.

The previous comment was already absurdly america-centric. But with this response, the cake is taken. I have never been sent a spotify link, nor do people really over here, because you need an account.

If you meant me, I live in New Zealand funnily enough.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by tschumacher »

Semaphor wrote: post #222
spondyl wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anecdotally speaking, Spotify has become a sort of cultural default for a bunch of people. If you're in a DM or a group chat, you may not hear "You should listen to X by Y" but rather "Check this out: https://open.spotify.com/blah " At my current workplace and a previous one, both had Slack channels for sharing music and they were 99% Spotify links. Partly because of genuine Spotify usage but even not using Spotify a…

I’m in a dedicated music discord, about 70% of links are Bandcamp, 20% Spotify, 10% Tidal. BC percentage could be higher, but good enough, most of the time it’s only for those weird bands that don’t sell on BC anyway ;) That said, I do miss Songwhip. It was a website where you could search for a release, and then generate all links for it, including streaming services and bandcamp.

I miss Songwhip as well. We used to have a bot in our music sharing Discord channel that looks for links to any streaming platform and convert them to Songwhip links via the Songwhip API. The good thing about Tidal is that, like Songwhip, it provides you with a list of links to various streaming platforms when you're not logged in.

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Post by verisimi »

_r4nc wrote: post #70
askonomm wrote: post #8

I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?

When I moved country and updated my credit card in Spotify to my card from the new country Spotify also changed my “region”. As a result there are so many songs I have “starred”/“added”/“liked” (whatever fucking language they’re using for it now) are just greyed out and unplayable. Anyway as for actually getting copies of the music I listen to I think we should just pirate it completely unashamedly.

It's probably not Spotify's fault though, but it's actually on account of being able to finely control legal ownership of licensed songs. This is all insane imo, but legally sound. Welcome to the future.
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