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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by cjaackie »

tschumacher wrote: post #229
Semaphor wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It was such a beautiful ui and ux , elegant really. It’s a shame yet I wonder how could it have been profitable. There’s really not a whole lot to monetize unless I’m missing something.

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Post by antihero »

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?

Bandcamp and Soulseek.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by iamacyborg »

mihular wrote: post #175
mkhalil wrote: post #103

I know of a even more impressive website that will transfer playlists from Spotify (or 20 other platforms, including text files) to 20 other platforms or a text file. I will share the link, but don't hug it to death y'all. :) https://app.tunemymusic.com/transfer

I recently made a transition from Spotify to Tidal and found the suggested transfer service to do the job really clumsy. In my case I've transferred favorite artists and the service was just trying to match them by name which failed miserably when there was more than one with the same name - seemingly it picked one randomly. I wonder how this service would do.

My impression is that Tidal does a bad job of this in general. I have lots of artists I follow on there who have albums appearing on their page from identically named but different artists.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by 71bw »

Night_Thastus wrote: post #77
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?

Bandcamp and Qobuz have been my only options for anything in lossless quality. Everything else is shitty compressed MP3s.

>Everything else is shitty compressed MP3s.

Check your supposed lossless files in Fakin The Funk or manually in Spek and become horrified at how many of them are complete garbage.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

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.

sorry, it's been so long since I didn't have an account so I went and checked and I guess I was wrong they do require you to create a free account to hear the link you've been sent.

You'd think my comment assuming you didn't need an account was already absurdly wrong but with your response the cake was taken, because I'm not from America either.

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Post by toast0 »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #83
ethagnawl wrote: post #72

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A few years back, I did an apples-to-oranges test of an album I had on vinyl and CD. The vinyl version probably sounded better (usual BS about warmth and whatnot) but the CD sounded very, very good and it was way closer than I was expecting. It had been ~15 years since I'd listened to a CD on a real stereo and I'd totally forgotten how good they can sound. I'd certainly been swayed by the vinyl enthusiasts in the int…

Disc rot is not a thing for factory pressed CDs, assuming normal storage. Cheap CDRs from ~2000 or so did have the issue. My CDs from the 80s and CDRs from the 90s are working fine.

I don't use my cds too often anymore, but I've got a pressed 2-disc set of the soundtrack from the song remains the same that's became unplayable because the media developed holes.

These were stored in the case in my home, mostly coastal California, no severe environmental conditions.

Disc rot of pressed CDs seems rare, I don't think I've seen it on other discs, but if it happened to me, it's definitely a thing.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by toast0 »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #104
vunderba wrote: post #61

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Won't help you now OP, but I've always negotiated an IP carve-out for any product(s) that I develop that: A. Are developed with my own hardware B. Are developed outside of hours of employment C. Are not designed to compete with existing company products Every place I've worked with was amenable to these terms, but I always make sure to get it IN WRITING .

> Every place I've worked with was amenable to these terms What is the largest company you've successfully gotten to agree to these terms?

It's got to be easiee for a larger company to agree to. What would you be inspired to make that doesn't compete with an existing product if you work at big tech? It feels like they have products in all spaces.

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Post by rvnx »

piltdownman wrote: post #238
mkhalil wrote: post #103

I know of a even more impressive website that will transfer playlists from Spotify (or 20 other platforms, including text files) to 20 other platforms or a text file. I will share the link, but don't hug it to death y'all. :) https://app.tunemymusic.com/transfer

Anyone know of a technical solution to retrieve a list of 'titles' for deleted videos from a youtube playlist? Have at least 10x Playlists full of removed/deleted music that has been inappropriately copyright striked, but I can't even reconstitute the playlists as I don't have the Title/Artist for the removed tracks.

Paste the URL into savefrom, they have a cache

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by jcul »

pazimzadeh wrote: post #76

The youtube music matching didn't work for the first two songs I tried: Two Words by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/62wtttQzoIA9HnNmGVd9Yq?si=b1b... Went to Two Words by Milabel Ranque: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Y64cFG9dfYo Never Let Me Down by Kanye West: https://open.spotify.com/track/34j4OxJxKznBs88cjSL2j9?si=7ec... Went to Never Let me Down by Depeche Mode: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sn…

Tried a random track I happened to be listening to.

https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/?id=b3Blbi5zcG90aWZ5LmNvb...

The deezer link was correct, tidal didn't work, others were incorrect.

Still a great idea, I thought about implementing something like this years ago.

When sharing music with a mixed group that I know some don't have spotify, I tend to just fall back to the common denominator of youtube links.

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