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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by bluGill »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #56
cdrini wrote: post #10

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I've been doing this, and here in Canada https://ca.7digital.com/ is literally the only option I've found that let's you buy normal MP3s, would highly recommend. I've been able to get modern albums without a hitch, but don't know about modern singles. I think in the US Amazon let's you buy MP3s, but not sure there. For the price of a Spotify subscription, I can usually buy a new album every month! Which is great; and…

If the store of your choice offers FLAC as an option (and I think they all do), you can simply make your own MP3s from the FLAC files. That's one of the biggest advantages of lossless audio. (The improvement in audio quality is actually pretty minimal, for most people.) You can also keep the FLAC files to convert them to some future format later, or even do something really wild like burn them to a CD or something.

I did that for a while, but all the tools seem to have been unmaintained for the last decade. The command line ones still work, but the GUIs to make them easy still depend on qt3 or other such obsolete things. (streaming servers like jellyfin do this on the fly easy, but other workflows for offline use don't work anymore even though they are still sometimes useful)

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by tschumacher »

cjaackie wrote: post #251
tschumacher wrote: post #229

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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.

Songwhip allowed artists to claim and customize their page for a fee. Back then I looked into why Songwhip closed but couldn't find a definitive answer. I found a Reddit post where the original creator shared their site many years ago, so it looks like Songwhip started as a personal project. When it closed down though that decision was made by Sony. So it seems like the original creator got bought out by Sony and then Sony decided to close the service. Just speculation though.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by bluGill »

itishappy wrote: post #43
bean-weevil wrote: post #28

It would be fantastic if this site were a pwa that supported the chrome api [1] that lets you share directly to it on android. I would make a pr but my company owns all my ip and getting an exception takes months :( 1: https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-applicatio...

... don't do it at work? If your company owns your free time as well, you've fucked up and should talk to HR.

Does that mean if you do something semi-illegal or immoral on your freetime they put their name on it? Start doing work on decrypting media (legal if the content is out of copyright, but good luck finding such a thing), porn (again, legal but many won't like it and you can find weird stuff that is even less liked while still legal), or something else that might technically be legal but they don't want their name associated with.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by itishappy »

bean-weevil wrote: post #65
itishappy wrote: post #43

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... don't do it at work? If your company owns your free time as well, you've fucked up and should talk to HR.

You're correct, I signed a contract that says they own my free time. I didn't exactly want to, and I firmly believe it's wrong. Nevertheless, it's easy to say I fucked up when you don't know my exact situation. This is my first job and there are a lot of other benefits that made it the best option for me personally, even when there were alternatives that had no such clause.

That's fair, I don't know your situation, and my tone was overboard. I don't mean it as a criticism of your actions as much as a warning for others not to do the same without good reason.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by cxr »

_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?

Let's go back to the word "algorithm" being used for what it actually means, instead of the opposite—like the way it's used here and in every article about social media written in the last 7 years.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by dylan604 »

etra0 wrote: post #282
mihular wrote: post #175

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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.

I recently made the switch as well and used spotify_to_tidal [1] which is the free and open-source alternative to what Tidal recommends and it worked pretty fine! it couldn't find some specific tracks and I bet it does a somewhat similar name match as the one Tidal recommends, but at least this one doesn't have a limitation by the number of tracks, in case it's useful to someone else. [1] https://github.com/spotify2t…

other than name match, what exactly do you expect them to attempt to do? use a shazam like process to analyze each potential match?

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by gertlex »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #248
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.)

The project description on the right hand sidebar says a lot more: > Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service

That's one sentence; it's a good sentence, but it's not a lot. Nothing about running it.

And I already noted (in a very offhand way):

> the About section/link being there... it's offscreen by the start of the README, so I missed it

I think 10 years ago, that sidebar didn't exist on github, so I've got some old skimming habits I could modify... but I think the bar for READMEs should be higher. I was pleasantly surprised to see I wasn't alone in having too little info, though. This project is far far from being an outlier in this regards. 95% of ROS repos (robotics code packages) are worse :)

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by mihular »

dylan604 wrote: post #297
etra0 wrote: post #282

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I recently made the switch as well and used spotify_to_tidal [1] which is the free and open-source alternative to what Tidal recommends and it worked pretty fine! it couldn't find some specific tracks and I bet it does a somewhat similar name match as the one Tidal recommends, but at least this one doesn't have a limitation by the number of tracks, in case it's useful to someone else. [1] https://github.com/spotify2t…

other than name match, what exactly do you expect them to attempt to do? use a shazam like process to analyze each potential match?

It could check the album names on both sides, for example. And in case of uncertainty, it could make a list of dubious matches. Stuff like that, I guess.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by mihular »

iamacyborg wrote: post #253
mihular wrote: post #175

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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.

Don't get me started on that. How can a company which core business is content streaming be that lazy is beyond me. I often feedback them the errors, but even such feedback is difficult.
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