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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by reaperducer »

paxys wrote: post #25
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?

iTunes and Amazon have pretty much every song you'd want to buy.

iTunes and Amazon have pretty much every song you'd want to buy.

Nope. Not even remotely. Only if your taste in music is very narrow.

Just this weekend I tried to buy some Christmas songs that were popular and common on the radio in the 80's. I could only find about half of them on Amazon or Apple Music.

Most had some version available, but not the canonical one I grew up with. Some didn't exist at all.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by gkoberger »

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...

I know it's a tough job market, but that's unacceptable! They won't change, but you shouldn't put up with that.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

pcmaffey wrote: post #16
excalibur wrote: post #5

Not seeing Pandora, apparently 46 million people still use that as of 2023

Highly recommend Hermes with a free Pandora account (Mac desktop app, no ads), if you just want to set a station and listen for hours. https://github.com/HermesApp/Hermes

Thanks for the Hermes.app recommendation...

Even as a paying Pandora member I plan to use this (over their website).

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by porridgeraisin »

When I used to maintain a discord music bot, it used to stream from YouTube. For Spotify urls to work though, I had to get YouTube search to work reliably. One trick which I found worked well was including the Spotify URL in the YouTube search along with the song name, artist name, etc. This helped quite a bit with picking out the "official" youtube video, since the official one often includes Spotify links in the video description, which YouTube search also matches against.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by rajbot »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #24

Is there a DOI equivalent for identifying music tracks?

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Identifier

> One of MusicBrainz' aims is to be the universal lingua franca for music by providing a reliable and unambiguous form of music identification; this music identification is performed through the use of MusicBrainz Identifiers (MBIDs).

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by paxys »

reaperducer wrote: post #31
paxys wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iTunes and Amazon have pretty much every song you'd want to buy.

iTunes and Amazon have pretty much every song you'd want to buy. Nope. Not even remotely. Only if your taste in music is very narrow. Just this weekend I tried to buy some Christmas songs that were popular and common on the radio in the 80's. I could only find about half of them on Amazon or Apple Music. Most had some version available, but not the canonical one I grew up with. Some didn't exist at all.

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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by leddt »

I made a very simple chrome extension that automatically redirects you to your preferred music service when visiting another service. In my case I have it set to YouTube Music, so if I click a Spotify (or other) link in Slack, I'll be redirected to YouTube Music.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/music-link/gnhphofp...

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by jamesponddotco »

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?

Personally, I have a TIDAL subscription, download everything I like from there, and then store everything on a Plex server.

While not legal, having the subscription fix any moral problems I’d have with the idea.

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