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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by pbiggar »

Kiro wrote: post #165
pbiggar wrote: post #106

Love it! Even since Spotify CEO Daniel Ek's investment company invested $100m into weapons tech, we've been looking at how to move off his platform. https://inthesetimes.com/article/spotify-military-industrial...

Helsing is currently helping Ukraine. It's easy to say "military bad" when you're in the US, but for Daniel Ek it's about self-preservation. As a fellow Scandinavian, I fully support him investing in defense tech.

It has shareholders which benefit from killing people, and who benefit more from war proliferating. How do you think that turns out in the long run? How has it turned out for Ukraine?

War companies sell war, and they sell it to evil people (see Israel's apartheid and genocide in Gaza). The privatization of war is bad for everybody.

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Post by JoshTriplett »

toast0 wrote: post #258
JoshTriplett wrote: post #104

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> 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.

Large companies tend to have very conservative legal departments, and be less supportive of exceptions and more willing to just not hire someone who has requirements outside their perceived norm. The question would be whether the company has ever established an exception path, typically by having a high-level hiring manager insist and running it up the chain.

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Post by MisterTea »

Syonyk wrote: post #91
orblivion wrote: post #84

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I Don't Have Spotify should add Bandcamp support. Bandcamp is great for just playing the music too.

It's not. Artists will often enough remove old albums so you can no longer play them. Buy it, download as FLAC, put in your preferred local infrastructure to play. Plex/Plexamp works well, as does local file storage and a good command line music client if you're less GUI-friendly or don't have the resources for running them.

> It's not. Artists will often enough remove old albums so you can no longer play them.

That doesn't happen on other platforms?

I had two albums of a band who's front man died and they disbanded. The albums were removed but I still have them in my collection. You cant find it on the site anymore but I can still download and play them.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by interestica »

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?

Allll the other associated metadata is useful...

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by dylan604 »

mihular wrote: post #299
dylan604 wrote: post #297

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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.

The point is that it's all just metadata. There's a saying along the lines of "the filename is a really bad place to store metadata". Whether the title is the same and/or the album name as an additional qualifier, it's all subject to data entry which is prone to mistakes.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by dylan604 »

interestica wrote: post #304
dylan604 wrote: post #297

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

Allll the other associated metadata is useful...

You say that as if all metadata is the same. I can tell you it is not. Every company that uses metadata will at some point use a field differently from someone else. "The Album" => "Album, The" type of things. "Album" => "Album (YYYY)" types of things. "Track remix by Artist" => "Track" + "Producer" as different fields.

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Post by mobeigi »

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've used this site before when moving from Spotify to Youtube Music, worked really well and didn't take long to transfer everything over.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by mihular »

dylan604 wrote: post #305
mihular wrote: post #299

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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.

The point is that it's all just metadata. There's a saying along the lines of "the filename is a really bad place to store metadata". Whether the title is the same and/or the album name as an additional qualifier, it's all subject to data entry which is prone to mistakes.

To some extent yes, but that data is usually sent from record label with the same values for different streaming services. But anyway, don't tell me that they can't at least figure out that there are more than one artists with the same name...

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Post by Night_Thastus »

Gigachad wrote: post #78
Night_Thastus wrote: post #77

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

Beatport generally has more mainstream stuff and offers it in WAV and AIFF.

Not FLAC? I mean I guess I can run them through something to convert them, but I'm surprised.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

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 used this. It worked fine. It's a shame it's necessary though... I wish there was some kind of vendor-neutral import/export format rather than requiring a third party to solve the whole matrix of integrations.
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