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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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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…

I don't understand why other people are hating on Kanye's music. I understand that he is not a very likeable person, but his music is damn good y'all. Especially the ones you tried :D

I don't think hating or lauding his music is really appropriate in this thread --it's kind of off topic. We can admit it's subjective and tastes will vary.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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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.

Artists can also remove old albums from Spotify. At least with Bandcamp you can buy the music and download the files - if you want to. And you can even send a mail to the artist to ask them why they removed old albums and if they can provide you a copy.

Artists can and do remove your access to purchased albums on Bandcamp, see my rant below.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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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…

Same. I just searched through my texts to find the last song a friend sent me:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5qFL2uwfnGU8FccwLMgPNQ?si=b-a...

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

is missing the link to YouTube Music:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0IHBCxs7QPE&si=QYvCtGCjKav...

I would get lots of use out of this if it was reliable though! Very useful tiny tool idea.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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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...

You'd think that, but not in my experience. It's not like they are getting ID3 tags populated by Gracenote or some such service. You're also assuming that the streaming platforms do not attempt to manipulate the metadata they received for their own internal policies. See my other comment in a sibling thread for specific examples.

Too much inside baseball experience with the data the studios/labels believe is perfect that when received is far from perfect leaving the individual platforms to deal with it.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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You always had to, in the past it gave a 30s preview. It still does that in Discord.

At least for me in the Netherlands, for the past month if I click a link to a specific song, I get redirected to a page to start a radio based on the artist and encouraged to upgrade to Premium. I've had to get friends to share the titles manually, before I found Odesli to be able to convert them.

Right, but before it just loaded the page of the album/playlist and told you to sign in to your account. It has never allowed you to play songs without a sign in.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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I built a proof of concept for a VC-scale app, and something like this is one of the core features. I applied to YC S24 and didn't get an interview (SUPER understandably). If anyone wants to hear details, shoot me an email (in bio); this project's vaporware until I find the right partner.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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I built a proof of concept for a VC-scale app, and something like this is one of the core features. I applied to YC S24 and didn't get an interview (SUPER understandably). If anyone wants to hear details, shoot me an email (in bio); this project's vaporware until I find the right partner.

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Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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disc rot is a thing for every disc that's made with aluminum, which is all but a very few super special ones like mobile fidelity sound lab made with gold. Oxygen permeates through both the polycarbonate base and the clear coat top, maybe quickly, maybe slowly, but always.

Always? As in... Eventually? Sure, I'll buy that: Aluminum and oxygen are great friends that love eachothers' company, and on a long-enough timeline here in Earth's atmosphere they'll always be reunited. But how does that timeline compare to that of a human? Or even of the compact disc itself (a bit over 42 years old now)? I mean: At least anecdotally, I have never discovered rot on any of my CDs that did not also ha…

As a laserdisc collector, I am particularly aware of disc rot and in those it is far more present by now. Practically all discs have some level by now even the good ones, and even if they look clean to the eye. There are people that say the same thing there, that there are good discs that don't have rot and bad ones that do. But that is not true, there are only better and worse examples, faster and slower progress.

cds are both younger and built better, so they will not only last to a later absolute date, they will last longer relative to their manufacturing date, but cds have a few other things that mask rot even when it starts, which is both that they are digital and the player has buffering and interpolation, and also that the data format includes redundant data for error correction. (ld is analog and has neither, later better players do add some digital processing but it can't do the kind of good job with a 6mhz analog fm ntsc video signal that a cd player can with a simple audio bitstream)

A cd with the same rot that is visible on a ld (visible in the output not visible to the eye on the physical disc) will appear to play perfectly even in the cheapest junk player.

So, it will take longer, but I see no reason to treat "longer" as "indefinite".

There is no specific time, but it is inevitable and I don't think it's in the 100's of years but in the 10's of years, and the 10's of years, especially when many are already 30 years old, is not very many more 10's of years left.

And if that turns out to be pessimistic and they last another 50 or more? That's just a bonus. Lucky future rippers who get a chance to rip with even better tech later.

Tangentially I do also assume that some day long before the polycarbonate disintigrates, there will be a practical way to read even fully oxidized discs with a different frequency laser or even a camera or microscope-based head, or even a bulk scanner that just rasterizes the whole surface without even bothering to read the track in a spiral until after the fact purely in software.

As time goes on, tools get both better and more accessible, so in 1995 it would not be possible for a person to make their own laser head, but today it probably is, and in only a few more years will just get easier and easier, and probably at a rate that outruns the rate at which the discs fully degrade.

Re: I Don't Have Spotify

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Record labels are actually quite terrible at providing this. You would assume otherwise because it’s in their best interest. However, I work in the industry and can tell you it’s a ridiculous problem because their is no standard and lots of human effort in cleanup and cleanliness.
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