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Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by shaky-carrousel »

cryzinger wrote: post #162
Aurornis wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The thing is, this doesn't even seem particularly useful for average consumers/listeners, since Spotify itself is so convenient, and trying to locate individual tracks in massive torrent files of presumably 10,000's of tracks each sounds horrible. I wouldn’t be so sure. There are already tools to automatically locate and stream pirated TV and movie content automatic and on demand. They’re so common that I had non-t…

> I had non-technical family members bragging at Thanksgiving about how they bought at box at their local Best Buy that has an app which plays any movie or TV show they want on demand without paying anything. They didn’t understand what was happening, but they said it worked great. Sounds like one of these: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/is-your-android-tv-strea... Probably not your problem to play tech support…

Who cares, today is pretty easy to be part of a botnet. Having a slightly outdated lightbulb qualifies, so I'd not bother.

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Post by komali2 »

layer8 wrote: post #152
vlaaad wrote: post #57

Unrelated, but I just can't stop myself from saying that I absolutely hate Spotify even though I'm a paying customer. Fuck you Spotify. You were supposed to be a convenient way to discover and listen to music. Now you are only convenient for listening to music, and absolutely terrible for any recommendations. This is sad really. Spotify had good recommendations. It's absolutely in a position where it can provide good…

YouTube Music works pretty well for me. One great feature is that it includes not just a commercial music streaming catalog, but all user uploads of music on YouTube.

I had to chuck Youtube Music away when it was polluting my youtube playlists with stuff I was liking on youtube music. Me as a video viewer and me as a music listener are two completely different people.

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Post by komali2 »

rendaw wrote: post #326

Looking at the analysis, I'm totally surprised opera and psytrance are so prolific. Psy-trance... I thought it was the same as any other electronic genres, but do people get high and just start shoveling psy-trance tracks out or something? Opera I thought was a very strict discipline, needing rigorous somewhat esoteric training in order to produce the right sounds. How could there be so many opera artists? I mean, I'…

> Opera I thought was a very strict discipline, needing rigorous somewhat esoteric training in order to produce the right sounds. How could there be so many opera artists?

My guess is just the same opera performed by a ton of different orchestras, and perhaps the same orchestra for different recordings, times however many operas there are.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by komali2 »

al_borland wrote: post #271
walthamstow wrote: post #206

Very interesting that a white noise track for babies is the 4th most popular track on Spotify.

I find it so odd that people then to streaming services for stuff like this. I have a dedicated white noise machine, and when I travel, I use the white noise (bright noise actually) built into the iPhone. Relying on an external hosted service would never cross my mind, and surely wouldn’t be something I go to on a daily basis.

You might find it interesting that there's an entire genre of youtube video that's designed to just be chucked one by one into slideshows for elementary school teachers to use as their lesson plan. Including videos that are just "2 minute timer for kids!"

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/@Ask.the.Teacher

"Independent Reading: Count Up Timer for Classrooms": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfLfJtVeME8 straight up just stock imagery and a timer lol

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by komali2 »

timcobb wrote: post #312
zoklet-enjoyer wrote: post #5

Wow. Now I just need some hard drives and a way to download that without my ISP doing something about it. That's amazing.

> and a way to download that without my ISP doing something about it. what would your ISP do?

When I left my apartment back in 2018, I was switching the Comcast account over to my housemate who was staying on there. In doing so I discovered I had a myname2342@comcast.com email account. The UI showed something like 8,000 unread emails. Bemused, I opened it to see what kind of spam it had accumulated. None at all! It was just under 8,000 DMCA / torrent warning emails from Comcast itself. "We know you torrented The.Pokemon.Movie.2001.h264.mkv, you better stop that!"

A full year of these emails and nothing more than that ever happened.

(if you're wondering how I hit 8000 torrents, the answer is individual album torrents)

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by komali2 »

lysace wrote: post #285
BrokenCogs wrote: post #251

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Why... does Putin like music more than the next guy?

Why would you want to destroy your enemies' industries, is what you're asking? Although I suppose that is predicated on seeing Russia as the enemy. Strangely not always the norm these days in the new world.

> Why would you want to destroy your enemies' industries, is what you're asking?

Do you have any evidence that pirating is destroying industries? My guess is I can find the majority of this release by anna's archive on some combination of the pirate bay and the soulseek, or private music trackers. And yet, Spotify is still a thriving company, as is the entire music industry as a whole. There's even room for competing streaming services like Tidal and Youtube Music.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by komali2 »

charcircuit wrote: post #103
Nextgrid wrote: post #80

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Because it's not stealing . Stealing is a problem because it deprives the original owner of the item - whether the thief subsequently uses the item or not doesn't change that. This doesn't apply to dematerialized content: the original copy still exists. The only negative impact occurs if someone decides to actually use the pirated copy in place of buying a licensed one. The mere existence of this new pirate copy bein…

Okay, call it copyright infringement then if you want to be a stickler on definitions. It's still wrong and existing instances of it doesn't make it justifiable to do.

Why is copyright infringement wrong?

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by komali2 »

WD-42 wrote: post #16
basisword wrote: post #6

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Nobody is gonna download a 300TB torrent just to get the latest Taylor Swift album. There are much easier avenues than that. What’s actually scummy is Spotify paying artists $1 per 1000 streams. Buy CDs. Use Bandcamp.

> What’s actually scummy is Spotify paying artists $1 per 1000 streams.

I'm pretty sure it's waaaay lower than that per 1000 streams.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by captbaritone »

rendaw wrote: post #326

Looking at the analysis, I'm totally surprised opera and psytrance are so prolific. Psy-trance... I thought it was the same as any other electronic genres, but do people get high and just start shoveling psy-trance tracks out or something? Opera I thought was a very strict discipline, needing rigorous somewhat esoteric training in order to produce the right sounds. How could there be so many opera artists? I mean, I'…

Former classical singer here. Only theory I can come up with is that opera tends to have large casts where all the singers are credited individually which would inflate the absolute numbers of "artists" relative to other generes. I still struggle to imagine this accounting for bringing such a niche genera to the top here.
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