I hate everything about this :/
Epic Games acquires Bandcamp
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Re: Epic Games acquires Bandcamp
#352This feels like a major blow, as someone who just semi recently (probably around pandemic start) started getting into purchasing flac music from indie artists, Bandcamp was a great source of music. I understand nothing will change in the short term, but long term I am very concerned. Especially as streaming becomes more dominant and companies are less willing to provide flac based music and physical discs (where I ca…
https://indiehd.com/ sells FLACs.
It doesn't have a ton of music currently, but the payout to musicians is very good, so it could become more popular in the future.
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#353Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except for those that, you know, prefer to own music. Their actual core audience.
Can you really own music? See i have been collecting vinyl for 20 years and know about the pleasure it can provide. But with digital files scarcity, age, smell, looks, condition no longer matter. There is nothing left to „own“. The only thing you own is your hard disk.
I don't care about the tactile aspect of a particular album (as opposed to the "feel"/"UX" of a particular format in general, which I do find fun) or piece of media.
I care about one thing, and one thing only: an irrevocable right to experience a particular piece of media where and when I please in the original form it was released, subject to natural degradation of the physical medium. Now that music is digital, I expect the "when" to be "at any point in my life, starting from when I purchased it", and the "where" to be "any device with the ability to play music".
Streaming is essentially asking for permission to re-experience a piece of media every time I want to do so, and Spotify's and YouTube's answer is often "no". My music library is simply a necessary evil that facilitates security against their whims.
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#354Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's because corporate press releases are so lame [1]. They don't give relevant background, they're saturated with dystopian smarm (" Since our founding in 2008, we’ve been motivated by the pursuit of our mission "), and they're ultimately all about spin. I don't mean to pick on particular cases—it's across the board. You'd think the smarter people at some of these companies would realize how well they'd stand out by…
>You'd think the smarter people at some of these companies would realize how well they'd stand out by not writing that way, but that's surprisingly rare. it's all about CYA. Better to be "smarm" than create any opening for a legal storm that ruins the entire acquisition, or tanks any public shares from the news. I'm still not too sure if the "curiosity" rule applies to this new link, however. Half the article is just…
No doubt the third party articles aren't usually very good either. But it's all relative!
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#355Well, time to hope https://resonate.is/ picks up the independent artists and doesn't do a blockchain.
I'm not hopeful about this for a few reasons: - They used to be really into blockchain / smart contracts: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/25/resonate-spoti... - Looking at their forum now, they say that they are not currently using or planning to use blockchains, but it seems like their founders aren't actually opposed to it, so I'm not sure they'll be able to hold the line against it: https://community.re…
Someone project-official wrote:
> no blockchain or such in the works; previous experiments in 2018 hurt the co-op far more than they helped it.
https://social.coop/@hakanto/107889107767011612
So that's cheering!
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#356Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the record, Rocket League is still perfectly playable on Linux (even online) through WINE or Proton. But yes, they did axe the native version.
The input latency is noticeably higher when you play like this though. It drove me nuts last time I tried it (using Steam Controller and Dualshock 4 controller). It's a big reason why Rocket League sucks so bad on the Nintendo Switch (input lag).
You sure it's not a V-Sync issue? Most Linux games will introduce input lag with in-game vertical sync, but if you disable it and let your compositor do it's job it tends to shape up just fine.
Not saying that it was user error here, but I haven't noticed any significant input lag when I play it.
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#357Well, time to hope https://resonate.is/ picks up the independent artists and doesn't do a blockchain.
Resonate has been around for a long time and hasn't gained any kind of traction, even with independent artists and labels. Would love to see them succeed but their identity/reason for existence seems to change regularly.
Hard to say how it'll shake out given that I think there's only now some public consciousness around Spotify's model not being great (I remember people talking about Taylor Swift refusing streaming like she was insane). Still, whether it's them or someone else, I like the idea of stream-to-own, so I'm a little hopeful.
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#358Tencent always wins
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#359Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, nothing currently beats Plexamp in terms of quality music listening, shuffle, smart playlists, etc. You can still set up local login for Plex to avoid their auth on your own network or list of allowed IPs. It's not 100% what people want, but it's something.
Navidrome [0] has been a solid replacement for me. It has all the features I want aside from Keycloak/generic oidc integration, and the author is very responsive. 0: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome
Second this. Navidrome is an impressive piece of work. Solid UX, decent core feature set, good performance, trivial to deploy (it's a single statically linked Go binary). I've definitely had some glitches with playback and so forth, so it's not flawless, but it's still very good.
Re: Epic Games acquires Bandcamp
#360Does anyone have a mass downloader for your purchases on Bandcamp?