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Re: Spotifyd

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Post by jrm4 »

civopsec wrote: post #33
jrm4 wrote: post #24

Honestly -- just why ? We now have a few years of experience with music streaming. And what we've learned is that -- sure, it's convenient -- but honestly hasn't much improved the lot of artists and musicians. It's a new exploitative system that's perhaps slightly better than the old exploitative system. We can do better. Literally, locally, and for friends. I used to do MPD, but now I'm glad for things like mstream…

Why are people using a streaming service instead of buying thousands of dollars worth of CDs (or for that matter, iTunes)? Is this a question?

This has never been the dichotomy; but now that you mention it -- actually, yeah. I'd rather spend thousands of dollars on CDs (in that environment where shopping for them was like it used to be) than iTunes (etc., which I've tried but never found worth continually paying for)

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by sbarre »

Kuraj wrote: post #26
musicstealer wrote: post #19

This uses librespot for the actual communication with Spotify's servers. Note that to get it to support Spotify Free, you need to compile a custom librespot with this part of the code commented out, that checks for Spotify Premium: https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/blob/6dc7a11b09b5... And then use this with spotifyd instead of the original.

Haha I always thought it was Spotify who enforced this requirement on their end

I mean, it kind of is..

I think there's an unofficial understanding that if someone puts out a way to access Spotify Free that removes or bypasses the limitations and constraints that Spotify imposes on free accounts, they would summon the lawyers.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by bobleeswagger »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #8

I'm glad this exists, but it's unfortunate that the reverse-engineered librespot that this depends on is necessary, thanks to Spotify backpedaling on their promises of a streaming-capable replacement for libspotify.

You guys still don't own your music?

Laughs in Lidarr

Re: Spotifyd

#45

Post by hedora »

I've happily moved on from Spotify.

Has anyone produced similar (and working) alternatives for Tidal (or Sonos S1/S2)?

Re: Spotifyd

#46

Post by nyx_land »

jrm4 wrote: post #24

Honestly -- just why ? We now have a few years of experience with music streaming. And what we've learned is that -- sure, it's convenient -- but honestly hasn't much improved the lot of artists and musicians. It's a new exploitative system that's perhaps slightly better than the old exploitative system. We can do better. Literally, locally, and for friends. I used to do MPD, but now I'm glad for things like mstream…

The fact that this is receiving downboats and 'but muh convenience, artists deserve to get fucked over because Spotify found a better way to exploit human psychology!' is truly an orange site moment. I pirate the majority of the music I listen to (and most artists except for super rich mainstream ones would rather their music spread as much as possible than receive literal pennies from a Spotify stream) and buy stuff from Bandcamp when an artist is actually still around and making stuff. I never listen to ads and have all the files saved locally in lossless formats. I've never had a Spotify account for anything other than a podcast that is exclusive to it and have never cared to switch, and can't even use the excuse that I'm too old and stubborn in my ways.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by kristo »

jonas-w wrote: post #39

What i find the most interesting is the zeroconf option [0]. For example you can set up your spotifyd daemon on a raspberry and have it always connected to speakers. Now when someone is in your local network they can choose your spotifyd daemon and play spotify over the speakers without connecting to the speakers directly via bluetooth etc. [0] https://spotifyd.github.io/spotifyd/config/File.html (after the configura…

I have this. It’s great except it randomly fails and disconnects or refuses to play. Have tried many updates for multiple years and always the same. I resorted to airplay. Spotify doesn’t want to integrate with others and so the reverse engineered api doesn’t work great

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by KMnO4 »

bobleeswagger wrote: post #44
kitsunesoba wrote: post #8

I'm glad this exists, but it's unfortunate that the reverse-engineered librespot that this depends on is necessary, thanks to Spotify backpedaling on their promises of a streaming-capable replacement for libspotify.

You guys still don't own your music? Laughs in Lidarr

Sounds like you don’t own your music either.

Re: Spotifyd

#49

Post by elefanten »

SleekoNiko wrote: post #40
nzoschke wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could be. When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time. The biggest change I personally suffered from is when they pulled out of their integration with Djay, a DJ app. This integration was amazing for bedroom DJs like myself, being able to use Spotify to organize DJ music and DJ directly from it. Then they sunset the entire integration. N…

> When Spotify was young they were extremely developer and ecosystem friendly. It gets progressively worse and worse over time. This is somewhat tangential, but I feel like this happens often, as internal power and culture shifts away from being developer-driven to consumer- or manager-driven. This doesn't happen for every company, thankfully.

Seems quite related to the standard 'company lifecycle'

And, to your point, not every company follows one. But most do.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by smolyeet »

iamacyborg wrote: post #34
civopsec wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that “surely”?

You're right, my bad, I assumed most folks would have a base level of empathy.

Well , it’s either I listen to it using this easy platform for us common folk, or I don’t listen to them at all. Or i pirate. It’s not that deep , you can get off your high horse.
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