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Re: Spotifyd

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Post by jegp »

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…

Exactly. And it gets even better if you pair it with a personal voice assistant, like mycroft.ai

"Hey Mycroft, play songs about better software integrations"

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by fullshark »

civopsec wrote: post #35
fullshark wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Potentially great music is not being made as a result of people not devoting time and energy to the craft I guess. Also just general empathy.

You guess ? Music is like the last thing that will stop being made because people can’t professionalize their craft.

You don't think it has any impact? Even on the margins? I think it's basically expected that musicians will give up some day and join the working world, in part because it's so hard to make a living in. If it's harder to make a living -> more people give up -> less music. If it's easier -> fewer people give up -> more music.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by bmicraft »

suprjami wrote: post #11

Have tried this several times but I find it drops off the network as a remote play device. If you have a PC with the Spotify app running, that appears as a remote play device to other clients. Otherwise I found ncspot to be more reliable than spotifyd: https://github.com/hrkfdn/ncspot/

I've used it for over a year but never that issue. Works perfect for me

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by meltedcapacitor »

iamacyborg wrote: post #29
richwater wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but honestly hasn't much improved the lot of artists and musicians As a consumer of music, why is this my problem?

This is a rhetorical question, right? If you consume music then surely, you want the artists and musicians you support to be paid fairly for their work.

Between dead artists and art-for-art-sake artists we're not gonna run out of stuff to listen to, even if intellectual property was abolished tomorrow morning (as it should be). It only works for the 1 percent at the top anyway (due to power law distribution).

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by 14u2c »

nyx_land wrote: post #46
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…

Some impressive cognitive dissonance here.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by bmicraft »

disintegore wrote: post #15
svnpenn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I‘m kind of amazed that this is still working. this is why: > Spotifyd requires a Spotify Premium account which is actually not true. you can change some code in the source, to allow playback on free accounts. Spotify hunts down anyone who posts code like that though

Isn't there a better way to do this? Rate limiting, splicing ads into the audio signal for non-paying users, providing a stable API for paying users only, etc. Beats siccing your lawyers on hapless geeks.

Spotify has a stable api for free users too (as can be seen by devices sold with that capability, it just isn't public). Splicing and rate limiting would clash with caching I would imagine

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by civopsec »

nyx_land wrote: post #46
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…

Exploit human psychology?

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by EMIRELADERO »

nzoschke wrote: post #16

Always great to see new ways to integrate with Spotify. I think that if you're paying for a Spotify Premium subscription you should be able to stream music wherever you want! However Spotify doesn't agree. If this is based on librespot its using stuff Spotify doesn't support and could easily shut down for unauthorized clients any time. Their supported paths are iOS and Android SDKs for mobile, and the Web Playback SD…

Is your web app open source?

Maybe this is just me, but I take an issue with projects that use GitHub's community features but don't publish their source code. Feels somewhat unfair.

Re: Spotifyd

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Post by acidburnNSA »

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.

After spotify forbade the last library that could do this, I took spotify out of my mopidy/snapcast whole-house audio system, cancelled my premium subscription, and have spent the same money buying albums in MP3 from Amazon ever since. So far so good.
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