Switch out alternative streaming services with torrent links or alternatives ways to listen to the content. And you would actually have something here.
I Don't Have Spotify
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Re: I Don't Have Spotify
#52I have to deal with spotify links sent to me often and this is great. The better link would be to the actual service page, not github repo:
https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/
It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday.
Re: I Don't Have Spotify
#53I have to deal with spotify links sent to me often and this is great. The better link would be to the actual service page, not github repo: https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/ It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday.
> It would be fantastic to have this as an extension for us, Firefox users. I hope someone makes one someday.
If there's some easy way to figure out where that id parameter in the results page comes from (I assume some simple hash of the link), then you could probably even just make it a bookmarklet.
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#54I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?
Bandcamp, 7Digital and (extremely reluctantly) Amazon. The bigger the label the harder it is to buy music digitally.
also Bleep
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#55It would be fantastic if this site were a pwa that supported the chrome api [1] that lets you share directly to it on android. I would make a pr but my company owns all my ip and getting an exception takes months :( 1: https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-applicatio...
They probably don't, especially if you're in California. Employers love to intimidate with unenforceable terms in contracts.
In CA, the contracts often say something obnoxious to the effect of “we own all your IP except for the IP that the law says we don’t own.”
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#56I'd love to actually buy music and store it myself, as I've started noticing more and more that some of the songs I have on Spotify have started to disappear, but I find it very difficult to buy modern music anymore. Most gets released as singles, and as far as I know, to only streaming platforms. Is there a way to still buy the same kind of music that is on streaming platforms, and actually get the audio files?
I've been doing this, and here in Canada https://ca.7digital.com/ is literally the only option I've found that let's you buy normal MP3s, would highly recommend. I've been able to get modern albums without a hitch, but don't know about modern singles. I think in the US Amazon let's you buy MP3s, but not sure there. For the price of a Spotify subscription, I can usually buy a new album every month! Which is great; and…
If the store of your choice offers FLAC as an option (and I think they all do), you can simply make your own MP3s from the FLAC files. That's one of the biggest advantages of lossless audio. (The improvement in audio quality is actually pretty minimal, for most people.)
You can also keep the FLAC files to convert them to some future format later, or even do something really wild like burn them to a CD or something.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use a mix of Qobuz and Bandcamp and have been happy with them. https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop https://bandcamp.com/
Qobuz removed a range of releases a couple months ago at short notice, including from users' accounts. Hopefully their catalog remains strong as it's about the only online-only store with lossless that has a wide variety of mainstream artists. I'll also mention: Bleep.com, Boomkat, Ninja Tune (label that directly sells), Junodownload.
Yep, "Pink Martini - A Retrospective" was removed after I bought one song from it, when I click on the track in my library the error toast states "It's impossible to play this track. Thank you for trying another playback format."
But that's the whole point of buying it, mp3 is safely on my SD card, plays just fine
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#58It would be fantastic if this site were a pwa that supported the chrome api [1] that lets you share directly to it on android. I would make a pr but my company owns all my ip and getting an exception takes months :( 1: https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-applicatio...
They probably don't, especially if you're in California. Employers love to intimidate with unenforceable terms in contracts.
Unfortunately I live in Texas.
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#59It would be fantastic if this site were a pwa that supported the chrome api [1] that lets you share directly to it on android. I would make a pr but my company owns all my ip and getting an exception takes months :( 1: https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-applicatio...
I know it's a tough job market, but that's unacceptable! They won't change, but you shouldn't put up with that.
I'm not done trying to convince them. They're small enough that I think I have a legitimate chance.
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#60It would be fantastic if this site were a pwa that supported the chrome api [1] that lets you share directly to it on android. I would make a pr but my company owns all my ip and getting an exception takes months :( 1: https://chodounsky.com/2019/03/24/progressive-web-applicatio...
WTF I've never heard of this. I hope you're getting compensated well.
Unfortunately it's not uncommon here.