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It's small ~10mb. Yes, takes a bit more memory, but it plays all your local files including rarer things like FLAC + Cue, midi and all the tracker files you could want!
And includes a bunch of viz - and you can write your own too.
It doesn't do Winamp skins; decided I wanted to add more than they could support.
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I'm going to sound harsh here, but please don't take this as criticism of the effort, it's criticism of how it's being portrayed. The quality might for all intents be great and useful. > But I built this for myself out of frustration with the official client But you didn't build it. This is akin to me telling an intern to build me a widget and then claiming it was me who built it. Or a construction manager saying the…
The construction manager can’t say they built a skyscraper? In that only for someone who personally laid every brick and ran every wire?
https://quad9.net/result/?url=fastpotify.rocks#domain-tester
ThreatStop lists the following info:
Severity Level: 5 of 5 Confidence Level: 5 of 5 Risk Level: 4 of 5
I assume this is a false positive, but who can be sure in this day and age...
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Why is spotify so popular? There are different solutions to listen to music. What does spotify do that almost no one else does? Is it the music library or something else? I use youtube music, but I am looking for alternatives (but not spotify for various reasons).
Another reason why they are so popular is that they were first to market. They’ve been good enough that they have not lost first mover advantage that other first movers often lose (MySpace for example)
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The construction manager can’t say they built a skyscraper? In that only for someone who personally laid every brick and ran every wire?
No they can't. The construction crew - which includes the manager - can say that they built a skyscraper. If the construction manager did lay the bricks or did the majority of the work in all aspects, they could claim to have built a building. Otherwise they contributed work, no denying that, but they can't claim credit for building it. Same way that architects can't claim they built the skyscraper, even though they…
The first entry for "build" in the OED is: To construct, put up, erect (a house or other dwelling or building); to construct (a permanent static structure such as a wall, bridge, or architectural feature, a road or railway, etc.). Also: to commission, finance, direct, or oversee the construction of (something of this type).
The most user hostile part about Spotify though, is that you can't just thumbs down a song and never hear it again. Why the fuck would I want you to "not recommend it for 30 days" if I'm telling you I dislike it?
If I didn't lock in a bundle deal years ago that I still can't pass up, I wouldn't use it at all. As of now though, it's relegated to my backup player for when I can't find a song on YT Music or Qobuz.
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Those numbers only look good in comparison.
I don't see you publishing something which further reduces the memory footprint? Given the project is open source, have at it! See if you can help improve it instead of complaining. This is a significant improvement and a cool project!
Even that seems pretty high, but whatever, but given y'all are spending hundreds of mbs, I think I'm ok. Yes, spotify has features my subscription music service doesn't have... but the one I use lets me stream with Winamp.
I might be misremembering, but I swear when Spotify launched it was a big revelation at the time because the client was super fast and playback was almost instantaneous. This was a big deal as other music players like iTunes were bloated. Obviously streaming was the big selling point, something that iTunes didn’t offer at the time, but I swear the client was written in some native UI framework, along with the C/C++ l…
Ludvig Strigeus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus?wprov=sfti1 wrote the original client, and fast, lean, native clients was his modus operandi. OpenTTD and uTorrent were both built the same way. I’ve been wondering on and off over the years why Spotify abandoned it. My guess is that it was hard to scale that approach and that a hybrid browser client was easier to scale when there are many different engine…
The calibre went from extremely high to surprisingly average within a decade. Not bad, to be clear, but kinda mid. I think they scaled too quickly and hit the 'bozo effect'.
Yes, anecdotal.
I hacked the official client apart to hide some bullshit (like podcasts) and fix bugs that were pissing me off. Shared it exactly once and it stopped working within a month. Bugs were still there too I stopped sharing after that.
Have you seen Spicetify[0]? It allows for this kind of stuff and seems to be a lot more stable than doing it all manually. [0] https://spicetify.app/