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Yea it's tied somewhat to Google, but it's a simple easy to deploy puck that just works.
Not to suggest the hard work that's gone into this isn't awesome, because it is!
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…
> I assume that always going into auto-recommendation mode is intentional to juice playback stats. That’s one of my favorite features, sometimes I’m too distracted driving or doing something else to manage Spotify, but that doesn’t mean I want the background music to stop entirely.
But for a developer building a custom listening experience it needs to be completely optional.
Right now you literally can't build an experience that plays just one song and stops after because "radio" automatically kicks in. You need to do crazy hacks to pause the current song before it ends or enqueue a silent track and intercept that, if you don't want to occasionally hear a small bit of an unwanted radio song before correcting.
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.
What's wrong with using GH community features?
It's a side / passion project so no time or budget to build any support or community stuff. I considered GitHub, Reddit and Discord and all have pros/cons.
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> However Spotify doesn't agree. My naive assumption is that Spotify would love to, but the record labels don't agree.
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…
It's since evolved into something else, but it's not surprising that Tidal can get some unique deals due to its close industry ties.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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> 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.
If I had to guess I'd say it convinces artists to license their work for less money than they'd make if they stuck it on Bandcamp, but I'm not certain, and neither of you has explained it.
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…
It's built on RSpotify, which describes itself as:
> RSpotify is a wrapper for the Spotify Web API, inspired by spotipy. It includes support for all the authorization flows, and helper functions for all endpoints.