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Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by zouhair »

troupo wrote: post #197
fsckboy wrote: post #173

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> The thing is, this doesn't even seem particularly useful for average consumer it's an archive to defend against Spotify going away. Remember when Netflix had everything, and then that eroded and now you can only rely on stuff that Netflix produced itself? the average consumer will flock when Spotify ultimately enshitifies

Netflix didn't lose content by choice. Actual right holders decided to pull their content and create rival services. Has nothing to do with perceived enshittification by Netflix (even though they have enshittification too). Spotify is under the same threat: they have no content that they own. Everything is licensed.

Dude, as of now Netflix cancelled 263 shows[0], I have no idea where this idea of not having a choice is coming from.

[0]: https://simkl.com/5743957/list/59981/cancelled-tv-shows-netf...

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by soundsgoodman »

You need to seriously re-think this...

Releasing indie music, like really low-level indie music, for free in the name of "preservation" is so misguided.

Don't do this. You will only end up hurting the artists who rely on paid downloads.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by justatdotin »

DUDOS wrote: post #390
justatdotin wrote: post #250

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for me its the arms trade. Daniel Ek pours spotify wealth into next gen miltech. sometimes I worry that I don't know what music means to other people but I am certain that to me it is antithetical to war culture.

I feel like Ek receives a disproportional amount of hate for this. You have all these American CEO's pouring their investments in the American war machine (Palantir, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, etc) and no one bats an eye. Is it because this time it's going to a European company?

'LM are worse' is really not the strong vote of support you think it is.

More than two things can be utterly disgusting at the very same time!

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by SamuelAdams »

david_p wrote: post #367
Narushia wrote: post #233

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It's Redacted.sh, a.k.a. RED. They have around three million torrents. But like What.CD, Redacted.sh is a private tracker, so you can't just jump in and see the content.

Thank you. I’m reading about them, cool project. I’ll try to join.

It is worth noting that RED is particularly difficult to get a decent ratio on. Spend some time googling reddit posts, there are plenty of examples of people not being able to build solid ratios due to competing with scripted bots.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by RickyLahey »

venturecruelty wrote: post #609
crazygringo wrote: post #302

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This is where ChatGPT shines. Just ask it to write you a script, it'll give you all the instructions. I've used ChatGPT to write a whole bunch of playlist logic scripts (e.g. create a playlist that takes tracks from playlists A, B and C, but exclude tracks in playlist D.)

You can also do this with your human brain, which doesn't require 1 MWh or a thousand gallons of water to write a script to pipe API results to jq.

right but i'd rather watch rupaul drag race for the 100th time than write boring code

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by nsteel »

Retr0id wrote: post #676
nsteel wrote: post #665

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I believe that changed recently and Spotify started blocking the key requests from free accounts.

Then how do people with free accounts listen to music lol (It is plausible they added some new DRM but it's not going to be anything too crazy)

Their official clients have moved over to playplay DRM protection for non-lossless files too. The old key endpoints no longer work for free accounts, they must have added a server-side check.

Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by n07fr0mh34r3 »

locusofself wrote: post #573
linhns wrote: post #378

Unlike books, which are massively overpriced, this will hurt artists a lot as they need the fees paid by Spotify to make ends meet.

I hate spotify as a company but I agree, at least in my case, a large share of my wife's income comes from spotify.

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Re: Backing up Spotify

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Post by asacrowflies »

bekindtoartists wrote: post #614

I’m hugely disappointed in Anna’s archive. As much as they believed they were doing this for good, they have now allowed bad faith actors to obtain all music for AI gen. This is just horrific for all artists out there who are fighting against so many issues that impact their creativity and sustainability. Why not just digest the data and not allow the music out there. As usual artists get fucked over.

Any serious player with ai training already had this data. This is just evening the playing field .
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