"There have been times where people are like, “I read your book and then I canceled Spotify and I got Apple Music!” That kind of misses a lot of the point that this book lands on..."
Thanks to @misty for pointing out the Mirlo mention! ❤️🐦⬛
#Streaming #Spotify #Music #DIY #DIYMusic #Indie #MoodMachine #LizPelly #HearingThings #Music #MusicNews #Musicians
"There have been times where people are like, “I read your book and then I canceled Spotify and I got Apple Music!” That kind of misses a lot of the point that this book lands on..."
Thanks to @misty for pointing out the Mirlo mention! ❤️🐦⬛
#Streaming #Spotify #Music #DIY #DIYMusic #Indie #MoodMachine #LizPelly #HearingThings #Music #MusicNews #Musicians
Shout out to #SearchEngine #Podcast for talking about the #Fediverse on their latest episode, bringing in more users and growing the network with people who like informative media. I always appreciate new users coming in!
Also welcome to @kevin and the new #Forkiverse instance they've started! Always nice to see new instances!
If you have #Spotify or #Apple accounts, please go hit the like button equivalent on their episode!
https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/
My fellow homelabbers: which sultion would you recommend if you would like to build a Spotify like Streaming Service for youre family with music you have in a local library?
Important would be that there is an App for at least iPhone/iPad and that things like smart playlists, multiuser etc ist supported so everybody could use the same big catalog but with its own playlists, favourits etc.
If have already found three projects which could be okay: Navidrome, Funkwhale and Koel.
Any thoughts about this? Which route would you go?
#homelab #selfhosting #spotify #navidrome #funkwhale #koel @homelab @homelab_de
Shout out to #SearchEngine #Podcast for talking about the #Fediverse on their latest episode, bringing in more users and growing the network with people who like informative media. I always appreciate new users coming in!
Also welcome to @kevin and the new #Forkiverse instance they've started! Always nice to see new instances!
If you have #Spotify or #Apple accounts, please go hit the like button equivalent on their episode!
https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/
Comme dirait le copain qui m'a partagé ça via Signal ce matin, « Joyeux Noël » : #spotify got hacked! #torrent #P2P #sharingiscaring
https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/115866011730558262
Not enough for me to go back to Spotify (cancelled a while ago, over Joe Rogan, treatment of musicians), but still nice to see.
My fellow homelabbers: which sultion would you recommend if you would like to build a Spotify like Streaming Service for youre family with music you have in a local library?
Important would be that there is an App for at least iPhone/iPad and that things like smart playlists, multiuser etc ist supported so everybody could use the same big catalog but with its own playlists, favourits etc.
If have already found three projects which could be okay: Navidrome, Funkwhale and Koel.
Any thoughts about this? Which route would you go?
#homelab #selfhosting #spotify #navidrome #funkwhale #koel @homelab @homelab_de
Check our this new single | "Not Doin’ Much" by The Luminaires | Retro Sixties Music at its best ! | Available on all major streaming platforms | Here is here on Spotify👇
https://open.spotify.com/album/0yVvAi7nmZs5iv4CciCxzD #music #Retro #retromode #TheLuminaires #spotify
This can be seen as a follow up to yesterday's post where I shared my Spotify Wrapped. As someone who is a fan of statistics, I soon missed Last.fm, which I quit some years a go, for a couple of reasons, with the most important one being they had two data breaches, which they tried to hide, and only admitted, once the passwords where available in databases on the darknet. Thanks, last.fm! Oh, and thanks again!
Someone who doesn't care the slightest bit about your data but wants to collect it all, is someone you shouldn't support. But whom am I telling this on the #fediverse?
The cool thing: Once I started missing it, a couple of year ago, I started looking for an alternative and found one in #listenbrainz - it's basically the same as last.fm, but it's community driven, open source, and your data belongs to you (you can donwload everything in JSON format, if you want to).
Plus, it is liked to #musicbrainz and uses the DB that many applications already use for tagging their music (open source and commercial alike!), and that is also community driven.
The great thing about listenbrainz, though: You can scrobbel from most open source applications you might use; so for me CDs and .opus files are automatically scrobbled. Plus, I have a clever player that also plays from a couple of online sources which also get scrobbled in turn: YouTube, BandCamp, SoundCloud. And there is support for Spotify as well. And last but not least: You can even manually scrobble, which I use for my Vinyl listens (whenever I don't forget 😄 ).
As you can see the image generation is not always the best, but it's actually a website, that you can share, like this: https://listenbrainz.org/user/pygospa/year-in-music/2025/
The cool thing are the interactive parts, like the world map, where you can click the countries, etc. And if you missed my last years, just scroll back to those years.
#spotify #wrapped #2025InReview #YearInMusic #music #lastfm
｢ The free tier forces shuffle after a certain amount of free choices. So while the tier might be free, your song choice is not. Although there are reports that Spotify supposedly got rid of this feature as of September 2025, I still encountered this restriction as of end of December 2025 ｣
https://layandreas.github.io/personal-blog/posts/how-spotify-made-me-self-host/
Credo di aver rotto l'algoritmo di Spotify 😂
Nel "wrapped" di fine anno mi ha detto che il genere che ascolto di più è Sea Shanties praticamente i canti dei marinai dei mercantili.
SPOILER: uso Spotify solo per ascoltare podcast che sono solo là sopra con account gratuito.
｢ The free tier forces shuffle after a certain amount of free choices. So while the tier might be free, your song choice is not. Although there are reports that Spotify supposedly got rid of this feature as of September 2025, I still encountered this restriction as of end of December 2025 ｣
https://layandreas.github.io/personal-blog/posts/how-spotify-made-me-self-host/
How Spotify Made Me Self Host
https://layandreas.github.io/personal-blog/posts/how-spotify-made-me-self-host/
#HackerNews #Spotify #Self-Hosting #PersonalBlog #TechJourney
If you are a punk ditching spotify, I highly recommend checking out the radio shows and podcasts directory on counterforce
http://the-counterforce.org/directory/radio-shows/
Blaster Caps, Cruel Noise, Equalizing Distort, and Prism are WEEKLY shows, if you check them out and then check out the bands you learn about and liked, thats a week's worth of listening easy.
Feel free to reply to this post with other punk podcasts and radio shows!
Hi Friends. I am interested in switching out of my #spotify subscription. I like their family plan and the platform in general, but I do *not* like the AI slop they're sneaking into my discovery (weekly new music) nor do I appreciate their majority shareholder funding war machinery development.
What are my options to switch for #music? What's the comparable but less-evil choice(s)?
Also appreciate #boosts to help get the input from far and wide.
This can be seen as a follow up to yesterday's post where I shared my Spotify Wrapped. As someone who is a fan of statistics, I soon missed Last.fm, which I quit some years a go, for a couple of reasons, with the most important one being they had two data breaches, which they tried to hide, and only admitted, once the passwords where available in databases on the darknet. Thanks, last.fm! Oh, and thanks again!
Someone who doesn't care the slightest bit about your data but wants to collect it all, is someone you shouldn't support. But whom am I telling this on the #fediverse?
The cool thing: Once I started missing it, a couple of year ago, I started looking for an alternative and found one in #listenbrainz - it's basically the same as last.fm, but it's community driven, open source, and your data belongs to you (you can donwload everything in JSON format, if you want to).
Plus, it is liked to #musicbrainz and uses the DB that many applications already use for tagging their music (open source and commercial alike!), and that is also community driven.
The great thing about listenbrainz, though: You can scrobbel from most open source applications you might use; so for me CDs and .opus files are automatically scrobbled. Plus, I have a clever player that also plays from a couple of online sources which also get scrobbled in turn: YouTube, BandCamp, SoundCloud. And there is support for Spotify as well. And last but not least: You can even manually scrobble, which I use for my Vinyl listens (whenever I don't forget 😄 ).
As you can see the image generation is not always the best, but it's actually a website, that you can share, like this: https://listenbrainz.org/user/pygospa/year-in-music/2025/
The cool thing are the interactive parts, like the world map, where you can click the countries, etc. And if you missed my last years, just scroll back to those years.
#spotify #wrapped #2025InReview #YearInMusic #music #lastfm
How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify
https://notes.xdavidhu.me/notes/how-i-archived-10-years-of-memories-using-spotify
#HackerNews #memories #Spotify #archiving #storytelling #personaljourney #music
