Spotify is in the process of killing the librespot project that this and most third party Spotify players are built on. I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end. I’ve migrated to a self hosted library with streaming and radio for discovery. I hope we’ll see many projects in the space flourish. Many, like Navidrome and the whole OpenSubsonic ecosystem, seem to be doing quite well.
wilted-iris
Spotify used to use Qt for its desktop client. Good times.
fishgoesblub
Fuck Spotify. Even if you don't care about the ethics of Daniel Ek's investments, the platform itself is crap. One of the lowest paying to artists, not paying at all unless they hit a threshold, and the catalogue is filling up with AI slop, which they push on users via 'radio' and 'mix' playlists, so they can pay even less royalties. No, thanks.
Walf
Another site tricking users willing to look at the code into starting the repo instead.
How desperate do you need to be to resort to this?
rixed
It supports WinAmp skins too… Dare I say it?
zoky
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.
monster_truck
It takes five minutes to make a website look less obviously AI-generated.
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wilted-iris
fishgoesblub
Walf
How desperate do you need to be to resort to this?
rixed
zoky
I stopped sharing after that.
monster_truck
ralfhn