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73 votes
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Spotify has added audiobooks to its subscription model – reaching millions of people, it may revolutionise the already booming audiobooks business
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Presenting a new (old) way to solve the "album problem" when streaming music
The "album problem" is, of course, the fact that our music listening habits have changed over the past decade and the value of a well-thought-out album is not nearly what it once was. This is in...
The "album problem" is, of course, the fact that our music listening habits have changed over the past decade and the value of a well-thought-out album is not nearly what it once was. This is in large part due to the fact that it's easy for people to create playlists with a billion different songs to choose from, recommendation algorithms, "Discovery Weekly" playlists, and whatever else the streaming services can throw at us.
I may not speak for all of us, but I've personally not been able to fully consume a new album for quite a while now, finding that I gravitate toward a few songs/singles that get dumped into a separate playlist. I don't like this and I miss the days that I would discover deep cuts in the back of an album that I listened to ad nauseum.
I present to you the "Six Disc Changer" playlist. The rules are simple:
- Create a new playlist in Spotify, Tidal, or your chosen platform. Call it "Six Disc Changer"
- Add six FULL albums to the playlist
- Force yourself to listen to the playlist -- maybe not exclusively -- but a fair amount. Imagine you're driving around in your 2002 Honda Civic and the only music available to you is what you've got in your CD changer.
- Any time you want to add a new album, you must remove an old album. You should only have six CDs loaded up at any time.
If you want to take the concept a few steps further...
- Any time you remove a CD, add it to a separate playlist called "CD Catalogue".
- Any time you want to add a new CD to the catalogue, you must "purchase" it with an "allowance" of your choosing. I'm going with 1 new album per week. You can swap out albums from your Catalogue playlist freely, but new albums must be "purchased." This will simulate scarcity, which was a large part of what drove us to listen to albums over and over again.
But... why?
My goal is to get back to listening to full albums and truly taking them in. The best way I can think of to do that is to simulate the way things used to be. By using a streaming service instead of, say, just going back to CDs or records, you get the benefits of convenience, Last.fm, easy Bluetooth, etc.
As for what's in my CD changer right now, I've got:
- Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
- The Antlers - Need Nothing
- Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
- Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
- George Harrison - Living in the Material World
- Bob Moses - Battle Lines
Is it dumb? Probably. It's been fun so far and my music listening experience has been much more focused.
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Spotify doesn't care about musicians
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Should I switch to Apple Music or stick with Spotify?
Spotify recently increased their price, making it the same price as Apple's service. I've had Spotify since 2016 (started with the free version), and got premium in 2018 when they had the college...
Spotify recently increased their price, making it the same price as Apple's service. I've had Spotify since 2016 (started with the free version), and got premium in 2018 when they had the college student deal where you would get that and Hulu for only five bucks a month. I've been an off and on Premium subscriber since 2019. Only re-subscribing to it when Spotify would send me offers to sign up for three months for the price of one. This is actually the first year that I've consistently had Spotify all year since I was in college.
But now that they're the same price I was wondering if I should switch over. I don't want to get into the whole quality thing and lossless (I don't even know what that is) but I haven't been happy with Spotify's algorithm for a while. Streaming services have always been how I discovered new music, going back to me using Pandora while I was in high school. But now Spotify keeps suggesting the same songs whenever it's on smart shuffle. For example, if I play a song from the late 60s or early 70s, I know the next song Spotify plays is going to be Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Whenever I play an indie pop song, like a Lana Del Rey song or something, I know that the next song is going to be Borderline by Tame Impala.
I'm kind of sick of it at this point, and I feel like it's limiting the scope of what I'm listening to. I'm not sure what Apple Music's algorithm is like, I've heard mixed things with some saying it's better than Spotify and others saying it's worse.
I'm also happy taking recommendations on other things to do or try with Spotify to correct this.
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Crunchyroll is now available as one of Amazon's Prime Video Channels
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Why Frasier needs longer seasons (and a network home)
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Is cinema dying? And if so, who is responsible? – A murder mystery
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‘Netflix effect’ returns as studios license old shows to their streaming rival
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Crunchyroll launches FAST platform for 24/7 live anime streaming
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Weird video playback issue
Specifications: Computer: Framework 13" DIY Edition. 32GB RAM 11th Gen i7-1185G7 Windows 11 Pro Browser: Brave Browser Current Version Displays: Samsung LC27JG50QQNZA Series Curved 27in HP VH240a...
Specifications:
Computer: Framework 13" DIY Edition.
- 32GB RAM
- 11th Gen i7-1185G7
- Windows 11 Pro
Browser: Brave Browser
- Current Version
Displays:
- Samsung LC27JG50QQNZA Series Curved 27in
- HP VH240a
Dock:
Issue:
Regardless of the website that I am on (I.e. Youtube, Twitch, Rumble, Netflix, etc.) my video stream will at random and only on my Samsung display will start to slide repeatedly to the left. The best way that I can describe it is to imagine taping a picture to a treadmill and setting to a highspeed setting. The image will move along with the treadmill. That's what the video feed does at random for some reason.- If I move it to the HP display it stops.
- sometimes when I move it back it continues and sometimes it doesn't.
- If I try and capture it via the built in screen recorder in windows it doesn't show up in the recording.
Have any of you had this experience or know what is causing this?
P.S. Thank you in advance for whoever corrects my tags and title which seams to happen evetime I post. I'm still trying to learn the correct way to post here on Tildes.
***EDIT***
All sorts of stuff is going on now...- My monitor also blinks now and then video starts to slide
- I've only gotten it to reproduce on Brave Browser.
- I put Firefox and Brave side by side when it started happening. When I clicked on the Firefox browser it stopped. Then when I clicked on to Brave browser it started again... Like WHAT!?
- With the browsers side by side the video on the brave browser started to slide again but now slid across both browsers...
- Every time I try to record it stops... It's mocking me at this point.
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Spotify (with OpenAI) is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages
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Daniel Ek says Spotify has no plans to completely ban content created by artificial intelligence from the music streaming platform
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Writers Guild reaches tentative agreement with studios and streamers
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Spotify is pulling select advertising privileges for white noise podcasts in a bid to boost the audio streaming company's annual profits
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What’s behind all the box office flops this year - and what lessons can Hollywood learn?
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The era of the original streaming movie is over
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‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ not going forward at Disney+ as part of content cost-cutting and strategy shift; being shopped by Paramount TV Studios
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Why streaming services are pushing subscribers to ad tiers
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TikTok’s plan to take on Spotify and Apple Music
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Amid streaming chaos, Dropout carves out its own niche
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The death spiral of Hollywood monopolies
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Spotify is raising the price of its single-account premium plan for the first time since 2011 and hiking other services as well
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Peacock lost $651 million from April to June
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They’re the names you don’t know. Hollywood’s ‘journeyman’ actors explain why they are striking.
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Netflix adds nearly six million subscribers amid password sharing crackdown in Q2
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Publish and subscribe are essential features for interservice communications
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Mike Flanagan on Netflix not releasing originals as physical media
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The playlistification of music
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Spotify music shows
Hello Tildes! Short term lurker, first time poster here. Please let me know if I did anything incorrect. Also, not sure if this is the best place to post this question but.... Recently, I stumbled...
Hello Tildes!
Short term lurker, first time poster here. Please let me know if I did anything incorrect. Also, not sure if this is the best place to post this question but....
Recently, I stumbled across a really slick Spotify music show called DnB All-Stars Radio (https://open.spotify.com/show/4WiHEU7mnT5n6uYRyTnWtv?si=5qFaxyvvRuSsO_tq3KPZFw) that I really enjoy. It's basically a DJ mix for Drum and Bass music. This type of show is easy to find on SoundCloud and other various websites but I really love the format Spotify has created. It's a nice mashup of audiobook, podcast, and music playlist.
Does anyone know how to find more content like this on Spotify? Given DnB is generally a nieche genre of bass music, I'm feeling like there should be more shows like this. I've looked under podcasts, audiobooks and artists, but I can't seem to find anything similar.
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Organizing self-hosted classical music collection
I'm currently using Navidrome to self-host my music collection, while using DSub to listen on-the-go. This works very well for most genres, except for the bulk of my music which is classical...
I'm currently using Navidrome to self-host my music collection, while using DSub to listen on-the-go.
This works very well for most genres, except for the bulk of my music which is classical music. This presents its own host of problems pertaining to cataloguing and using metadata, since there are often multiple recordings of the same musical composition, recorded by multiple conductors with different orchestras and/or soloists. There may also be different instrumental arrangements of the same musical piece. Merely sorting by "Artist" is therefore quite unsatisfactory in this scenario.
Some streaming services have come up with quite satisfying solutions in my experience (notably Apple Music Classical and Idagio), but I am not sure how to go about listening to my own self-hosted classical music.
Is anybody here on Tildes familiar with this organizational problem? I would be very eager to hear how you have tackled this. Is there any self-hosted software more suitable to cataloguing musical collections with extensive metadata?
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Netflix has quietly removed its basic streaming plan from Canada
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‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’, ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’, ‘The Game’ & ‘Queen of the Universe’ canceled at Paramount+ as streamer pulls shows from service and takes content write-down
13 votes -
Spotify’s podcast plan is going off the rails
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Warner Bros. Discovery in talks to license HBO original series to Netflix
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Denmark is the latest European country to push for a levy on streamers' local turnover to fund local TV and film content
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Rocking Africa together: Triller & Boomplay are partnering to showcase Africa to the world
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The Wild West of streaming TV is here and it’s free. Welcome to FAST: The free, ad-supported, streaming television bargain bin.
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Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint – coming more than four years after a complaint was lodged by noyb
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Comcast introduces NOW TV as a cable alternative
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Netflix subscriptions jump as US password-sharing crackdown begins
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Disney removes dozens of series from Disney+ and Hulu, including ‘Big Shot’, ‘Willow’, ‘Y’ and ‘Dollface’
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‘Dungeons & Dragons’ gets a second roll of the dice in streaming
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Sharp rise in piracy rates across Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway – Mediavision has been tracking citizens' piracy habits across the Nordics since 2010
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This free TV comes with two screens - Would you give up your data in exchange for a free TV?
13 votes -
Time to break up Hollywood
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Hulu and Disney+ content to be combined in one app, services to stay separate
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In addition to fake music, artificial intelligence has created a big new problem for Spotify – fake listeners
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Streaming sites urged to stop AI from cloning pop stars
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Spotify breaks down the mapping tech behind its algorithm | The Tech Behind
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