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19 votes
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Releasebot - A new release notification service I've been working on
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Pink Floyd, 'The Wizard of Oz,' and me
12 votes -
AI music videos repository - an Ignore Me thread
This will be a place that I use to gather all the cool AI music videos I can find. Everyone are welcome to join! To limit the scope somewhat, only videos where the visual is AI generated are...
This will be a place that I use to gather all the cool AI music videos I can find. Everyone are welcome to join!
To limit the scope somewhat, only videos where the visual is AI generated are included (so AI generated music isn't necessarily included). Please also keep each video in a separate comment so they can be voted on individually. Maybe by the end we will have a kind of Tildes best-of list.
Feel free to talk about each video in their replies or talk about general stuff here. This will be a work-in-progress so stuff may be a bit all over the place. Let me know if you have any suggestion.
This thread will likely be very spammy so please use the IGNORE button. On the other hand, if you think you may want to contribute some of your own finds in future dates, you can also 'Bookmark' (Fun fact: you can use both at the same time).
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Rocking Africa together: Triller & Boomplay are partnering to showcase Africa to the world
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Recommendations for music players for macOS
Hi everyone! I've been using Vox for about a year now to listen to music and while there are some good qualities to it, I'm honestly fed up with the lack of volume normalisation and having to...
Hi everyone!
I've been using Vox for about a year now to listen to music and while there are some good qualities to it, I'm honestly fed up with the lack of volume normalisation and having to constantly adjust my volume manually (There's heaps years old of threads on their forums requesting or complaining about this). So here I am looking for a replacement and was wondering if anyone has a setup that I could copy. Here are the requirements that I have:
- I can stream my own music library of high quality music (FLAC format).
- It provides volume normalisation.
- I can set my whole library to shuffle.
- Native macOS client.
I've been doing some looking around and so far the most likely solution will be for me to set up a Gonic server at home and use Strawberry Music Player on my laptop. A close second contender was Youtube music but they don't provide a native client and I currently use a combination of keyboard shortcuts and applescripts to manage playback (I found media keys insufficient but that's a topic for another post).
I am currently paying a subscription fee for Vox so I don't mind if I have to pay for the new player, I'd prefer a service like that for ease of use rather than rolling out my own.
Update
For posterity I'm posting what I ended up doing. I tried Roon and while it looked and felt amazing, the ability for streaming out of home is very limited, it's intended to stream within a local network. It appears you can only do remote streaming to a mobile device and requires a custom port to be forwarded, I wanted to put this behind a reverse proxy but was not able to do that (Seems it's not supported).
I did not try Plexamp, after all the work I did to get Gonic set up properly it felt like I was doing too much work myself to pay for a solution. Ideally I wanted something that would "just work" even if it wasn't free but no solution did that. If I had access to a free trial I would have probably tested it as well.
I already had Gonic working within my home network going into this but setup of it is still trivial. The bulk of the work came in setting a dynamic DNS set up, and a reverse proxy (NPM) inside my network to provide HTTPS support with Letsencrypt certificates for Gonic (It's only HTTP). I spend too much time trying to have a secure setup (Crowdsec + Cloudflare) but after ditching that, I'm still happy with it and looking at logs it does not appear there's any significant risk to my network (I'm also using a geoip block to outright block requests from some countries).
As far as clients go, I settled with Strawberry. Tried the following:- Sonixd: It had limited hotkey functionality and doesn't seem to be actively developed anymore.
- Submariner: Did not work.
- Clementine: Current version crashes on launch, rc version complaints about wrong credentials when connecting to the server.
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In addition to fake music, artificial intelligence has created a big new problem for Spotify – fake listeners
9 votes -
Streaming sites urged to stop AI from cloning pop stars
7 votes -
ABBA star Björn Ulvaeus believes avatars are the future after greeting one millionth attender at the group's hit show, Voyage
4 votes -
Colin Meloy had ChatGPT write a Decemberists song and then he recorded it
3 votes -
How bad is music gear from Wish.com?
4 votes -
Two C64s plus a pile of floppy disks equals one accordion
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How Muse Group made MuseScore 4 - Music app design is tricky
4 votes -
Taylor Swift fans are in the trenches against Ticketmaster
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Discover the hidden gems on Spotify that would never normally get surfaced with their algorithms
5 votes -
The woes of being addicted to streaming
9 votes -
The four members of ABBA made their first public appearance in fourteen years as they attended the premiere of their ABBA Voyage show in London
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Can ABBA really recreate the feel of a live concert using holograms forty-one years after their last set?
5 votes -
Lilja Alfreðsdóttir will meet with the CEO of Spotify this week to discuss the proliferation of “fake artists” posing as Icelandic musicians on the music streaming platform
12 votes -
The first ever drum machine you could buy - 1959 Wurlitzer Sideman
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Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels - In the Pacific Northwest 70-plus years ago, a telephone-based jukebox connected callers to their favorite tunes
3 votes -
In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance
10 votes -
How 1995's Macintosh NY Music Fest 'livestreamed' twenty-five years ahead of its time
3 votes -
The last cassette player standing
2 votes -
Where to get music in a downloadable format (other than iTunes)?
So currently I get most of my music from soundtracks ripped from games and from Bandicamp. However, quite a few artists that go through traditional publishers are not on Bandicamp. Now, while I...
So currently I get most of my music from soundtracks ripped from games and from Bandicamp. However, quite a few artists that go through traditional publishers are not on Bandicamp.
Now, while I could go through the hassle of installing iTunes on Linux through WINE, I dont want to because:
- WINE can be a hassle, especially if the app does some strange things.
- Id rather not support apple in any way if I can
So, are there any major platforms that allow downloading .mp3 or better yet, .flac files, especially for artists going through bigger publishers?
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RIP Google Play Music, 2011–2020 - A look back at the nine-year life of Google's music service
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How do you organize your downloaded music library?
Recently, this post was brought back to the front page with some fresh replies and it got me wondering how those of you with large (digital) music libraries organize them? I'm not very tech savvy...
Recently, this post was brought back to the front page with some fresh replies and it got me wondering how those of you with large (digital) music libraries organize them?
I'm not very tech savvy so I primarily just have my modestly sized library saved in folders by artist, but that leads to some folders only having one song in them which can be annoying to navigate when I need to. I have been thinking about just having all my songs dumped into one folder, since I'm able to filter them by artist/album in Foobar anyway.
9 votes -
We asked thirteen artists how Spotify's 'Tip Jar' is working out for them
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Music software and interface design: Steinberg's Dorico
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What has your experience been like buying digital music?
I've been wanting to buy some music recently from some artists that are only available through places like Amazon, iTunes, Google Play... However, I have specifically stayed away from most of...
I've been wanting to buy some music recently from some artists that are only available through places like Amazon, iTunes, Google Play... However, I have specifically stayed away from most of these platforms for various reasons, the primary one being that I prefer Bandcamp over all of them (and up to now I never had the need to go anywhere else anyway).
So my question is, have you bought any music from these types of platforms online and what was the experience like?
Some specifics for what I'm personally looking to get out of this topic (you don't have to answer these if you don't want to, general experiences are fine too):
- Can I buy music through my browser alone? This one's primarily aimed at iTunes, because when I go to Apple Music and click on the "Also available in the iTunes Store" button for a particular song or album, nothing happens. So I'm assuming it's trying to launch iTunes which I don't have installed.
- Is the music available in multiple audio formats and can I pick whichever one I want after purchase? This is what I like a lot about Bandcamp, you buy the music once and it gives you a bunch of different audio formats to choose from.
- Did the audio files come with metadata and cover art attached (and were they accurate)? This one's not a big deal overall since stuff like Picard exists, but it's just a nice thing to not need to worry about.
12 votes -
YACHT's new album Chain Tripping was created by inventing their own machine-learning-based composition process and applying it to their back catalogue
6 votes -
Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
7 votes -
Seven ways music exposes our feelings about technology
3 votes -
A look at the revival of the reel to reel tape format
4 votes -
Demand for cassettes surges as music fans hit rewind
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A nostalgic look back at digital music piracy in the 2000s
7 votes -
Dead musicians are touring again, as holograms. It's tricky — technologically and legally
5 votes -
Amy Winehouse hologram to start touring in 2019
13 votes -
Something needs to be done about Spotify's atrocious new update
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How do you listen to music?
Primarily I use spotify premium since I am a student and get the sweet sweet $5 discount. I also tend to by vinyl records of albums that I have been listening to a lot so that I can help the...
Primarily I use spotify premium since I am a student and get the sweet sweet $5 discount. I also tend to by vinyl records of albums that I have been listening to a lot so that I can help the musician/band. It's pretty nice because most vinyl comes with a digital download, so I can have a pretty high quality version on my computer. What clients do you use to stream music? Do you buy music? What do you think is the best way of obtaining music that is not pirating?
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What do you guys use to listen to your music?
From speakers to earphones, how do y’all enjoy your music? I wanna find out what kind of sick rigs that we have on here but also wanna know how many of us aren’t into audio equipment but are super...
From speakers to earphones, how do y’all enjoy your music? I wanna find out what kind of sick rigs that we have on here but also wanna know how many of us aren’t into audio equipment but are super into music.
13 votes -
The guy who produced Kendrick Lamar's best new track did it all on his iPhone
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beets: the music geek's media organizer
8 votes