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12 votes
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MuseNet, a deep neural network that can generate four-minute musical compositions with ten different instruments
6 votes -
Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015
22 votes -
Apple denies Spotify's "unfair play" claim
12 votes -
Spotify are asking the European Commission to stop Apple's anti-competitive behaviour
9 votes -
Spotify launches in India amidst legal battle with Warner
6 votes -
What equipment do I need to record for streaming?
Hello! I’m a musician that’s looking into recording video of myself as I’m playing at my home and then uploading it to YouTube. I was wondering if there were any users out there that do something...
Hello!
I’m a musician that’s looking into recording video of myself as I’m playing at my home and then uploading it to YouTube. I was wondering if there were any users out there that do something similar and what type of setup you have/would suggest if there are. I play acoustic, no electronic pickup.
I appreciate any suggestions and hope everyone has a great day!
13 votes -
I'm downsizing my digital life. Do you listen to a lot of music? How do you archive it?
I'm downsizing my digital life. I deleted my account on reddit, on another phpbb forum and i don't have instagram/facebook apps anymore. This subject got me thinking about my music. I grab/buy...
I'm downsizing my digital life. I deleted my account on reddit, on another phpbb forum and i don't have instagram/facebook apps anymore.
This subject got me thinking about my music.
I grab/buy albums in mp3 and i have so many that it's impossible to listen to everything. I don't pay for any service like spotify because i don't like. I prefer to download and/or buy in places like bandcamp where i can download the album.
I started reading about other codecs like flac and opus. The availability of albums in flac are way less than mp3 and it's a lossless format. If i focus on it i will be forced to downsize my music library.
The problem is disk space in my smartphone. I'm not an audiophile so i'm not able to hear the difference between flac and 320kpbs mp3. This is where opus enters. This codec gives half the size with better quality than mp3. Soundcloud uses it. A 96kbps opus is the same quality as 320kbps mp3.
Now that Android can play opus i don't see a reason to keep using mp3. The downside is converting flac files every time i want to put on my phone.
I could just convert flac to opus and just live with opus everywhere, freeing a lot of space. But i think keeping flac files is better for archiving because it's lossless. If opus for some reason disappears, i'll have a lossy format and would have convert to another one losing more quality.
How do you deal with music?
26 votes -
Spotify will now suspend or terminate accounts it finds are using ad blockers
55 votes -
Spotify is just $6.8 million away from profitability
9 votes -
I miss my iPod Classic more than anything
8 votes -
Spotify user requests GDPR data, gets 250 MB of extremely detailed data, down to the headphone brand.
@steipete: Tried the GDPR data export from Spotify. By default, you get like 6 JSON files with almost nothing. After many emails and complaining and a month of waiting, I got a 250MB archive with basically EVERY INTERACTION I ever did with any Spotify client, all my searches. Everything.
34 votes -
YouTube faces paying billions to music stars after copyright vote
6 votes -
YouTube faces paying billions to music stars after copyright vote
1 vote -
Apple is starting a music publishing business. Huh?
4 votes -
My phone started to play the same thing my computer was when playing YouTube
Oddly all off a sudden, while I was watching a video, my phone started to play the same sound as my PC speakers. It was kinda of cool, like my phone was a second speaker. But it did it...
Oddly all off a sudden, while I was watching a video, my phone started to play the same sound as my PC speakers. It was kinda of cool, like my phone was a second speaker. But it did it automatically. Anyone else see this? I have access to YouTube music now so maybe that's a new feature or something?
edit: My device is Windows 10 PC using regular Chrome and Google Pixel XL (Android P)
7 votes -
The Lil Tay saga reaches its logical conclusion
11 votes -
YouTube Music is Google's latest stab at a Spotify rival
8 votes -
Spotify reports more paid users, continued losses
8 votes