• @[email protected]
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    125 hours ago

    Last week I set up Navidrome on my PC, and connect to it with an app (Tempo) on my phone.

    It’s like having my own Spotify. Snappier too.

      • @ilhamagh
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        31 hour ago

        Youtube ? I get recommended to new artists all the time even when not watching a music video, but following showcase channel grants better results I think (Tiny Desk, Audiotree, First Take just to name a few)

      • @[email protected]
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        150 minutes ago

        Most of my tracks have been collected over time, through various different methods. Most recently I’ve been buying digital copies of albums I like when streamed (usually YouTube Music provides a nice way to sample them this way).

        However some artists spend their entire careers trying to remove a rib, yet their music sounds good so I usually Torrent those.

        • Rolling Resistance
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          No-no, I’m not asking about how you get the files, I’m asking about how you find new music (e.g. a song of an artist you don’t know that is similar to the ones you listen to, or a new album of one of the bands you like).

    • Sunny' 🌻
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      33 hours ago

      Same here!! Been absolutely fantastic so far. Although I have to remake my playlists, totally worth it considering Spotify is only getting worse and worse each year. Discovered late last night that Navidrome supports smart playlists, so will play around a little with that.

      Thought I’d make a Lemmy post about the whole transition when I’m completely done migrating 😊

      • @[email protected]
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        153 minutes ago

        I’m a bit busy to post about the transition myself, though I’ll definitely upvote yours when I see it in the feed :)

        I like that some apps provide different things, like Tempo straight away gave me a page where I could select by genre and so on. It’s great having this freedom.

  • @Mostly_Gristle
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    346 hours ago

    And while we’re on the subject, if Spotify could also stop lumping several artists of the same name together on the same profile, that’d be great. There’s an old surf-rock band called the Astronauts that I listen to sometimes, and at one point there were albums from at least four different bands included on their discography page. There’s still at least two.

    • @mPony
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      85 hours ago

      There’s a kid calling himself Prince.

      No.

      • @Mostly_Gristle
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        34 hours ago

        I keep getting served some supremely mediocre eastern European hip-hop in Release Radar and other Spotify-generated playlists because of some guy who performs as Devo. Same with guys performing as Slayer, Poe, etc.

        A lot of the time they’re listed on the track along with two or three other people, so I go to the pages of those associated acts and tap the “don’t play this artist” option in the three dots menu, and that usually cuts down on how much I see them in my feeds. At least until they do a new collab.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 hours ago

      At least you can have separate pages for artists with the same name on streaming services, it’s been a nightmare on last.fm since it’s/audioscrobbler’s inception. I know, I know, what year is it?!

    • Kairos
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      16 hours ago

      If its any consolation every streaming service has this problem.

  • @JustARaccoon
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    97 hours ago

    I saw this when I was confused how SAMURAI, the fake band from cyberpunk, suddenly got a new album release, and yet it didn’t sound anything like the rest of their songs

  • @vzq
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    3810 hours ago

    Most systems were designed with the assumption they would not be deployed in an adversarial environment.

    But capitalism makes everything an adversarial environment.

    • @mPony
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      45 hours ago

      Them’s fightin’ words.

    • @[email protected]
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      17 hours ago

      People look to find vulnerabilities in systems for fun, it’s not necessarily because of capitalism.

      • Rolling Resistance
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        42 hours ago

        It’s right there in the article.

        According to McDonald, “streaming music fraud is not, to be brutally honest, the most glamorous or profitable form of villainy” because “streaming rewards accumulate in tiny micro-transactions.” The only way to get rich is to scale the shady streaming by becoming a business—it seems possible due to similarities in thousands of fake album designs that all the labels McDonald flagged could be under one licensor—but even then, “the larger the scale, the easier it is to detect,” McDonald suggested.

  • paraphrand
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    1511 hours ago

    Moderation is always understaffed, in one way or another.

    • @yamanii
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      140 minutes ago

      More like non-existent.