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Is anyone making a frontend player for the music Anna recently archived from Spotify? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would recommend against a new player when existing scriptable ones like vlc and mpv already exist.

Instead what I would do is a plugin for either, eventually repackaged as its own player (if somehow installing the script itself is too much for some) for which the script would

include a very small torrent client
point that client to the torrent (which AFAICT is still not public, so for now a reconfigurable URL)
include a search function that when it fails, proposes to search within the trimmed cleaned torrent metadata then does the torrent download then plays.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I want to upvote for your first half, but your second half is just leeching.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

You'd have settings for when to stop seeding, e.g. 1:1 ratio minimum, duration of the track xN, etc with a reasonable default. Suggestions welcomed.