dmca for what they're not distributing anything spotify can go fuck themselves
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Spotty what? Can't hear you guys over the music I am blasting on my Navidrome server
I'm going to try this. For what ever reason I can't use music files for Jellyfin and I basically gave up on it.
What kind of issues are you experiencing with Jellyfin? It has worked perfectly for me, but I see the sentiment repeated many times so I guess it's not that uncommon to experience issues. I run it via Docker, mount volumes like I do with other media types, and add properly tagged music in an Artist/Album directory hierarchy. No special tweaking.
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Jellyfin sucks for music streaming. It is also very picky with file permissions.
Have zero problems with Jellyfin as the Server, Symfonium as the client on mobile / music assistant for streaming to sonos at home
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Thanks for confirming. Felt like I was doing too much work to get it to not work.
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mpd and wireguard do the trick for me, but I'm a simple man with a nice uplink.
Bookmarked for future purposes. Thanks for the heads up!
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Had never heard of ReVanced before this looks amazing. I was just browsing their list of patches and there are some really great ones. Def gonna start using this. So thanks for sharing the link
The day revanced dies is the day I leave youtube.
Same, why pay when this also gives you sponsorblock, return dislike, dearrow, etc
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The name comes from the original tweak called YouTube Vanced after it got shut down. Vanced is Advanced without the Ad, which I thought was super clever.
The function I love is the thumbnail one, because I can't stand a lot of thumbnails on YouTube. Even my favourite channels have to do the stupid faces and the arrows for the algorithm. The patch changes it back to the frame in the midpoint of the video.
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Streisand effect at work, I see.
I don't know about everyone else, but patched Spotify stopped working months ago for me so this isn't a loss for me personally, but still, fuck Spotify
spotify has always been shitty tbh; given the choice between spotify and nothing, you're better off with nothing
Their desktop app is so bad. Slow and clunky.
Yet Another Electron Shit probably.
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It's still working for me. But I've been using plexamp a lot more lately instead.
This is bad because they will probably stop YouTube or give google more gusto to go after them too
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ReReVanced coming soon...
Such apps should be made by anonymous accounts. Good luck sending a DMCA to them
yup not staying unreachable is literally the reason old vanced got taken down.
Soooooo
I want to get rid of my Spotify because the apps suck baaaadly. However, I have about 6000 something liked songs
How would I go about getting those off of Spotify and do some self hosting?
So if I’m not mistaken the route I took was to import my Spotify library to Lidarr > Let it freely torrent/download in the background (this can take a long time especially if what you’re torrenting isn’t very popular!) > setup the Spotify Import plugin for Jellyfin and let that automatically make your playlist an such however, in my experience this worked well for maybe 40% of my playlists (roughly 800 rap songs + 200 rock/metal) and the rest I downloaded with ytdlp and manually added in to my library, which sucked because it was so tedious but once I got it done I never had to do it again.
I got about 15k songs in my library all together but only listen to my playlists.
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I wouldn’t expect Spotify to just let people use premium services for free. Fuck Spotify, right there with y’all on that, but this isn’t egregious or unethical behavior for them.
Use Spotify since it has a free tier, for music discovery if you like, but get FLACs and self host. I like Plex for that and it works with what I use.
Music is actually one thing I will always pay for. I use Apple Music because they pay artists more and they offer better quality. And they don’t care, if you’re on a family plan, if not all your family lives with you. I also self host because backups are nice and I can’t access Apple Music at work. I can, however, access Plex. (It’s not that Apple is blocked. It’s that Apple requires 2FA and I can’t bring my iPhone into work.) But, point is either way, self host and stream everywhere. Sucks that Plex went up; I got Lifetime for $80 years ago. (Now it’s $250.)
nah fuck them; they pay their artists squat but pay millions to white supremacist conspiracy theorist podcasters
They also randomly delete albums and state increased playcount by AI as the reason for removal, and they also allow random dudes publishing remixes on your own artist profile, because there are no checks in place. You can just fill out the artist name in a text field and publish a song:
The artist KARRA recently made a video about it which went viral.
(She also made this meme release up top to prove how broken the system is.)
So fuck Spotify in every way you can. They don't deserve the money, since they're clearly doing nothing for the artists with it.
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Except that ReVanced is not distributing anything of Spotify's (to my knowledge). By patching Spotify's app on the user device instead of providing downloads to pre-patched apps, the only thing ReVanced is providing is their own code. The reason they use a patcher system is exactly to avoid frivilous abuses of DMCA such as this. They are not infringing Spotify's copyright in any way.
By patching Spotify’s app on the user device instead of providing downloads to pre-patched apps
Android's sideloading changes were done to end this, you cannot change my mind.
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If taking down other peoples' work on fake and easily abusable DMCA grounds "isn't egregious or unethical behavior", your opinion worth less than the dogshit it was written in
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Music is actually one thing I will always pay for. I use Apple Music because they pay artists more and they offer better quality.
If paying artists and hi-res audio are your primary metrics, why not Tidal or Qobuz?
@Calirath @cerebralhawks I'm all for paying for music that is worth listening to. That's why I buy CD's. Then I own it and I can do whatever I want with it.
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Seeking out legal advice in just one day is quite… minimal.
Yeah; that's not much time, and I'm not a lawyer, but this seems a complicated legal question. I just assumed any tool that circumvents any sort of digital lock would be hosting in countries that DGAF about US laws. Even better if they have a .onion address to avoid any network blocking attempts, like z-library.
Fuuuuuuck
And to top it off, YT Music stopped working for me, and has done the same for many others on some accounts (the revanced team thinks it's a/b testing from google).
I guess it's time to update my local music collection.
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