Tag: Spotify
Playlist of the month: football songs
In honour of the England Men's team making the Football World Cup Semi-Finals for only the fourth time ever, this month's playlist is all about football songs. I haven't been watching the games - mainly because they're mostly on late at night or early in the morning UK time, but also because England tend to...
Creating a bedtime button in Home Assistant
To help our ten-year-old get to sleep, we play some sleepy music in their bedroom each night. I've now automated this, using Home Assistant and a Zigbee scene button, so a single button press starts the automation and plays the correct Spotify playlist. Here's how I went about it. The button I bought the button...
KI-Musik: Tidal wird nicht bezahlen
Das Internet ist verseucht mit KI-Musik. Zigtausende Tracks, die nur durch Absetzen von Befehlen entstanden sind, werden täglich hochgeladen. Bei Spotify sollst du jetzt sogar "eigene" Remixe deiner "Lieblingstracks" mit KI machen können. Haben die alle Lack gesoffen? Gerade bei letzterem wird doch klar, dass die Rechte von Künstlern vollkommen scheißegal geworden sind. Und Tidal?...
Playlist of the month: I feel better
Seeing as last month's playlist was a bit of a downer, this month's is all about feeling better and regaining strength as I slowly get back to normal. As usual, you can follow it on Spotify. "I Feel Better" by Hot Chip. Honestly the main reason for including this is the bizarre music video, directed...
Top Of The World: Die vergessene Single
Ich habe vor ziemlich genau einem Jahr meine Single "Top Of The World" über Ditto Music veröffentlicht. Und ich habe nie darüber gebloggt? Zumindest habe ich nichts dazu im Blog gefunden. Vielleicht habe ich die Nummer irgendwann mal erwähnt. Aber einen direkten Artikel wie sonst zu meinen Veröffentlichungen gibt es hier nicht. Ich habe keinen...
Malachite
Import your Last.fm and Spotify listening history to the AT Protocol network using the fm.teal.alpha.feed.play lexicon.
My 2,718281828459045235 Cents - Streaming war mal cool
Eine kritische Betrachtung der Entwicklung von Streaming-Diensten, steigender Kosten, Werbung, Lizenzproblemen und der Qualität von Inhalten.
Mood Machine
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today’s highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Building on her years of wide-ranging reporting on streaming, music journalist Liz Pelly details the consequences of the Spotify model by examining both sides of what the company calls its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all. The music business is notoriously opaque, but here Pelly lifts the veil on major stories like streaming services filling popular playlists with low-cost stock music and the rise of new payola-like practices. For all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, Pelly also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models, pointing toward what must be done collectively to revalue music and create sustainable systems. A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music, Mood Machine will change the way you think about and listen to music.
The amount of money Spotify makes should be close to zero
It's been increasingly clear lately that Spotify only cares about music inasmuch as they can profit from it. They're not overly concerned with payouts to artists or artists themselves — they're a business, right?
Renting your music means accepting that it will disappear
When I was using Apple Music I had a smart playlist that would surface music that was no longer available on the service and having to do that sums up one of the many problems with music streaming services. It's not really your collection — you're renting it and your collection only exists on that service. If it disappears, your collection disappears.
Using Generative AI to produce Spotify Clips
In this blog post, I discuss how you might use Generative AI models like VideoPoet to generate short video clips like Spotify Clips. Using DALL-E as a proxy, I show the general workflow in practice for the song A Hundred Dead and Loving Souls by Chicano Batman
Vergleich: Was zahlen Streaming-Dienste an Künstler?
Streaming-Dienst ø $ / Stream # Streams / $1 $ / 1 Mio. Streams Napster 0,01900 53 19.000 Tidal 0,01284 78 12.840 Apple Music 0,00783 128 7.830 Deezer 0,00640 156 6.400 Spotify 0,00437 229 4.370…
#DeleteSpotify
Was mich an Spotify schon immer gestört hat, sind diese unsäglichen Podcast-„Folgen für dich“-Empfehlungen, die die halbe Startseite einnehmen und die sich unter keinen Umständen entfernen lassen…
Tweaking Spotify For Podcasters Feature Flags
Using Fiddler to intercept and modify Spotify for Podcasters API responses, flipping experimental feature flags inside the podcaster dashboard.
Behind The Spotify Wrapped API Scenes
Reverse-engineering the Spotify Wrapped API to understand how the year-in-review story is assembled from listening data and rendered client-side.
Sonos-Box mit Hue Dimmer Switch über Home Assistant steuern
Die „Sender“ der Sonos-Box in unserer Küche waren bisher immer nur umständlich per App zu wechseln – auch die unter Regalbrettern angeklebten NFC-Tags machten es nicht wirklich einfacher. Bis ich…
Home Assistant iOS-Aktionen für Sonos-Lautsprecher
In macOS Catalina sind die Dashboard-Widgets, einst vorgestellt in Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) und von mir täglich genutzt, bedauerlicherweise dem Rotstift zum Opfer gefallen. Ein Schicksal, dass die…
Virtual Crate Digging
Being a collector of physical media (mostly vinyl) in the digital age changes the experience to some degree. Much of it comes down to the all-knowing algorithm.
Spotify begins to gain leverage in its relationship with labels
Spotify has done a lot to make music more accessible and available since it first launched. It's spent a lot of time since its launch beholden to labels and content providers so anything it can do, at this point, to gain leverage over those providers is only going to benefit it, and its users, in the long term.