Spotify wants this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sNsrwokPSY
That’s an hour long video without a timestamp bro ;-;
Tl;Dw?
I tried. Endured 10 minutes of a long intro and a lady selling her book saying “um like” every other two words…
I have no info to share.
I just run it on the TV through my Xbox for the cats
Do your cats have any favorite? I’ve noticed whenever i play alice in chains or type o negative my cat sits next to me and looks at the speaker.
They never seem to care but I listen to pretty chill stuff, Mitski, Courtney Barnett, Lucy Dacus. They probably just fall asleep
…doesn’t that just give them free advertising credits?
I really thought it said “nutting” instead of “muting”. I was so confused and the photo of Hank Hill did not help with that confusion.
RIAA assholes paying more to Spotify and some of that going to the artists isn’t the radical act of rebellion it’s painted to be, but still acceptable.
IIRC, Spotify watches the system volume and doesn’t pay for streams playing when it’s muted. Physically unplugging your speakers should work, though.
What if the volume is really low? That’s how I do it
If you have a desktop and not a laptop, it’s always a great idea to get a separate sound controller. Either a dac/amp for nice headphones, volume controls on a wireless headset, or even buy a sound mixer like the rodecaster duo so you can assign independent applications to each physical slider on the mixer. I do that last one and it’s such a quality of life improvement if you use your PC a lot.
All of these options can’t be seen from Spotify.
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you can assign independent applications > I know you can do this in windows without needing an extra sound controller it’s in ‘Settings>system>Sound>Volume Mixer’
Yeah, but separate physical controls are beneficial when you have full-screen apps, are busy, don’t want to lose your place, or if you need to do it more frequently and quickly than the sound mixer allows.
Linux largely has this too, but in both OS’s it’s less convenient than reaching over and quickly pressing a button or sliding a slider in many scenarios.
Of course if you just need to edit these infrequently then that’s a perfectly good solution and there’s no reason to spend any money at all.
I don’t think a site can view your system volume. They can however see if a tab is specifically muted https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/tabs/MutedInfo
I think the Spotify application may be able to, I assume this is what OP was talking about.
They might also be talking about muting volume in spotify app but im not really sure who does that in the first place
afaik Spotify(or any site) Cannot see if a tab is muted. The method you’re referring to is part of the tabs API, which can only be used by extensions that have been given permission to the tabs api
I was not expecting that mixer to be nearly $1,000 lol
Yeah that one is pricey, but you can certainly get cheap ones for a fraction of the price. Most people don’t need the one I have, and smaller ones can serve the same purpose.
I have a Zoom L12 for mixing/recording my synthesizers, PC system sound and additional PC audio interface. I got it used for $500.
You can get super cheap mixers as well, but the quality will probably be hit-or-miss. (Proper grounding and interference being the biggest issues.) I got lucky with a $40 4 channel mixer that I use when running too many synths and just need to route sound somehow.
I think if you just use voicemeeter and set it to a monitor as output that should work
Interesting, I actually just adjust the volume knob on my desktop speakers so I didn’t think of this when I wrote the meme.
But now I kinda wanna see if I can hijack this monitoring it does and fake 100% volume to the application at all times…hmm welp to the mile long project list it goes!
Cut the jack off a crappy earbuds, then stick the unconnected jack into your headphone port
https://www.midilifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/IMG_0008.jpg
I was on a team testing multimedia for a while and this was the solution for the big lab full of desktops and laptops running automated tests.
Jokes on you. They just dilute the royalty payment among all the artists you’ve streamed, so Spotify’s cut isn’t really bring affected.
Fun right?
Worse, they start injecting AI generated songs when you’re not paying attention and can keep more of the royalties for themselves
IIRC this is already happening, some people are reporting getting AI music in their auto playlists.
Even worse still: you’re supporting joe fuckin rogan and the payments music get from spotify are pitiful. you’d have done much better by the artist by cancelling spotify and buying an album or shirt or ticket.
What is a “spotify”?
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It’s an e-commerce platform.
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I always do this accidentally when my earphones’ battery runs out
Who… who are the corpos paying to?
Like $0.001 to some random artists, it seems.
I use Tidal instead of Spoofie
Same price, higher quality audio, and imo a better recommendation feed
I use tidal as well, just wish there was mobile/desktop sync
Why even use Spotify at all? Isn’t it like the worst option in terms of actually paying creators? Even YouTube Music is much better option imho, although the app is unresponsive and a UX nightmare.
Youtube is owned by google, who suck dick and are taking an active role in devolving democracy.
Spotify just sucks dick. Also support EU…everyone should move to deezer maybe.
Spotify supports rogan with those $$$$s. fuck that guy
Yeah the US sucks. The spotify app is getting worse and worse. I contacted them to disable the podcast autoplay video on the homescreen, after giving all my details and reasoning they untoggled and told.me to wipe and reinstall…no difference.
I am in the process of getting the family over to Deezer.
I dispise animated or live features on a homescreen.
Yeah the US sucks.
not going to argue, but, joe rogan is not the US.
I stopped streaming and just buy albums. crazy days
The YouTube music app has always been very snappy and responsive on my phone. I think the ui is slick although not always optimal to navigate while driving.
I use deezer, way easier to use downloaders to pirate music off of it, then deactivate my account when I’m not.
While that’s definitely true it’s not like there are any streaming platforms paying artists what they actually deserve. Other streaming services do payout slightly more per stream but they also don’t have the number of paying users Spotify has. So you’re likely going to make more off of spotify than any other service even if they do payout less per stream.
Not defending spotify though. Them and the record labels are absolute scum. Just making the point that if you want artists to benefit from you listening to their music just buy their music outright. Or go see them live if you can. Don’t stream it. Because streaming pays basically nothing no matter where you stream it from.
Spotify is worse not really beacuse it pays less but due to the way it pays the artist where all streams are pooled together. That incetivizes bot farms way too much and is the main reason i even tried anything else( tidal but i really didint like it so i got back ) . It really should have a model where your money goes to the artists you listened. In defence of spotify tho changing it is likely pain in the arse. Well not technicaly but i imagine they have countless contracts where the way of profit sahring is stated and would violate the agreement.
I think one of the allures of Spotify is a good algorithm which often recommends niche and small artists according to your taste Edit: after reading my comment it sounds like a fucking ad bot haha
Really. For a long time it’s kept giving me songs which I’ve heard a thousand times. I can’t seem to find anything new
I on the other hand find spotify recomendation to be fantastic generaly speaking. I for example dont see a world where braveride( small band from grece(?) with a few hundreds views per song at best , not without the reason. Audio quality is shit in their songs ,only the newest album actually was made in proper recording studio apparently , very cool nontheless ) would ever show up naturaly anywhere. Also its fairly varied so while it generaly tries to keep to your taste it sometimes does the same thing as youtube and throws something weird out of nothing. I like that. But yes as usual with algorithms it needs training so you will probably get garbage for a while( i got way too much rap for a while despite me barerly considering this as a music in the first place ), similar situation with new YouTube account. Im speaking only about discover weekly recomendations tho. I dont use anything else for recomendations in spotify.
Revenue is distributed proportionally as a percentage of revenue based on streams relative to other artists, not per stream
Just install YouTube music from revanced. No ads
They stopped paying out for that after Sleepify in 2014.
That was Vulfpeck, wasn’t it? I ought to get back into them.
