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Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by dogma1138 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:03PM (#25922984)
That’s the only way to combat piracy, sadly Spotify is becoming worse and worse, they ruined radio a few years back and over the past year they’ve also ruined discover weekly and your daily mixes it’s the same songs on repeat now, and the mixes are just becoming weirder and weirder they seem to broken down genre barriers completely I have Weird Al, Rammstein and MCR popping up in the same daily mix.

They’ve stopped rotating their curated playlists and made discovering playlists more and more annoying.

I’ve stopped paying for Spotify because of that and now primarily use Amazon Music Unlimited for music on the go but it also now started to have issues with too tracks becoming unavailable day in and day out.

I wish Pandora would become available outside of the US or Spotify Stations (I don’t know if it’s good, I’ve used Pandora back when they didn’t geoblock their services) because I want to be able to discover music.

Since the lockdown in the UK I’ve went back to using Internet Radio, my Yamaha Music Cast receiver has a good directory and it’s so far been a much better daily listening experience than Spotify.

I might give Napster and Deezer a try since they are supported by my main music setup at home too.

Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by u678u on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:41PM (#25923625)
Actually dont forget Apple music, AI still aren't as good as actual DJs and curated lists
Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by dogma1138 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @01:44PM (#25932100)
I found Apple Music just as bad for discovery as Spotify in fact I was surprised that when I did the trial last year when I would start a station from an artist or a song I would get pretty much identical tracks to Spotify it was so weird that I am almost sure Apple had access to my listening history from using Spotify on my iPhone.

Amazon seems to work right now and I was pleasantly surprised that Spotify et al hasn’t killed internet radio yet.

Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by freeone3000 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:38AM (#25926539)
How would you get Apple Music playback on such a device? I've looked and I can't find anything for my phone, much less a non-mainstream client.
Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by arusahni on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @07:12AM (#25927267)
They have a web client. On Linux, I've used it within an Electron wrapper.

Their API (MusicKit) is decent, but the rate limiting is fairly onerous.

Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by krylon on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @03:33AM (#25925696)
This reminds me of how much I miss GrooveShark... ):