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Not that we should, but it's technically feasible to have a music streaming server with the torrent as the backend, and selectively download the part of the tor
by yegle 10mo ago
Not that we should, but it's technically feasible to have a music streaming server with the torrent as the backend, and selectively download the part of the torrent in respond to on-demand streaming request from the client.
- pjerem 10mo agoYeah we shouldn’t. But we may.
- nness 10mo agoa la "Popcorn Time."
- uhfraid 10mo agospotify used to do just that (stream p2p) until 2014 or so https://www.scribd.com/document/56651812/kreitz-spotify-kth11 https://www.scribd.com/document/56651812/kreitz-spotify-kth1...
- zanderz 10mo agoThe person who wrote this Spotify p2p software also wrote uTorrent, which was bought by the company bittorrent after they struggled to make a C++ client on their own. The original bittorrent implimentation was in python, but they re-skinned uTorrent as bittorrent and shipped both for a few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus
- johanyc 10mo agohttps://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify/kreitz-spotify_kth11.pdf https://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify/kreitz-spotify_kth11... KTH link is better than scribd for downloading. though academic links are sometimes prone to link rot.
- willio58 10mo agoI recently got into the whole homelab *arr stack for things like movies and tv and while I know options exist for music I just don’t see the need yet price-wise. Spotify is still just cheap enough for me to not care enough. We’ll see how long this holds. That being said it’s no secret Spotify and other streaming services barely pay even popular artists. Artists make money from live shows and merch. The fact that their music is behind a paywall at all could mean they make less money from some lack of exposure. I do hope one day self-hosting music with an extremely easy setup with torrenting for sourcing is set up again. What I’m talking about exists to some extent, but it’s not trivial for most people.
- justatdotin 10mo agofor me its the arms trade. Daniel Ek pours spotify wealth into next gen miltech. sometimes I worry that I don't know what music means to other people but I am certain that to me it is antithetical to war culture.
- DUDOS 10mo agoI feel like Ek receives a disproportional amount of hate for this. You have all these American CEO's pouring their investments in the American war machine (Palantir, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, etc) and no one bats an eye. Is it because this time it's going to a European company?
- anigbrowl 10mo agoNo, it's because Spotify is a consumer facing brand that people interact with daily and are aware of even if they don't use it. Also they're notorious for not paying artists well.
- justatdotin 10mo ago'LM are worse' is really not the strong vote of support you think it is. More than two things can be utterly disgusting at the very same time!
- veeti 10mo agoActually there are a whole lot of musicians who find pride in "punching nazis" so to speak, but you are entitled to your Russian sympathies.
- justatdotin 10mo agook I think I remember this one where disliking war means I side with whoever you think your enemy is today. I'm not american and I'm not interested in your ideas about who to kill.
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