Hacker News with Generative AI: Music Streaming

DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets (musicweek.com)
Apple has introduced DJ with Apple Music, which enables Apple Music subscribers to build and mix sets directly from the streaming services catalogue.

Music Streaming, Apple Music, DJing, Music Production

199 points by CharlesW 7 days ago | 131 comments

BBC – Organizing music for organic discovery (bbc.co.uk)
Orbit is our pilot for a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song by exploring recently played tracks from BBC Introducing — the BBC’s platform for unsigned and undiscovered music.

Music Discovery, BBC, Music Streaming, Unsigned Music

38 points by PaulDavisThe1st 8 days ago | 4 comments

Vinyl record sales continue to rise amid music streaming's dominance (engadget.com)
Despite streaming services continuing to dominate the business of recorded music, there’s still very much a place for physical media in that sector.

Music Industry, Vinyl Records, Music Streaming

4 points by ksec 14 days ago | 0 comments

Spotify's biggest sin? Its algos pushed artists to make joyless, toothless music (theguardian.com)
In the hands of some of its most gifted practitioners, songwriting is a kind of emotional alchemy.

Music Industry, Music Streaming, Artificial Intelligence, Criticism

10 points by nickcotter 24 days ago | 3 comments

Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017) (torrentfreak.com)
Spotify is often credited as the music service most in tune with the 'pirate' mentality, having converted millions of former file-sharers in recent years. Interestingly, according to writer and researcher Rasmus Fleischer, a decade ago the site actually populated its beta with pirate MP3s, including some that were only available on The Pirate Bay.

Music Streaming, Piracy, Spotify, History, Music Industry

329 points by __natty__ 37 days ago | 253 comments

Spotify is not as cheap as it seems (newstatesman.com)
On Sunday 7 January 2024 at 8.06am, I listened to the 1998 Eurodance hit “Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!” by the Vengaboys.

Music Streaming, Spotify, Cost Analysis

6 points by New_Statesman 44 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Polaris, a self-hosted music streaming server in Rust (github.com/agersant)
Polaris is a self-hosted music streaming server, to enjoy your music collection from any computer or mobile device.

Self-Hosted, Music Streaming, Rust, Software

31 points by agersant 57 days ago | 8 comments

Goodbye, Slopify (alexeystar.com)
My Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify is finally poisoned by AI slop.

Music Streaming, Artificial Intelligence, Spotify

346 points by surprisetalk 64 days ago | 280 comments

Buh Bye Spotify (darko.audio)
The first order of business for 2025 was to cancel my Spotify Premium subscription.

Music Streaming, Subscription Services, Personal Finance

10 points by hnburnsy 82 days ago | 5 comments

Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server (github.com/blackcandy-org)
Black Candy is a self-hosted music streaming server, your personal music center.

Music Streaming, Software, Open Source

697 points by nateb2022 98 days ago | 297 comments

The day I canceled my Spotify subscription (raed.dev)
I used to be a big fan of Spotify. I was such a fan that I went to extraordinary lengths to get access to it while I lived in Tunisia, years before I was technically allowed to use it there.

Music Streaming, Personal Opinion, Technology

24 points by Raed667 103 days ago | 22 comments

The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed (honest-broker.com)
In early 2022, I started noticing something strange in Spotify’s jazz playlists.

Music Streaming, Spotify, Criticism

204 points by LordAtlas 103 days ago | 261 comments

The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed (honest-broker.com)
In early 2022, I started noticing something strange in Spotify’s jazz playlists.

Music Streaming, Spotify, Music Industry

19 points by frans 104 days ago | 2 comments

Ghost artists on Spotify (harpers.org)
Spotify, the rumor had it, was filling its most popular playlists with stock music attributed to pseudonymous musicians—variously called ghost or fake artists—presumably in an effort to reduce its royalty payouts.

Music Industry, Spotify, Fake Artists, Music Streaming, Royalty Payments

586 points by greenie_beans 104 days ago | 383 comments

Sorry Spotify, I Wrapped It Myself (taylor.town)
As the next calendar year nears, friends inevitably broadcast Spotify Wrapped data across the groupchats.

Music Streaming, Data Visualization, Social Media

5 points by surprisetalk 105 days ago | 0 comments

Rage-inducing, unnecessary EOL from Spotify (reddit.com)
Yesterday, they shut it down. To be clear, they didn’t just stop selling them, they bricked every one that they had ever sold.

Music Streaming, Spotify, Consumer Issues, Controversy

10 points by ValentineC 108 days ago | 2 comments

Dolby Atmos for music streaming is a waste of time (pocket-lint.com)

Dolby Atmos, Music Streaming, Audio Technology, Consumer Tech

18 points by vednig 115 days ago | 17 comments

Pissed off by Spotify Enshittifying more API endpoints? We can help (metabrainz.org)
Today Spotify announced that a number of APIs will no longer be available for new users.

Music Streaming, APIs, Spotify

50 points by mayhemchaos 125 days ago | 8 comments

Spotify cuts developer access to several of its recommendation features (techcrunch.com)
Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform, such as song and artist recommendations, the company announced in a developer blog post on Wednesday.

Spotify, Music Streaming, API, Development, Recommendations

7 points by cannibalXxx 126 days ago | 1 comments

Musi fans refuse to update iPhones until Apple unblocks controversial app (arstechnica.com)
"Who up missing Musi?" a Reddit user posted in a community shocked by the free music streaming app's sudden removal from Apple's App Store in September.

Music Streaming, Mobile Apps, Apple, Consumer Behavior

26 points by LinuxBender 133 days ago | 64 comments

I Don't Have Spotify (github.com/sjdonado)
Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service

Music Streaming, Web Development, Open Source

786 points by sjdonado 142 days ago | 371 comments

New Nintendo Music app could spell more trouble for illicit soundtrack posters (arstechnica.com)
Last night, Nintendo pulled off a surprise launch of a new Nintendo Music smartphone app, offering many of the company's staple soundtrack songs as a perk to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. But the new subscription freebie could give Nintendo additional motivation to once again crack down on Internet users who have been collecting and posting Nintendo music online for years now.

Video Games, Music Streaming, Copyright, Piracy

4 points by duxup 153 days ago | 0 comments

Spotify family plans 29% price jump (spotify.com)
Listen without limits. Try 1 month of Premium Individual for free.

Music Streaming, Pricing, Spotify

3 points by boringg 181 days ago | 1 comments

Spotify begins piloting parent-managed accounts for kids on family plans (techcrunch.com)
Following the moves of other tech giants, Spotify announced on Friday it’s introducing in-app parental controls in the form of “managed accounts” for listeners under the age of 13.

Music Streaming, Children, Parental Controls, Privacy, Technology

3 points by unripe_syntax 201 days ago | 0 comments

Sony is taking Concord offline on September 6th after disastrous launch (theverge.com)

Sony, Music Streaming, Technology, Business

12 points by minimaxir 211 days ago | 1 comments

I Quit Spotify (newyorker.com)

Music Streaming, Personal Experiences, Spotify

10 points by blueridge 244 days ago | 15 comments

Lonelyradio 0.6.0: a Rust-powered music streaming service (reddit.com)

Rust, Music Streaming, Software, New Releases

5 points by mikece 263 days ago | 0 comments

A personal music streaming server that works (koel.dev)

Music Streaming, Software, Open Source

75 points by udev4096 265 days ago | 70 comments

Spotify Raises Prices 2nd Time in 12 Months, Now More Expensive Than Apple Music (macrumors.com)