The lost joy of music piracy(pigeonsandplanes.com)
743 points by mcgin | 493 comments
A Pigeons & Planes essay reflecting on the culture of music piracy communities like OiNK and What.CD compared with today's streaming era.
#music-streaming on Hacker News
12 stories tagged music-streaming, newest first.
Last.fm is now independent(support.last.fm)
725 points by twistslider | 191 comments
Last.fm support forum announcement stating the company is now independent under new ownership while accounts, data, and service remain unchanged.
Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated(techcrunch.com)
333 points by FiddlerClamp | 328 comments
TechCrunch article reporting Deezer's statement that 44% of songs uploaded daily to its streaming platform are AI-generated.
The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ(charlespetzold.com)
334 points by ingve | 261 comments
Charles Petzold blog post criticizing Spotify's AI DJ music search feature for behaving stupidly and questioning who is responsible for AI failures.
Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative(coppolaemilio.com)
414 points by coppolaemilio | 437 comments
A personal blog post by Emi describing leaving Spotify and using self-hosted Jellyfin as a music streaming alternative.
Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server(github.com)
637 points by nateb2022 | 280 comments
GitHub repository for Blackcandy, an MIT-licensed self-hosted music streaming server built with Ruby on Rails and Hotwire.
Ghost artists on Spotify(harpers.org)
548 points by greenie_beans | 362 comments
Harper's Magazine report by Liz Pelly on Spotify's use of ghost artists and how the platform works against musicians.
I Don't Have Spotify(github.com)
680 points by sjdonado | 345 comments
GitHub repository for I Don't Have Spotify, an open-source web tool that converts Spotify links to equivalent links on other streaming services.
Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case(reuters.com)
435 points by nopakos | 472 comments
Reuters article on the EU fining Apple over 1.8 billion euros in an antitrust case brought by Spotify over music streaming app rules; page shows a captcha.
The day I canceled my Spotify subscription(blog.raed.dev)
317 points by Raed667 | 368 comments
A personal blog post recounting why the author, a longtime Spotify fan from Tunisia, decided to cancel their Spotify subscription.
Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%(newsroom.spotify.com)
517 points by filleokus | 1022 comments
Spotify newsroom post by CEO Daniel Ek announcing December 2023 organizational changes, including a roughly 17% reduction in total headcount.
I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music(coryd.dev)
463 points by cdme | 353 comments
Blog post by Cory Dransfeldt arguing he wants to stream his own collected music library rather than use catalogue-based streaming services.