Instead of paying for music you don't actually own while Spotify surveils you and funds AI warfare, you can buy downloads from e.g., Bandcamp, or if it's not on there, I've found Qobuz (https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/shop) works. At the very least, artists get better paid and you aren't as surveilled.

I have a compiled version available for Mac (in the "externals" folder here https://github.com/reillypascal/rs.max), and a Win version will be coming soon.

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There was a point where I read Anil Dash's essay “‘Wherever you get your podcasts’ is a radical statement” and felt a sense of hope for the medium. I don't feel that way anymore.

I think it's particularly poetic that the post URL (https://www.anildash.com/2024/02/06/wherever-you-get-podcasts/) […]

It's very frustrating to me that so many people seem to be willing to hand over curation to an algorithm.

You don't need it! You can get recommendations from other people, use a web search, follow things in chronological order, use lists to filter your chronological follow list down by topic […]

From 2013:

”In August, [Patreon] raised its first venture capital, some $2.1 million from a group including Charles River Ventures, Freestyle Capital, and SV Angel. And together with Yam, Conte is now looking for office space in San Francisco.”

Even if Patreon's recommendation algorithm is […]

@glocq I love “outside in”! I've mentioned it enough that a friend of mine texted me a photo of a McDonald's cup that had been turned inside out with the caption “inverting the sphere irl”