







A Spotify player in the terminal with full feature parity
Building a More Trusted Podcast Experience for Creators and Listeners — Spotify
Podcasting continues to evolve, and so does Spotify. As we build what comes next, one thing remains constant: This is a medium built on connection. It lives in the chemistry between co-hosts, in the relationship between creators and the fans who return week after week, and in the dialogue around ideas and culture. As creation...

Introducing Verified by Spotify, a Signal of Authenticity and Trust for the Artists Behind the Music — Spotify
Music is evolving, and so are the ways you discover and connect with artists. In the AI era, it’s more important than ever to be able to trust the authenticity of the music you listen to. At Spotify, our focus is providing you with more context about artists and their music, so you can build...

Safety and Privacy center
At Spotify, we aim to create great and unique experiences for each user. Our goal is to connect everyone with what they love and help them discover something new. No two listeners are the same, so everyone's Spotify experience, and many of our recommendations, are personalized. When asked what they like about Spotify, most listeners cite our personalization as their top feature. You might wonder how we generate these recommendations across the Home feed, playlists, search results or other parts of the service, and we want to help demystify how they work.
How to ACTUALLY Quit Spotify.
tsiry-sandratraina.com/rocksky-connect
Remote playback control for any local player — inspired by "Spotify Connect".
tsiry-sandratraina.com/rocksky-connect
Remote playback control for any local player — inspired by "Spotify Connect".
lexicons/output/playlistItem.json at v4 · tokono.ma/diffuse
A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage.
1,500+ PRs Later: Spotify’s Journey with Our Background Coding Agent (Part 1) | Spotify Engineering
This is part 1 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also and .

Spotify's AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop
Spotify doesn’t label AI music on its platform, so websites like SoullessMusic.com and SlopTracker.org do it instead.
Symfonium: Android Music Player for Local, Plex, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf & Cloud
Play local, Plex, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Navidrome and cloud libraries in one Android app. Cast to Sonos/Chromecast/DLNA, tune with PEQ/GEQ/AutoEQ, and listen offline.

lexicons/output/playlistItemBundle.json at v4 · tokono.ma/diffuse
A music player that connects to your cloud/distributed storage.
Akhilesh Thite (@akhileshthite@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Yesterday my Spotify subscription expired, and instead of renewing, I finally moved on. But downloading 500+ songs manually is hell, so I built ZipifyTunes; a simple tool that converts any playlist CSV into MP3s with album art + metadata! Now I’m listening offline again on my iPod Nano 5th gen and loving it. And with @peersky I can even upload the ZIP to IPFS or Hypercore and stream my songs from public gateways on my phone. If you want to save hours of work, try it: https://github.com/akhileshthite/zipify-tunes
PlatformCon: How Spotify Manages Infrastructure with GitOps
At PlatformCon this week, Spotify engineer Tim Hansen described how the music service relied on GitOps principles to automate infrastructure provisioning.

How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

cliamp by @iamdothash is a retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp. It supports local files, streams, podcasts, YouTube, Spotify, Plex, SoundCloud, and more…with visualizer, EQ, and playlists. Built with Bubble Tea v2! github.com/bjarneo/cliamp
I'm building an alternative streaming option for artists called tracklist:// where they will be able to self-host their music catalog and stream it directly to fans. As musicians ourselves, our goal is to empower artists with connection. Sign up for our waitlist here; tracklist.diy
tracklist :// — music
www.tracklist.diyHearing Things
“It can be a little scary,” Hotline TNT frontman Will Anderson says of taking his music off Spotify, “but one of the things we’re trying to do is illustrate that it might not be as scary as you think.”