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Switching from music streaming services to just downloading music files, I've been downloading them as FLAC to preserve the quality but I might just mass convert to MP3 to save storage because is it really that big of a sound difference. Music is music

Anyway I download them on my laptop and then I upload those files to iBroadcast so I can listen on my phone without storing the files on it. I have absolutely no idea how iBroadcast is free but it's so beautiful

I think the end goal is probably to invest in a decent mp3 player so I can listen offline, but honestly I love iBroadcast's interface enough that I might not fully make the switch. Plus I have the files on my laptop drive anyway if iBroadcast ever goes down or becomes paid.

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I finally decided to download my Spotify music so that I could stop using it, and after a day wasted in trying all the online downloader and a couple of programs, I forced myself to be smart and use python.

It took one (1) line of code in python and copy pasting two things from the website. It was literally easier than any other method and it worked so much better. I downloaded over 2000 songs. It recognises the ones that are double so you only have one. It did 2000 all by itself, not 1 at a time or 100 at a time. It's completely free.

The existence of Github prove by itself that humans are not inherently selfish.

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for @setestudios and anyone else interested:

It works for Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer, and SoundCloud and Spotify and Apple Music playlists through last.fm. I used a deezer burner account with my spotify playlists because I already did the transfer before using this method, so there was no point in doing it again for last.fm, but you do you. I do advise to use a burner account just to be safe and not risk to lose your spotify account before everything is done. Transferring to one platform to the other is actually quite easy.

This is the Github link with everything neatly done and explained, I will add pictures here for those that aren't used to code.

You need to have python version 3.10 or greater in your computer. I personally use pycharm, so my pictures will be from that.

Once you have python, go to the Github link and download this file:

Now open python and check that it has pip installed, otherwise install the pip package:

Now the real coding!

Write this "import ffmpeg as ffmpeg" and press the little green arrow on top:

Yes! You did the coding! Now we can copypaste the links for our music. This is the easiest method, but in the Github page it explains more things you can do with it. Go to your music provider and copy the link of the album or playlist that you want to download, then back to python. Now go to the "terminal" :

In the terminal (the rectangle on the bottom of the screen not where you wrote the line of code), write " rip url" and paste the link of your playlist/album:

After pressing enter it should ask for a ARL, depending on if you are using Firefox, Chrome or Safari, the route to get it could be a little different (just google ARL + Firefox/chrome/safari), it should then look like this:

the part circled in red is what you have to copy and paste in the python terminal.

You did your job! Now the download should start by itself and you will find your music in your files, under a folder named Pycharm Projects or something similar. It will not download the same track twice and they will be organised with all their names and informations in whatever playlist or album you downloaded them from. Now that music is yours and you can put it wherever you want. Phone, CDs or MP3 devices.

Depending on how big the playlist you want to download is it will take more or less time, but the setting up step is pretty fast, especially if you already have python.

Hope it helps!

With Etsy witch spells for sale, we've reinvented televangelism from first principles.

#televangelism #witches #this is about that post about 'summon dollar'#but i can't find it

Dear Rose Henderson,

I am so sorry. You are not a chess piece in a national war. You are a woman who deserves the dignity to work and change without being dragged across national news. The hatred of others does not change the respect you deserve and the rights you are due. The fact that it has is unacceptable.

Those women are the farthest thing from feminist that there is. You are not alone.

I am sorry that this letter does not change anything, but I will do everything that one person can to stand against this. You are not alone.

#people in the uk #reach out to #the minister for gender and equalities #and TELL THEM TO REJECT THE EHRC PROVISIONAL GUIDANCE #it’s not fair #it’s not right #and maybe it will do nothing #but we have to try and do something; we can’t just let this be as it is.#transgender #trans community #uk #supreme court #darlington

mswyrr

AI hucksters, desperate to keep their stock bubble inflated, will tell you that there is only one way that this technology can be used: to fire a whole ton of workers and make the survivors do their job at frantic Lucy-in-the-chocolate-factory cadence. While it’s true that this is the only way that their companies could possibly be worth the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been pumped into them (so far), there’s no iron law that says that investors in tech bubbles should always turn a profit (indeed, anyone who’s lived through this century knows that the opposite is far more likely).

The fact that the only way that AI investors can recoup their investment is by turning us all into reverse-centaurs is not our problem. We are under no obligation to arrange our affairs to ensure their solvency. In 1980, Margaret Thatcher told us, “There is no alternative.” In 1982, Bill Gibson refuted her thus: “The street finds its own uses for things.”

I know which prophet I’m gonna follow.

Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget d

themirokai

Listened to an interview with Cory Doctorow on NPR and it was absolutely hilarious because it had been edited as if Doctorow and the host (Brittany Luse, who I love) were having one flowing conversation but it was abundantly clear that they had put in just tons and tons of her providing additional context and saying that they reached out to various corporations who either did or did not have comments. And it’s not like I think he would have said anything differently if she had somehow been bringing all of that to the initial conversation and I’m not sure it would have been better if she gave the context and responses after… but the edit just sounded so funny.

It's Been A Minute on NPR One | 21:11

I generally love It’s Been A Minute and highly recommend it, and this was an interesting episode… with a weird edit.

whatthehelloh

Congratulations to @mostlysignssomeportents for having his word "enshittification" chosen as the Australian Dictionary Word of the Year.

"We’re all living through the enshittocene" said tech critic Cory Doctorow, "in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are t

jacobwren

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

taeodraws

Ah. This is relevant. This is why the users get the blame when their dat gets them into trouble? It’s the exact echo of the provider in the oxe-health-eye thing, too. Here’s someone to blame, but here’s an automated, nonhuman interface where there should be a person.

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A "centaur" is a human being who is assisted by a machine (a human head on a strong and tireless body). A reverse centaur is a machine that uses a human being as its assistant (a frail and vulnerable person being puppeteered by an uncaring, relentless machine).

Cory Doctorow at Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow. Pluralistic: Reverse centaurs are the answer to the AI paradox (11 Sep 2025)

I feel so much gratitude whenever I read Cory Doctorow. Doctorow truly is one of the "indispensable ones." I am grateful to know of this concept from automation theory.

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Cory Doctorow on Democracy Now on tech laws and tariffs

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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

taeodraws

Doctorow’s work is some of the best and most academically sound digital critical analysis I’ve ever seen. His article on landlords and AI (I think from the 4th of jan?) is as horrific as it is well-researched.

requinoesis

Happy New Year!🥂✨

I wish that this coming year will be gentle on all of us!✨ Thank you very much for all your support this year!

shamebats

If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.

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Like I just know terfs are going to be parroting it pretending it wasn't said by a black trans woman about herself & her life.

puppygirllaika

Graduate assistant Mel Curth found Samantha Fulnecky's paper unscientific and offensive in referring to trans people as "demonic."

They fired her.

The university also placed another teacher on leave for allowing her students to leave class to attend a protest in support the instructor.

bonniebugsy

Completely unrelated, but current students of OU are transferring out and alumni are wanting refunds for their tuition, since OU has made it abundantly clear that their degrees aren't worth the paper they're printed on.

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If you call the university's main number and express polite confusion over the situation, they will transfer you to someone to talk to about it. So if you feel like playing Concerned Parent: 1-405-325-0311

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And here’s the business of the mom who orchestrated this whole plan to get a trans woman fired from teaching, in case you want to let her customers know what a lying sack of shit she is

2627 W Republic Rd Suite A-108, Springfield, MO 65807

requinoesis

A collection of all the little experimental animations I made of my sharkfolk ocs, an attempt to explore a little of their personality. I confess that it's a lot of work… at some point I'll finish and color all these animations, I hope.