BlastboomStrice

Hang on, I have some ideas

(Maybe either theres a mistake in the way you connected spotify or some issue with the links. I'll do some tests and report back.)

Ayy, arrr, glad you made it:)

First, my computer can't seem to locate the deemix music folder that I supposedly created when I installed the application. Nowhere to be seen. Not sure what to do about it, maybe I installed the wrong version?

Hm, I suppose you talk about the folder where your music is downloaded. Thats a bit weird, mine saves it in C:\...\user\Music\deemix Music\

I also suppose you downloaded deemix from the link I provided in my guide, which I think is where I downloaded it too (plus deemix doesnt get updated anymore), so I dont think you got the wrong version. For the record, mine is 2022.12.14-r222.5d447b6035.

Furthermore, the playlists I have downloaded state the following errors: "cannot read properties of undefined" and "no such file or directory"...

I dont think I've encountered that issue either, maybe it's because it cant locate the files in the lost folder you talked about before.

I'd suggest you create another folder woth your file explorer, set deemix to download there and retry. I'd also suggest to first test it by downloading a single song (just type anything in the search bar) before downloadig a whole playlist to not waste time

If I dont mention them, it probably means I left them at their default settings, but each one has their own system so feel free to change them if it suits you better.

I download in flac because I want to have them at ~the highest possible quality (ripping CDs or finding each song infividually in various sources and comparing them might provide a better quality, but thats too much of a hassle) and I compress them to .opus format at 128kbit to copy them on my phone. Thus, I keep one flac collection and a cloned, compressed version of it in opus.

Near the ⅘ of my guide I think I describe how to compress files with fre:ac and which app (symphony on fdroid) handles well opus files. I had some frustration with how hard it is for apps to recognise song tags, especially multiple song tags (like 2 artists in a song). If you encounter such an issue, use a different separator other than \\, like ;.

The rabbit hole can get a bit deep quickly.

Have fun :)

Oh nice, you're very close. What you see, are the Deezer playlists of the account the arl corresponds to. For your spotify playlists, go to spotify, press the share button on your playlist, get the link to your playlist (the url), paste it in the search bar in deemix and press enter. It will automatically fetch and download the whole playlist.

(The next "level" would be to go back to my big guide, in the deemix settings section and customize it to your liking.)

Aw, I understand ~50.000words can be overwhelming.😅

Hm, I dont know if there's anything better than the tools I talk about. This guide is a bit too compicated and long, so I'll try to re-word it, hoping you can now follow it:

1. Soulseek: You just use a username and a password. No emails or anything. Search and download.

2. Deemix: You dont need to have a personal deemix account. You can find on some doubious sites "arls" for accounts. Arl is like the user token. They are long alphanumeric strings which essentially are used instead of username+password. You can simply find one online and put it in deezer. (You can try arls found here: https://www.arldeemix.com/2024/05/arl-deemix.html?m=1 )

   To use it with spotify (like downloading a spotify playlist in deemix), its kinda more complex. You can see the steps from this post on reddit here:

https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/ log in, create an app, go into app, click show client secret under apps title, paste it into deemix along with clientid

I suggest deemix because you can get very high quality music (in batches too) and it's open source.

Lastly, if you simply want to get stuff from youtube without account and such:

3. ytDownloader acts as a gui for yt-dpl (open source, PC).

4. Seal acts as a gui for yt-dpl (open source, Android).

Almost certainly there are websites that may use yt-dlp and can download playlists though.

I think China, which is very overpopulated, would really need some population shrinkage. It's getting tiresome seeing articles whining about being "bad" for the "economy".

The whole world probably has too many people, it's just that the decline should be at a bearable rate (not too slow, not to fast) and occur at appropriate rates per area (some areas may be more overpopulated than others). And I ~dont give a care about the economy, we have means of aleviating the issues of decreased workforce by using robots, reducing unecessary jobs to save resources (like the whole ad industry?), but we live in such a capitalistic society that you ~have to step on others to survive and waste resources just to make money... Maybe this "economy" should be scrapped eventually.

PS. Lol, "oh no, the diamond sells are dropping, pump up more humans!" Pathetic..

Hm, that might be a good alternative, but I dont think I'll trust any non-opensource front end and end up sharing my date with more people (though I see it has fewer trackers than messenger and they appear to care about privacy, so hmm).

(Also, I have long and of sentimental value chats there and I wouldnt want to get banned for using any 3rd party client. I know they probably dont care and apps usually hide it, but ugh.. (this is a bit conflicting to the fact that I have an exposed module that turns off ads in messenger and I use an open source front end app for fb, lol.))

Writing down unkown words and searching them on a paper dictionary was how I studied vocabulary in the past, so I see what you mean. I think its gonna be very time consuming and distracting for me so I might not use that strategy.🫤 Thank for sharing your experience and your advice, if I start writing the words down I might let you know :)

Well, I tried.

I refused to use messenger for about 6years and I tried to bring people to signal (at least ~most of my family still uses it), but after changing environment and essentially doing a semi-fresh start, I realized I had to give up some (much) privacy to have any social life.

I'd really like not to have such a dilemma, but I dont think I would go very far with ~zero social life (would probably have strong depression, no friends and possibly many other issues).🥲 Fb is ~forcing it to us.

At least while I might have lost some privacy, I help others gain privacy (I help them use/find open source, privacy respecting alternatives to various programs).

Also, Signal really didnt help me convince people use it by requesting a phone number... Its hard to convince people that dont care much about privacy and want ease of access to give their phone number to an unknown app (I know it's not that big of a deal, but they dont know what I know and dont care much even if I explain it to them).

PS. I'm still not making an insta account tho😅

Yeah, eventually thats what I decided to do, finding a balance :)

Thank you for your optimism and your suggestions😊

Wowz this is good