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26, cartoon and video game liker.


Occasional NSFW rechosts, ask me to tag if necessary.


You can find art I made under #bvart!


A low resolution website banner depicting a close-up of Xenia, the Linux Fox's face against a red background. To the right is large, bolded text reading "LINUX" accompanied by smaller text underneath reading "the choice of a GNU generation."

A deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of an elderly person's face to the right of white text reading "I'm thinking about those beans" with grammar, punctuation, and spelling mistakes. The background is a photo of baked beans.A deviantART styled stamp containing a screenshot of Mario from Super Mario 64, edited to be giving the viewer a realistic middle fingerA deviantART styled stamp containing a photo of a hairless pet rat next to a toy keyboard with rainbow-colored keysA deviantART style animated pixel stamp featuring cropped artwork of femtanyl's mascot. "FEMTANYL" is spelled out in white pixel letters on the mascot's forehead that individually turn red from left to right in a loop
An 88 by 31 pixel banner of an abstract floating head creature with a liquid eye facing away from the viewer, a closed eye with an eyelash facing towards the viewer, and teardrop-shaped gems coming out of the eyelash. Xhe is accompanied by text reading "Charm will protect you!" and is depicted in front of a purple background.an animated 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with alternating photos of Laura Les and Dylan Brady's faces screaming, sourced from the back cover of the album "10,000 Gec". The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with a crude scrawling of the word "GECS".an animated 88 by 31 button. along the top is text reading "SPONGEHEAD" in a font from Spongebob Squarepants, colored in black and cohost's plum color. below is smaller Spongebob font text reading "prof-badvibes" in green, with one letter at a time in sequence flashing white. To the sides are Incidental Number 7, a background character from Spongebob, and Eggbug, the cohost mascot, colored to resemble Spongebob.an 88 by 31 button of the transgender pride flag against a gray background next to text reading "trans rights now!"
an 88 by 31 button featuring animated pixel art of Reimu Hakurei from the Touhou series against a gray background. she is pictured next to text reading "powered by Reimu."an 88 by 31 animated button. the button starts showing a blue color, but the point of view zooms out to reveal a blue variant of Tux, the Linux penguin, against a gray background. text reading "Linux powered" appears in the banner to the left of Tux.an 88 by 31 button. it is a parody of the classic "Netscape NOW! 3.0" button, replacing the Netscape Navigator logo with a photo of Weird Al Yankovich's face. The word 'netscape' in 'netscape now' is replaced with the word 'Yankovic'.an 88 by 31 animated button of the Lapfox Trax logo, which is the word 'LAPFOX' in bold serif font with a cartoon fox's head replacing the 'O'. The logo is in front of a rainbow color-shifting grid
A parody of the "Netscape Now!" 88 by 31 pixel button. To the left is a rotating marijuana leaf, and to the right is text reading "Legalize Now!" along with the letters M and J in the bottom right corner.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a yellow-to-green hue-shifting background. To the left is a cropped piece of clipart showing the top half of a newspaper cartoon-styled individual's face looking at the viewer in a goofy way. The clipart is accompanied by text reading "FREE STUFF" in bolded all capital letters to the right.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting two photographed women looking up and to the right against a white background. Text reading "GAY WOMEN" in bolded all capital letters can be found to the right, with the word "gay" being larger and emphasized.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a sprite of a blinking one-eyed green alien from the Commander Keen games. To the alien's right is text reading "Accursed Farms".
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a rainbow peace symbol to the left of blue text reading "Peace Now!", both against a gray background.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an inverted United States flag with the stars replaced by a 'no' symbol. On top of the flag is black handwritten pixel text reading "ACAB".An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting Super Mario running to the right through a 'window' to the left. To the right is blue text reading "Dave's Videogame Classics".An 88 by 31 pixel banner containing sprites of Kris and Susie from the video game Deltarune. Susie is looking at Kris with a cartoonishly angry expression. Below the two is white text against a black background reading "kris where tf are we."
An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner with a gray background. To the left is a 'window' showing a sprite of a dove against a black background. The dove is shown flying and being covered up by a red X symbol in two alternating frames. To the right is black-and-gray flashing text reading "DEAD DOVE, DO NOT EAT" in all-capital letters.An animated 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting an illustration of Hatsune Miku against a gray background. Miku is blinking her eyes and smiling on alternating frames. To the right is text reading "This site is Miku Approved", with 'Miku' in large, bolded blue letters and 'Approved' flashing rapidly between blue and red.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the transgender pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the blue Sega logo against a white background.
An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting a screencap of Blender version 1.X, with a classic-styled logo and a wireframe cube in the centerAn 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the words "download SBURB" next to a logo of a minimalist lime-green house separated into segments. The word "SBURB" is rendered in a bold, cartoony, lime-green font.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting the lesbian pride flag, with beveled edges to give the impression of mild three-dimensional depth.An 88 by 31 pixel banner depicting character art of Sonic from the fangame Sonic Robo Blast 2 against that game's title screen background.
an 88 by 31 button of the blue-and-orange logo of the Doom video game series to the right of the Doomguy's grinning Heads Up Display face against a gray background.

Thanks to @framebuffer for my profile picture, @candiedreptile for the Charm button, @softwareangel for the Spongehead button!


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smokeronthebalcony
@smokeronthebalcony

LEAVE SPOTIFY you can literally just leave, it isn't hard to download music and it is so easy to listen to music on bandcamp or soundcloud or youtube (with ublock origin on firefox setting it up takes 5 minutes but after that you're good). it's not any harder than setting up a spotify account and you won't have to fucking beg for the privilege of skipping songs or fucking reading lyrics and you won't have to listen to ads. please i'm fucking begging you they are bleeding you dry you don't have to take this indecency. there are so many other podcast apps. there are so many other ways to make playlists. you can spend that 10 dollars a month on supporting small artists. i will personally help you with finding solutions to fill the spotify-shaped hole in your life if you need it but god i hate spotify so much.

if it really means that much to you then i'm sorry for yucking your yum, it's not the worst thing in the world i guess, but if you're just on the app because of inertia i implore you to explore other options


PC36
@PC36

miss spotify wrapped? use last.fm + web scrobbler + your spotify replacement of choice


juneabhorrer
@juneabhorrer

you might want to switch off of spotify but are unsure how to move all of your stuff over to digital downloads! one way to convert your spotify playlists is through an open-source command line application called spotDL

i'm pretty sure it requires Python and ffmpeg to run. this might deter you from using it since it takes a while to set-up for the less tech savvy (though maybe i shouldn't worry about that on the website with CSS editing) but i can assure you, once you understand how to use it, spotDL can download your entire library very quickly.

(for those who want lossless audio, you may be tempted to download your shit in .flac or .wav, DON'T, not with spotDL. it rips the audio from youtube just get a high bitrate .mp3, it'll save you tears)


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in reply to @smokeronthebalcony's post:

i'd very much love to stop using spotify, but i'm not really sure how. i'm on a family plan so after splitting the subscription fee with the others, it isn't that much for instant access to a huge catalog of music anywhere* i am.

the main thing i use spotify for is the discover weekly playlist, and i don't know where to even start looking for alternatives.

i want to listen to music at work, but i don't want to pirate music to my work computer. i scrobble to last.fm, so just using youtube and bandcamp in the browser presents a problem. i currently use openscrobbler in these cases because it's rare enough, but using it for every single scrobble would be way too tedious. i'm definitely going to set up navidrome soon, but that limits me to my music library so i'd need something else as well.

for you and most people i would really, really,REALLY recommend youtube music and you can transfer your entire spotify playlist to youtube music via this website!:
https://www.tunemymusic.com/transfer/spotify-to-youtube-music

its youtube but specifically for music and is extremely similar to spotify

you can put downloaded songs on the website via drag and drop just like the pc app if you like that and it has its own version of discover weekly.

because its on youtube it often has a bigger library too so songs are less likely to just become unavailable and if they do you can always add a reupload to your playlist plus its all connected to your youtube channel so if you are using youtube and find a banger you can just add it to your youtube music playlist from youtube and youtube music removes the video when you use it so its not gonna take up any more data than spotify.

as for the issues youl run into il propose some solutions below

for the family plan idk cancel it as a family and find out if theres a family plan for youtube music premium or just all get ublock origin but then there would still be the issue of ads if you are using a phone

as for scrobbling last.fm maybe openscrobbler works on that as well but if not surely you can find a workaround for youtube music.

overall id really recomend you consider youtube music i think its a far better alternative for spotify with largely the same benefits

i really hoped this helps and you change over to yt music

ads aren't a problem, revanced has patches for youtube music, i think.

openscrobbler is manual, whereas last.fm has automatic scrobbling for spotify directly from the listening history. and i don't want to scrobble my entire youtube watching history, just the music. the music data also seems less clean on youtube, with things like "(official video)" in the titles, which would be a problem for automatic scrobbling.

youtube music does have a much larger library, but i'm not really looking to start using more google services. usually it's for privacy, but since i'm scrobbling everything i listen, that's not relevant here. it's more that knowing their reputation, they might shut it down like next week.

idk i think its pretty great.

attempt 2 then: soundcloud

they offer a lot for free and you can upgrade to their subscription to get all the songs

unlike youtube music its not as likely to just disappear and im sure you could use a website like the one i posted earlier to transfer your spotify playlist to soundcloud

sure songs can still just up and dissapear like in spotify but i still think its far better than spotify and has all the same perks in a better overall package

im also pretty sure it has last.fm compatibility so you can scrobble to your hearts content

idk if they have discover weekly but i get sent gmails roughly montly with new song recomendations and you can always use last.fm for that as thats the point of last.fm after all

let me know if soundcloud would raise any other issues but i really think soundcloud is the solution to all your above problems to kill spotify from your life once and for all! yipee! :)

i don't know if i'm using it wrong, but i'm not really finding whole albums on soundcloud. it's mostly just a couple of tracks from a few albums per artist.

the go+ subscription seems to be 9.99 USD a month, which is much more than i am currently paying for spotify.

aight i can try to find another alternative for you if you want but it looks like your pretty comfortable with spotify

its shit but if it works it works ig

i just hate its constant buffering issues and shit as well as its minuscule catalogue outside of pop music. anything slightly obscure has like a 50 percent chance of dissapearing suddenly without notice

Web Scrobbler works on YouTube and Bandcamp and has settings to only Scrobble videos marked as music. https://web-scrobbler.com/

It’s a more manual process but Bandcamp’s editorial section is really good for music discovery.

Hack for not wanting to pirate music at work: get a large cheap USB drive and put all your music on that. Open it in a scrobbling supported music player like MusicBee and you’re good to go. Obviously have to go through the initial process of downloading what you want to listen to but if you’ve got an hour or two to spare this is pretty painless. Recommend using MusicBrainz Picard to auto-tag and organize all the files.

I think I've done a tour of at least half of the streaming services: Rdio (rip), Google Music (rip), Youtube Music, Apple Music, Spotify.

My experience is that albums just disappear at random and every service except Spotify gaslights you about it by just removing them from your library rather than greying them out and being apologetic. They sell themselves as discovery engines but I've found I'm just listening to the same things anyway.

Eventually I got fed up with it and started buying on Bandcamp or second hand CDs off ebay, and at the rate I usually buy stuff it's working out cheaper than Spotify. For discovery I sometimes listen to the Bandcamp podcast but most I just stick on BBC Radio 6 and then buy an album if I liked a track enough, and that works pretty well for me.

I've been using Tidal for a while, it does the greyed out thing when songs go missing. But it seems like its usually some catalog reconsolidation where you just search for the thing and there it is again under some slightly different entity, so if anything it's kinda annoying that they don't just update your liked song to point to the new one.

I export my liked songs list to a big file in a git repo, just in case, so I'd have noticed things spontaneously disappearing

I use it cause it's very easy. Like, when meeting friends it's simple to start and join a jam, and contribute to it, without the headache of having one person responsible for the music, or committing your cellphone as the communal playlist manager and anyone wanting to hear anything specific having to use it... I think it's the main reason tbh. And R$21,90 /month isn't awful. I am completely open to suggestions

in reply to @PC36's post:

I'm using last.fm and I have some music I buy on bandcamp, I allocate 20ish euros every month.

family pays for Spotify for everyone, so it's been pretty easy to stay and now I have giant playlists.

what's a good alternative that I can transfer to ? I'd be happy to pay for it every month if I know it pays the artists well, but otherwise happy to keep that monthly money for bandcamp albums.

I love having the lyrics on Spotify, I know there's musixmatch, but giving it notification access sounds way too scary.

and I like seeing when artists I follow post new music. bandamp does that already, but bandcamp lacks a lot of artists I listen to.

was using SoundCloud before, but it was difficult to ad block. do they pay people well ?

I heard of qobuz, no idea what ho think of it though

i had a hard time leaving spotify bc their playlists making tools are so good on mobile for my needs, but i was like "i prefer to be less efficient and to not support the literal most unethical music platform". as an artist i decided that i don't want my new music on it anymore too.