Alternative to Spotify - Linux client?

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

No idea about most of your question, but I think you entered the wrong UUID. nvme0p1 is the name of the partition.

Use blkid in the Terminal, the output will be something like:

/dev/sda3: UUID="a7d71686-0a65-4402-b6e6-b58430ef8351" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0ea90c96-1b56-4c51-b07a-02e09285f291"
/dev/sr0: BLOCK_SIZE="2048" UUID="2020-10-22-14-30-30-00" LABEL="Ubuntu 20.10 amd64" TYPE="iso9660" PTTYPE="PMBR"

This is how a valid UUID looks like: a7d71686-0a65-4402-b6e6-b58430ef8351

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

It hurts to read your text, so I stopped after the first sentence. You probably already know LLMs couldn’t care less about this “trick”. I don’t want to appear rude, just thought you should know, because other people may feel the same.

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

Can you elaborate on this topic? Are we just speaking about a web player?

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

No particular reason. I don’t really have much experiences with web apps. I don’t like the idea of putting every functionality into my Browser and I like it simple.

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

Sounds interesting. If I understood correctly, it’s about 5 bucks a month for remote access and tidal/Quboz integration? Also I need to set it up on a server or raspberry pi? Could be a bit overkill for just a music player…

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

Is it good, can you recommend it? And most important, does it have dark mode?

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

So you say music streaming is taking the same enshittification route as streaming in general? That sucks to hear :/ I really want to switch, but I am only paying like 5€ in a Spotify family… so if it’s just too hard it may be not worth it. However Spotify is fucking annoying me, it always plays the same shitty music and doesn’t learn at all from my taste

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

I think about switching from Spotify for a longer time now, but with the recent ICE ads I want to be in solidarity with the people in the US and kick Spotify out.

Now I checked the Quboz app and I am in a test month with Tidal right now - so far Tidal is great on my mobile. However I also need a client for Linux!

I am using spotify-client on Linux Mint and works flawlessly. I know its development is not the main goal of Spotify engineers, but it just works.

Now for Tidal and Quboz it seems to be problematic - only Electron apps without HiFi sound because the chromium engine throttles the quality. How am I supposed to switch from Spotify if I can’t use the alternative on Linux? Any advices/experiences?

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

Also, I am surprised canceling the NTFS slide mid-copy didn’t break anything lol

Me too. After hitting cancel, a new “Force cancel” button appeared, but I luckily waited it out. Gparted reversed all actions it did and also copied back the couple of MB it already shifted over, when it finally told me it succeeded. So I guess the data is fine, but yeah I backed it up before anyway. Thanks for your write up, even if it came a but too late ;)

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

I now delete all partition on /dev/sda/ but my data partition sda4. Adding the unallocated space from sda5 and sda6 was no problem, but the partitions left were problematic. They are only about 800 MB and gparted tried to prepend that by copying the whole 913GB. I canceled the operation which would have taken more than 4 hours and prayed to god. He didn’t listen but it worked anyway.

Now after another grub-update the computer now boots directly into Linux, I have more free space and I got rid of the Windows bloat.

Thank you so much!

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

I made sure Linux boots with the other drives removed
Removed the NVME drive with Linux Mint
booted into Gparted Live
deleted all partitions on /dev/sdb and created a new ext4
Restarted, the PC directly boots into “Automatic Repair” Windows stuff, I guess that comes from /dev/sda. However yeah I have to go to boot menu, choose the NVME, and then I get to the grub menu where I can choose Linux Mint - annoying
I mounted the new partition and edited fstab, which went well
Run grub update, the sdb Windows entries are gone

Now unfortunately I am still directly booting into the Windows repair mode. Before I directly booted into GRUB where I could choose or do nothing for some seconds to automatically boot into Linux. In BIOS the old Toshiba HDD is actually at boot order 1, but the Linux drive does not appear there.

I will now make a backup of the already mounted data partition on sda (couple 100s of GB, but anyway) and try to remove the old partitions on that disk and merge them with data. It still stays NTFS, but I am too lazy at the moment to completely wipe it. Maybe something goes wrong with boasted anyway lol.

Thanks so far!

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

So you are saying I can just easily format the disk dev/sdb? If I want to disconnect the other 2 disks before, I have to boot into a gparted live USB stick, right? What about all those Microsoft Windows Recovery partitions on the Toshiba disk, do you know where I come from? Can I just remove them and merge them with the biggest partition using the inbuilt partitioning tool? Thanks :)

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 8 months

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Update 1

Hey guys, when I installed Linux a year ago, I created a Windows / Linux Mint dual boot system, because I thought I would need Windows from time to time.
Guess what, Linux Mint is so great I only entered Windwos like 2 or 3 times, but in the end I don’t need that trash anymore and want to get rid of it.

When I set up the dual boot, I read somehwere to seperate the partitions, so I installed Linux Mint to its own partition as you can see below, maybe this helps for the taks. I have a 1TB Toshiba HDD /dev/sda. I used it as basic file storage under Windows, now under Linux I just annexed it for the same purpose. It has some weird Windwos partitions I don’t know what they are and how do they get there, I only mounted dev/sda4 for storage.

But the evil Windows partition is that 500 GB SSD. As my steam library is expanding a lot, I need space! So how can I get rid of Windows in a safe way? In my boot menu (it’s called “GRUB”, right guys?) I have a couple of entries, 2 partitions are named Windows but only one of them actually boots into it, the other goes into repair mode and then bootloop. I can look those up if they are important.

So, how can I get rid of the Windows stuff, make the boot menu recognize this, while not harming the Linux disk?

That is how the partition schemes of the 3 disks look like:

1000 GB Crucial NVME

/dev/nvme0n1p1	FAT		649 MB		/boot/efi  
/dev/nvme0n1p2	Ext4	41 GB		/root  
/dev/nvme0n1p3	Swap	18 GB  
/dev/nvme0n1p4	Ext4	941 GB		/home

1000 GB Toshiba HDD

/dev/sda1   NTFS	419 MB  Microsoft Windows Recovery Enviornment (System, No Automount)
/dev/sda2   FAT32	315 MB  EFI Sytem (No Automount)  
/dev/sda3   Unkn.	134 MB  Microsoft Reserved (No Automount)  
/dev/sda4   NTFS	981 GB  Basic Data  --> mounted at /media/gigachad/Data
/dev/sda5   NTFS	367 MB  Microsoft Windows Recovery Environment (System, No Automount)  
/dev/sda6   NTFS	18 GB   Microsoft Windows Recovery (System, No Automount) (Push Button Reset)

500 GB Samsung SSD

/dev/sdb1   FAT32   105 MB  EFI System (No Automount)  
/dev/sdb2   Unkn.   17 MB   Microsoft Reserved (No Automount)  
/dev/sdb3   NTFS    499 GB  Basic Data  
/dev/sdb4   NTFS    694 MB  Microsoft Windows Recovery Environment (System, No Automount)  
Free Space 2.1 MB

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 1 year

ya ain’t vibin’ enough ma boy

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 1 year

I remember bricking my Xiaomi as it were yesterday. Flashed the firmware for a Poco F4 on a Poco F1 because I was too dumb to read.

I looked for a fix a long time, the final solution was to throw it into the fucking trash. . .

Tap for spoiler

Of course I recycled it

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 1 year

When the documentation is shit and you do not have time to scroll through 100 classes to find that one optional argument that one method accepts, I found LLMs very useful. They are pretty good at text understanding and summarizing, not so much at logic though, which is key for developing.

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 1 year

I ended up buying the Lift Vertical and I cannot confirm what you are saying. The click does not need a lot of pressure and the mouse does not move at all. I do not need to tense my hand. So far I am pretty happy with it and I feel it really relaxes my wrist.
I will report back in some weeks though, if the pain is really gone.

Btw. I have a height adjustable desk already.

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 1 year

Great to hear! Talking about this reddit post for example: https://www.reddit.com/r/logitech/comments/13c07st/logitech_lift_on_linux_issues/

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 1 year

That’s great to hear! I also do not need any extra features. Here is a reddit thread where people complain: https://www.reddit.com/r/logitech/comments/13c07st/logitech_lift_on_linux_issues/

gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 1 year

Update: I bought the Lift mouse and it just works perfect out of the box.

I know there are better communities such as !linuxhardware@programming.dev , but it isn’t as active and I hope you understand me posting here for outreach.

So I have problems with my wrist from working on the computer, so I thought about trying a vertical mouse. I found the Logitech Lift Vertical would be a nice option, but after doing research I read it is a pain on Linux and does not work reliably. About some other models I read you need to set them up with Windows first to get them working (uurgghh)

Does anybody have good experiences with a vertical mouse on Linux?

I use Mint btw

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