• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it seems weird. I can see the record companies not liking it because people listening to hours of white noise aren’t listening to music, but shouldn’t Spotify be happy if people are in the app at all? Maybe the issue is that they have more of a subscription model, so make more money when people pay the fee without using the bandwidth, but the white noise podcasts use bandwidth for many, many hours?

    The article certainly doesn’t explain it well.

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      1 year ago

      I think that’s exactly it.

      People will leave them playing over night etc.

      So they are paying a lot more in bandwidth and royalties.

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        1 year ago

        Not just that but due to the randomness of white noise data it can’t be compressed, so the bandwidth is much higher just because of that factor alone. Think 30mb for a white noise file the same length as a 3mb song.

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        1 year ago

        That’s an easy fix. Most music streaming services will time out after 30 minutes with an “are you still listening?” prompt.

        • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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          This is a terrible idea. I use spotify for music at work and if I had to click a prompt every 30 minutes I might as well be watching YouTube videos.

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            1 year ago

            Honestly I just download the stuff I like to listen to from YouTube using vlc and use the android version of that to just play the group of audio files all on a shuffled loop. Then again, my work asks that phones be in airplane mode in the room I work at (tho is fine with music and Bluetooth headphones, it’s something about interference from the data connection they’re worried about) so I couldn’t use a streaming service for it anyway.

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          1 year ago

          This has to be an intentionally bad idea lol, most albums are longer than 30 minutes and this would ruin the flow

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          1 year ago

          If I have to interact with my phone at any point while I’m driving I’m leaving that service.

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          1 year ago

          A “sleep timer” feature would be a much better suggestion. Audio streaming is not so network-intensive that we need to build in timeouts