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Amazon Amp Live Radio App

by raldu on 3/9/22, 12:19 PM with 11 comments

  • by tomc1985 on 3/12/22, 4:59 AM

    Welcome to the future, where DJs are kneecapped by the cloud libraries they have access to.

    To be fair, though, this isn't even nearly as troubling as Beatport et al pushing cloud DJ music subscriptions. There is a whole new generation of "talent" whose literal stage performances are 100% reliant on a good internet connection -- I imagine anyone who has gigged professionally would be horrified!

    To me one of the most important attributes of a DJ is their ability to curate and find music that I have never heard before from sources that are new to me. Essential to this is the care and feeding of your own personal music library, in CD/Vinyl/MP3/FLAC/some other unencumbered format. Curating spotify playlists just isn't the same, and serendipitously stumbling on a new track in some random playlist is not nearly as emotionally relevant as discovering some gem on a $2 secondhand whitelabel, or the CD bargain bin at the thrift store, for example. To say nothing of all the unimaginative troglodytes that are simply going to hit up the genre top 10 and add all that to their crates and think they're ready to go.

    I shudder to think about what the future of the electronic music underground means with all these cloud zombies running around. These kids know there's no cell service out in the middle of the desert right???

  • by relyks on 3/12/22, 5:48 AM

    Stationhead (https://www.stationhead.com/) has been something similar for awhile. However, they use Spotify's API to sync your Spotify app with the rest of the listeners on the station.

  • by buro9 on 3/12/22, 8:27 AM

    > How would you build your own radio show if there were no satellite towers or recording studios required, no licensing deals to negotiate, and the tools you needed were already on your phone?

    Shoutcast?

  • by hossbeast on 3/12/22, 6:32 AM

    True story, I am currently working on a music server project which I have tentatively been calling amps. Now I'll need to rename it.

  • by fleaaa on 3/12/22, 11:50 AM

    Jokes on these tries, I listen to mix/radio to discover music that is usually out of streaming platform pool. Good luck.

  • by 2Gkashmiri on 3/12/22, 5:04 AM

    "licensed music" smh.

    you go and either pay for physical discs or pirate the shit out of it because this whole "protecting interests of rights holders" is getting out of hand.