Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!
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Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!
Itβs called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.
It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.
You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream
@kidlightbulbs great initiative, thanks!

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Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!
Itβs called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.
It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.
You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream
@kidlightbulbs@musicworld.social Sounds like a good idea, I like the aim.
Is Unstream freedom-respecting software? I couldn't find any link to the source code nor licensing information...
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@kidlightbulbs@musicworld.social Sounds like a good idea, I like the aim.
Is Unstream freedom-respecting software? I couldn't find any link to the source code nor licensing information...
@contrapunctus this is a great question! The source code is here https://github.com/brandonlucasgreen/unstream
I aim to respect the freedom of Unstream users. I collect zero user data and only capture basic anonymized analytics for the website. I havenβt thought at all about licensing info, but Iβm open to making the code open source, just havenβt gotten there yet
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Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!
Itβs called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.
It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.
You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream
@kidlightbulbs Pretty cool project!
Any plans on your side to also support youtube Music in the Mac App?
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@kidlightbulbs Pretty cool project!
Any plans on your side to also support youtube Music in the Mac App?
@hannsr thanks! Iβm investigating other music players to support soon, but in the meantime Iβm about to announce a chrome extension (& soon after a Firefox extension), if either of those would work in the meantime!
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Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!
Itβs called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.
It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.
You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream
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@hannsr thanks! Iβm investigating other music players to support soon, but in the meantime Iβm about to announce a chrome extension (& soon after a Firefox extension), if either of those would work in the meantime!
@kidlightbulbs thanks
Yeah I saw the hint about an extension. I'm personally on 99% Bandcamp already, but a colleague asked about youtube after I shared it at work. -
@kidlightbulbs thanks
Yeah I saw the hint about an extension. I'm personally on 99% Bandcamp already, but a colleague asked about youtube after I shared it at work.@hannsr oh amazing! I appreciate the word of mouth promotion
Chrome extension is technically live if they would like to try it, Iβm just making some tweaks. Iβll also look into supporting browser-based players like YT Music in the Mac app. -
@HypostasisGR yes!!
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Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!
Itβs called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.
It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.
You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream
Cool β I had no idea Frost* was on Bandcamp!
One suggestion, if I may: for names longer than a few characters on mobile, could you make more space for names in search results, rather than shortening them quite so much? That would make the list easier to navigate.
Thanks again for setting this up.
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Cool β I had no idea Frost* was on Bandcamp!
One suggestion, if I may: for names longer than a few characters on mobile, could you make more space for names in search results, rather than shortening them quite so much? That would make the list easier to navigate.
Thanks again for setting this up.
@CppGuy awesome! This is great feedback, thank you - I can work on that!
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Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!
Itβs called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.
It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.
You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream
@kidlightbulbs@musicworld.social closed source? β
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@kidlightbulbs@musicworld.social closed source? β
β@root for now, yes, but Iβm thinking about open sourcing it!
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Fun update: I made an app over the holiday break!
Itβs called Unstream: Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming.
It was directly borne out of my desire to get off Apple Music myself, and instead build a library of music I own through directly supporting artists by buying their music.
You can check it out here, at a URL I still find amusing: https://unstream.stream
@kidlightbulbs awesome idea!