• wia@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Could the killjoys and permanently miserable go comment on a different sub? This is a supposed to be a wholesome place. I know Lemmy is filled with perpetually angry people but do you guys have to come here and complain about every detail?

    I thought this was adorable and cute. Thanks for sharing OP!

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I don’t know, man… I think it’s kind of creepy. I would not want my wife doing this to me. Even though it’s innocent, it’s still spying.

    And what if I decided to sleep in? Would she start getting more and more worried the longer the music wasn’t interrupted and then she would call me and wake me up? Then I would both not have been able to sleep in and found out about the spying.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Do people always listen to music? I only do it occasionally to enjoy and stimulate me. I think i saw a study years ago, that always noise stresses your brain out long term, be it street noise or music.

    • Cattypat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’ll give you my dilemma: would you rather have constant noise that is not in your control? or would you rather have constant noise in the form of music that you enjoy? thats my case in school and the case of many others in cities, where its a choice between the sound of crowds (with occasional shocking loud noises) or music you can control. one is far less stressful at the end of the day

    • filcuk@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      I have a tracking setup for spotify. I listen to music during work most of the day, typically between 11-17 with peaks at 1pm. Average at 40-60k minutes a year. Longest session being around 11 hours.

      It helps me focus. But I’d be interested in seeing that study.

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        A quick google hints that people who always have music on and “fear” silence, do so to avoid negative thoughts or emotions. And the usual studies about constant background noise making you sick. But there’s too much noise (lol) about “The perfect music to calm you down” and similiar crap, nothing specific yet. And i have work to do.

        Edit: and (a highly technical) one, that reading comphension goes down with background music.

        • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          2 days ago

          people who always have music on and “fear” silence, do so to avoid negative thoughts or emotions

          Nah. Just ADHD and deep emotional connection with music here.

        • filcuk@lemmy.zip
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          2 days ago

          It’s true, I’m conscious of avoiding silence.
          Music works when I’m working on a task that requires focus, but I need something more engaging when cooking, for example, like spoken word - podcasts, audiobooks, movies, YouTube.

          Thanks for the links, will have a look

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    For me it’s my 4-year-old daughter. I know when mom is taking her to preschool because my spooky podcast suddenly changes to something like “SUPER KITTIES” and my audio goes silent.

  • Player2@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I guess the self hosting equivalent would be logging in to the Jellyfin admin panel and looking at what is being streamed

  • randomdeadguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    This is because we have a Google home which is linked to my Spotify account.

    Cute story… this is an advertisement, even if it was not the author’s intent. I enjoy human connection and mawwiage as much as the next guy, but we can have a better story with post-google open source alternatives.

    “Will you be my Spotify Duo… til death do us part?” I texted her, over my Nokia WristMaster.

    sniffle “Of course my love. Nike, Just Do It™” she said, drinking her Folger’s dark mountain blend with new hazelnut flavor.

    “Based, fam”

    And then they Uber off into the sunset.

  • yannic@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I don’t understand what’s wholesome about a single household needing to pay for multiple accounts to simultaneously stream, but all the more power to you.

    • BatmanAoD@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Maybe, but how is that different from needing to pay for two separate copies of anything else if two people are using them at the same time in different places?

      I’m not a fan of how little the major streaming services (except Tidal) pay artists, but they do all offer bundle packages. Spotify’s pricing is $12 for an individual, $17 for two people, and $20 for a family of up to 6. So it’s only $5 more than the base cost if two people stream simultaneously.

      • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        MP3s don’t have any of those problems. You just copy it to whatever device you want to “stream” it from and listen to it with no account or subscription.

        • BatmanAoD@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          …sure. Yes. If you own a song, you can listen however many times you want, simultaneously or not.

          But streaming services are simply a different value proposition. Listening to an mp3 means either buying all the music you listen to or pirating; it also means having the music stored on your listening device in advance, or streaming from a personal media server. I listen to a lot of music that I haven’t heard before and don’t know if I’ll actually like; I also listen on my phone a fair amount and have a limited amount of storage space for music. For that use-case, streaming is preferable (to me).

          • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Yep I know about all of that, and I have zero streaming service accounts because they all suck in comparison to actually owning the music I like. I’ve tried them out, and it’s just too lame for me to put up with their bullshit hassles. The companies selling those subscriptions love that you will keep paying them perpetually to gatekeep your access to music.

    • the post of tom joad@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      It’s funny when i tease my wife by sneaking a song she hates into her playlist from across town even though it’s playing on a system hamstrung for profit run by people i despise, yarp!

    • burgersc12@mander.xyz
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      3 days ago

      Its a cute story, the tech is only a small part of it. But its actually a good thing for the guy in the story that they can’t stream at the same time since it let’s them connect in that small way every day

  • Emmie@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Two months ago I would have a hard time imagining what’s so wholesome about this. Nice to understand this now.

  • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    That’s cute and all, but it’s also pretty much what Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Spotify and all the other tech giants are doing when they’re joyfully tracking what people are doing without their knowledge or consent.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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        3 days ago

        You are in love with the ability to make her happy, and bond emotionally.

        Tech companies are in love with the ability to analyze your emotional state so they can exploit it trough business offers giving them more money.

        While still a tad creepy that she doesn’t officially know, you and them are not the same.

        • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Sure, still a bit weird tho. I mean what happens when OP is on a business trip and his gf seems to suddenly have a whole different taste in music in the morning? Could easily lead to misunderstandings…or not.

      • DandomRude@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I’m sure they are. How could they not? They love you for who you are and what you do and what you think…