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Spotify Soars to 320 Million Listeners, with 144 Million Paid Members

posted by martyb on Friday October 30 2020, @10:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the easy-listening dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Spotify soars to 320 million listeners, with 144 million paid members:

Spotify soared past a worldwide listener milestone as the number of people using the service climbed 29% to 320 million in the third quarter, the music streaming service said Thursday. Excluding anyone who listens free with advertising, Spotify's paid members also rose 27% to 144 million, the company said.

The latest figures further cement Spotify as the world's biggest subscription music service.

How does it compare to p2p these days?

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday October 30 2020, @03:27PM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Friday October 30 2020, @03:27PM (#1070878) Homepage
    If you ask it to download hi-res video and separate audio, it will need ffmpeg to mux them together into a single container, yes.
    However, if all you want is mid/low-res pre-muxed content (usually 720p, so decent enough for most things), then no muxing is needed, and so ffmpeg is required. Likewise, if all you want is the audio stream, it will happily download that on its own, and without any muxing task to do, no ffmpeg is needed.

    A lighter-weight alternative to youtube-dl is Jamie Zawinski's 'youtubedown', which can be fetched from jwz.org. However, that's not quite as up-to-date as youtube-dl, and sometimes doesn't cope. (However, both are always playing catchup with google's retarded obfuscation dipshittery, you might not notice that jwz's slower to update if you're lucky.)
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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday October 30 2020, @03:56PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday October 30 2020, @03:56PM (#1070892) Journal

    Thanks! I'll pass that on to my friend.

    I did notice that ffmpeg is being used to re-mux.

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