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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • There is not a single app for this. For recommendations I now sometimes use last.fm and for songs I use blackhole (even though i have 4 months of spotify premium remaining). Blackhole luckly has a song download option and I can use it with any of my media player and I can’t believe I am saying this but it has a better song recommendation then spotify.

    But if you want to spam 1 artist I would say just search on spotify. you will get a playlist like "this is (artist name) ". That has good songs and you can download that playlist too. But What i do is just search it on blackhole and go to town. Download what I like and jam all the way.


  • yes i have like 5000 liked songs now. Been on spotify for 8 years already. It was way more amazing before. I use to play a song then the next song will be something that other people listened but also liked the song I played.

    Fast forward now. No matter what I pkay the next song is always a song I have heard before ESPECIALLY unholy by sam smith. I use to love that song but I loathe it now. I am playing a japanese song. Next song is unholy. I mean what the hell. Then I searched why is this happening.

    The cause came out to be cache management. Of they have a song cached in your device spotify will play that. Guck the recommendations. So I thought lets remoce the cache. That does not work because their CDN has that songs cached now and I still get that god forsaken song instead of a true song.

    I use to pay spotify yearly basis thats how much I used to use it. Now I have 4 months remaining but don’t use spotify on my android. Only on desktop.






  • ok so i was setting up nixos, it was going good. there were a lot of docs to setup home manage and nix flakes and they are easy to do once you get some hang of it. But then i wanted to do a small project in c++ where i wanted to use a library libcpr. now you can not directly install that library and use it. (AFAIK). You have to create a flake in that project and then use it. Which BTW is the right way to do it. But also i just want to test run a 4 line code.

    To achieve that you either have to do shell.nix or a devshell. Both of which have a documentation which is scattered. It took me 4 days and also help from nixos unofficial discord server to do it. In the end i had to make a nix devshell using a different repo which set it up for you. Then make a cmake file and then and only then i was able to use it. So it has a little bit of a learning curve in the beginning where everything sort of makes sense but nothing works. Again this was all for a 4 line code. In the end some one just suggested me to use docker instead. Which is a valid solution too. But i was already too deep into devshell so I didn’t backtrack.