Aurous is a free and questionably legal way to stream music - Polidicks

[b]Aurous is a free and questionably legal way to stream music[/b] Via [url=http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/13/9528239/aurous-free-music-streaming-legal-or-illegal?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter]The Verge[/url] ____________________ [quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/BStDpCk.png[/img] Aurous is like Apple Music, Spotify, and Rdio, in that it offers a selection of songs available to stream direct from dedicated apps. But unlike Apple Music, Spotify, and Rdio, Aurous is totally free with no ads. Where those other streaming services have negotiated expensive deals with record labels and artists to feature their music, Aurous has sidestepped that hurdle, pulling music instead from a variety of third-party sources. But while its library is still small, and its model not as obviously illegal as torrenting tracks directly, Aurous will nonetheless upset record labels and rights holders. Built by developer Andrew Sampson and launched in alpha form this week, Aurous uses more than 120 public APIs to collate tracks from services such as SoundCloud, YouTube, and Spotify. The service also uses peer-to-peer networking, but not in the same way as Napster or The Pirate Bay — no actual songs are downloaded via torrent. Instead, Aurous uses BitTorrent to collate links directly to streaming music, found in licensed form in existing playlists, videos, or players. The free service has already drawn comparisons to Popcorn Time — the "Netflix for pirates" streaming service that offered a slate of movies and TV shows for free — but Sampson says that's not accurate. "We're pulling content from sources that are licensed," he told Billboard. "From a legal standpoint, what we're doing is okay. All files are streamed from legitimate sources — we don't host anything." Sampson technically has a point, but Aurous' approach is questionably legal, and has already attracted the attention of anti-piracy groups. Billboard reports that the RIAA is currently scrutinizing the service, while for-profit piracy watchdog Rightscorp hit out in late September, claiming before Aurous launched that it had the technology to stop it from collecting the data it needs to find its songs.[/quote] Pretty interesting. I wish them good luck...

the RIAA will find one illegal link and use that as an excuse to take it all down [editline]14th October 2015[/editline] its sort of like that service a while back that was streaming broadcast TV over the internet, perfectly legal, until they could find a judge to order them to pay re transmission fees, then the broadcasters refused to allow them to license the content

the newly signed TPP deal will put an end to this communist barbarism.

Using it right now. It works quite nicely.

Seems like this might finally replace Grooveshark. Client is somewhat unstable right now, and their servers are getting hammered, but the core functionality (search for song, doubleclick song, play song) mostly works and I've been able to find almost everything I've looked for so far. [QUOTE=Sableye;48898265]the RIAA will find one illegal link and use that as an excuse to take it all down [editline]14th October 2015[/editline] its sort of like that service a while back that was streaming broadcast TV over the internet, perfectly legal, until they could find a judge to order them to pay re transmission fees, then the broadcasters refused to allow them to license the content[/QUOTE] [url=https://twitter.com/aurousapp/status/654023122144919552]They're already suing.[/url] [url=https://twitter.com/aurousapp/status/654027583919681536]And are apparently making their case on Aurous being a for-profit company.[/url] I do wonder what the business model is here. Selling statistics?

I'm using Aurous right now. The catergorization of everything is a bit rough and wonky, but I'm sure they'll fix it using last.fm's databases or something.

why don't you use spotify?

[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;48898890]why don't you use spotify?[/QUOTE] Ads.

Attention RIAA: please fuck off and die.

seems pretty cool, though I don't think I'll be using it just yet. it's incredibly basic from what I can tell. there's no way to browse an artists page for example, browse albums, etc. you can search for songs and play them, that's it at the current stage. will definitely keep an eye on this though, if they implement what I just mentioned I'd have no problems using this.

[QUOTE=UnknownDude;48898913]Ads.[/QUOTE]Barely any. You know that they worked hard for their music they deserve the ad money.

this is pretty stupid imo. artists are making little enough as it is

[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;48898942][B]Barely any.[/B] You know that they worked hard for their music they deserve the ad money.[/QUOTE] Have you listened to Spotify before...?

[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;48899015]Have you listened to Spotify before...?[/QUOTE]Every 30min is fine.

[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;48898942]Barely any. You know that they worked hard for their music they deserve the ad money.[/QUOTE] I'd like spotify more if they didn't pay their artists the equivalence of flicking quarters and dollars into a homeless musician's guitar case.

[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;48898942]Barely any. You know that they worked hard for their music they deserve the ad money.[/QUOTE] Fuck all ads. I'd rather buy music than have to listen to corporate propaganda. And fuck Spotify Premium too.

I have a friend who is one of the devs for this! Wish them luck!

[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;48898890]why don't you use spotify?[/QUOTE] Not available in my country

[img]http://rp.braxnet.org/scr/1444812755897.png[/img] ...huh?

[QUOTE=Vodkavia;48899174]2. Musicians aren't fucking starving artists, it's by far one of the most top heavy professional Fields. They're not marginalized minorities ffs[/QUOTE] You just explained the problem: it's top-heavy. Unless you're on top, you're going to be making money by performing. And if you're like me and you don't perform, it's not the most sustainable thing to get into without directly creating music for things like video games.

[QUOTE=Giraffen93;48899325][img]http://rp.braxnet.org/scr/1444812755897.png[/img] ...huh?[/QUOTE] Works fine for me

Ads like the ones Spotify uses are fine imo, makes you feel like you're listening to the radio but with good music. Though if you really don't like the ads, you can just load up Spotify on your browser + adblock/ublock and no ads will play.

[QUOTE=Laserbeams;48899345]Works fine for me[/QUOTE] doesn't work in sweden then i guess

[code] ... Update finished Check finished Disposing updater... Launching aurous... UTF-8 Exception in Application start method Oct 14, 2015 11:51:07 AM me.aurous.launchwrapper.Updater main SEVERE: null java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ... Exception in thread "Thread-77" java.lang.NullPointerException at com.teamdev.jxbrowser.chromium.internal.ipc.IPC.c(Unknown Source) at com.teamdev.jxbrowser.chromium.internal.ipc.IPC.b(Unknown Source) at com.teamdev.jxbrowser.chromium.internal.ipc.IPC.a(Unknown Source) at com.teamdev.jxbrowser.chromium.internal.ipc.b.run(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [/code] So much for that I guess.

[QUOTE=wauterboi;48899333]You just explained the problem: it's top-heavy. Unless you're on top, you're going to be making money by performing. And if you're like me and you don't perform, it's not the most sustainable thing to get into without directly creating music for things like video games.[/QUOTE] How is a questionably legal free streaming service that leeches off other legal avenues supposed to help that?

[QUOTE=axelord157;48899103]I'd like spotify more if they didn't pay their artists the equivalence of flicking quarters and dollars into a homeless musician's guitar case.[/QUOTE] In Estonia, of all places, a couple of random acquaintances managed to earn almost 50 euros in almost an hour in the middle of a busy day in Old Town District just by playing random stuff (albeit good) as street musicians.

[QUOTE=axelord157;48899103]I'd like spotify more if they didn't pay their artists the equivalence of flicking quarters and dollars into a homeless musician's guitar case.[/QUOTE] It's not like spotify can actually afford to pay more. And if they could, most of it would go to top mainstream artists, defeating the purpose anyway. On that topic, is spotify still operating on a loss or did they manage to break even?

[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;48898890]why don't you use spotify?[/QUOTE] It's missing albums from obscure music artists.

I miss Grooveshark. Nothing has been able to fill the hole it left.

[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;48898942]Barely any. You know that they worked hard for their music they deserve the ad money.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't say "barely any" but at least they don't last as long as fucking radio ads and there aren't many political ads. I restart Spotify when I get a stream of those "ayyy my whole squad listens to fleek check this flip out yo" ads or when I get a four-minute sponsored song ad.