Anna's Archive has backed up Spotify's metadata and music files (~300TB), creating the largest publicly available music metadata database (256 million tracks, 186 million ISRCs) and a "preservation archive" for music.
This article details Spotify's approach to building reliable background coding agents, focusing on verification loops and LLM judges to ensure code quality and prevent functional errors. It explores how these feedback mechanisms contribute to predictable and trustworthy automation in large-scale software maintenance.
Nocturne is a community-driven open-source project that brings new life to the Spotify Car Thing after Spotify ended support. It offers features like free and open-source software, easy setup, flexibility for desk or car use, and a stable and actively updated experience.
Something similar to the Spotify Car Thing, built with a cheap ESP32 Screen. Connects to your Spotify account and displays your currently playing song with its album art.
This page provides step-by-step instructions to set up your system for flashing your Car Thing using a legacy flashing method, from tool preparation to software configuration for a successful flashing process.
This page provides step-by-step instructions for flashing the Spotify Car Thing with the Thing Labs OS using the Terbium webpage. It includes instructions for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Spotify, a human's digital jukebox, has been a data-driven company since day one, using data for various purposes including payments and experimentation. Managing the vast amount of data required a more streamlined approach, leading to the development of their internal data platform.
**Event Delivery System:**
- **On-Premises Setup:** Initially, Spotify used on-premises solutions like Kafka and HDFS. Event data from clients was captured, timestamped, and routed to a central Hadoop cluster.
- **Google Cloud Transition:** In 2015, Spotify moved to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for better scalability and reliability. Key components include File Tailer, Event Delivery Service, Reliable Persistent Queue, and ETL jobs using Dataflow and BigQuery.
**Event Delivery System:**
- **On-Premises Setup:** Initially, Spotify used on-premises solutions like Kafka and HDFS. Event data from clients was captured, timestamped, and routed to a central Hadoop cluster.
- **Google Cloud Transition:** In 2015, Spotify moved to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for better scalability and reliability. Key components include File Tailer, Event Delivery Service, Reliable Persistent Queue, and ETL jobs using Dataflow and BigQuery.
An article discussing how Spotify's in-car audio device, 'Car Thing', has become unusable after the company discontinued its service, leaving users with what they're calling a 'car brick'.
DeskThing transforms Spotify's discontinued CarThing into a versatile desktop companion by turning it into an app platform. Users can install and run various applications like weather forecasts, NBA statistics, GitHub repository metrics, system resource monitoring, Discord notifications, and more. This open platform allows developers to create and share their own apps, extending the device's capabilities far beyond its original purpose.
Desk Thing: The Discord Thing, Trello Thing, The Weather Thing, The Macro Thing, Just not The Car Thing anymore. An alternative OS for the Spotify Car Thing allowing community-made apps.
