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#Bringing the message to the medium 🌐
Like most people in electronic/club music scenes, I spend a lot of time on Soundcloud. I was an early, hardcore adopter of the platform. In fact, probably within the first 3000 users, as shown by my ID in their system:
I'm what they call a 'digital native' — always produced music on computers and started DJing that way, too. But given the history of the scene, I also felt the need to master “real DJ-ing” as well. One day I got a good offer for a pair of Technics 1210s and decided to take the plunge.
As I was playing with the turntables, I came to realize how natural it must have felt for the original wave of electronic musicians to have their work distributed and played on vinyl. They would manipulate the music with their hands, which in turn radically influenced the structure and rhythmic patterns of the tracks they were making. It was also similar to how they experienced the music they grew up with, with the same mode of listening and cultural relation. The direct sensory and emotional connection made music easier to appreciate — both for the maker and the audience.
I felt semblances of that, growing up mostly listening to copied cassettes(!) and files/mp3s (skipped CDs almost entirely — a ridiculous format). Today, this is different - the direct, personal connection is fully severed. Think about it. Almost all of our interaction with music is managed and mediated by middlemen — Spotify, Youtube, Soundcloud, Apple... They determine the full context within which the music appears. The artist is left controlling only the cover art, which totals up to only 5% to 10% of the visible screen space. Even if you embed a player in a website, the player will act against the artist. After a track finishes playing, a semi-random one will follow without asking. Or a nag window will pop up to nudge the user to visit the platform instead. In essence, both the artist and the listener are moved as far from the controls as possible, in order to tweak, optimize and steer their actions towards whatever makes the host platform appear successful.
The situation is incredibly bizarre — the devices in our pockets are more powerful than the computers that made the majority of electronic music. You could literally have the same music generated on the fly by your phone. And, it could be interactive in ways never before possible. It's the most mindblowing yet ignored and underutilized musical context ever.
I've been possessed by this realization, and started exploring the possibilities of taking back control. There are ways to make music more interactive, and artists should be messing directly with the format of how we publish our musical ideas today. It was vinyl, then CDs, and now it's the Internet itself.
I'm a music producer and performer first — I didn't give much shit about computers and programming, not more than it was necessary anyway. I see these things as tools of expression. But every musician should understand their instruments and the context of their work. Today, this context is the Internet, and we need to deal with it 😎
#The track 🐥
The track Pipo is a tribute to my crazy Amsterdam neighbor's parrot. My neighbor at the time was spending a lot of time at home, much of it screaming at her parrot Pipo at regular 15-20 minute intervals. In our flat, it became both a running joke and a genuine nuisance. I even considered adopting the bird. One day in 2014, the vocal performances inspired a simple rave-tinged track that just sort of materialized, and I've been sitting on it since.
In many ways, I found it to be a great fit for a fun experiment. I've increasingly felt that releasing tracks in a standard, “static” way doesn’t make much sense anymore. It doesn’t “work”. The shelf life of a typical release is getting ridiculously short — you get a week, maybe two of peak attention at best. Great works get buried under the avalanche of new content, racking up only a few hundred listens. I wanted to reflect this relationship somehow — by connecting the markers everyone seems to care about (play counts etc.) to the content of the track itself. In short, the idea was to make Pipo “alive”.
The real world Pipo commanded constant attention and sacrifice. Just like the neighbor's screaming, the track had to be as annoying as possible. As a lifelong fan and explorer of distortion, using that effect was an instictive fit. I put the final master of the track through some of my favorite tools and ended up with a handful of trashed-up versions.
With that, my idea was fully formed — upload a completely distorted track to Soundcloud, change it to progressively cleaner versions as more people listened to it, and gradually dial the distortion back if the weekly play counts are insufficient. This is the result in its very current state:
Update 2018: here's the player from my interactive music engine songsling.io, I've built it so you can also make projects like this.
#The Soundcloud Replacer 🤖
If you pay for a Pro account on Soundcloud, you'll have the possibility to replace the audio file uploaded for the track, without losing any of its statistics. This feature is a godsend in case you make a mistake that needs to be corrected, like a bad version of the recording. However, a more interesting use is to CHANGE the track entirely, depending on some feedback.
In order to do this, the replacement process had to be fully automated. My initial thought was to program it using the Soundcloud API, which is short for Application Programming Interface. This is a way to access applications without using the Graphical User Interface — the way most humans do, clicking and tapping on screens. The API allows you to use the raw data without the unnecessary baggage of a website or an app. Virtually every app has an API and it's typically used by other apps for scrutinizing data or embedding content. The interactions look like the short example at the beginning of this post. Soundcloud's API is not too bad — while you can use it to make programs to upload and delete tracks from connected accounts, it doesn't allow you to replace them.
Of course, this was not going to stop me. Luckily there's a way to make almost anything on the Internet bend to your will — using browser automation. Almost all software makers, and probably Soundcloud themselves as well, use browser automation to test parts of their application. If the code changes, automated tests are run against it to see if the changes broke any other parts of the application by accident. Because of this, browsers have all kinds of special hooks built into them that allows us to mimic anything that real people would do — clicking, typing, navigating, pressing buttons.
It's much like a string puppet, if you know how to use it. The details took me quite some time to figure out, but as you can see, the process works well (this is 100% automated, ghost-in-the-machine style stuff — I'm not touching anything):
You can recreate the exact steps you would take to replace the track yourself, by writing a script (literally, like for actors):
At this point I had automated the process of replacing the track, but I still needed to decide which distorted version to take. For this, I needed a good way to access listener feedback. I'm also obsessed with that topic since the turntable moment. All artists face the same environment today: we are slaves to metrics of 'engagement' — listens, play counts, follows, likes, sign-ups and so on. These metrics have a significant real world effect, influencing media attention, bookings and sponsorship opportunities. There are several analytics tools that help you track them, as well as so-called 'like gates'. Like gates typically offer access to a free download in return for a follow or repost. To me, they all come off as sleazy marketing tools. They feel inherently embarrassing, probably for the reason that they're ill-suited for any creative interpretation.
This is why I've built my own tracking engine called Songsling.io over the course of 2016. It powers all my interactive musical artworks. My aim was to build something that can turn online projects into tamagotchis — virtual pets — that need to be fed by the visible feedback of your audience. All the online metrics I can measure are then patched back in to control the artworks themselves. I've used it for the first time to present The Bomb EP, which gradually unlocked its tracks as more people listened to them. It also powers Pipo.
Since I needed this engine to be working for me non-stop, I had to set up my own cloud servers. That takes a bit to figure out, but it’s incredibly cheap and 100% worth it just for the learning experience alone. I highly encourage you to give it a shot, if you're even slightly inclined. What you get is the possibility to build up your own army of automated robots (“shell scripts”) that do exactly what you tell them, any time — also while you sleep. Automation is coming to affect us in a big way, and you should learn some of it to improve your creative output.
The robot assistants set up for Pipo have roughly these tasks:
- Every 5-10 minutes, check for the latest playback statistics
- Calculate a project score from the growth in the plays, etc. based on their assigned weights (different multipliers — plays on Youtube or Soundcloud are worth more than Facebook)
- The project score is then stored and checked for by another automated bot every 15-30 minutes. The bot determines whether a change is necessary.
- If a threshold has been reached, it spins up the necessary virtual computers (“containers”). This happens in mere seconds. One container runs the string-puppeted browser, and the other one the automation script — the series of steps needed to replace the track on Soundcloud.
- After they’re done with their assigned tasks, the virtual computers shut down automatically and patiently sleep until the next occassion.
That's basically it. Thanks to all of the above, Pipo is always changing. I hope it inspires you to try something similar. Go and mess with the Internet. For more Pipo, you can also listen and grab the sound file on his dedicated web shrine. The visuals & 3D assets are the work of DLGNCE, an amazing 3D artist I was fortunate to collaborate with for this release. Our music video went online after the first 1000 plays:
Updated on Nov 29th, 2019
Spotify Free users now can get a 1-month free trial with 4 different plans to feel the power of Spotify Premium, such as downloading Spotify music, enjoying ads-free music and more features. However, when the free trial ends, you the Spotify users may come across a problem, that is, how to get Spotify Premium free on your iPhone or Androids devices to keep enjoying Premium features. Hence, we have collected, tested and verified the 2 powerful and feasible ways to help you better get Spotify free premium on your iPhone or Android devices(no jailbreak).
In this post, you will learn the full tutorials about getting Spotify Premium free on iPhone or Android devices with 3 powerful tools, along with the best alternative ways to get Premium features for free. But first, let's take a look at what's will you need to get Spotify Premium free.
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Part 1. What'll You Need for Getting Spotify Premium Free on iPhone and Android
Before getting free Premium on iPhone/iOS/Android devices, we highly recommend preparing the tools below.
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#1 Your iPhone/iOS/Android Devices: Take out your iPhone/iOS/Android Devices and connect it with the Internet connection. Be careful to fully charged for the tutorials below.
#2 Uninstall the Spotify app: If you are the Spotify Free user and have already installed the Spotify on your devices, please uninstall the Spotify before you try the following tutorials. If you are Spotify premium member already, either uninstall Spotify to follow the guide below for taking cancel your Spotify Premium membership into consideration.
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#3 USB Cable: USB Cable is required for the iPhone users on the second tutorial, if you think the way to use USB cable is difficult and complicated to operate, please disregard this and try the first tutorial.
Now, we will divide the way to get free Spotify Premium into 2 parts. Firstly, we will focus on iPhone users, and then we will move on to Andriod. If you are iOS users, follow the tutorials below step by step to learn how to get Spotify Premium on your iPhone for free (no jailbreak).
Part 2. How to Get Spotify Premium Free on iPhone & iOS Devices without Jailbreaking
Tutorial 1. Get Spotify Premium on iPhone (No Jailbreak & No PC) - with TweakBox
Step 1. Open Safari and go to this link to download TweakBox - one of the top app installers. Click the 'Install' button after downloading it;
Step 2. Go back to the home screen, we can find TweakBox app. Open and load it for a while;
Step 3. Now you need to click on TweakBox app and then search for Spotify++;
Step 4. Click on 'Install' to download Spotify Premium free;
Step 5. After Spotify++ has been downloaded, you can open it instantly. If it will indicate the Untrusted Developers Message, you need to go to Settings > General > Profiles to trust the developers;
Step 6. Now, you can log in to your Spotify account to enjoy Spotify Premium for free (no jailbreak).
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Tutorial 2. Get Spotify Premium on iPhone (No Jailbreak) - with Cydia Impactor
Step 1. Take out the USB cable and connect your iDevice to your PC (Windows or Mac);
Step 2. Download Cydia Impactor [Download Link] and the Spotify app on your computer;
Note: If you've downloaded this app, you have to update it to the latest version if you want to hack Pokémon GO. Click Impactor in the app and after Check for Update.
Step 3. Now go to decompress the file (CydiaImpactor Download) in a new folder;
Step 4. Then after the decompression, open this folder and find the app; Open the app by right-clicking on it and then hit on 'Open' button;
Step 5. Now you need to drag the Spotify(We have already downloaded) onto Cydia Impactor; Then press on 'Start' button on the right side of the program to get Spotify Premium free; (Of course, the program will ask for your Apple ID for testing your real identity and that you are not robots. Just enter your data and click 'Enter'.);
Step 6. And after, click on 'OK'. You'll then see Spotify Premium app appearing on the first page of your home screen;
Step 7. Now, when you try to open it, it will indicate the Untrusted Developers Message, you need to go to Settings > General > Profiles to trust the developers;
Step 8. Reboot the device if necessary;
Part 3. How to Get Spotify Premium Free on Android Devices
If you are Android users, now move on to the Android tutorial below to learn how to acquire Spotify Premium for free on Android devices (no jailbreak & no PC).
Note: Please download the TutuApp and then install it on your Android devices and please make sure to turn on the Unknown Sources on your Android devices(if you don't know please take a look at the first step below.).
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Step 1. Go to Settings first; Further, go on Lock Screen and Security and enable the Unknown Sources;
Step 2. On the main interface of TutuApp, find out the Spotify app or search the Spotify app on the search bar.
Step 3. Hit Download and Install the Spotify Music mod version on your Android device. When the whole installation is over, you can see the Spotify app on your Android device.
Note: Please disable the unknown sources if you don't need to install other APK on your Android device.
Step 4. Turn on the VPN on your Android device and log in with your Spotify account. Then you can get the Spotify Premium with unlimited features for free (no jailbreak) on your Android devices.
Part 4. Alternative Way to Enjoy Spotify Premium Features (No Spotify Premium)
After reading the above tutorials of how to get Spotify Premium free on iPhone or Android, you might have tried the method and got your Spotify Premium free for offline listening. However, you may be still unhappy since downloaded Spotify music can only be played offline in three authorized devices. What can be done if you want to listen to them offline on any other device or make ringtones from Spotify music?
Don't worry! There is a way - download and convert Spotify music to MP3 or other common formats and play them on multiple devices. All you need is a powerful music converter - TuneFab Spotify Music Converter. Want to know how it works? Keep on reading.
TuneFab Spotify Music Converter is a powerful and maneuverable converter that can not only help you free download and convert Spotify tracks to common audio formats like MP3, M4A, WAV and so forth but also remove DRM protection easily. You don't have to get Spotify Premium free on your device for offline playing. With it, you are able to enjoy offline listening on any devices freely even if you're Spotify free user.
Several Advanced Features:
* Convert Spotify music to plain output formats with advanced quality;
* Enjoy Spotify Premium features like ads-free, improved listening quality and offline listening;
* Save ID3 tags and metadata;
* Advanced output settings such as bitrate, sample rate.
Now follow the instruction below step by step to download and transfer Spotify tracks for offline listening on multiple devices. Be aware to install Spotify on your computer and log in with your Spotify account.
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Step 1. Download and Launch TuneFab Spotify Music Converter
Make sure you've downloaded TuneFab Spotify Music Converter by clicking to the 'Try It Free' button. Then follow the instruction to install and launch it. Then you will see the following main interface.
Step 2. Add Spotify Tracks to Prepare the Conversion
After launching it, click on 'Add Files' on the top-left side of the main interface to drag songs, playlists or albums from Spotify. Or you can copy and paste the link of songs that you want to convert from Spotify. When all the music is successfully added, then hit on 'Add'.
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Step 3. Choose Output Format
Go to 'Options' > 'Advanced', you are able to choose the output format for your Spotify track (MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC). Also, you are free to customize bitrate and sample rate before conversion. We highly recommend setting MP3 with 320 kbps bitrate as your output format parameters.
Step 4. Specify the Destination Folder
Go to 'Options' > 'General', you're able to change the destination folder for saving your converted songs. Apart from this, you can sort your output files in line with Artists, Album, Artist/Albums. That will be better than using Spotify Premium, by which downloading files are caches files.
Step 5. Start Converting Spotify Songs
After all the settings are completed, start the conversion by pressing on 'Convert'.
Now, you are free to enjoy Spotify songs with high quality offline on multiple devices and easy to get Spotify for free!
Conclusion
If you are the iPhone users, then the Spotify++ with TuneFab Spotify Music Converter will be the better option for getting free Spotify premium. If you are the Android users, then take the Andriod tool together with TuneFab Spotify Music Converter will be great for you to enjoy Spotify free premium. Or if you don't want to install so many apps on your iPhone or Andriod, then it would be better if you choose to use TuneFab Spotify Music Converter to get Spotify Premium features like offline listening by converting Spotify music to MP3. At all events, choose the best way and enjoy your Spotify!