• Space Sloth@feddit.dkEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’ve never used the free tier on Spotify and I don’t understand how anyone can. The ads alone would make me throw off my headset in disgust. So yeah, not going to affect me, and I do enjoy reading the lyrics a lot.

    That said, I am experimenting with swapping over to Apple Music because I feel Spotify has become too expensive.

    • bblfrnz@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      The ads alone would make me throw off my headset in disgust.

      For a mobile, there is a modded apk,I’ve never heard ads there. For a PC, web player in Firefox with uBlock Origin, there are no ads at all there. The same goes for Tidal, I’ve never paid for these apps.

        • bblfrnz@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago
          1. spotx - well, I tried, but honestly, I don’t need one more app especially when everything works in the browser. Plus, I prefer portable setups and there’s no portable version of spotx, so, it’s pretty useless for me.
          2. It’s explicitly said on the Spowlo GitHub page that they use YouTube for downloading, so, there’s no way to get 320 kbps tracks or flacs. Instead, I’d recommend to try some Qobuz/Deezer-based solutions, there are quite a few of them there. Or use slavart or something like this, or good old soulseek, there’s even an Android client for it.
      • Space Sloth@feddit.dkEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        I use an iPhone though and I’d prefer not to use YouTube for music, or anything, really.

        • bblfrnz@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Oh man, you shouldn’t be using iphone in the first place, the most useless device piracy-wise.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      The ads aren’t even for anything. It was just really patronising ads for Spotify Premium.

      Their business model is genuinely to just annoy you into paying.

    • rockhandle@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      With xManager, the free tier comes quite close to premium. No ads, play whatever music you like. The only issues are lower sound quality & no downloads, which are really non-issues since you can just find other sources to download the music from, at flac quality

    • satanicleftist@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I recently flipped to apple music and apart from seeing a few songs missing on albums i don’t really listen to anyway, it’s only been an improvement. the lossless audio is quite nice

      • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
        11·
        2 years ago

        Musixmatch has a free, public database where lyrics are displayed. To contribute to the database, users can sign up and contribute lyrics, synchronizations, translations, and structuring to get points and move up levels. Musixmatch’s points have no redeemable value, but are instead a marker of a particular user’s contributions.

        So no?

          • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
            11·
            2 years ago

            Spotify is receiving money for something they did not create.

            Neither the writers of the lyrics nor the fans who transcribed them get a cut.

            That is fucked up.

            • Sparky678348@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              It is fucked up that the fans who are transcribing do not get a cut, but it’s not like they were misled to believe they would make a cut before they started doing it. The people doing that are doing it out of a passion for the music.

              I’m not saying they shouldn’t be paid of course they should, if it was up to me I’d say make them all rich. I just think it’s a stretch to imply that Spotify is stealing anything here

              • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
                11·
                2 years ago

                I like stealing. According to my belief system theft is good.

                It’s the fact Spotify is charging users for something stolen is what I think is fucked.
                Something stolen should be freely shared.

            • Whirlybird@aussie.zoneEnglish
              0·
              2 years ago

              Spotify is receiving money for something they did not create.

              Spotify are paying musixmatch for the lyrics.

                • Whirlybird@aussie.zoneEnglish
                  0·
                  2 years ago

                  Irrelevant. It’s up to musixmatch to pay the creators or supplier of their content, not Spotify.

  • XYZinferno@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Music is one of the easiest things to pirate, so much so that I often forget me downloading flacs of the songs I listen to is supposed to be a no-no

    Between a flac playing app (Musicolet on Android and MusicBee on PC) as well as YT Music Revanced, things go smoothly

      • Aopen@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago
        1. Listen on YT with adblock
        2. Download audio with Newpipe (OPUS 160kbps)
        3. Manage files with Amaze
        4. Listen with VLC

        I like this model, because YT has niche creators and I dont have to care about “Spotify changes X” news. Note: I have 1.5GB songs stored locally and listen ~30 minutes daily. I acknowledge discovering new songs is slower