• kworpy@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I just love watching everyone freak out about Spotify's shitty business practices while I'm casually looping YouTube videos with an adblocker.

      • DrQuint@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        But they still waste the bandwidth. The YouTube music either premium or revanced is still the "most economical" way.

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    It does make sense though since Spotify has to pay musixmatch for the service.

  • MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Solid business decision by Spotify here, I support this move. I’ll probably switch over to them from YouTube music.

        • butter@midwest.social
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          10 months ago

          So someone can ignore the ads, ignore not being able to chose a song, and ignore no download. But having to open musixmatch in a separate app is the straw that broke the camels back

          • TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id
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            10 months ago

            The idea of suddenly having something taken away fro you really triggers people.

            If they had introduced as premium from start, then no would have cared about it.

          • Whirlybird@aussie.zone
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            10 months ago

            It seems they were right going by how upset people are in here. Many of these people that are carrying on like spoiled children will no doubt subscribe to premium now.

      • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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        10 months ago

        The goal is that now that they've been caught pirating lyrics, they have to pay MusixMatch for their lyrics, perhaps on a per request basis, so they lose money by making it available.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    The funniest thing to ask money for. Just have genius.com open or stream the song on YouTube, the lyrics are probably in the description or at the very least the comments.

  • AlpineSteakHouse [any]
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    10 months ago

    spotify-premium-apk for the mobile devices, soulseek for the desktop.

    • Psythik@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Because direct downloads are better and faster.

      https://slavart.gamesdrive.net/
      https://free-mp3-download.net/ (don't use apostrophes in the search for this one)

      You're welcome.

      Edit: Also, Real-Debrid if you want to directly download any torrent instantly at your connection's maximum bandwidth (up to 1Gbps) without having to wait for seeds. But this one costs money. (It's worth it, though, especially if you're downloading a lot of 50GB+ AAA games like I am.)

        • Psythik@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          Simple, you replace your torrent client with it. Instead of opening a torrent file in QBittorrent or whatever, you go to the "torrents" section and paste the magnet link/open your torrent file there. Then select "convert" and then you can download the torrent directly from their servers. It's kind of like a seedbox that everyone shares, so that you don't have to wait for seeds so long as at least one person has added the file to Debrid before.

          Select the "premium offers" link to get started.

  • darkl1nk@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Recently ditched subscription services because of non-stop price hikes. Now I'm on Navidrome with a VPS and using Ultrasonic on my Android for mobile and Android Auto listening. For music, I turn to good old Soulseek and Telegram bots.

    Never going back. The control and savings make it all worth it.

    • buskbrand@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Spotube.

      Note that it's not really a Spotify streaming app, rather it uses your (free) Spotify account for playlists, search, recommendations, etc. and then goes and find the song you want to play on YouTube, and the lyrics from scraping websites I think. Pretty clever.

    • lud@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      The lyrics source that Spotify uses is free with a few caveats, like ads. The normal synced lyrics are free though.

      The source is musixmatch and they have a floating lyrics window on Android which is neat.