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- wolnyinternet@szmer.info
I just love watching everyone freak out about Spotify's shitty business practices while I'm casually looping YouTube videos with an adblocker.
But they still waste the bandwidth. The YouTube music either premium or revanced is still the "most economical" way.
It does make sense though since Spotify has to pay musixmatch for the service.
Solid business decision by Spotify here, I support this move. I’ll probably switch over to them from YouTube music.
What’s Spotify’s goal with this move
Get people to pay for premium.....
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anything to encourage even a single person to spend more money. It's just sad, really.
spotify-premium-apk for the mobile devices, soulseek for the desktop.
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.)
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.
Third party apps for Spotify is definitely the way to go if you don't have premium.
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.
Does anybody know of an alternative app that can do live lyrics?
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.
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.