Cracked apks exist, people.
Isn’t Spotify so cheap, that there’s no point in using the free version? I’m using Tidal and it is, in fact, so cheap that there is no point in using the free version.
obligatory fuck spotify. the worst streaming service ever https://youtu.be/x6x5t0cj1sM
Also the only one with a Linux client
i use web and android apps for yt music and bandcamp
It’s unofficially done by some Devs in their free time. I low key hate that it’s publicised as having a Linux client, other devices also have unofficial clients.
Tidal also has Tidal-HiFi, an electron wrapper of the web client that enables HiFi music, which is pretty much all I care for a desktop client. It also pays artists much better so… Yeah.
https://github.com/spotbye/SpotiFLAC Why use Tidal when you can just take the FLACs from Tidal for free?
Because the product is good and artists earn money that way. Idk.
I don’t need the music industry using my money for forward anti-consumer practices, thanks. Its unethical to buy music from the industry. Go see a gig, buy a shirt.
I rather use the page directly and have ublock deal with ads
There’s an unofficial one for Pandora as well. I’m not claiming Pandora is a great service, it just comes ad free with my phone plan.
While it’s got its faults, I’m a Pandora guy and find it vastly superior to Spotify, particularly when trying to find new music
For Qobuz there is an unofficial native client, with DAC passthrough: https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz
Works very well.
Man I haven’t gotten that “30 minutes of uninterrupted listening” shit in a few months. I swear, they’ve been slowly increasing the amount of ads per song, from like 1 ad per 4 songs to I shit you not, 2 ads per song. I usually have to restart the web page since it gets stuck on desktop, or close the app on mobile. They’re probably overcompensating since they’re salty they aren’t getting any revenue from me.
I hate the pay for ad-free subscription model. They use people’s personal data to optimize the experience, making their ads as annoying and disorienting as possible.
When Reddit first unveiled their subscription, they began spamming my phone with obnoxious herpes advertisements. The ad just said “Herpes?” in big purple letters. Since this particular subject invoked a sense of fear and anxiety, it made me more likely to pay for their removal.
I’ll never understand why people don’t just make playlists of music and save it down locally.
I had no less than sixteen hours of music in CDs stuffed in my glove box back in college. Would cycle through that maybe once or twice a month. Maybe I’d throw on a little NPR if I was curious about the news. But why on God’s Green Earth would you subject yourself to the garbage radio networks available in the modern era?
Sending files from one device to another has been made intentionally difficult by phone makers.
It isn’t really that difficult. I have a cheap, newish Motorola phone (3 years old) and all I have to do is make sure when plugging into the PC I switch the USB mode when it pops up.
Then it’s literally no different from using the normal file browser. Get you a good media app and find the file storage path. (Hell, Musicolet, a fantastic, free, offline music manager, literally makes you create/select the file path yourself on first launch) then just drag and drop into it like any other folder.
Or get a program like MusicBee and just have it set to sync that directory.
cough Calaboka cough
Sirius pulled that shit too, never understood how it could possibly be legal
Most people don’t care enough to pursue it and any who do probably don’t have the money.
Ads take up those “30 minutes of ad-free listening”
The Pirate Bay doesn’t have ads.
Well it does but only on the website where your ad blocker gets them gone for you.
Isn’t this comment an ad for the pirate bay?
It’s not telling you that you will receive 30 minutes of ad-free listening. It’s suggesting that you do that by upgrading to a more expensive tier. Or by other means 🏴☠️
I’ll just keep downloading music thanks.
Vlc download and streaming tool my beloved
yt-dlp https://xyzrecords.bandcamp.com/track/blaI often end up buying the music anyway, but sometimes I need a while to decide if I actually like a piece of music, or which of the albums of a new-to-me artist I want to buy.
paying artists nothing is worse than paying them a little
artists dont get shit from spotify…ypu want to support artists buy their merch
Today, Spotify accounts for roughly 30% of recorded music revenue.
More artists get more money from Spotify than from anywhere else
Last post from me, I’m not here to educate every left wing boomer
Paying spotify to punish artists and pay industry bodies who in turn funnel money to rightoid hate groups is worse than starving artists.
Also, most artists get fuck all from Spotify or any of the streamers. Its a dead model and the only thing we’re guilty of is felony contempt of business model.
Fuck it, real fans steal the music and turn up to gigs.
Paying spotify to punish artists and pay industry bodies who in turn funnel money to rightoid hate groups is worse than starving artists.
Let me know how suing people for downloading music on Limewire works out for you
Also, most artists get fuck all from Spotify or any of the streamers
There’s more music released every minute that can be listened to in a lifetime, this is what happens when supply outstrips demand
Fuck it, real fans steal the music and turn up to gigs.
That’s cool and all but not every artist does gigs and most people don’t go to them, so there needs to be something for the other 99% of people, which conveniently, is called Spotify or Qobuz
Is it even stealing when the front door is open and brings FLACs.
I don’t know if it’s stealing but I feel better knowing when I listen to music artists get paid
As someone else pointed out:
Today, Spotify accounts for roughly 30% of recorded music revenue.
That’s a lot of artists making music we enjoy who are able to eat at night
And before Spotify, artists were able to make more money with physical media, that the customers owned for life. Spotify essentially made the situation worse for both the artist and the consumer.
Damn your memory really goes like this
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People going down to the record store to buy CD’s
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Spotify :D
You really missed out a whole decade of music piracy and CD sales falling through the floor
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Theres also a lot of aritists having their media streamed by these companies who get absolutely zero because they’re being robbed by Spotify and the industry at large
Just because Taylor Swift gets her cut doesn’t mean its just and fair.
Infact, I’d say thats just concentrating wealth in the hands of power again… So… uhh… I’mma keep “stealing” it and buying band merch instead.
I download and then I buy the actual physical media releases from the bands I like. Lots of bands even release their own music for download.
what about the bands you don’t like? I assume they subscribe to your free with no ads and no money plan?
wait why should my money go to bands i dont like
Because you’re still listening to their music ? Do you buy the merch of thousands of producers who make ambient music? Do I need to have the ambient track hit me in a way that all the others don’t before they are worthy of being paid?
Because you’re still listening to their music ?
Why would anyone download and listen to music they don’t like…?
I duno, how do you guys find new music to listen to?
Sometimes I’ll just put a playlist on with 1000 tracks in it, maybe a couple I like, most are ok, some of them i skip, in my world they all get paid, in your world only a tiny tiny fraction of them do
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6048DIIHRMegUg0IHm7T5m
How do you propose I recompense all the artists on this playlist for example?
That’s 8,902 songs
There used to be plenty of music stores where you could listen to the music before you bought it. They all died because of Spotify. Good job supporting an industry that killed physical media, pushes AI “music” to the masses and enables Nazi podcasters. Nice fucking Job.
Also, Go to Bandcamp. You can listen to all the music there. Then you can decide to buy the music and in return you get to download the FLAC files. Most artists even let you decide how much you want to pay. You come off as someone who’s never taken a step out into the world and just gobbles everything up that is spoonfed to you.
There used to be plenty of music stores where you could listen to the music before you bought it. They all died because of Spotify.
Incorrect, the answer we were after is Napster
What an absolutely batshit insane take.
No, you shouldn’t be paid for making something nobody wants. Same reason I think everyone who works in AI should have all their money taken away.
how did you manage to come across as a fuckstick and somehow not read what i said
You listen to music you don’t like…?
You do know that artists sell their music online, right?
“Downloading music” doesn’t say anything about whether or not you pay for it.
Hey we said you get 30 minutes we never said consecutive… I bet you have like a bank of stored minutes and they continue expiring while you’re not listening. So legally you get the full 30 minutes…. Just not when you expected to.
That’s supposed to be a comma - “Enjoy 30 minutes of ad, free listening”
Comma’s, it’s the difference between helping your friend, Jack, off a horse. Or helping him jack off a…….you get it :)
No, money down!
I don’t understand how
Y’all are getting full tracks?
