EDIT: The only reason why I still had it at this point was because I could use it with other apps. However, now that my Spotify Subscription is cancelled, it doesn’t work with anything. It’s mildly infuriating because today, I can’t still use it with other apps like I was able to yesterday.

Please don’t make the same mistake I made. No one should buy this.

  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
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    I’m moments away from canceling. Splash screens of some bullshit podcast or something I don’t want to see. Getting fed up.

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        Search for Github SpotDL And Navidrome

        No need to sail them seas, but maybe still use a vpn, just on case. Fun fact i heard from a friend of a friend: Youtube starts rate limiting after 50,000 audio-only video downloads, until you have a new IP.

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            Im not audiophile so I scrape audio with newpipe. Downloaded and stream quality are indistinguishably satisfactory.

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            I’ve also noticed that sometimes it downloads the wrong versions of songs. While my Spotify playlist has the album version of a song, it might sometimes download a live performance audio or a reprise version.

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            It’s free. You’re getting “free” quality. Actual quality anything costs money or requires theft.

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        I have hundreds upon hundreds of songs in my Spotify music library. Downloading them one by one sounds like hell. And then I wouldn’t be discovering new music either.

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          If you want to move them elsewhere(or even just get a csv export of them) there are apps for that.

          https://freeyourmusic.com will let you pay a one time fee to do it to as many services as you want, it’s a bit slow but it’ll get there eventually.

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          Renting music sounds like hell to me. If the songs can’t exist as files on my computer (Opus, Ogg, MP3, etc.) then I’m out.

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        ive donated to slsk. I like the song radio and album radio features of spotify, found one of my favorite bands that way

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      leave em sail the seas or tidal for the same price you get better audio so win win in my book either way