Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK
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Latest Spotify crackdowns on revanced apps and a very recent GrayJay plugin issues made me look into Spotify cracking scene. I found an app that works. But for how long?
Hmm could you tell me where, so that I can avoid that place?
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I already moved to piracy for music because these days Spotify isn't even giving the normal shuffle option for free users
Yeah I know it's cheap but I'm a student so..
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Already did this ages ago. Been building a collection for decades now. I'm pushing about 10k albums on the NAS. Haven't had spotify since like 2018
Same but I only keep what I really like and listen to, I put playlists on a thumb drive, almost like a cassette player, it just works.
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Is this FOSS? Is it on GitHub or can I get it from another app store like F-Droid?
No, it's 13€/month (first month free)
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Personally, the open source community's aversion to algorithms is what's holding me back. Say what you will about them, but I've found many great songs thanks to Spotify's algo.
It's not so much an aversion to algorithms as it is a version to corporate controlled algorithms (which are often targeting highly questionable metrics).
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A fellow Bread Harrity super fan I see? I'd like to get all up in that beautiful man's wet spaghetti
Lol I bet your comment confused them, that line is originally from that On Top of Spaghetti song and it was repurposed by Bread in his classic number The Meatballs the Meatballs the Meatballs the Meatballs the Meatballs the Meatballs of Liiiife. I love Bread. I'm a huge Breadhead and Bread can get all up in my guts any time.
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as an independent artist I just wanna add: the best thing you can do to support artists and bands is to buy directly / on bandcamp. spotify pays shit to artists, you need millions of listeners to get any meaningful amount of cash
of course that isn’t a sustainable option if you listen to a lot of different music. so piracy is an option that I wouldn’t mind. hell, if you like my stuff and just write to me I’ll send you mp3s for free
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DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE! YOU ARE A PIRATE!
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Is being high without the approval of your partner okay?
I guess that depends very much on your partner and the relationship you have together..
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Is this just a thing for free users? I've not seen anything on there.
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You have more albums than I have individual files, I don't even know where I would find so much to download.
I usually just get it from YouTube currently
Soulseek
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I know bandcamp has its issues but I check there first for good flacs, I'll even settle for mp3s. I look REALLY hard. Not there? Ahoy.
Edit: Other places I try to buy first to support artists:
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I guess that depends very much on your partner and the relationship you have together..
and if it's pretty much a stranger?
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Personally, the open source community's aversion to algorithms is what's holding me back. Say what you will about them, but I've found many great songs thanks to Spotify's algo.
I've found many juat streaming themed internet radio on Radiodroid.
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Should never have left it behind to be honest.
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and if it's pretty much a stranger?
I would say, that that would be ok
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Is this FOSS? Is it on GitHub or can I get it from another app store like F-Droid?
Nope, it’s a Spotify alternative made in France which emphasize on paying a fair share to the artists and providing a great music quality.
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Don't threaten, just do it!
I don't get why people are so stubborn to move away from corporate products.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I hate Spotify and would like to stop paying them even 1/5th of a family subscription. But I have researched alternatives and haven't found one that meets my need to manage offline files, playlists, and the current playback session across many (and I mean many) devices.
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as an independent artist I just wanna add: the best thing you can do to support artists and bands is to buy directly / on bandcamp. spotify pays shit to artists, you need millions of listeners to get any meaningful amount of cash
of course that isn’t a sustainable option if you listen to a lot of different music. so piracy is an option that I wouldn’t mind. hell, if you like my stuff and just write to me I’ll send you mp3s for free
Preferably on Bandcamp Friday
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All my CD's got ripped (and re-ripped) to mp3 in increasing bitrates as storage increased. Bandcamp is where almost all my musicians release anyway, and I've got over a thousand albums through them, happy in the knowledge I support the artists in a fairly direct way.
Sure, I've still got an Apple Music sub (which sucks at times because licensing means a compilation gets split into several albums when whatever deal happens in the background expires). But I'll easily find new music, grab it and give it a go, and if I like it enough I'll dig them out on bandcamp. At some point I'm gonna quit that platform.
Planning to get a modern mp3 player to go offline with my music at some point. Or maybe rebuild the old iPod and put Rockbox on it and hook it up to my linux desktop.
I found it was well worth ripping to flac securely using EAC (no idea what the modern setup is).
As then I knew I had a perfect copy to make whatever MP3 I wanted in the future from.Nowadays, I convert everything to V0 for portable use, but who knows what the future may hold.
