not only do you pay them to shove more adverts at you, they're giving a substantial chunk to chuds like rogan all the while stiffing the artists their service is built on.
nice fucking job.
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Don't worry, if you switch to Duo the messages don't stop. They just change to "Upgrade now to a Family Plan!"
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I just got a "swipe right or left" ad for duo
thanks, spotify, for occasionally reminding me I'm single
That isn't an advert, it is a "promotion", gotcha!
Use Spotube, a Spotify client that's available via F-Droid or it's official site
That's all. Enjoy free Spotify premium-like user experience. You can also log in with your already existing Spotify acc for convenience
Nice. Any chance my existing spotify accound could get banned or something? I want some QOL changes but am afraid of losing ~400 playlists..
Thanks mate !!! Thats a great app!! To be true lately a lot users share their apps, you guys give amazing solutions!
I dropped YouTube app and I use newpipe, now I can use spotube as a replacement to Spotify.
I had the same Wow! experience when I first heard about this app. One can't literally tell which apps UI is the official one lol
Glad to hear others like it too!
Just a reminder that Tidal is amazing, has higher quality audio, a real shuffle, daily playlists, doesn't shove podcasts in your face, pays artists more, and provides ways to import your playlists over 🩷 I also listen to some pretty obscure music and haven't had issues not finding songs.
Looked at that and think it will be an option in the near future, but right now Raspotify and Connect are hard to beat.
Edit: Searching a bit more, it looks like Tidal Connect is actually a thing. I'll take a good look at switching when my Spotify plan runs out. I'll be happy to switch to a service that doesn't screw their artists.
That repo is an amazing example of something so well documented as to how it works they completely neglected to have even a paragraph explaining what it really does and why I would want to use it.
As far as I can tell it’s a Spotify connect client which runs as a daemon so you probably need to control it remotely? Kinda like how AirPlay works on apple devices? Is that right?
Yea, I run hundreds of self-hosted projects, and I'm clueless.
I have always liked apple music, hated the first ui change, its finally good again now, near perfect
I believe Apple Music is solid, and if I'm not mistaken, pays artists the most. I was super considering it when I was looking for alternatives!
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Deleted spotify, now use Soundcloud and Tidal. Reminder soundcloud has by far the most music on it.
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Where we live they phased out Duo and force&switched us to Family even though we're only two. That was a year ago or so
"So everyone in the couple can enjoy..."
But there's only two people, you said it's a couple???
Does this read weird to anyone else?
They're trying (and failing) to be cute. Like saying "all two of us". "everyone in the couple", because it's called Duo. Personally, if I had Spotify, this ad would be the last straw to make me cancel.
https://fmhy.pages.dev/audiopiracyguide
If you are able to give support to artists you listen to, try to find ways to give money to them directly without any corporation leeching most of the money.
You know- mStream, Plex, Jellyfin, Lyrion, Yunohost and Navidrome are all free ;)
Join us! /c/selfhosted
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I guess they don't count their own ads
"Hello, spotify? I'd like to cancel.......well because you don't know what words mean."
Apple Music doesn’t pull this shit
I am so glad I swapped to downloading my music rather than streaming. Fuck Spotify and every other streaming service. Owning my music is more important to me than any level of "convenience" those services pretend to offer
Plus you can make it just as convenient by self-hosting your own streaming service from home!
Oh do you have any recommendations on how to do that? I've just been using Syncthing which works fine, but I'm curious if you have better ways of doing it
I just wish i could buy and use cd's still, the artists used to see more money and i got to use the music in whatever device i decided.
I've been building up my collection by browsing my local Bullmoose (idk how widespread that store is) and other places that sell CDs. I've got a disk reader a friend gave me to rip them.
They run ads in the podcasts that are exclusive to Spotify. There is no such thing as ad free Spotify.
paying for music has to be made cringy again
Fucking excuse me? Wtf is happening now?
Spotube and yt-dlp for me while directly supporting the artist through merch, physical media, or bandcamp.
Could someone please explain this post?
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