• Space Sloth@feddit.dkEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve never used the free tier on Spotify and I don’t understand how anyone can. The ads alone would make me throw off my headset in disgust. So yeah, not going to affect me, and I do enjoy reading the lyrics a lot.

    That said, I am experimenting with swapping over to Apple Music because I feel Spotify has become too expensive.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The ads aren’t even for anything. It was just really patronising ads for Spotify Premium.

      Their business model is genuinely to just annoy you into paying.

    • bblfrnz@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The ads alone would make me throw off my headset in disgust.

      For a mobile, there is a modded apk,I’ve never heard ads there. For a PC, web player in Firefox with uBlock Origin, there are no ads at all there. The same goes for Tidal, I’ve never paid for these apps.

        • bblfrnz@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago
          1. spotx - well, I tried, but honestly, I don’t need one more app especially when everything works in the browser. Plus, I prefer portable setups and there’s no portable version of spotx, so, it’s pretty useless for me.
          2. It’s explicitly said on the Spowlo GitHub page that they use YouTube for downloading, so, there’s no way to get 320 kbps tracks or flacs. Instead, I’d recommend to try some Qobuz/Deezer-based solutions, there are quite a few of them there. Or use slavart or something like this, or good old soulseek, there’s even an Android client for it.
        • bblfrnz@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Oh man, you shouldn’t be using iphone in the first place, the most useless device piracy-wise.

    • satanicleftist@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I recently flipped to apple music and apart from seeing a few songs missing on albums i don’t really listen to anyway, it’s only been an improvement. the lossless audio is quite nice