it's the only way to get high quality music for a low price (and then store it locally by *redacted* the music via *redacted*)
Haven't used it in a while anyways, I used a separate application built for Spotify. However it also has an option to just mute the ads, so hopefully that option will still be safe.
For those asking why use spotify: I use it as a discovery tool; to easily listen to reccomendations given to me by others before downloading anything and there's good stuff for discovering new music built in too.
I never truly understood the end game of adblock.
What if everyone used some form of adblock? What would happen to large chunks of YouTube admoney that the content creators generate for example?
This is why I never got myself Adblock, as I don't believe in it.
The point is to not have to download your music manually and have to store it on your VLC, MP3 player or whatever? It's really archaic and one part of 2000 - 2009 i'm glad is dead.
So that it's available on almost any devices? Spotify is only unappealing for ultra hipsters that only listens to the most obscure band with like 700 listeners. Even though nowadays i've never not found an artist on spotify when i tried to look them up.
When you're at a party are you just gonna whip up your zune and play your pre-built playlist? Nah mang.
i like to listen to new music all the time
when i discover this new music, i add it to my playlist and then when i grab my phone and board a flight with no signal, the new songs i discovered recently are already downloaded in high quality for me to enjoy with no internet
also, i can just add offline mp3 files to my spotify account and it will download them to all my devices also
I used to use a hacked Spotify app on my phone that gave most of the features of premium for free, only thing it couldn't do was save offline and stream in high quality. Eventually after a few years I sucked it up and started paying for it. It really is worth the money just in how convenient it is.
My only issue with Spotify and other streaming services is that you don't own the music you save, even if it's saved "offline". If for whatever reason a song or even an entire artist is removed from the service, it's removed from your device too. I've had it happen a number of times and it kinda sucks.
Yep. They really solved every issue one would have with spotify.
Wanna use your own songs?
"yeah okay, you can just upload them and they'll be downloaded to your devices
I want to have my songs available at all times!
"yeah just push the download button and they'll always be available, in the highest quality we can offer"
but they dont have the artist i like
"well if we dont have them for some reason, just upload them and you can incorporate them with your playlist as normal"
TBH I think the TOS that this article refers to is actually in reference to the mobile app, with people using app ad blockers to circumvent the service.
I had a hosts file rule and a few weeks ago a lot of features on Spotify broke. Friend feed had been broken for a long time already. I completely forgot about the adblock and have been paying for Premium for a while now and now it broke and confused me for a while.
this thread reminded me of when I kept a local music library and had to keep copying it over to new devices and eating up my phone's memory with all that data. Can't believe that was only a few years ago but it feels so archaic thinking about it now
as opposed to using data all the time? I guess if the country you're in has non shit cell providers
I think he means he used to have absolutely everything downloaded, just in case he wanted to listen to it some day, whereas now you can just stream that stuff instead of hoarding it.
I used to do that too. The stuff I had saved on my phone taking up like 50GB I barely listened to.
For people that think blocking ads is bad for these big boi's is being a dick, that's some dum thinking. These guys already rake in mad money simply by tracking what you do, what you listen to and all that jazz and sell it to corporations, much like discord, youtube those lot. I would be surprised if the ads made a significant portion of their income.
For one, the Discover Weekly feature. There are a bunch of services on Spotify that help you check out music based on what you listen to. I've discovered more than a few hundred new artists this way. I listen to music almost 24/7, so this changed my life quite a bit.
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Spotify is set up so that it always tried to download the playlists you've marked as offline whenever it has a stable connection, just do that? If you switch phone the settings are the same so the playlist
will appear and you never have to hassle with copying over songs all the time.
isn't that still running into the space issue though if it's downloaded?
This applies even if you do it manually or not.
Except spotify actually lets you choose everything from low quality -> extreme quality if space is an issue for you.
Blocking ads isn't about denying revenue, for me it's about protecting your right to privacy. Ads are only the surface part of a larger privacy intruding and data gathering system and being able to control the content you recieve and transmit is a integral part of protecting your privacy
Im with you since I like to handle music locally but
VLC???
Yeah i've been using Winamp for like 15 years now. I'd never use VLC for music.
i dont use spotify but as my music folder is steadily growing and i cant fit all of my songs on my phones SD card anymore im starting to see it's appeal
Would have moved to it already but they don't have the stuff i listen to
Jokes on them, I don't even use their service.
Streaming services just don't appeal to me outside of maybe getting a "demo" listen to some music before I buy it. I've always been one to prefer having actual files on my devices because of higher and more consistent quality, and I can play my music in any program instead of just the one I bought it on. Also everything is offline, and I own the files directly instead of the right to sign into an account and listen to them. Not to mention Spotify doesn't have everything I listen to. It has a lot, but not everything.
$10/month is just way too much for me to even consider paying for a service I don't really use too often, and the ads on the free version are way too annoying for me to really use it at all.
I guess I'm old fashioned, but yeah, I still see no reason to switch over to just purely streaming services like so many people have mostly due to the lack of ownership.
because Spotify doesnt use my data plan, I use it all the time, and the student prices are golden.
Also, it's getting filled with videogame osts now
This post reads like an advert if it were to be advertised on TV, even the last bit, but maybe it gets cut just before they finish saying it.
does this apply to users who use hosts file to block ads?
regardless, even if you ban those users, they'll just make a new account and use their app to demo music and find new bands, then pirate music from other sources
If you use it for free, sure, this would be reasonable, but for people with paid subscriptions? Get fucked Spotify.
If you pay for any of the spotify subscriptions you don’t have any ads.
I primarily use it as a means of discovering new music, and accessing the free version from my phone can be nice on days where i forget to charge my walkman
Ah okay, misunderstanding on my part then.
If you like music and YouTube it might be worth trying out Google Play Music, since the premium on there is virtually identical to Spotify but also includes YouTube Red so you can support content creators you like the without having to watch ads. I switched over from soft when their app was getting too bloated to run smoothly on my systems and I can't see myself switching back.
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