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.
I just got a “swipe right or left” ad for duo
thanks, spotify, for occasionally reminding me I’m single
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.
Don’t worry, if you switch to Duo the messages don’t stop. They just change to “Upgrade now to a Family Plan!”
I’m afraid to ask- what if you get the family plan?
They might summom up a family super version and limit the family plan to 3 people, so you need super if you have 2 kids lol
Ah Family Plus.
I guess if they want to listen on a different IP addresses, you’ll need Family Plus Mobility
They convince you to start a second family with your mistress in Atlantic City
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?
Deleted spotify, now use Soundcloud and Tidal. Reminder soundcloud has by far the most music on it.
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!
Every complaint ppl had about queing was valid but is gone now, it improved a lot at some point last 2 years, I always liked finding related artists on there and if you like edm so many livesets remastered for apple music
xManager says what?
Doesn’t look like it plays well with Spotify Connect?
What exactly is Spotify connect?
It allows any device to cast music to pretty much any other device that supports Spotify, whether via phone app, browser or Linux app. I have a couple of small computers connected to receivers in different rooms and can control the music playing on them from the attached PC itself or any other PC or phone.
Yeah if that’s what it is then I can do that as well even with my spotx desktop and xmanager android, I can control Spotify on my computer from my phone.
Does spotx add any functionality, or is it just another way to control Spotify?
Spotx is just a script to block ads but on desktop
You know- mStream, Plex, Jellyfin, Lyrion, Yunohost and Navidrome are all free ;)
Join us! /c/selfhosted
I don’t know what all of these are but surely it can’t be at search some song and tap and listen?
Of course not. You need other software to rip your music from physical media, or potentially multiple other software to search and download them. You’ll need additional software to host everything over the internet. You’ll probably want a computer to act as a server. You’ll very likely need a private VPN to be able to access it over the public internet. You’ll need some networking knowledge to set everything up. Hope you’re familiar with docker. And afterwards you’ll have to manage everything yourself once they are up.
Even if you don’t search for new music very often it’s a lot of work. If you care about being able to discover new music then it’s pretty bad. There’s a reason music streaming exploded in popularity so quickly. This shit is not easy or convenient to self-host. At all. If you’re already selfhosting a bunch of stuff, then it might be worth it to add this stack on top of your existing stuff. But absolutely not worth building anything from scratch just for this.
I already self host and have some of those services, and do always on vpn. I just haven’t found a reliable method to rip my Spotify playlists since the API went down. I used to just cron job it, so my plex was in sync and use plexamp on my phone.
I personally used spotdl when I wanted to transfer my music off of Spotify. It does unfortunately only download from YouTube which means its not 100% successful, it missed a handful of songs for me and 1 or 2 had an incorrect version altogether (like 10 hour loops, etc.). Overall it was like more than 99% correct for my playlist of around 2000 songs though, and its super easy to use especially in either a python or shell script since its a python library with a cli built in. There are definitely other options I don’t know about, some of which are probably better tbh, but spotdl has been good enough for me personally at least.
Switch to xmanager and spotx for free
Any chance you would have some links? Manager seems to be a bit vague as there are several results for that name. I think I found Spotx on github though.
My bad for the long response. Here’s the link to the xmanager github
Thanks for following up.
