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[–] unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As a Spotify Artist, I bet I don't even see a single hundredth of a penny for somebody paying extra for the lyrics, either...

And even if Spotify did pay out extra for lyrics, I'm sure they'd find a way to screw my band out of royalties like they currently are anyway.

[–] stagen@feddit.dk 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] rockhandle@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

With xManager, the free tier comes quite close to premium. No ads, play whatever music you like. The only issues are lower sound quality & no downloads, which are really non-issues since you can just find other sources to download the music from, at flac quality

[–] bblfrnz@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It only annoyed me into stopping using their service

[–] LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You either pay or you leave. Spotify wins, in both cases

[–] bonfire921@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

OR you get an adblocker

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[–] lud@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does make sense though since Spotify has to pay musixmatch for the service.

[–] wecalledhimmavis@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

who crowdsource a heap of their lyrics, paying a pittance to their curators 🙄

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

That's true. But to be fair, I have added one song and synced a few. I didn't do it because I wanted pay, I did it because I wanted the song's lyrics to be on Spotify and on the app.

They built a service and people seem to like it, so I don't mind.

[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do the people who wrote those lyrics get a cut of Spotify gatekeeping them?

[–] Hauskrampf@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hahahahaha spotify and paying someone lol

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spotify is not profitable right now; their current revenue doesn't come anywhere close to covering their costs. The only reason they're able to survive is investors holding on to the belief that, some day, it'll be possible to actually make the numbers work.

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[–] sparky678348@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (32 children)

Spotify purchases their lyrics from Musixmatch

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even then you might not see them. I've noticed recently that a ton of songs that used to have the lyrics attached no longer show the lyrics or have the button to show them. And I do have premium.

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[–] kworpy@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I just love watching everyone freak out about Spotify's shitty business practices while I'm casually looping YouTube videos with an adblocker.

[–] DaDragon@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Eh, I switched to Spotify last year (++, of course) and there’s a lot to be said in favour of the Spotify algorithm when it comes to music recommendations, as opposed to YouTube.

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[–] cambriakilgannon@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

ublock origin blocks spotify ads well. I have found a lot of new artists using spotify, I avoided it for a pretty long time. When I find artists I like I usually buy their stuff on bandcamp cause i can get flacs

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[–] darkl1nk@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Recently ditched subscription services because of non-stop price hikes. Now I'm on Navidrome with a VPS and using Ultrasonic on my Android for mobile and Android Auto listening. For music, I turn to good old Soulseek and Telegram bots.

Never going back. The control and savings make it all worth it.

[–] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Solid business decision by Spotify here, I support this move. I’ll probably switch over to them from YouTube music.

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[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

To be fair, Spotify is unsuable without premium.

[–] Kir@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spotify is unusable without ~~premium~~ Xmanager

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[–] RedBaronHarkonnen@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Free on vimusic.

[–] emhl@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're still visible with the current xmanager version

[–] Bloodyashes@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but the change is server sided so it will stop working soon I suppose.

[–] crag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. Xmanager patch unlocks premium features. So literally you're a premium user.

[–] iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

It depends on whether the feature is server-side restricted. For example, xManager can't set audio quality to very high.

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[–] XYZinferno@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Music is one of the easiest things to pirate, so much so that I often forget me downloading flacs of the songs I listen to is supposed to be a no-no

Between a flac playing app (Musicolet on Android and MusicBee on PC) as well as YT Music Revanced, things go smoothly

[–] ArcRay@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only reason I don't pirate music is because of discovery. I haven't found a good way to find new music without using a streaming service. And then, I'm already using a streaming service, so why bother.

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