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
They run ads in the podcasts that are exclusive to Spotify. There is no such thing as ad free Spotify.
Could someone please explain this post?
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
That isn’t an advert, it is a “promotion”, gotcha!
“Hello, spotify? I’d like to cancel…well because you don’t know what words mean.”
I guess they don’t count their own ads
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 convince you to start a second family with your mistress in Atlantic City
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
Fucking excuse me? Wtf is happening now?
“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.
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!
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.
It looks like Jellyfin + Mopidy will do the same thing as Spotify Connect which is my most used app/service. Will take a closer look. Self host various other things so adding a new app wouldn’t be an issue. Thanks for the list.
paying for music has to be made cringy again
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
