My recommendation: https://mornye.com/
Supports multiple music services, use whichever service you want to find music, rip metadata from whichever has the most complete, then rip the music from whichever has the highest quality (yes, FLAC). Drop your spotify playlist and it will download all of it. The sublime embedding of lyrics and ReplayGain tags. My god, it even has a builtin player and library management, available on mobile and desktop.
Cool app! No idea how to get my Spotify account to work on it but was able to get web access set up after a bit of searching.
Yeah, they made it a bit obfuscated after the predecessor got taken out for coming with batteries included. After adding the extensions you can set the spotify extension for search and Qobuz, Deezer for download.
Go to the search tab, paste in your spotify playlist link and it will pull everything in and then you can download.
And of course, this happens at the same time as they’re announcing a price increase
‘Burn baby burn’ is possibly the most appropriate song for them
If they want it to be a household plan, they should call it that instead of falsely advertising it as a family plan.
Exactly. Families are extremely varied in logistics and presentation… Businesses in their ivory towers imagine a stereotypical nuclear family where everybody lives in the same house. Out of 5 families I personally know; only one fits that description.
Soulseek, people. Just pirate things and send money directly to artists (or buy merch). Fuck all these streaming companies
I have 8k albums in my personal collection, but I’ve been building it for years, most everything is pirated or shared between friends or purchased on bandcamp. I stream it while via plexamp when I’m working or not at home, it’s very nice.
I can also connect to my friends Plex servers. My one friend has 35k albums.
in case someone doesn’t believe me hahaEdit: damn he’s up to 39k
TIL that there are dozens of websites to find strangers to put on their own family plan to get some extra cash, meanwhile they will manage the payments
I wouldn’t have imagined that there would be that many.
Paying a third party service to get into a stranger’s family plan is against the ToS, so at that point, if you’re willing to go against the ToS you can do it for free
Meanwhile in a meeting room in Stockholm:
Remember how we reduced music piracy to an insignificant amount by making the legal choice convenient and relatively affordable? I forgot! So let’s torpedo our business.
If you’re going to pay for music, buy it DRM free on bandcamp etc, or CDs and rip them, you can make multiple copies and anyone in your family can play them at any time. Shitify is a joke.
https://thegrimejournalist.bandcamp.com/track/bandcamp-feat-jammz The bandcamp anthem!
“analysts are confident that music streaming services such as Spotify can enforce strict account policies, raise prices, and still make more money.”
They looked at Netflix and Disney and they are right. This is a no brainer if you’re a business. There’s literally no downside other than angry comments online.
Normies are getting into Stremio and normies will eventually get into a music pirating app if this continues.
spotify single-handedly increasing music piracy rates back to napster levels
There is a certain poetry to them recreating the problem they solved.
i just hope this means people will start buying music again. 1-10 dollars for an album containing 5-20 DRM free music files is probably better value in the long run than spotify’s subscription ever was. and with navidrome, mpd, and its clients, managing them was never easier; plus artists get way more of that profit. everyone wins.
Those who fail to scan the address verification QR code within seven days will see their account demoted to the free tier and be barred from joining any other Duo or Family plan for 12 months.
Well that’s pretty crummy. That’s a very long ban, and a lot of extra money.
I have to give location permission to a music app?!
I wonder if you can you log in on a new phone once you got the notification
On android Bluetooth is tied to the location permission, because scanning for Bluetooth devices can be used to narrow down the device location.
location permission
It doesn’t really say that, I don’t think? It only says you need to be “in the same place”, because you need to scan a QR code, right?
Nothing really preventing you both from just sending the QR code via message either… 🤷♂️
Don’t forget the warmongering Spotify do. Their profits pays to create tech that’s aimed at killing you.
I cut them out and canceled my subscription when they gave rogan that contract, fuck spotify
This is why I deleted my account. Fuck spotify and its bloodthirsty ceo
I need to get a RED account, ugh, the entrance test seems annoying but I want to selfhost my own music.
Soulseek is pretty decent for music
This is desperation just like the disney ad thing.
Using a different music service is so easy. You can’t even use the excuse that your friends are all on there. Stop giving them your money.
