Spotify announces price hike, right after CEO enrages music fans by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero'
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The latest price hike couldn't have come at a worse time
  • chordsphere1@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I just download to actually have the songs. No DRM, No Ads, No song getting removed from streaming service… I have 500+ songs downloaded in opus format and it only takes 2.5Gb with many of them being longer than 5 minutes. I don’t know why people keep using these services while they keep saying they hate it because there are so many ads or why they keep paying for DRM (aka. not owning anything)…

      • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there’s tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

        To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account “forever”.

        • chordsphere1@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          7 months ago

          For Spotify, there is spotdl which downloads the music from YouTube Music, and then embeds the metadata from Spotify.

          • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Isn’t YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I’d rather not even bother ripping that lol

              • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
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                7 months ago

                If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don’t get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

                I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.