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Now you have to pay to see lyrics on spotify (i.postimg.cc)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://lemmy.ml/comment/3223099 For both PC and Android.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spotx - well, I tried, but honestly, I don't need one more app especially when everything works in the browser. Plus, I prefer portable setups and there's no portable version of spotx, so, it's pretty useless for me.
It's explicitly said on the Spowlo GitHub page that they use YouTube for downloading, so, there's no way to get 320 kbps tracks or flacs. Instead, I'd recommend to try some Qobuz/Deezer-based solutions, there are quite a few of them there. Or use slavart or something like this, or good old soulseek, there's even an Android client for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it convert them to 320kbps when I choose that quality? Because when I play those downloaded songs, it indeed shows as 320kbps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's the question, because as far as I know, the highest ytmusic quality is 256 kbps. I would avoid using it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doesn't solve the offline mode/taking a 13 hour flight use case, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Well, that's very specific case to be honest. In that case you can just download whatever you want beforehand, from soulseek, for instance. Generally people make preparations in advance for such things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Zotify works very well at downloading Spotify lists, from playlists to whole discographies. You have to sort the output a little as you'll often get multiple copies of tracks due to remastered editions, songs released as singles etc. But overall it's an incredibly easy way to download music.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use an iPhone though and I’d prefer not to use YouTube for music, or anything, really.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh man, you shouldn't be using iphone in the first place, the most useless device piracy-wise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This isn't an issue about piracy anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Most people don't pirate stuff on their phones. I use an iPhone and my hundreds of gigabytes of pirated stuff is available on my iPhone via plexamp/plex/etc.