I mean fair enough, i use this version of Spotify and don’t pay them a single cent: https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/

But if I was a paying customer i would be pretty pissed opening Spotify the first time on my 3 week travels and seeing this crap :⁠-⁠O Funnily there isn’t even an option to change the location as suggested. Neither in the modded app nor on spotify.com on FF mobile.

  • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1924·
    10 months ago

    I love all the people here on the piracy community who are paying users of spotify. Almost like piracy isnt an issue if the alternative is more convenient. Funny that huh.

    • gaifux@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Funny enough I just ditched Spotify premium since their apps for every platform I use are far and away the buggiest apps I’d been using regularly, including open source apps. I started using InnerTune instead to get free unlimited streaming on mobile and the funniest thing is, the app works better than Spotify. Bigger library too since it pulls music from YT. Quality probably suffers but IDK, willing to make that trade for no subscription fee

    • LoudWaterHombre@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      328·
      10 months ago

      Its insane to promote paying services over pirating like this in a piracy forum. Kids what went wrong? Why are you like this?

      • EtzBetz@feddit.deEnglish
        251·
        10 months ago

        If the services are fulfilling the needs that the customers have, no piracy is needed. There are some issues, like this, but for the most part, Spotify is quite good currently.

      • okamiueru@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        Why do I get the feeling you might be younger than the average age here? Maybe missing an /s?

      • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        Just like how a community centered around recreational drugs is going to recommend against taking drugs if it puts your life in danger, or a python community telling you to learn C if you want to do embedded programming, or a hammer community telling you to use a screwdriver on a screw.

          • howrar@lemmy.caEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Why don’t they? You’re saying that a piracy forum has no place for discussing anything that isn’t promoting piracy. I’m telling you that it does, because the topic of piracy includes the topic of when one should or should not pirate.

      • danafest@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        OP clearly states in the post they are using a modified APK to get premium access without paying

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    413·
    10 months ago

    Use a different client, or the web player then. This is a settings issue and attempt of them to combat IP switches and account sharing. You’re not a paying customer, and I’ve not had this issue on a paid account before.

    Honestly, Spotify kinda sucks anyway. Use something else.

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      221·
      10 months ago

      Spotify sucks? What are some good alternatives that have a similar amount of content and suggestions?

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
        242·
        10 months ago

        Spotify has radically changed it’s official clients to be full of suggestions, ads, and pointless info I don’t care about. Add in all the service restrictions, and it’s just a crappy service and user-experience. Wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

        • nfsu2@feddit.clEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          True, thats why I use modded apps. I’ve also tried spotify downloaders but none of them have over 90% succes rate, o until then its modded apps for me.

        • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          31·
          10 months ago

          Do you get ads is you pay for it?

          Also: there’s unofficial clients? Does it use it’s algorithms or library?

          • 520@kbin.social
            4·
            10 months ago

            Not interrupting ads like in the free version. They sure do like to push ‘suggestions’ when you open the app though

        • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Navidrome server streaming to Symfonium through Wireguard using music downloaded with Soulseek and suggestions generated by Listenbrainz. No, it’s not as convenient for the average user.

          Understanment of the century. If you end up listing 5 different pieces of software to replace 1, then it’s going to be something for enthusiasts only.

        • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          That is mostly untenable for the average person. In the past a modest music budget was 1-2 albums a month plus the radio for discovery and word of mouth. That was it.

          Streaming platforms give you access to practically everything that’s even remotely popular for the price of 1 album a month. If you want to consume a lot of music and especially a lot of new (to you) music, online streaming is one of your best options. And I know what sub I’m on, just addressing that you said “buy”.

          • femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            5·
            10 months ago

            As a broke mofo who has quit streaming music and have a growing cd collection yes the quantity is lacking (I’m usually able to afford a new lp a week currently have 8), but I have found that I enjoy the music more than I did before, and in the end, every album I buy is mine forever which means that I don’t have to worry about some obscure artist’s stuff being removed from streaming services (which has happened to me on more than one occasion)

            For me music is a hobby and streaming services cheapen music to the point of being background noise

        • Emerald@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Or pirate your music and quit the renting economy. Soulseek, streamrip, private trackers

      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        44·
        10 months ago

        I’m really liking Apple Music. Mainly because it’s streaming bolted on to a real music library manager, so you can do stuff like edit song metadata, 5-star song ratings (though they really want you to use the stupid favorite system that Spotify also has), playlists that let you filter your library based on rules, and even add/upload your own tracks, so anything that’s missing you can add yourself.

        Though I’m not sure how the experience is if you don’t have a Mac, as the web client is hot garbage and they don’t have a native Linux client.

        • NoneYa@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          10 months ago

          Apple Music broke my offline library the last two times I tried.

          Replaced a lot of my explicit music with clean versions and left some of it unavailable to me. Music I had for decades that I legitimately bought on CD and ripped in iTunes was now being shown as “unavailable in your region”, even on the MacBook that I uploaded them from.

          I had to wipe my library and luckily had a backup from a year before with most of it but some of it is still lost to this day.

        • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          That’s one of the largest downsides imo. People have had their libraries converted and suddenly they don’t have their owned music anymore.

          • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            21·
            10 months ago

            Which downside? What do you mean? Everything I’ve added to it locally is in its own folder, and it’s a copy of the original files.

            • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              I think most people that traditionally used iTunes didn’t keep other copies somewhere else, since it was meant to be the music manager for all music, so if it screws up their library they lose their files.

              The uploading and syncing local files was (is) already a feature of iTunes Match. Apple Music just expands it to allow it for music they don’t own, however people have had it take their files and relabel them as Apple Music files and then lock them out if they cancel their subscription.

              The downside is combining my local music management with their streaming service, I’d rather they were entirely separate with the option of playing local files, as Spotify does. The option to upload files would be fine.

              • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                1·
                10 months ago

                Ahh, I see. Yeah that absolutely shouldn’t happen, at least not by default… Though I believe I’ve added an album that’s already in Apple Music once and it also kept the local files. Maybe in those cases it deleted the local files as the disk was getting full to clear up space, or something? Definitely inexcusable though :V

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Never used Spotify, but I got into Apple Music after learning it supports lossless. It’s been fantastic. I have MP3s on my phone and none of them have been overwritten with clean versions or anything like that other guy said… I dunno his setup though. I keep my giant MP3/flac collection on another HDD, backed up to an external.

        • femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Apple music on android is broken af

          Sometimes my library crashes and it takes like 5 minutes to get to a point where i can use the app again

        • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          32·
          10 months ago

          There is no way you can use Spotify and think it has a low amount of music. There are precious few things I’ve looked for it doesn’t have.

          • Emerald@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            10 months ago

            There are hundreds of thousands of albums that Spotify doesn’t have, probably the majority of my Bandcamp feed isn’t on there.

            • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              Well, YouTube’s music quality is basically trash but if you are happy with it don’t look for alternatives because you won’t find them. Almost anyone I know that wants a music streaming service would not stand that quality for long though.

              For context, I use tidal since it’s the one one that can serve HiFi music in a native Linux client (third party).

              • MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                11·
                10 months ago

                Well, YouTube’s music quality is basically trash but if you are happy with it don’t look for alternatives because you won’t find them.

                Yeah, and there’s also no contest in terms of library

    • ToxicWaste@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      Agreed that Spotify kinda sucks. That is why i am using it the first time towards the end of a 3W trip :-D

      With the modded apk and a 10min mail account it is worth the storage on my phone.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        Yeah, there are modded clients out there that remove the crap, and dozens of other unofficial clients as well. You have options.

  • LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    281·
    10 months ago

    Others have mentioned other clients, but I’m going to suggest a different, less convenient route. Would you still have that problem if you routed your phone’s traffic through an exit node in your home network?

  • Herbal Gamer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    18·
    10 months ago

    Nope. This was the reason I gave up on premium; my means of payment was registered in my old country and I wasn’t allowed to change it.

  • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.ukEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    I’ve never had this come up and travel abroad a fair bit. Though now that I think about it I always use it through a VPN set to my home country lol

  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    10 months ago

    Spytify

    It records Spotify music real time, at the highest available bit rate (as long as you set it). Uses Spotify API to pull track metadata and album art. Its smart enough to not records ads and auto deletes tracks under 30 seconds (I think you can change the time)

    It’s slower than YouTube DL, but having all the metadata sorted out for you is a big plus.

    Its probably about 98% error free, sometimes a second of a song ending gets put on the next track. A quick cut/paste in Audacity and it’s fixed.

    It works best if you have a separate audio device, otherwise other computer sound gets recorded too. I’m not going to do a full tutorial (unless someone asks), but basically you set the audio for Spotify on audio device #2, and continue as normal on audio device #1. It has a loopback feature too, so if you want to listen/record the same time you can.

  • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1910·
    10 months ago

    Pirated product doesn’t work exactly as paid product

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    What was the point of this post? 🙄

    Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind piracy and fuck Spotify, but come on…

  • mindlight@lemm.eeEnglish
    71·
    10 months ago

    I’m a paying customer and I’ve never had this problem.

  • rinze@infosec.pubEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I created my account in Spain around 2009, moved to Canada in 2014 and came back to Spain late last year. Never had a problem with this :-?

  • bblfrnz@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    That’s how Spotify has been working for years. Spotify doesn’t work officially in my current whereabouts, so, in order to use it I just registered an account via vpn and now I just need to log in into spotify using vpn once in two weeks. It has been working this way a few years for me already.

  • Gooey0210@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Only supports the apartment you’re registered in, and only if you gave all the permissions to the goverment app, and stored your biometrics and agreed to everything just to be first in the line for the chip implant