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Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK (www.techradar.com)

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 days ago

Bring it on! Sail the high seas. Yargh!

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

...return? LOL

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Welcome back 🏴‍☠️🦜

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never understood Spotifys appeal. Youtube has always been better imo.

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[–] arararagi@ani.social 9 points 15 hours ago

You should already be doing that anyways with the phantom artists scandal, thousands of fake artists made with AI so Spotify doesn't have to pay real people.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Do it.

It's easy. Just use a Youtube-to-MP3 converter.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Does anyone have a good podcast app to replace Spotify that will keep track of progress across multiple devices? Bonus points if I can self host.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago

Antennapod with gPodderersync & Nextcloud? There are podcast apps for Nextcloud to play in the browser.

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[–] TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just use spot-dl to download my music.

[–] brown_guy45@lemmy.zip 8 points 21 hours ago

I already moved to piracy for music because these days Spotify isn't even giving the normal shuffle option for free users

Yeah I know it's cheap but I'm a student so..

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Ha! Fuck. That.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

just buy releases from bands on Bandcamp

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Latest Spotify crackdowns on revanced apps and a very recent GrayJay plugin issues made me look into Spotify cracking scene. I found an app that works. But for how long?

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[–] darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jokes on them. My m4a library reaches 1000's easily

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[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Im not even in the UK and im still going to cancel due to this. Thanks spotify, fuck you :)

[–] percent@infosec.pub 9 points 2 days ago

Well I don't think Spotify wants to do it, but it's probably a better option than abandoning their UK users.

I assume the other streaming options will do the same in the UK market, so probably better to look at self-hosted alternatives, if you're into that

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

What are they supposed to do? Pull away from the UK?

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