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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.

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[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Streaming service companies take note

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Streaming service company later: Scratch that...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No greedy executives want to squeeze out eveey last penny.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You missed a comma

No, greedy executives want to squeeze out eveey last penny.

Wouldn't want you to look like you were defending greedy executives

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

They were already trying to ruin it with Tidal exclusive albums

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Why add the third party? Just run an instance of wireguard on your home network and call it a day.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because Tailscale uses Wireguard, but doesn’t rely on my inept ass to know what I’m doing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because that's physically impossible for tons of people. CGNATs are very common.

Well nothing is impossible, but it does complicate things very much. Certainly outside "just run a container and call it a day" territory.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just buy music from artists on Bandcamp this thing is stupid

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know about this apk. Gonna check this out thanks for putting it on my radar

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