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Spotify wants me to have a card from said county. I read that you can use PayPal, but they want a phone number from that country.

Any advice?

Edit: I'm aware that there are a lot of solutions to get it for free. I'm aware that I can just download my music.

Currently, I'm running running navidrome for my downloaded music and x manager Spotify for myself.

My wife has an iPhone. I don't want to download her music. But she's paying full price for Spotify.

I also like to listen from my work desktop. I have administrative rights, but it would be really dumb to download something like this to my work machine.

In several countries, I can get Spotify for like $30 dollars a year for 2 people. This price would be worth moving to legal. Especially for her, since she's paying $11 right now

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

no one actually answer

Create a new email using a VPN (exit lag works too) buy a giftcard or prepaid foreing visa rechargable card for that country but Giftcard is the way Create an spotify account and paid premium using that.

i did this long time with YT (india) Spotify canada (got a good deal) and Crunchy roll Turkey

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Spotify is a garbage company that profits from and platforms anti-science and sewing division.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

There's many pod casts on Spotify I don't like. I don't attack Spotify. I just don't listen to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

See also: Joe Rogan

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you're on Android, try InnerTune via FDroid. No subscription required, easy to find music. It has reasonable recommendations for music, but not the same standards as Spotify. If you buy a DAP and microSD card, or a mobile phone that takesmicrSD cards. After that, just download any and all music you like and play anytime, anywhere without neededing a data connection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You sir, are a legend. Never heard of InnerTune before but im playing around with it right now. I could see myself using this more than my local library. Thank you for sharing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks really to the chap who similarly brought it to my attention. I use it in the car and at work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Purchase a $200 DAP + $25 SD card and some IEMs and carry all of your music offline

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fun story. I never really considered myself an audiophile. At first, I downloaded every song I had as an mp3 or YouTube rip.

Then I ran out of storage space and built a music server.

Then I discovered deemix. At the time completely free

I know deemix wouldn't last. I redownloaded every song I had as flac, knowing I can't Begin to take advantage of it. Storage is cheap and I have unlimited data.

So a dap is in my future. Probably in my car. And after some research

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Take a look at Hiby for the less expensive DAPs. You'll find plenty of IEMs to run off of it in whichever category of price you're looking in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Download your music offline and use better hardware rather than wasting money on subscriptions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He says, pirate the music and invest in good listening hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

DAP - Digital Audio Player - a dedicated device for playing music. Usually will offer higher quality playback then a phone.

SD Card - Secure Digital Card - A common standard for removable flash storage

IEM - In Ear Monitors - A type of headphones

OP is saying to buy this stuff and have your music downloaded as normal files on the SD card.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Use Spotube. It's free and basically like premium Spotify.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I am currently using Spotify + Spicetify with Marketplace.

I'm gonna try this out. Seems like a cleaner approach.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Subscription lol is someone going to tell him?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I want to listen at work, and paying $20 a year is worth not having to get something potentially malicious

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

VPS running wireguard server with hardened kernel and fail2ban and an optional GeoIP blocker/full-fledged WAF. SELinux is optional.

Connect both your mobile/portable device and a segment of your home network to the same interface if you're using Wireguard, but there are ways to do it with SSL VPNs too, I'm sure. You can now stream all of your media, self-hosted, no restrictions other than outgoing bandwidth costs on the VPS.

It'll take a weekend but this is not too hard TBH. Use IaC for even faster deployments.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure why people think this is a realistic option for most anyone. No way anyone with no experience doing any of that is setting it up in a weekend.

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

Not to mention it is hard to do that with music and keep up with thousands of new tracks and artists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

X-Manager for Android works well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Plex is malicious to you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I dont know if is allowed share piracy, but search for something like x manager app on duckduckgo / google

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

My friend, we are in a piracy community what else would we do here if it is not... Share knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is my current solution. I was hoping I could do cheap enough to just get legal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

IDK why'd you even bother with legal, it's easy enough to rip mp3s out of any youtube video.

these are in my ~/.zshrc:

# download any video as mp3
# if video is chaptered, split each chapter into separate song files
alias yt-mp3='yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --split-chapters --no-check-certificate'
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Don't get me wrong, and I even think I shouldn't get involved on this, but it's a bit of a waste to pay for Spotify. imo, it's a company that doesn't deserve our money, since they dont care about musicians art and pay very poorly to them. If you want something to listen offline, I recommend Tidal. In the x manager app you have this option with a modified version

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Look up: GitHub -> SpotX-Official/SpotX

That's my secret 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

any benefits of this over Spicetify? does SpotX also support theming?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

No idea, that's just what I use. .

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