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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.
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.
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?
Tailscale ftwwwww
Why add the third party? Just run an instance of wireguard on your home network and call it a day.
Can you explain that to an idiot like myself? I'm running TailScale right now and I have my own router in front of my ISP's. Is there a good, simplistic guide for my setup?
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
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.
They were already trying to ruin it with Tidal exclusive albums
Streaming service companies take note
No greedy executives want to squeeze out eveey last penny.
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
Streaming service company later: Scratch that...
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...
They banned m'y connected speaker because I was using a shared account. Yeahaaa.
I didn't know about this apk. Gonna check this out thanks for putting it on my radar
works pretty well - except on longer travels ;)
I'm a paying customer and I've never had this problem.
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.
Spotify sucks? What are some good alternatives that have a similar amount of content and suggestions?
Deezer
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.
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
That’s one of the largest downsides imo. People have had their libraries converted and suddenly they don’t have their owned music anymore.
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.
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.
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
Deezer for one. Doesn't have quite the same amount of music, but I don't seem to have the issue with travel considering I am literally away for half the year.
Many others though.
https://www.lifewire.com/best-alternatives-to-spotify-5217870
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.
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.
Do you get ads is you pay for it?
Also: there's unofficial clients? Does it use it's algorithms or library?
Not interrupting ads like in the free version. They sure do like to push 'suggestions' when you open the app though
You get podcasts shoved down your throat that's for sure.
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.
Yeah, there are modded clients out there that remove the crap, and dozens of other unofficial clients as well. You have options.
I'm a paying customer and I don't have this problem.
Considering that i have a free account registered to a 10 min mail and paying customers don't seem to have that problem... It might be some kind of protection against manipulating the charts aswell.