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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've been using Qobuz. Sure it's still paid, but I can buy downloads for any of the music on there. Same with Bandcamp. I've been buying one album every paycheck and putting them on my storage blocks, then putting them on my media player and phone. I support my favorite bands, and get to keep something in return. On top of all this, I hunt down CDs. I've got a massive physical music collection, and it's nice.

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

Third party apps for Spotify is definitely the way to go if you don't have premium.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Xmanager for android. For other platforms you can checkout Spotx

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

Is there an easy way to download tons of music without paying for a shit ton of albums?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Free on vimusic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Hoes mad (x24)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can't find the reference, but isn't Spotify the service which stole the lyrics from another site? And then the other site added morse code on some of them to catch them red handed?

That could be part of the reason if it was

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IIRC correctly, Genius added white space to some of their lyrics so that when Google scraped them, they could prove they got it from their site since the scraped content also had the random white space.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Found it..

How did Genius become certain of that discovery? By hiding a Morse code message within some of the lyrics on its own site, the code being a series of curly and straight apostrophes which, when assembled, correspond to the Morse code for the word “REDHANDED” (as in, Google has been caught red-handed). Sure enough, those apostrophes showed up in Google results. But here’s the thing, though. After confronting Google with that evidence as described in a lawsuit Genius filed today against the search giant (with Genius describing that evidence as Watermark #1), Genius then decided to hide a second secret code (Watermark #2) inside its lyrics to further prove the lyrics are being copied.

They used it to spell out "REDHANDED" in morse code using apostrophes too..

Either way, not the case here

https://bgr.com/business/genius-sues-google-another-secret-code-proves-lyrics-copied/

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They also broke adding songs to playlists on mobile lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Could someone kindly ELI5 how to lidarr-ize my liked tracks from Spotify, please?

My collection there is quite static and I think I'm a good candidate to go MP3/AAC/whatever 🏴‍☠️ plus Spotify free just to keep up to date with newly released singles/albums from time to time.

Thanks!

P.S. also what comes after would be great, i.e. how I can batch transfer all those files from my home server running lidarr to my Android phone/PC and keep them in sync after the initial transfer. Plus also a nice feature rich Android app, either free (no ads) or even better open source with an accessible price.

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