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[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 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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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.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] RedBaronHarkonnen@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Free on vimusic.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 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

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I believe the squabble you're talking about was between Genius and Google, don't think Spotify was stealing lyrics from anywhere

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[–] kryllic@programming.dev 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.

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[–] xXthrowawayXx@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Hoes mad (x24)

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

They also broke adding songs to playlists on mobile lmao

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