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I’ve never used the free tier on Spotify and I don’t understand how anyone can. The ads alone would make me throw off my headset in disgust. So yeah, not going to affect me, and I do enjoy reading the lyrics a lot.
That said, I am experimenting with swapping over to Apple Music because I feel Spotify has become too expensive.
For a mobile, there is a modded apk,I've never heard ads there. For a PC, web player in Firefox with uBlock Origin, there are no ads at all there. The same goes for Tidal, I've never paid for these apps.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/3223099 For both PC and Android.
Does it convert them to 320kbps when I choose that quality? Because when I play those downloaded songs, it indeed shows as 320kbps.
That's the question, because as far as I know, the highest ytmusic quality is 256 kbps. I would avoid using it
Doesn't solve the offline mode/taking a 13 hour flight use case, unfortunately.
Well, that's very specific case to be honest. In that case you can just download whatever you want beforehand, from soulseek, for instance. Generally people make preparations in advance for such things.
Zotify works very well at downloading Spotify lists, from playlists to whole discographies. You have to sort the output a little as you'll often get multiple copies of tracks due to remastered editions, songs released as singles etc. But overall it's an incredibly easy way to download music.
I use an iPhone though and I’d prefer not to use YouTube for music, or anything, really.
Oh man, you shouldn't be using iphone in the first place, the most useless device piracy-wise.
This isn't an issue about piracy anyway.
Most people don't pirate stuff on their phones. I use an iPhone and my hundreds of gigabytes of pirated stuff is available on my iPhone via plexamp/plex/etc.