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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.

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 188 points 1 year ago (16 children)

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.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Streaming service companies take note

[–] nfsu2@feddit.cl 24 points 1 year ago

Streaming service company later: Scratch that...

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No greedy executives want to squeeze out eveey last penny.

[–] CoffeePorter@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

They were already trying to ruin it with Tidal exclusive albums

[–] gaifux@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Funny enough I just ditched Spotify premium since their apps for every platform I use are far and away the buggiest apps I'd been using regularly, including open source apps. I started using InnerTune instead to get free unlimited streaming on mobile and the funniest thing is, the app works better than Spotify. Bigger library too since it pulls music from YT. Quality probably suffers but IDK, willing to make that trade for no subscription fee

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Grandsinge@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why add the third party? Just run an instance of wireguard on your home network and call it a day.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because Tailscale uses Wireguard, but doesn’t rely on my inept ass to know what I’m doing.

[–] Grandsinge@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago
[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because that's physically impossible for tons of people. CGNATs are very common.

Well nothing is impossible, but it does complicate things very much. Certainly outside "just run a container and call it a day" territory.

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried that, but it's broken my Pi-hole install twice. To the point of needing dev intervention. I assumed it wasn't working for everybody until you mentioned it

[–] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never had an issue with pihole (i run them on the same device). Pivpn ibstaller typically detects pihole and juat sets it up as pivpn dns but you could also have it not do this in the installer

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have no clue where it went wrong and I'm not exactly technical enough to diagnose it

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[–] Grandsinge@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I installed mine on OPNsense. I used the OPNsense documentation: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/how-tos/wireguard-client.html. Here is another guide: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/road-warrior-vpn-wireguard-opnsense/. And yet another if you want to set it up in docker: https://linuxiac.com/how-to-set-up-wireguard-vpn-with-docker/. However, the firewall rules can get a bit messy.

Thank you, I'll give it a go

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a paying customer and I don't have this problem.

[–] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 year ago

You're also using a modified client. Hmm...

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spytify

It records Spotify music real time, at the highest available bit rate (as long as you set it). Uses Spotify API to pull track metadata and album art. Its smart enough to not records ads and auto deletes tracks under 30 seconds (I think you can change the time)

It's slower than YouTube DL, but having all the metadata sorted out for you is a big plus.

Its probably about 98% error free, sometimes a second of a song ending gets put on the next track. A quick cut/paste in Audacity and it's fixed.

It works best if you have a separate audio device, otherwise other computer sound gets recorded too. I'm not going to do a full tutorial (unless someone asks), but basically you set the audio for Spotify on audio device #2, and continue as normal on audio device #1. It has a loopback feature too, so if you want to listen/record the same time you can.

[–] DivisionResult@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What is this app?

[–] bremen15@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never heard of it. Thank you. Is that the app like cracked?

Its a Mánager you hace many apks spotify cracked, and one that let's you save songs that isn't Spotify ,it is Tidal.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] mindlight@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a paying customer and I've never had this problem.

[–] Unebrion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know about this apk. Gonna check this out thanks for putting it on my radar

[–] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

works pretty well - except on longer travels ;)

[–] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Only supports the apartment you're registered in, and only if you gave all the permissions to the goverment app, and stored your biometrics and agreed to everything just to be first in the line for the chip implant

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

just buy music from artists on Bandcamp this thing is stupid

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[–] bblfrnz@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That's how Spotify has been working for years. Spotify doesn't work officially in my current whereabouts, so, in order to use it I just registered an account via vpn and now I just need to log in into spotify using vpn once in two weeks. It has been working this way a few years for me already.

[–] rinze@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

I created my account in Spain around 2009, moved to Canada in 2014 and came back to Spain late last year. Never had a problem with this :-?

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