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Have you considered not Spotify?
Or just use the cracked versions if you have android
This is what I do. But my wife has an iPhone, and can't.
I also want it on desktop
I also want it on desktop
Spotify without a paid subscription on FF desktop with uBlock Origin is pretty good. It will start playing random music after a while, but it's not enough to bother me. Just refresh and you can go back to listening to your music.
https://github.com/SpotCompiled/SpotC-Plus-Plus, preferably with SideStore
On desktop I just use my private hoard of music with Foobar2000
You can either spoof your location and payment to India for cheap rate, or go to account share Reddit and get on someone’s family plan. Some even do family India, so it’s cheap family, at that. If you don’t have friends that do this already.
Just make sure you double check the user against the thread of scammers.
BlockTheSpot for desktop
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How does this help the original question?
Because Spotify bad duh, this is Lemmy we don't use bad things here.
Lol. Yes.
I download most of my music, but I haven't gotten a new song in like a year and a half, so I want cheap, desktop something for the once in a while listening.
My wife has an iPhone and pays full price, this is also motivation
She can sell the iphone and get an android with the same specs and pay for spotify for a year and have dinner somewhere /s
Just use the free plan but download whatever you plan on listening to using any of the countless tools to do exactly that.
Subscription lol is someone going to tell him?
I want to listen at work, and paying $20 a year is worth not having to get something potentially malicious
If you're on Android, try InnerTune via FDroid. No subscription required, easy to find music. It has reasonable recommendations for music, but not the same standards as Spotify. If you buy a DAP and microSD card, or a mobile phone that takesmicrSD cards. After that, just download any and all music you like and play anytime, anywhere without neededing a data connection.
You sir, are a legend. Never heard of InnerTune before but im playing around with it right now. I could see myself using this more than my local library. Thank you for sharing
Thanks really to the chap who similarly brought it to my attention. I use it in the car and at work.
What do you want to know? That you can use a VPN to fake your location to get a different price for a subscription? Or which county is currently the best (India has decent prices)? How to get the gift cards that you redeem in the account (Amazon, eneba, ...)?
Is a gift card the way to do it?
I thought I'd be doing a subscription.
So how do I get the gift cards?
I think Spotify blocks the usage of foreign credit cards (ie, non-Indian Credit cards). A way to circumvent this is by using gift cards. You can buy them from Amazon using the same credentials as your local Amazon account. Then it's easiest to gift them to yourself, eg, this: https://www.amazon.in/Spotify-Premium-Standard-3Month-Card/dp/B09Z6ZDKZ6
There is a limit on how many vouchers you can redeem per day (I think it's four per 24 hours) but just redeem the remaining cards the next day.
To redeem the gift cards in your account you'll have to login using an Indian VPN and then change your location. Once your location is changed, deactivate the VPN again. Then redeem the vouchers (6 3-months vouchers would give you 12 months of duo and 10 months of family). After reaching the daily limit wait 24 hours and redeem the remaining vouchers.
Once all vouchers are redeemed you can switch back to your location.
You're the best. Only one to actually answer my question.
I'll be doing this tonight. Thank you so much
Use Spotube. It's free and basically like premium Spotify.
I am currently using Spotify + Spicetify with Marketplace.
I'm gonna try this out. Seems like a cleaner approach.
no one actually answer
Create a new email using a VPN (exit lag works too) buy a giftcard or prepaid foreing visa rechargable card for that country but Giftcard is the way Create an spotify account and paid premium using that.
i did this long time with YT (india) Spotify canada (got a good deal) and Crunchy roll Turkey
Now that you mention it, my policy from now on is to avoid any Internet service that tries to charge different prices depending on what country it thinks you're in.
I mean, you're in the right place then my friend, because you're not going to subscribe to much of anything that has an international presence.
It kinda sucks when you're in one of the 'high price' countries, but there's lot of countries who wouldn't have it at all if they had to pay our prices.
lol imagine thinking regional pricing is a bad thing. Man, I wish I could be as privileged as you so I could shit on poor people for being born somewhere not as rich.
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I dont know if is allowed share piracy, but search for something like x manager app on duckduckgo / google
My friend, we are in a piracy community what else would we do here if it is not... Share knowledge.
Yeah, this is my current solution. I was hoping I could do cheap enough to just get legal
Don't get me wrong, and I even think I shouldn't get involved on this, but it's a bit of a waste to pay for Spotify. imo, it's a company that doesn't deserve our money, since they dont care about musicians art and pay very poorly to them. If you want something to listen offline, I recommend Tidal. In the x manager app you have this option with a modified version
IDK why'd you even bother with legal, it's easy enough to rip mp3s out of any youtube video.
these are in my ~/.zshrc:
# download any video as mp3
# if video is chaptered, split each chapter into separate song files
alias yt-mp3='yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --split-chapters --no-check-certificate'
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