This is so anti-user. A similar service offered by Spotify is how I moved from Apple Music to Spotify. The playlists belong to the user - this is vendor lock in of the worst sort.
A Note about Spotify Transfers
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#22What part of the TOS was violated, according to Spotify?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is not exactly what this is doing. A service to service playlist transfer service is what Songshift seems to does, I think it will be worth having an open source alternative to it.
I've started work on one now in Ruby (something I've been meaning to brush up my skills on) just out of spite for not letting users export their playlists. Will ping back here and on HN when I have a working prototype.
You should do a 'Show HN' :-) I would love to use something like that and move away from Spotify.
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#24It makes sense for Spotify to do this from a business perspective. I've been paying for six years now for Spotify Premium and it's just hands down the best music service, and I will gladly continue to give them my money.
The Discord integration, cross device interoperability, UX are simply unmatched on all other music platforms.
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#25I switched to Napster when Spotify started to try hoovering up the podcast market. They've been getting increasingly poisonous, it seems.
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#26I just used a similar service to move from Apple Music to Spotify. Now I'm thinking I should move back before Spotify tries to hold my playlists hostage. Spotify Developer Platform Team, if you're listening: you're imbeciles for doing this and you're putting customers back in a buying position when they were happy to keep giving you money forever. starts looking at alternatives
As far as I can tell, Spotify doesn't really have a Developer Platform team, just a legal department enforcing their ToS. All of their various SDKs are poorly maintained with zero points of contact. I think it's just a handful of engineers who care, working in their spare time at an organization that doesn't have any interest in giving them actual resources. For example: their web playback SDK has a provision about "…
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#27Seems like an obvious and sane target for antitrust legislation - compare with e.g. the mobile number portability directive in the EU way back in 2002. Related opinion piece: > Data portability: An antitrust weapon for the digital economy? (Le Monde, 2018) http://www.fondapol.org/en/the-foundation/medias-en-en/data-... > In concrete terms, what would portability in the digital economy look like? Let us imagine we cou…
According to Spotify’s own site [0], their users have > ...the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transmit that personal data for use in another party’s service... [0] https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/#s3 Why can’t a transfer service just use that file? Perhaps, it doesn’t include playlists or liked artists/albums/songs?
I've just requested my data. When I get it I'll take a look and see if it contains playlist information and either edit this comment or post a reply to myself if the edit window has closed with the results. They say it can take up to 30 days to process.
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#28Seems like an obvious and sane target for antitrust legislation - compare with e.g. the mobile number portability directive in the EU way back in 2002. Related opinion piece: > Data portability: An antitrust weapon for the digital economy? (Le Monde, 2018) http://www.fondapol.org/en/the-foundation/medias-en-en/data-... > In concrete terms, what would portability in the digital economy look like? Let us imagine we cou…
According to Spotify’s own site [0], their users have > ...the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transmit that personal data for use in another party’s service... [0] https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/#s3 Why can’t a transfer service just use that file? Perhaps, it doesn’t include playlists or liked artists/albums/songs?
I've done that. Ignoring that it takes a few days to receive a dumb, what you get is just a subset of data.
I've been a Spotify user for over half a decade, but the oldest date I could find in the dump was a little over two years ago.
I then contacted their support asking for all data, but I've made a mistake of contacting them with a wrong email address (which lead to them being unable to find my account) and I haven't bothered since.
In the best case scenario, I'd say it takes a week to get the entire dump, which is not very convenient for switching to a competitor.
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#29I'm happy with Spotify and tried to figure out what this story was about. I saw "SongShift Pro starting at 4.99 USD/month".
Do people go for a monthly pricing for this kind of service?
I mean transferring playlists from an old service to a new service sounds like a one-off thing. Does someone really need it continuously?
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#30I think this will push me to finally just jump to Apple Music (even though it’s worse and will now be harder to do, plus I’ll miss discover weekly).
Spotify’s attack on podcasts with exclusivity and trying to destroy the open standard really bothers me: https://stratechery.com/2020/dithering-and-the-open-web/
Now with this I just don’t have much respect for them.
When paired with their complaining about Apple’s policies being unfair it makes me really dislike them, they don’t care about their users or what’s best for them. It wouldn’t surprise me if soon I have to call and beg them to cancel my subscription like Sirius XM.
FreeYourMusic also still works, so if you want to do this download it quickly before Spotify forces them to break the feature.