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Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by tomjen3 »

alkonaut wrote: post #23
costcopizza wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting. Do you apply this to all platforms? If a supermarket sells products that you like, alongside products you don't like, do you stop shopping there?

Not the GP, but yes, definitely. If a store or brand has collaborations with the wrong people etc., that's definitely a reason to not shop there. I don't find Joe Rogan terrible enough to cancel my spotify subscription, but if they started collaborating with say Alex Jones, I'd find another streaming service in a heartbeat.

Alex Jones has been on Joe Rogan.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by m-p-3 »

syshum wrote: post #39

Spotify has followed the same model as many other companies, like Netflix They are open with data, have good API's etc until they get market dominance then they stop supporting many of those same things. They have dropped their support for Linux Clients, they closed most of their API's, and various other things It is a repeating pattern with companies that are disrupting a market

You scared me for a minute, I thought you said Spotify dropped their Linux client

https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by madeofpalk »

bthrn wrote: post #38
csunbird wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, for starters, they do not support Apple Watch, which is very problematic for me.

I think it’s more that the Apple Watch doesn’t support Spotify than the other way around. Apple prioritizes its own music service for the watch.

Apple made an Apple Music app for the watch with support for offline playback. Spotify did not.

I believe for a year or so the Watch OS has supported the APIs Spotify would need to do offline playback, but they have not yet used them for whatever reason.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by ddorian43 »

calvano915 wrote: post #30
ddorian43 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... why ? Isn't Joe Rogan pro Bernie as an example ?

Unfortunately the longer time passes, Rogan is pro and against and in between on everything. He's been much more receptive to right leaning perspectives and more critical to extreme left, but also much less critical to the extreme right and much less tolerant of left leaning. Its been incredibly disappointing that he has gotten so out of touch with the style and approach that gained him his podcast prestige.

Do you include the "trans" stuff here ?

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by sabellito »

selykg wrote: post #34

I'm one of those speak with my wallet kind of people. So when I seen news of this yesterday I wrote into their support saying I was not pleased with it. Their response was some random canned response about how you can still export your data. I'm not a fan of lock in, and I'm even less thrilled about not actually responding to my actual questions and instead giving me some canned BS. I responded back telling them than…

It's a little surprising to me that you'd expect better customer support from a service with >248 million[1] monthly active users.

Having worked for/with departments like this, they have to heavily optimise for their response rate, and use as many macros to respond as possible, which's probably your case as I'd assume that many customers contacted them with the same question.

By all means, always speak with your wallet, but if you genuinely expect huge corporations to answer each request with a custom response, you will probably be disappointed often.

[1] https://qz.com/1736762/spotify-grows-monthly-active-users-an...

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by zoltar »

I think something like this still works with a client id, secret, and a playlist:

  TOKEN=$(curl --basic --user $ID:$SECRET -X POST -d grant_type=client_credentials https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token | jq -r .access_token)
  curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/$PLAYLIST/tracks | tee playlist-$PLAYLIST.json | jq -rc '.items[].track | "\(.artists[0].name) -- \(.name)"' | sort

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by tomjen3 »

costcopizza wrote: post #10
loopdoend wrote: post #2

Perfect, I have been wanting to get off of Spotify ever since they teamed up with Joe Rogan.

Interesting. Do you apply this to all platforms? If a supermarket sells products that you like, alongside products you don't like, do you stop shopping there?

I wouldn't, but realistically all supermarkets sell so many products that you are bound to find something you object to, if only in the book or newspaper stand.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by matthewmacleod »

WanderPanda wrote: post #26
csunbird wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, for starters, they do not support Apple Watch, which is very problematic for me.

The support Apple Watch, just not downloading songs for offline usage, right?

No. The Spotify app on the Apple Watch is a remote control for managing other devices and cannot stream songs independently. It’s insanely frustrating.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by sascha_sl »

selykg wrote: post #34

I'm one of those speak with my wallet kind of people. So when I seen news of this yesterday I wrote into their support saying I was not pleased with it. Their response was some random canned response about how you can still export your data. I'm not a fan of lock in, and I'm even less thrilled about not actually responding to my actual questions and instead giving me some canned BS. I responded back telling them than…

You shouldn't be surprised that support people are essentially human firewalls, and getting any sort of policy decision or assistance, especially technical, beyond their knowledge base is impossible. Even Apple support is at least an hour of talking with someone who'll read the knowledge base back to you before being escalated into "I did my homework now look at my syslog" territory.
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