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Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by the_only_law »

personlurking wrote: post #61
sascha_sl wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And as always, on these types of calls, one should never take a "no" from someone who doesn't have the authority to say "yes". Of course, this has to be balanced with how much the question/problem at hand matters to you.

How do you even figure out who does and does not have the authority to say "yes" an an outsider though.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by ewelina_fym »

adnanh wrote: post #48

Funny how they didn't vet the generated content: https://freeyourmusic.com/en/transfer-spotify-to-spotify

We still support migrating to Spotify. We want people to be able to migrate FROM and TO any music service. They get to decide what platform they want to be on.

And yes, you can import your songs between accounts on the same platform.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by rbecker »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #55
costcopizza wrote: post #10

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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?

Yes, why is this weird to you? If a supermarket were out there promoting… I dunno, their range of confederate flags or something, I’d probably choose not to shop there.

What if they were promoting a company that funds misleading nutrition research to fool people into thinking sugar is less harmful, leading to countless early deaths and diabetes?

What about a company that's the largest plastic polluter in the world, that also lobbies to kill regulation to reduce plastic pollution? It's hard to know the full extent of the harm microplastics cause the ecosystem, but it's unlikely to be small.

How far do you have to drive to find a supermarket that doesn't sell Coca-Cola? Or is that not worth the same level of condemnation as interviewing the wrong person?

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by mattmanser »

jimcsharp wrote: post #59
marketingPro wrote: post #18

Need this for Google play/youtube music. Worst case I use OCR/mechanical turks in the future because I took screenshots.

You can get a pretty good csv dump of your play music profile through Google's general data export tool. Their migration to YouTube music is a good opportunity to see what else is out there. I'm leaning towards prime music, since they're a buck cheaper if you have prime (who doesn't?)

I dumped mine due to the impending shutdown. I only had a quick look, but the data format looked atrocious.

I'm not sure you could actually do it worse, mine was a folder for every playlist, with a CSV for each song.

Trivial for me as a programmer to reformat, but useless for the general public.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by criddell »

augstein wrote: post #52
criddell wrote: post #20

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What's lackluster about Spotify on iOS? I use Spotify on my iPad, my Android phone, and my Windows desktop and they all work pretty well. > especially in terms of their coverage? If you are a typical user with typical tastes, they are all more or less the same. If there's something in particular you want - like lossless compression or being able to upload your own music or Grateful Dead concerts - mention it and peop…

Spotify for Apple Watch is still basically a remote for Spotify on iOS, presumably due to some contracts between Spotify and Samsung. So although Spotify could technically implement a standalone Apple Watch App since at least WatchOS 6 (released over a year ago now), they haven’t, which means you always need to carry your Phone with you. Their support Forum is full of complaints about this, with no proper reaction or…

Oh okay. So iOS is mostly fine but WatchOS and tvOS have problems?

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by alkonaut »

tomjen3 wrote: post #41
alkonaut wrote: post #23

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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.

Yes, which is one reason I dislike Rogan. However, Spotify and Jones aren't in direct business (making money off their business deal together). I'm fine with Spotify and Rogan doing business.

It's not that I go around worrying about what's said in every song and podcast on Spotify, it's rather whether I agree with Spotify's business practices or not. I wish Spotify told Rogan to stop having conspiracy theorists on his show (unless they are critically exposed), but I don't consider Alex Jones as being a part of Spotify's business model because he is a guest in one of their pods.

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Post by lukeschlather »

augstein wrote: post #52
criddell wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's lackluster about Spotify on iOS? I use Spotify on my iPad, my Android phone, and my Windows desktop and they all work pretty well. > especially in terms of their coverage? If you are a typical user with typical tastes, they are all more or less the same. If there's something in particular you want - like lossless compression or being able to upload your own music or Grateful Dead concerts - mention it and peop…

Spotify for Apple Watch is still basically a remote for Spotify on iOS, presumably due to some contracts between Spotify and Samsung. So although Spotify could technically implement a standalone Apple Watch App since at least WatchOS 6 (released over a year ago now), they haven’t, which means you always need to carry your Phone with you. Their support Forum is full of complaints about this, with no proper reaction or…

Spotify allows you to download music to Garmin watches. Maybe you're underestimating the difficulty of porting Spotify to Apple Watch?

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by toper-centage »

cryptixvi wrote: post #7
funcDropShadow wrote: post #3

Doesn't the GDPR require that users have the ability to download their data?

Based on the article - I wouldn't be surprised if they complied by providing you a SHA256 hash for every song in your playlist.

They do give you you a list of playlists containing song titles and artists.

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Post by csunbird »

madeofpalk wrote: post #43
bthrn wrote: post #38

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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.

This was a controversial topic actually, Spotify openly accused Apple for not providing the access to Apple Watch SDKs when Apple Music was first launched. The APIs are made available after a while I think, but Spotify is still mad.

Spotifys accusation: https://timetoplayfair.com/the-case/

Response from Apple: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/addressing-spotifys-c...

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19377322

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Post by plibither8 »

DangerousPie wrote: post #12

I have been looking to move away from Spotify for a while now due to their lacklustre support for iOS devices. Is there a good comparison between Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Prime Music somewhere, especially in terms of their coverage?

Well, for what it's worth I've been using YouTube Music for over a year and it's coverage has never disappointed me - even for little-known songs (though that's relative). Just my experience and observation.
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