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Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by Reubend »

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free.

Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless.

I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's totally fair. But when it comes time to pay for content, those people rarely are willing to pony up. You can see this happening with journalism, music, apps, etc.

Similarly, most people hate subscriptions, but you can always buy music directly if you don't want to subscribe! A lot of smaller artists provide ways to purchase their music that give them a large percentage of the proceeds, and you can get the music DRM-free if that's something you care about.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by monsieurbanana »

For something that puts "not using electron" so prominently I didn't expect it using flutter. I admit I don't really have much experience with it, I thought it was like react-native (but better?), still far from truly native apps.

Im here to being told I'm wrong. I would love to, specially since we can transpile clojure to dart

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by bayindirh »

Reubend wrote: post #3

While it's nice to have an open source client, please think twice about bypassing the premium subscription/ads to listen for free. Musician deserve to be paid for their work, and it's not fair to them to bypass all of the mechanisms to do that. Spotify doesn't pay musicians well, but there are still indie artists making a living from it nonetheless. I hear a lot of people these days complaining about ads, and that's…

It's not bypassing anything. It gets the playlist data from Spotify, and streams the song from YouTube, arguably still providing income for the musicians.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by bayindirh »

accrual wrote: post #8
bananapub wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you sure you read the link to understand what it does?

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It doesn't get the music from Spotify via bypassing some safeguards. It searches the music on YouTube and streams its audio.

It fuses two free services together.

Edit: I pay for premium, too.

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