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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 gnfargbl »

bayindirh wrote: post #7
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.

YouTube pays less per stream to the rights holders than Spotify, however.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by bitcharmer »

bayindirh wrote: post #7
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.

If it streams from YouTube then it's not really a Spotify client, is it?

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by bayindirh »

gnfargbl wrote: post #11
bayindirh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

YouTube pays less per stream to the rights holders than Spotify, however.

I don't know the numbers. What I was trying to point out that there's no nefariousness going on.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by bayindirh »

bitcharmer wrote: post #12
bayindirh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If it streams from YouTube then it's not really a Spotify client, is it?

It's aptly named SpoTube, to be frank.

It describes itself as follows:

An open source, cross-platform Spotify client compatible across multiple platforms utilizing Spotify's data API and YouTube (or Piped.video or JioSaavn) as an audio source, eliminating the need for Spotify Premium

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by vdaea »

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…

People here all day defending p2p piracy but when you are taking the bandwidth from a multibillion, multinational corporation then you're the devil himself :'( :'( :'( :'(

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by iamsaitam »

"It is still recommended to support the creators by watching/liking/subscribing to the artists' YouTube channels or liking their tracks on Spotify (or purchasing a Spotify Premium subscription too)."

I hope musicians can pay bills with likes, since ponying up €10.99 is a huge ask.

PS: not that many musicians are able to pay bills with their spotify checks, but that's not the point.

Re: Spotube: Open-source Spotify-Youtube client

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Post by svantana »

bayindirh wrote: post #7
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.

A very large fraction of music on youtube is also monetized by ads (for free users).
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