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FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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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?

Why yes, I do apply the same purity test in every aspect of my life. Your analogy is intellectually dishonest and uninspired.

Are you not extremely limited then?

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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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?

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 explanation from their side.

The Apple TV app also does not work properly, requiring to re-login often and can‘t be controlled properly by iPhone.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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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/

> Spotify for Linux is a labor of love from our engineers that wanted to listen to Spotify on their Linux development machines. They work on it in their spare time and it is currently not a platform that we actively support

So for all we know they could drop support if an employee or two leave the company.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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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?

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.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ There's a bit of difference between "my grocery store sells seaweed snacks and I don't like them" and "this company gave $100M to someone problematic".

> "someone problematic" hahahaha this BS again. God forbid someone has an opinion different from you or, even more indirectly, hosts someone with an opinion different from you.

God forbid someone has an opinion different from you

Spotify hosting Joe Rogan is free speech. People choosing NOT to support spotify is ALSO free speech.

God forbid we have a single standard.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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

Except that there is nothing wrong with Joe Rogan. Not liking someone (or one of their guests) is a really terrible and irrational reason to not use an entire platform.

Feeling that a platform invests in or promotes dangerous or harmful content is a totally valid reason to want to use that platform less, or to stop giving them money. Really super strange that you don’t immediately see that.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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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…

Same here. I'm canceling my Spotify subscription right now and am moving to iTunes (back again). Spotify doesn't seem to support the newly announced home pods as well, which was another reason to quit my subscription, but mainly the somewhat enforced lock in from Spotify concerned me as well.

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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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?)

Re: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify

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Any github repositories and code which provide Spotify playlist->txt/csv/json/xml ?

ANSWER to myself: Seems there is at least a simple drag&drop solution with the select all on desktop app -> LibreOffice https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-export-my-Spotify-playlist-as...

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