I mean fair enough, i use this version of Spotify and don’t pay them a single cent: https://bestforandroid.com/apk/spotify-premium-mod-apk/

But if I was a paying customer i would be pretty pissed opening Spotify the first time on my 3 week travels and seeing this crap :⁠-⁠O Funnily there isn’t even an option to change the location as suggested. Neither in the modded app nor on spotify.com on FF mobile.

  • @muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world
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    I love all the people here on the piracy community who are paying users of spotify. Almost like piracy isnt an issue if the alternative is more convenient. Funny that huh.

    • @gaifux@lemmy.world
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      Funny enough I just ditched Spotify premium since their apps for every platform I use are far and away the buggiest apps I’d been using regularly, including open source apps. I started using InnerTune instead to get free unlimited streaming on mobile and the funniest thing is, the app works better than Spotify. Bigger library too since it pulls music from YT. Quality probably suffers but IDK, willing to make that trade for no subscription fee

    • LoudWaterHombre
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      Its insane to promote paying services over pirating like this in a piracy forum. Kids what went wrong? Why are you like this?

      • EtzBetz
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        If the services are fulfilling the needs that the customers have, no piracy is needed. There are some issues, like this, but for the most part, Spotify is quite good currently.

        • LoudWaterHombre
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          This is your own moral and ethical understanding of piracy, but this is a forum that centers around piracy. It makes sense to start a discussion about views and what not, but it doesn’t make sense to promote paid services over piracy in that way.

      • @howrar@lemmy.ca
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        Just like how a community centered around recreational drugs is going to recommend against taking drugs if it puts your life in danger, or a python community telling you to learn C if you want to do embedded programming, or a hammer community telling you to use a screwdriver on a screw.

        • LoudWaterHombre
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          You can see yourself that those examples don’t align very well with streaming music right?

          • @howrar@lemmy.ca
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            Why don’t they? You’re saying that a piracy forum has no place for discussing anything that isn’t promoting piracy. I’m telling you that it does, because the topic of piracy includes the topic of when one should or should not pirate.

      • @danafest@lemm.ee
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        OP clearly states in the post they are using a modified APK to get premium access without paying

  • @just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    Use a different client, or the web player then. This is a settings issue and attempt of them to combat IP switches and account sharing. You’re not a paying customer, and I’ve not had this issue on a paid account before.

    Honestly, Spotify kinda sucks anyway. Use something else.

    • @ToxicWaste@lemm.eeOP
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      Agreed that Spotify kinda sucks. That is why i am using it the first time towards the end of a 3W trip :-D

      With the modded apk and a 10min mail account it is worth the storage on my phone.

  • @LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works
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    Others have mentioned other clients, but I’m going to suggest a different, less convenient route. Would you still have that problem if you routed your phone’s traffic through an exit node in your home network?

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    Nope. This was the reason I gave up on premium; my means of payment was registered in my old country and I wasn’t allowed to change it.

  • @wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk
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    I’ve never had this come up and travel abroad a fair bit. Though now that I think about it I always use it through a VPN set to my home country lol

  • @helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
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    Spytify

    It records Spotify music real time, at the highest available bit rate (as long as you set it). Uses Spotify API to pull track metadata and album art. Its smart enough to not records ads and auto deletes tracks under 30 seconds (I think you can change the time)

    It’s slower than YouTube DL, but having all the metadata sorted out for you is a big plus.

    Its probably about 98% error free, sometimes a second of a song ending gets put on the next track. A quick cut/paste in Audacity and it’s fixed.

    It works best if you have a separate audio device, otherwise other computer sound gets recorded too. I’m not going to do a full tutorial (unless someone asks), but basically you set the audio for Spotify on audio device #2, and continue as normal on audio device #1. It has a loopback feature too, so if you want to listen/record the same time you can.

  • @Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Pirated product doesn’t work exactly as paid product

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    What was the point of this post? 🙄

    Don’t get me wrong. I don’t mind piracy and fuck Spotify, but come on…

  • @Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works
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    Only supports the apartment you’re registered in, and only if you gave all the permissions to the goverment app, and stored your biometrics and agreed to everything just to be first in the line for the chip implant

  • @bblfrnz@beehaw.org
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    That’s how Spotify has been working for years. Spotify doesn’t work officially in my current whereabouts, so, in order to use it I just registered an account via vpn and now I just need to log in into spotify using vpn once in two weeks. It has been working this way a few years for me already.

  • @rinze@infosec.pub
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    I created my account in Spain around 2009, moved to Canada in 2014 and came back to Spain late last year. Never had a problem with this :-?