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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 29 minutes ago

wow the music app finally lets users select music! I'm sad that this is actually something to look forward to.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 3 points 53 minutes ago
[–] yamamoon@lemmings.world 4 points 57 minutes ago

I'm glad I avoided the spotify bug ever since I saw it.

That's why I originally went Google music. I thought Spotify was garbage and didn't have that shit I wanted, still true today 🤣

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Easier to let users play music for free when you don't pay the artists I guess

[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

None of you were. Y'all were stealing it for years.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Lol, I'm a vinyl nerd, I've probably given more money to the music industry than to anything else except food

[–] rayf@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is this the onion? They add the basic feature of a media player where you can listen the title you clicked and not random stuff? If I understood correctly, this is not a feature, it's just a restriction being removed

[–] Australis13@fedia.io 5 points 2 hours ago

The mobile application has always had this restriction for free users (as far as I know), but the desktop application has not.

[–] waldo_was_here@piefed.social 28 points 4 hours ago (4 children)
[–] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

YouTube, but yes it's insanely popular and an excellent value.

[–] dan@upvote.au 25 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] waldo_was_here@piefed.social 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sailing the high seas ,is the way ,yep

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

K. Still waiting on the lossless that supposedly dropped

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Keep waiting then lol

[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Or you've been using spotube and been doing this all along

[–] xianjam@programming.dev 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Spotube doesn't actually use the Spotify API. They used to use the Spotify API for their music database, but they stopped when they received a cease and desist.

[–] kiwifruit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

They've updated the app and you can again! You just need to select an external metadata provider. If you use Sonic Liberation, you can log into spotify again just like before. https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/downloads/

https://github.com/sonic-liberation/spotube-plugin-spotify

[–] xianjam@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

Oh my, things have changed fast. I wasn't aware there were other metadata providers. There I go spreading misinformation again.