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Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by piva00 on Monday February 19, 2024 @05:36AM (#39428148)
> The one major gripe is not being able to upload my own songs, I love listening to remixes and covers, youtube, spotify or tiktok has plenty of songs I’d love in my library. But it’s a nightmare for a business model that respects artists and a cost structure that needs to be covered. Again, no real good alternatives that do this well + have a normal library + be legal.

But you can, if you have the audio files you can use them as local files [1] in your Spotify library.

[1] https://support.spotify.com/us/article/local-files/

Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by boxed on Monday February 19, 2024 @05:58AM (#39428365)
Local files in Spotify is extremely iffy. It has forgot them many times for me.

The worst is on iOS where you have to be on the same wifi and wait randomly. And sometimes without warning the files just go away. This is unacceptable. People need to play music for dance, yoga, exercise classes for their job. You can't just randomly throw away the files to have them discover this when the class starts.

Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by KaushikR2 on Monday February 19, 2024 @10:49AM (#39431049)
I wonder if it would be possible to setup a folder on a remote server, and use that as the directory for local files. Wonder if Spotify would play nice with that.
Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription by boxed on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @01:15PM (#39457363)
It doesn't play well with the Files system on iOS afaik..