Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall - Hackdot

Re:Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall by cj on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:55PM (#40240092)

Services like Spotify will probably be around forever unless there’s easy ways to migrate playlists and “loved/liked” songs between platforms.

1st world problems, but I’m paying for Apple Music since my running playlists are on there (Spotify didn’t support offline on Apple Watch at the time) and most of my other playlists are on Spotify. I’ll probably pay for both forever for lack of time to consolidate.

Same with streaming services, sadly.

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Re:Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall by ldayley on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:58PM (#40240142)

There are web/mobile apps that can handle the playlist/“liked” songs migrations, but I don’t think they’re widely known.

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Re:Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall by bravetraveler on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:07PM (#40240240)

I forget the service now, and I'm reluctant to advertise anyway, but it's fairly common for third parties to glue the APIs together. Deezer directly partnered with one of these services, but I found them independently beforehand

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Re:Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall by swyx on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:59PM (#40240143)

playlists age. you'll be surprised how easy it is to build those things back up again on youtube. spotify's "moat" isnt as big as it thinks it is and i hope they get a sharp wakeup call.

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Re:Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall by sedatk on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:04PM (#40240204)

There are free online tools for migration.

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Re:Spotify moves lyrics behind a paywall by piva00 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @03:16PM (#40240320)

There are many services that allow migrating between music streaming services.

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