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Spotify quietly moves lyrics behind a paywall.
(techcrunch.com)
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this post was submitted on 03 May 2024
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Go with YouTube music. If you can't find what you want, upload it yourself to YouTube under the Music category. I've done this with my own music, and preservations of music I love. I can't think of another service that allows this.
They won't hit you for copyright violations if you upload someone else's music?
yea but someone always reuploads pretty quickly. it was funny seeing ATLUS try to squash all the uploads of Persons 3 Reload's soundtrack when that came out. someone had a new playlist uploaded within the day lol. and now it's easily findable.
like I mentioned in another comment tho, if you have the files yourself you can just upload them to yt music directly. no need to upload to YouTube and worry about takedowns.
So... it's a commercial service... relying on people doing piracy?
that's such an immediately cynical take on it. at the time, there was no other way to listen to the p3r soundtrack. ATLUS has now put it on digital streaming platforms, including yt music, so I don't have to do that anymore.
how is it a bad thing to allow users to upload their own files? there's plenty of stuff you're not going to find on any digital streaming service. old mixtapes, Nintendo soundtracks, etc.
It's not their own files though. Believe me, I'm not really against piracy, but that clearly IS piracy. There's nothing cynical about it.
oh yea 100%. I'm not going to argue it's not piracy to upload soundtracks you don't own to YouTube.
I think there's still plenty legal cases for allowing uploading of user files (not to YouTube, to your private yt music library). ie uploading bought albums from bandcamp.
you can just upload music to YouTube music directly tho? like old Google Play music. you don't need to do this workaround of uploading a YouTube video of the track, just drag-and-drop your files to the YouTube music site.
Would those files be published, or kept private?
kept private. they're just in my yt music library with the rest of my music. it's not uploaded as a YouTube video anyone can access.