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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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Why are they even charging you for lyrics to begin with? It's not like they write them. It costs nothing to give you that feature for free.
Kind of like the YouTube app requiring a subscription for background playing. It's a basic function that does not cost them anything, yet they break it to sell it back to you.
Stripping extremely basic features away and locking them behind paywalls is shitty and should be called out as such, full stop.
Because they need to pay their supplier of synced (and non-synced) lyrics, Musixmatch.
And they obviously want to make money and free users don't make them much if any profit.
I highly doubt that. Lyrics are copyrighted like anything else, so record labels are going to charge for it.
That's an artificial limitation, as evidenced by NewPipe, Grayjay, and multiple others offering the same exact thing without a premium tier.