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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by butter@midwest.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Spotify wants me to have a card from said county. I read that you can use PayPal, but they want a phone number from that country.

Any advice?

Edit: I'm aware that there are a lot of solutions to get it for free. I'm aware that I can just download my music.

Currently, I'm running running navidrome for my downloaded music and x manager Spotify for myself.

My wife has an iPhone. I don't want to download her music. But she's paying full price for Spotify.

I also like to listen from my work desktop. I have administrative rights, but it would be really dumb to download something like this to my work machine.

In several countries, I can get Spotify for like $30 dollars a year for 2 people. This price would be worth moving to legal. Especially for her, since she's paying $11 right now

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[-] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 76 points 9 months ago

Have you considered not Spotify?

[-] Anamana@feddit.de 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Or just use the cracked versions if you have android

[-] butter@midwest.social 17 points 9 months ago

This is what I do. But my wife has an iPhone, and can't.

I also want it on desktop

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I also want it on desktop

Spotify without a paid subscription on FF desktop with uBlock Origin is pretty good. It will start playing random music after a while, but it's not enough to bother me. Just refresh and you can go back to listening to your music.

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

https://github.com/SpotCompiled/SpotC-Plus-Plus, preferably with SideStore
On desktop I just use my private hoard of music with Foobar2000

[-] Ozy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

BlockTheSpot for desktop

[-] Amazed@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

You can either spoof your location and payment to India for cheap rate, or go to account share Reddit and get on someone’s family plan. Some even do family India, so it’s cheap family, at that. If you don’t have friends that do this already.

Just make sure you double check the user against the thread of scammers.

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[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

How does this help the original question?

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Because Spotify bad duh, this is Lemmy we don't use bad things here.

[-] butter@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago

Lol. Yes.

I download most of my music, but I haven't gotten a new song in like a year and a half, so I want cheap, desktop something for the once in a while listening.

My wife has an iPhone and pays full price, this is also motivation

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 20 points 9 months ago

She can sell the iphone and get an android with the same specs and pay for spotify for a year and have dinner somewhere /s

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Just use the free plan but download whatever you plan on listening to using any of the countless tools to do exactly that.

[-] mister_monster@monero.town 28 points 9 months ago

Subscription lol is someone going to tell him?

[-] butter@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

I want to listen at work, and paying $20 a year is worth not having to get something potentially malicious

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago

Plex is malicious to you?

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[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Look up: GitHub -> SpotX-Official/SpotX

That's my secret 😉

[-] Hate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

any benefits of this over Spicetify? does SpotX also support theming?

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

No idea, that's just what I use. .

[-] Gazumi@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

If you're on Android, try InnerTune via FDroid. No subscription required, easy to find music. It has reasonable recommendations for music, but not the same standards as Spotify. If you buy a DAP and microSD card, or a mobile phone that takesmicrSD cards. After that, just download any and all music you like and play anytime, anywhere without neededing a data connection.

[-] Sharp312@lemmy.one 3 points 9 months ago

You sir, are a legend. Never heard of InnerTune before but im playing around with it right now. I could see myself using this more than my local library. Thank you for sharing

[-] Gazumi@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks really to the chap who similarly brought it to my attention. I use it in the car and at work.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

Use Spotube. It's free and basically like premium Spotify.

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 2 points 9 months ago

I am currently using Spotify + Spicetify with Marketplace.

I'm gonna try this out. Seems like a cleaner approach.

[-] temmink@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

What do you want to know? That you can use a VPN to fake your location to get a different price for a subscription? Or which county is currently the best (India has decent prices)? How to get the gift cards that you redeem in the account (Amazon, eneba, ...)?

[-] butter@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

Is a gift card the way to do it?

I thought I'd be doing a subscription.

So how do I get the gift cards?

[-] temmink@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

I think Spotify blocks the usage of foreign credit cards (ie, non-Indian Credit cards). A way to circumvent this is by using gift cards. You can buy them from Amazon using the same credentials as your local Amazon account. Then it's easiest to gift them to yourself, eg, this: https://www.amazon.in/Spotify-Premium-Standard-3Month-Card/dp/B09Z6ZDKZ6

There is a limit on how many vouchers you can redeem per day (I think it's four per 24 hours) but just redeem the remaining cards the next day.

To redeem the gift cards in your account you'll have to login using an Indian VPN and then change your location. Once your location is changed, deactivate the VPN again. Then redeem the vouchers (6 3-months vouchers would give you 12 months of duo and 10 months of family). After reaching the daily limit wait 24 hours and redeem the remaining vouchers.

Once all vouchers are redeemed you can switch back to your location.

[-] butter@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

You're the best. Only one to actually answer my question.

I'll be doing this tonight. Thank you so much

[-] KpochMX@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

no one actually answer

Create a new email using a VPN (exit lag works too) buy a giftcard or prepaid foreing visa rechargable card for that country but Giftcard is the way Create an spotify account and paid premium using that.

i did this long time with YT (india) Spotify canada (got a good deal) and Crunchy roll Turkey

[-] kbal@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 9 months ago

Now that you mention it, my policy from now on is to avoid any Internet service that tries to charge different prices depending on what country it thinks you're in.

[-] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

I mean, you're in the right place then my friend, because you're not going to subscribe to much of anything that has an international presence.

It kinda sucks when you're in one of the 'high price' countries, but there's lot of countries who wouldn't have it at all if they had to pay our prices.

[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago

lol imagine thinking regional pricing is a bad thing. Man, I wish I could be as privileged as you so I could shit on poor people for being born somewhere not as rich.

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[-] dez@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I dont know if is allowed share piracy, but search for something like x manager app on duckduckgo / google

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

My friend, we are in a piracy community what else would we do here if it is not... Share knowledge.

[-] butter@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, this is my current solution. I was hoping I could do cheap enough to just get legal

[-] dez@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago

Don't get me wrong, and I even think I shouldn't get involved on this, but it's a bit of a waste to pay for Spotify. imo, it's a company that doesn't deserve our money, since they dont care about musicians art and pay very poorly to them. If you want something to listen offline, I recommend Tidal. In the x manager app you have this option with a modified version

[-] StellarTabi@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

IDK why'd you even bother with legal, it's easy enough to rip mp3s out of any youtube video.

these are in my ~/.zshrc:

# download any video as mp3
# if video is chaptered, split each chapter into separate song files
alias yt-mp3='yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --split-chapters --no-check-certificate'
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