How are you people faking location to get a better price for subscriptions?
How are you people faking location to get a better price for subscriptions?
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
Have you considered not Spotify?
How does this help the original question?
Because Spotify bad duh, this is Lemmy we don't use bad things here.
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
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
Just use the free plan but download whatever you plan on listening to using any of the countless tools to do exactly that.
Subscription lol is someone going to tell him?
I want to listen at work, and paying $20 a year is worth not having to get something potentially malicious
Plex is malicious to you?
X-Manager for Android works well.
VPS running wireguard server with hardened kernel and fail2ban and an optional GeoIP blocker/full-fledged WAF. SELinux is optional.
Connect both your mobile/portable device and a segment of your home network to the same interface if you're using Wireguard, but there are ways to do it with SSL VPNs too, I'm sure. You can now stream all of your media, self-hosted, no restrictions other than outgoing bandwidth costs on the VPS.
It'll take a weekend but this is not too hard TBH. Use IaC for even faster deployments.
Look up: GitHub -> SpotX-Official/SpotX
That's my secret 😉
any benefits of this over Spicetify? does SpotX also support theming?
No idea, that's just what I use. .
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.
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
Thanks really to the chap who similarly brought it to my attention. I use it in the car and at work.
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, ...)?
How to get the gift cards in rupees?
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?
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.
Use Spotube. It's free and basically like premium Spotify.
I am currently using Spotify + Spicetify with Marketplace.
I'm gonna try this out. Seems like a cleaner approach.
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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
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.
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.
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.
It's just another form of price discrimination, a crude attempt to extract maximum value from everyone according to their demographics. If they could charge a different price based on the size of your bank account they'd do that as well and it would be to my advantage. It makes a mockery of the idea that market price reflects the value of anything, and therefore of capitalism itself.
I dont know if is allowed share piracy, but search for something like x manager app on duckduckgo / google
My friend, we are in a piracy community what else would we do here if it is not... Share knowledge.
Yeah, this is my current solution. I was hoping I could do cheap enough to just get legal
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
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'
Purchase a $200 DAP + $25 SD card and some IEMs and carry all of your music offline
Fun story. I never really considered myself an audiophile. At first, I downloaded every song I had as an mp3 or YouTube rip.
Then I ran out of storage space and built a music server.
Then I discovered deemix. At the time completely free
I know deemix wouldn't last. I redownloaded every song I had as flac, knowing I can't Begin to take advantage of it. Storage is cheap and I have unlimited data.
So a dap is in my future. Probably in my car. And after some research
Take a look at Hiby for the less expensive DAPs. You'll find plenty of IEMs to run off of it in whichever category of price you're looking in
Spotify is a garbage company that profits from and platforms anti-science and sewing division.
There's many pod casts on Spotify I don't like. I don't attack Spotify. I just don't listen to them.
See also: Joe Rogan