The ads urge listeners to “join the mission to protect America” by becoming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, but users of the music streaming giant have taken to social media and Spotify’s website to complain, and announce their withdrawal from the audio platform.

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[–] 39 points 1 year ago* (14 children)

I only use Spotify to get song/album URLs (web client search w/o login), which I then pass to spotdl to download them off YouTube. Now I have all the music I could ever want, offline and without ads.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How much storage space do you need for your entire downloaded music library, that's the only concern I have about downloading music

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  • Very much depends. I host the digital music collection for my entire family (6 people) all with very different tastes in music and very large music collections. According to Jellystat, I'm hosting roughly 52,000 tracks taking up just shy of 2 TB. I used to keep track of how many albums I had but I've long since lost track.

    On average, a CD ripped to FLAC seems to run around 300MB. MP3 or OGG would generally be smaller (but with quality loss), dependent on the bitrate, call it 50MB - 200MB.

    In short, a person hosting a normal sized personal music collection is unlikely to run into space issues.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Followup -- do you know if I should use my VPN when doing this? I have been doing that for torrents for a while, but I wasn't sure if Spotify, YouTube, or anyone else will reach out with cease and desists like has happened to me with torrents in the past

    Also now I'm wondering if the URLs on Spotify identify me if I'm logged in (I have a bunch of music saved in playlists and libraries but I cancelled my subscription so it's in free mode)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    but I wasn’t sure if Spotify, YouTube, or anyone else will reach out with cease and desists like has happened to me with torrents in the past

    Right now Google is more focused on breaking the library that powers downloading from YouTube (yt-dlp). They haven't succeeded yet, but that's definitely an easier path for them than prosecuting piracy.

    I doubt Spotify will try to punish you for this since the content isn't actually being stolen from them directly.

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