While I agree that this is stupid, why would a deaf person be using Spotify in the first place?

If it were a paid account yeah, it'd be extremely shitty. But seeing as it's a free account, it's their prerogative to try and get people to pay for the service. Besides, I don't get this entitlement that spotify has to provide music for free. They're a (admittedly greedy) middle-man that wants to get paid. If one wants free music and everything, well, time to self-host.

Wow, that's hot trash. Imagine subtitles on movies and TV being stuck behind a paywall.

I guess deaf people aren't allowed to enjoy music like the rest of y'all.

I'm so sorry but this is the absolute funniest shit I have ever read. 😂

I might get a bit of hate for this considering the community name, but Spotify is the one subscription I pay for and don’t feel like I’m getting ripped off. Basically every song I want is on there, they very rarely remove content, and the algorithm actually comes up with decent recommendations. I even like some of the other random features like Spotify wrapped.

But the main difference I see vs other subscriptions is that I don’t feel locked in, since there are no Spotify originals etc if they ever make the service too shit (which admittedly they might since they keep raising the price and trying to shove podcasts down everyone’s throat) I could easily switch to a different streaming service or even go back to just buying music outright

If you want Spotify for free and lyrics for free, just Google the lyrics...

wait why should deaf people enjoy music? And not through vibrations but LYRICS?!?!

This one is actually out of their hands. Lyrics aren't free sadly and they have to pay for API calls. It's fucking stupid but the labels are the ones at fault here.

Fuck Spotify nonetheless.

I'm a bit confused. Do deaf people listen to music? Lyrics are generally freely available via Google.

Edit: see reply for a good explanation.

Agreed.

I spent the last month converting all of my Spotify likes to MP3 files and ended my subscription in Mid-June.

Their greedy, shrinkflating, enshittifying asshole CEO can go fuck himself.

why the FUCK does anyone still use spotify, it's a fucking joke. Unusable without paying for it.

Lemme just slide this in here... Zotify

(Lyrics are hit or miss.)

I know Lemmy hates Apple, but if you want a Spotify alternative with good accessibility, then this is pretty cool:

https://www.apple.com/au/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/

Music Haptics is a new way for users who are deaf or hard of hearing to experience music on iPhone. With this accessibility feature turned on, the Taptic Engine in iPhone plays taps, textures and refined vibrations to the audio of the music. Music Haptics works across millions of songs in the Apple Music catalogue, and will be available as an API for developers to make music more accessible in their apps.

damn thats crazy, i'm out here with my 300GB collection of music that i own and control and i can just, add lyrics to shit if i want to.

I don't because i'm not deaf and i don't really care for lyrics all that much, but it's also just, automated.

I'm so confused by people under this post defending a company's scheme to make more money that disproportionately affects disabled people.

I killed my Spotify account when they started shoveling millions of dollars at Joe Rogan, and everything they've done since then only confirms I made the right call.

You can look up lyrics on Google for free, or what?

Search for something called “Spicetify” and make sure to install the marketplace as well for more addons.

I didn't even know they did that, Glad I don't have an account with them. I'm partially deaf, most music I can't understand what someone singing. Those fun things people do of like "most common misheard lyrics" is basically my life. On the plus side I enjoy music from around the world because unintelligible music is unintelligible no matter where it's from. They're very few artists I feel like I can understand, and realistically I'm probably wrong.

In real life, I read lips to help augment my terrible hearing. Fun fact during the mask man dates during COVID, was probably the worst time for me. A lot of people I could hear talking as I could hear noise but I could not make out what it was. Leading to a lot of awkward conversations.

Anyhoo, that's all to say that for music that I do like I do have to see the lyrics. It's what converts the noise into words.

So, fuck you Spotify, My life's difficult enough already, I'm not paying your shitty service so you can charge me for my impairment.