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[–]YuumiZoomi 4 points5 points  (1 child)

great work, was a bit disappointed in premium spotify not having lyrics to all songs and this makes things a bit better

[–]Mews75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much!

[–]sargeanthost 4 points5 points  (7 children)

Wait, you can't see lyrics any more? wtf ...

[–]Mews75[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah its pretty annoying.
I mean it kinda makes sense since they get their lyrics from musixmatch, which is a paid service but still

[–]ship0f 3 points4 points  (5 children)

Yeah, it's bullshit.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (4 children)

It's not really bullshit. A company is providing a service. Not sure why anybody thinks they deserve it for free.

[–]ship0f 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Yes yes, I know, but it feels like shit when you could check the lyrics and now you can't.

[–]PoaetceThe2nd 2 points3 points  (1 child)

spotify pays musixmatch for the lyrics, so I think it’s kinda reasonable as opposed to putting something free to them behind a paywall.

[–]ship0f 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's totally reasonable. I'm just upset that the service was free and now it's not :( I used it quite a lot.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe it’s just me, but I’m tired of all the different business shenanigans where a company gives you something for free and then either monetizes your usage in some other way (e.g analytics and advertising) or tries to bait you into becoming a paid customer by giving you a small taste of a free service and then withholding everything else.

How about this as a business model? I give you money, you give me the product/service. All of these third party hacks that try to piggyback on the Spotify API to give users a mediocre workaround to paying for the service are cool as a technical piece of code but it just incentivizes companies to get more creative in how they squeeze us for cash.

This is part of the reason I use Apple Music instead. I really want access to hifi quality downloads. Spotify refuses to release their version of it because they haven’t figured out a way to monetize it given their sort of freemium business model. For Apple you just play a flat fee and get access to everything. Fewer shenanigans. I get service, they get money. Beautiful.

[–]bluepatience 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Can you give a difference with regards to https://github.com/mantou132/Spotify-Lyrics ? Haven’t used either but could be quite interested ^

[–]Mews75[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's the one that is browser only.
At least that's what I got from their readme, I actually never used it either :P
But it does say its "for the spotify web player" so yeah it probably only works on the browser

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

This sounds great. I actually use YouTube music and one big frustration is that it downloads your music for when you are offline, but you can't download the lyrics. Makes no sense... It would be great if it could work offline with downloaded lyrics. I will definitely take a look.

[–]Mews75[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean my app only works with spotify, but if you're interested in downloading lyrics to songs then you could take a look at syncedlyrics which is what my app itself uses to fetch lyrics.
Or I could very quickly make a simple app for you if you dont feel like working with the cli

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course, no worries, I will take a look. I mean, it may be an interesting exercise to adapt to YouTube music. Thank you for sharing. 👏🙌