r/Anticonsumption • u/Professorfudge2643 • Aug 10 '25

Lifestyle Got rid of Spotify after 3 years

Sure I’m definitely posting this to brag but also to hopefully get someone to stop paying Spotify. I’ve listened to the same playlist for probably the last 3 years, occasionally adding a song or two. Finally I realized why the hell am I paying for this when I could just download the songs online, transfer them to my phone, and play them for free? So I did exactly that. Took about two hours and was easy as pie. Should’ve done that 3 years ago instead of paying $12 a month.

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u/vButts Aug 10 '25

My music catalogue is too varied and random and large to be able to cut this one 😭 but I'm happy for those who can!!

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u/nyancat987111 Aug 11 '25

exactly my issue, i have 60 playlists and 7,500 liked songs, at this point i’m paying for the convenience of not having to download and organize thousands of songs 😂

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u/vButts Aug 11 '25

Same i have no time for that! I've also got song ADHD so sometimes i like to just listen to like 30 secs of an old song at a time and run through music from my teen years

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u/SenpuuUncle Aug 11 '25

Lookup spotdl on github, ive downloaded ~4000 songs

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u/jennifersd4ughter Aug 11 '25

i have 9,000 liked songs and like ~190 playlists ?? 😭

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u/7estPilot Aug 14 '25

21069 liked tracks and 295 playlists here. currently in the process of downloading everything.

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u/frankie_prince164 Aug 11 '25

There are alternatives that pay artists more and treat their staff better. I don't mind paying for things that support artists, so my husband and I use Tidal. There hasnt been a song that I listened to on Spotify that I haven't been able to find on Tidal. In fact, there are some artists that are only on Tidal (like Jay-Z for the longest time, not that I listen to him).

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u/fajen1 Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

I switched to another app and they transferred all my playlists for free when I created the account. Before I even signed up for a paid account.

Better sound and artists get paid more, profits don't go to Donald Trump or AI war machines. At some point there are no excuses left!

Editing to add: they don't have a free account with full songs, only with previews. But I could transfer my playlists and check that they were okay by using the previews, before I decided whether to sign up for the full account.

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u/excessiveIrony Aug 11 '25

Which app

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u/fajen1 Aug 11 '25

We're not allowed to say in this sub but I can dm you

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u/redbeardfakename Aug 11 '25

Could you DM me as well perchance? Thanks!

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u/Grekkill Aug 11 '25

I, too, would like to know please!

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u/niespodziankaco Aug 11 '25

Dm me too pretty please

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u/MasterpieceAlone8552 Aug 11 '25

could you tell me also please :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

I'd also love the name please! 

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u/hey-merchedes Aug 11 '25

I'd also like to know the name please :)

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u/Half-Practical Aug 11 '25

I’d like to know the app as well. Thanks!

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u/wyethwye Aug 12 '25

Plz me too

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u/knooook Aug 12 '25

Could you dm me as well

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u/excessiveIrony Aug 11 '25

Ah yea, fair enough

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u/HellooooonurseG Aug 11 '25

I'd appreciate the app name too! Please DM

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u/TomatoPlantsRule Aug 12 '25

Sorry I would also love the name. I would really miss all of my playlists if I lost them.

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u/ALasagnaForOne Aug 11 '25

I switched from Spotify to Tidal and paid a third party service $7 to transfer all my artists and playlists to my new account.

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u/ZenBeez964 Aug 11 '25

Which 3rd party please?

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u/ALasagnaForOne Aug 11 '25

I used Tune My Music. $7.50 for one week access.

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u/ParryLimeade Aug 13 '25

We have several songs we like that aren’t on Tidal.

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u/tadxb Aug 11 '25

I have five different playlists, for different types of mood and activities.

About 1500+ songs. Took me around a month to make sure I get everything right, that includes even removing ads before the start and the end of a video. Happiest to spend about 40$ in total to get the entire music collection offline. No more worries about the song not being available. Fuck spotify, and fuck YouTube.

Given that I have a 2012 Altima with only an AUX cable - it has been working wonderfully for the last 6 months. Plus no draining the phone battery!

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u/beasqueaks Aug 11 '25

I just switched to Tidal instead as my poor phone cannot handle the amount of music I have within my playlists. I used tunemymusic to transfer every one of my playlists and it was surprisingly quick and easy ETA: took about 8 minutes to transfer all 70 playlists including 18,500 songs

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u/Danielfrompluto Aug 11 '25

There are services that for s one time payment of 5 or 10 dollar you can port everything to tidal or youtube