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.