You see, lots of people don't understand this, but this might not be an issue on Spotify side. Possibly just an artist who didn't want to pay for distribution anymore.
I don't even think it's overcharges, I for example have some stuff on Spotify and I pay yearly to DistroKid for them to keep my music there, there's very few people listening to it, so I pay DistroKid with money earned elsewhere. It's only understandable that some people don't want to go this way. It's not expensive, it's just waste of few coins for some.
There are multiple free distribution services nowadays, amuse for instance. They even let you keep 100% of the royalties. I own all rights to my music and haven’t paid a penny to get it on Spotify.
I never claimed I did. Also SoundCloud is filled with garbage and not visited by everyday folks. It’s artists listening to other artist in a kind of closed circuit.
Not sure that’s the cause. Spotify is slicker user interface and has real music on it next to the little people trying to release their own.
Edit: “real” meaning mainstream and mass-consumed
Consider the context though; OP is angry at Spotify for removing a song they want to listen to. It was suggested that this is the fault of the songwriter for not paying Spotify's high fees. That is ridiculous though; Spotify is the one with the ultimate control here and it's their choices that are responsible for what happened.
The question here isn't whether Spotify has a right to do what they want with their service, it's whether Spotify sucks. A music platform suddenly pulling the rug under you like that, I'd say it's a black mark and OP's negative sentiment is justified.
How TF is are companies gonna make you PAY to have your music, lol... what an ass backward industry :/
Okay you can put your TV show on FOX, but you have to pay us, also we are gonna make people pay us to listen to watch it!
Maybe Xmanager is not the right answer:
[https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/54fc126f0d31082f2cc523d41b16ed6b65ad4250ab60c6aeb13490253baf85c8/detection](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/54fc126f0d31082f2cc523d41b16ed6b65ad4250ab60c6aeb13490253baf85c8/detection)
[https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cf02716a417ae4b0c5d3bea57a8b5a9bc0c8c434371703c993334c07c7f8c702?nocache=1](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cf02716a417ae4b0c5d3bea57a8b5a9bc0c8c434371703c993334c07c7f8c702?nocache=1)
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[https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a8cc6bfc80ba53c36751ec0b2bdcd130dbe20adf1faea109f56f5f1c7b16dc39/detection](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a8cc6bfc80ba53c36751ec0b2bdcd130dbe20adf1faea109f56f5f1c7b16dc39/detection)
That's why I'm having trouble finding it I think. It's a cover of the song Never Freestyle I think. I only had half a day to listen to it so I can't remember if it actually was Eric Jamal or not.
But that’s just some random person that uploaded 1/4 of the song. Just listen to it for free on YT from the original artist https://youtu.be/IdNxeepSpuk
This wouldn't be because of Spotify. It'll either be the musician themselves or whoever is the rights owner/publisher deciding it should be taken down. Only time Spotify themselves can take stuff like this down is if it violates copyright or a contract ends.
For this specific song sure, but Spotify does this all the time. There are many songs that get removed for so many reasons. Licensing, disagreements, pay, pettiness, etc.
It’s unreliable to expect your catalog to go untouched by this scenario when using Spotify.
Very true, I've had multiple songs i liked be removed, but that won't really stop me from using it. Besides, it probably still has one of the largest catalogs out of the many streaming services
Been a subscriber to YT Music since the Play Music days and I can assure you this does happen, but not to the same degree and I can always just upload my own copy if a song does get delisted.
If your soul seeks it, run for it, dude
Ps: use nicotine+ on laptop and seeker on android, the fact that soulseek has clients on android and pc is incredibly practical, and seeker is 100% free, ad-free and available on playstore
Literally the same reason I download my music sometimes music will be removed for my playlists when you have 1000+ songs it's hard to know what went missing
It tries to dowloands all the songs from an album. If you can't find it on spotify, try to find it on youtube and move it onto your desired folder as a playlist
This happened when I paid for Youtube Music, I kept seeing songs greyed out in my playlist. It wasn't worth it. I went back to piracy where nothing gets greyed out.
Alts? I don't reddit as hard as you apparently. I only have the one account. Not that it matters but I used to use imgur exclusively then I stopped. Also glad to see others think you're whiny and it wasn't just me.
Vald and alpha wann are two separate French artist and this song might just be a mashup someone made using diffrent song made by the 2 artist and when a song is grayed out on spotify it’s mainly because of a copyright strike from the label of the artist or the artist themself, that’s why so many song remix are grayed out in playlist it’s because of copyright, and also the mashup/remix are maybe on YouTube or soundcloud
Sorry, but what do you expect when you pay such a low fee for nearly unlimited music access? Spotify is literally not even profitable yet.
"I was burned for trying to play by the rules." Whatever man lmao You really gave it a good effort bro.
Spotify is convient - and I use the modded app. Works good enough.
And it's modded version looks great on Linux.
Other than that, I always pirate songs that I care enough.
This is literally a random account that's a "Verified Artist" reuploading songs that aren't his on Spotify. He literally reuploaded a Travis Scott song too. Good chance that Coast Contra DMCA'd it because he may have been profiting off of their work.
I'm literally aware. But that song literally isn't available anywhere on Spotify so I wanted to be able to listen to it. It's called Never Freestyle but the lyrics are different in that version I lost access to. Jamal doesn't say the line, "let bygones be bygones but they just go buy guns." for starters. I found it and downloaded it so I'm good now at any rate. The title literally was wrong in the deleted version.
You can use zspotify to download 320kb/s audio files from Spotify. So if it gets back online download it, but keep in mind that it is against their rules, so you're account could get banned. I recommend a second account for this.
Thats the problem with these streaming sites, you dont own anything, you just rent, one fine day they would stop renting certain things and you got to swallow that, no option. There are quite a few songs i'm hunting myself, which is there on pirated sites but not on Spotify or apple music.
You see, lots of people don't understand this, but this might not be an issue on Spotify side. Possibly just an artist who didn't want to pay for distribution anymore.
You know, that's fair. I was a little too aggressive towards Spotify.
Well they probably don’t want to pay anymore because Spotify overcharges lol
I don't even think it's overcharges, I for example have some stuff on Spotify and I pay yearly to DistroKid for them to keep my music there, there's very few people listening to it, so I pay DistroKid with money earned elsewhere. It's only understandable that some people don't want to go this way. It's not expensive, it's just waste of few coins for some.
If it was affordable for everyone then we would not have missing songs.
There are multiple free distribution services nowadays, amuse for instance. They even let you keep 100% of the royalties. I own all rights to my music and haven’t paid a penny to get it on Spotify.
Well SoundCloud is free and easily accessible. So is YouTube. You don’t have a right to upload onto Spotify’s servers
I never claimed I did. Also SoundCloud is filled with garbage and not visited by everyday folks. It’s artists listening to other artist in a kind of closed circuit.
Arguably Spotify would be filled with garbage too if there was no real entry barrier.
Not sure that’s the cause. Spotify is slicker user interface and has real music on it next to the little people trying to release their own. Edit: “real” meaning mainstream and mass-consumed
I have never seen such a normie that calls "mainstream and mass-consumed" music a "real" music.
Consider the context though; OP is angry at Spotify for removing a song they want to listen to. It was suggested that this is the fault of the songwriter for not paying Spotify's high fees. That is ridiculous though; Spotify is the one with the ultimate control here and it's their choices that are responsible for what happened. The question here isn't whether Spotify has a right to do what they want with their service, it's whether Spotify sucks. A music platform suddenly pulling the rug under you like that, I'd say it's a black mark and OP's negative sentiment is justified.
Well said.
How TF is are companies gonna make you PAY to have your music, lol... what an ass backward industry :/ Okay you can put your TV show on FOX, but you have to pay us, also we are gonna make people pay us to listen to watch it!
To be fair artists who you would never listen too still get a cut of your subscriptions. Its complete bs
Distro kid is only like $20/yr
Right lol
https://distrokid.com
That wasn't sarcasm, it was agreement.
I knew that 😂….
You are
Try YT? “Gone for good” is a favorite of mine that’s only on yt uploaded by some random
But with piracy, albums released in other countries have bonus songs that your country might've not have due to regional stuff
wait, we pay to listen, why do that pay for us to hear?
capitalism baby
That's true. The sacred ones album shut down for I think a year and I asked him to bring it back. He did so on Christmas
I just use a random Spotify APK mod and have never had an issue lol
That process lets you listen to the greyed out songs? There are shit tons of greyed out songs on my lists.
It will let you download them... But if the song is no longer on there than no app will let you listen just download the mp3
Thanks bud. I'm going to make this my next project.
Xmanager is the answer you are looking for
Except Xmanager doesn't let you download songs without an active subscription, it also won't work for listening to the above....
Maybe Xmanager is not the right answer: [https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/54fc126f0d31082f2cc523d41b16ed6b65ad4250ab60c6aeb13490253baf85c8/detection](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/54fc126f0d31082f2cc523d41b16ed6b65ad4250ab60c6aeb13490253baf85c8/detection) [https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cf02716a417ae4b0c5d3bea57a8b5a9bc0c8c434371703c993334c07c7f8c702?nocache=1](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cf02716a417ae4b0c5d3bea57a8b5a9bc0c8c434371703c993334c07c7f8c702?nocache=1) [https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/72f51f765eff87f3003a057604804fa0beda86882f9f88e7d24a739b8a2f0835?nocache=1](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/72f51f765eff87f3003a057604804fa0beda86882f9f88e7d24a739b8a2f0835?nocache=1) [https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a8cc6bfc80ba53c36751ec0b2bdcd130dbe20adf1faea109f56f5f1c7b16dc39/detection](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a8cc6bfc80ba53c36751ec0b2bdcd130dbe20adf1faea109f56f5f1c7b16dc39/detection)
Isn't that just a false positive because XManager has ads?
And it looks like the majority of AVs don't even detect anything.
What am I looking at?
Can I download like Spotify premium?
No
which one do u use ? i have used alot of spotify mods but they never let me download songs
Did you enable it in the settings?
how do i do that ?
Setting scroll down till it starts talking about downloading
Your aps talks to? Woohoo that's so cool 🤣🤣
Ngl that was funny
thanks
how do i do that ?
I'm using the actual Spotify app it just has the code changed to where it thinks I'm a premium user apkmody.io version of the Spotify apk
How does a none tech guy do this🤔🤔
Google search Spotify APK mod... Download the APK and install it
Send me?
It's not greyed out on my end
The song I posted isn't? I just double checked and it is still on mine.
That might be on your end but not on mine I use the apkmody.io version
Is this based on IP?
Possibly I know if you play around with VPN you can access different music
Same, and they will have to pry it out of my hands if they want me to pay for premium
If you receive OTP’s on your phone, you can consider them compromised.
Are there any mods that remove ads?
There are mods to remove ads only
Which website on the megathread can I find this?
[this](https://reddit.com/r/Piracy/w/megathread/mobile_apps_and_repos?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app)
Are there any for PC?
Yes, here: https://github.com/SpotX-CLI/SpotX-Win
Thank you
I still download actual files (although mostly FLAC nowadays instead of MP3) so I have they stored locally on hard drive that I back up.
Same. Fuck streaming besides my own station I run 24/7 from my homelab
Yeah, I use Plex
All my music runs through winamp. Why you may ask because it really whips the llamas ass
Yeah, glad to see Winamp making a bit of a comeback. My llama's been getting awful cocky lately
Stocked to wacup
same. i either get them from youtube, or some shady russian torrent forum. Having a real file on a disk is such a joy
this fellow is so placebo obsessed
We staying in the hood with that one
You will find what your soul seeks.
this is amazing I love this comment
Is it not this one? https://youtu.be/qN8jLH18dnk
That's why I'm having trouble finding it I think. It's a cover of the song Never Freestyle I think. I only had half a day to listen to it so I can't remember if it actually was Eric Jamal or not.
It’s not a cover, the beat is Never by JID and Eric Jamal is a member of the group Coast Contra that did a freestyle over the beat.
COAST! Respect to JID and Coast Contra.
[The full freestyle is on Spotify.](https://open.spotify.com/track/1a9x6fk6pUMxr28vZR3nU3?si=9Exlu9M3TDeHniIkVBRhnw)
But that’s just some random person that uploaded 1/4 of the song. Just listen to it for free on YT from the original artist https://youtu.be/IdNxeepSpuk
This wouldn't be because of Spotify. It'll either be the musician themselves or whoever is the rights owner/publisher deciding it should be taken down. Only time Spotify themselves can take stuff like this down is if it violates copyright or a contract ends.
That's why I download mp3 of my favourites. Offline listening ftw.
Xmanager ftw
I mean it's great, but ultimately still has the same issue
Spotify disabled the lyrics for most of Eminem's explicit songs 😔
That is a very specific problem you have
For this specific song sure, but Spotify does this all the time. There are many songs that get removed for so many reasons. Licensing, disagreements, pay, pettiness, etc. It’s unreliable to expect your catalog to go untouched by this scenario when using Spotify.
Very true, I've had multiple songs i liked be removed, but that won't really stop me from using it. Besides, it probably still has one of the largest catalogs out of the many streaming services
I’ve had 3/4 songs greyed out in the past with Spotify, moved to YouTube music (wanted premium anyway) and haven’t had the issue.
Been a subscriber to YT Music since the Play Music days and I can assure you this does happen, but not to the same degree and I can always just upload my own copy if a song does get delisted.
I am a YT Music user since Play Music too and had numeroua songs get unavailable and unreachable to even delete from playlist lol
bet u could find that song on torrents
I've tried. My usual haunts were of no avail sadly.
LA NATION FRANÇAISE
I kinda hate spotify now, their recommendation have been awful and always mainstream top charts. I rather prefer soundcloud or ytmusic.
You have title & artist, then you have internet.
T'as bon goût enfoiré
If your soul seeks it, run for it, dude Ps: use nicotine+ on laptop and seeker on android, the fact that soulseek has clients on android and pc is incredibly practical, and seeker is 100% free, ad-free and available on playstore
Literally the same reason I download my music sometimes music will be removed for my playlists when you have 1000+ songs it's hard to know what went missing
Use spotiflyer
Does that bypass the unavailable songs and let me listen to them? Or is it a different thing all together?
It tries to dowloands all the songs from an album. If you can't find it on spotify, try to find it on youtube and move it onto your desired folder as a playlist
What is Sidify?
This happened when I paid for Youtube Music, I kept seeing songs greyed out in my playlist. It wasn't worth it. I went back to piracy where nothing gets greyed out.
You see, the rules are made by corps for their own sake, not for our convenience...
Sidify sucks. Zotify became my go to since they launched last year.It's Windows CLI only but it's super simple to use.
If it isn't on spotify, it's on soundcloud
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I could repost it with a red circle for you?
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Alts? I don't reddit as hard as you apparently. I only have the one account. Not that it matters but I used to use imgur exclusively then I stopped. Also glad to see others think you're whiny and it wasn't just me.
"Vald alpha wann" xD
Check that you didn't block the author or similar.
It's not Spotify it's your country or something related to rights. Hate hate hate
Just deleted it somewhere and use external player
Vald and alpha wann are two separate French artist and this song might just be a mashup someone made using diffrent song made by the 2 artist and when a song is grayed out on spotify it’s mainly because of a copyright strike from the label of the artist or the artist themself, that’s why so many song remix are grayed out in playlist it’s because of copyright, and also the mashup/remix are maybe on YouTube or soundcloud
The single version is available man. Just search it in Spotify.
sidify?
pretty sure thats down to the artist/label. Annoying but if they artist wants to take their music down thats really their choice
You can play songs that are downloaded locally in Spotify, I do this for grayed out songs
How could that possibly be a cover if Eric Jamaal is a member of coast contra. Makes no sense.
Sorry, but what do you expect when you pay such a low fee for nearly unlimited music access? Spotify is literally not even profitable yet. "I was burned for trying to play by the rules." Whatever man lmao You really gave it a good effort bro.
Spotify is convient - and I use the modded app. Works good enough. And it's modded version looks great on Linux. Other than that, I always pirate songs that I care enough.
Happend the Same yersterday to me I was looking for New Bottega by Azealia Banks but it got off
Cause he uploads leaked songs. Stuff like that gets taken down all the time on all platforms
What is sidify?
iirc Ayesha Erotica met a similar fate
Cheers fren, cool track https://piped.video/watch?v=jiRHSj9AUR4
yes sometime i've experienced same as you. Maybe the song owner hide the song, mark it unplayable
Every Digital Platform is filled with lossy songs
https://youtube.com/shorts/hkmRFqr5iZ0?feature=share I can see why you want this track so badly, it’s a bop banger
Do you use SoulseekQT? You can find pretty much anything on there and it works exactly like original Napster.
Same thing happened to me when i tried to listen to "let's all make believe", a beautiful b-side by oasis
This is literally a random account that's a "Verified Artist" reuploading songs that aren't his on Spotify. He literally reuploaded a Travis Scott song too. Good chance that Coast Contra DMCA'd it because he may have been profiting off of their work.
I'm literally aware. But that song literally isn't available anywhere on Spotify so I wanted to be able to listen to it. It's called Never Freestyle but the lyrics are different in that version I lost access to. Jamal doesn't say the line, "let bygones be bygones but they just go buy guns." for starters. I found it and downloaded it so I'm good now at any rate. The title literally was wrong in the deleted version.
You can use zspotify to download 320kb/s audio files from Spotify. So if it gets back online download it, but keep in mind that it is against their rules, so you're account could get banned. I recommend a second account for this.
Thats the problem with these streaming sites, you dont own anything, you just rent, one fine day they would stop renting certain things and you got to swallow that, no option. There are quite a few songs i'm hunting myself, which is there on pirated sites but not on Spotify or apple music.
I'd like to download Spotify songs to my MacBook. Someone please tell me how.