<story><title>A Note about Spotify Transfers</title><url>https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fossuser</author><text>I think this will push me to finally just jump to Apple Music (even though it’s worse and will now be harder to do, plus I’ll miss discover weekly).&lt;p&gt;Spotify’s attack on podcasts with exclusivity and trying to destroy the open standard really bothers me: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;dithering-and-the-open-web&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;dithering-and-the-open-web&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now with this I just don’t have much respect for them.&lt;p&gt;When paired with their complaining about Apple’s policies being unfair it makes me really dislike them, they don’t care about their users or what’s best for them. It wouldn’t surprise me if soon I have to call and beg them to cancel my subscription like Sirius XM.&lt;p&gt;FreeYourMusic also still works, so if you want to do this download it quickly before Spotify forces them to break the feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bartoszhernas</author><text>Hi, founder of FreeYourMusic here. It will still work, Spotify tried to block us just the same two years ago. We then switched to different method of integration to not be legally bound via SDK agreements.&lt;p&gt;We are still operational and have Spotify export working. If they won&amp;#x27;t let you through doors, we get in via window.  ️&lt;p&gt;We do not expect any platforms to be limited on FYM.FM in near future.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Note about Spotify Transfers</title><url>https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fossuser</author><text>I think this will push me to finally just jump to Apple Music (even though it’s worse and will now be harder to do, plus I’ll miss discover weekly).&lt;p&gt;Spotify’s attack on podcasts with exclusivity and trying to destroy the open standard really bothers me: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;dithering-and-the-open-web&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stratechery.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;dithering-and-the-open-web&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now with this I just don’t have much respect for them.&lt;p&gt;When paired with their complaining about Apple’s policies being unfair it makes me really dislike them, they don’t care about their users or what’s best for them. It wouldn’t surprise me if soon I have to call and beg them to cancel my subscription like Sirius XM.&lt;p&gt;FreeYourMusic also still works, so if you want to do this download it quickly before Spotify forces them to break the feature.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>actuator</author><text>Amusingly enough, I think the podcast move was a realisation that like Netflix they will need their own content to prosper in the long run when faced against goliaths like Apple, as big players will just throw money and platform advantages at their services.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t help Spotify&amp;#x27;s image though.</text></comment>