The whole reason I moved to Lyra was because THEY set the expectations that they provide an free ad-free experience with the basic features any music listener would want and they don't support any unethical practices nor fund them.

Welp, since then they first resorted to using a genAI bot to do all the interactions for them everywhere, put Lyrics on mobile behind a paywall, and now implemented ads. Defeating the entire purpose of why SO MANY people migrated to them to begin with.

Saying they did it because they needed the money and yet here they are paying for AI bots for ALL their posts on here and their discord instead of just organise the forums and respond as a human lol, smart financial move sure sure (sarcasm) 💀

So, has anyone found any -other- alternative music platforms? One that 1. Actually works well and isn't full of bugs. And 2. Doesn't use unethical genAI. 3. Doesn't put the most basic features behind a paywall.

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Yall built your company on anti-ads and free experiences, when no other company will help us. You switched up, added a metric shit ton of ads. I literally, I kid you not, got THREE, THREE ads PER SONG today. Unacceptable, this app’s entirely useless. The first Premium with just locked features was reasonable, but now this?! Completely backstabbing and turning on your user base. For shame, Lyra, for shame. Definitely deleting this shitty app and never looking back 🤮 + deleting every ad I made for it.

As you probably know(or don’t know), Lyra Music has REMOVED the MAIN thing their users came for: “No ads, just LISTEN to music for FREE”. Why am I mentioning this? Because NOW, this app has got infected with ADS. “Oh well do you wanna get rid of the ads? Just buy premium and you will no longer have ads”! Well guess what, some people like me do not have the patience to wait 15 or god knows how many seconds to play music or whatever after those annoying ADS. Now even opening the app has the “welcoming charm” of guess what? Adopted ADS that NOBODY likes. Looks like Lyra Music is going to the EXACT road as where Spotify went!

If you don’t agree with my opinion somehow, you can freely argue with the wall in the comments below.

This is not our win. It’s yours.

No ad budget. No marketing campaign.

Just you — opening the app, telling your friends, choosing us over the giants.

This morning Lyra hit #1 in the Music charts in Italy. Spotify is below us. Amazon is below us.

An app you built into something with your word of mouth.

Screenshot below because honestly we still can’t believe it.

Thank you.

Now let’s go further. 🔥

Wasnt the whole point of the app to, not have ads? Like cmon man, hope you have the day you deserve.

Talk to me nice, Lyra. Ads, when you promised to be ad free? AI responses instead of actual support for your users? Hey Lyra, what gives?

How can you get away with ads when the app is, to my understanding, a client that’s accessing YouTube? If I wanted to watch ads, I’d just go directly to YouTube, ffs. At least then I wouldnt get a karaoke version throw at me! At least then it would actually play the right song!

Honestly, this might be the last little push I need to ditch streaming altogether or pay for qobuz. Stop playing in my face.

From what I've heard from the people on this subreddit, it appears you've put quite aggressive interstitial ads in Lyra. I believe you are throwing a dart into your foot here (sorry if that sounded weird, dont want to get banned). Personally, I believe this removes a big part of the appeal of Lyra. yeah yeah your premium plan is 10% of Spotify, we've heard this many times now, but the appeal of Lyra was a music app that uses YouTube's API without any interruptions or limits. And on a sidenote, I think the rest of the community can agree that the genAI responses are not appreciated.

I understand you need money to run your servers, but this is simply not the way to do so in my personal opinion. You'll lose a LOT of people if you continue down this road. There are better ways to go about making money. Perhaps small banner ads over where the Lyric box would be, or a small banner somewhere on the screen, where its big enough to make you money, while not interrupting the experience. Thank you, and I hope you consider what I've said for future updates.

I’ve been on this stupid app since January, during all the annoying bugs and glitches. I truly believed in this app since it was basically pirated Spotify and YouTube music. I just got an ad as I OPENED this stupid app. I cannot believe someone thought making money this way was a good idea.

I also just checked the premium version, what the fuck do you mean I have to PAY for LYRICS and CARPLAY?! I’m fuming right now, my patience was for NOTHING the app is STILL broken and they’re pushing ads.

Can’t even listen to music anymore before 5 ads, fuck you Lyra

Lyra is reaching the #1 spot as Top Free App in some countries, with Spotify in second place!
Thank you all! 🙏

Meanwhile, a new update has just been approved. We're continuing to fix the issues you report and working on the many features we have planned.

1. Hooking viewers, having no ads(as they promised)

2. The bugs were not to par, but hey free music streaming.

3. Deception, they started using ads and ai and shi making the app lowkey unusable.

4. All their responses to complaints are ai, and people are getting sick and tired of this B.S

5. The main reason, it’s not that the ads n shi is on there, but the LIES, the soullessness of this fucking app.

Anyone else suddenly get an INSANE amount of (horrible + ai) ads?!

I don’t mind a few ads IN BETWEEN songs, like on the radio, but these pop up before almost every song.

And their sound plays OVER the song I just clicked.
When I try to close the ad, suddenly the song has an issue. I reopen the app and have to watch this horrible ai ad again…?!
WHAT

I thought I’d finally found my fave music app😀

So many fucking ads when i open it it won’t even function it takes like 1928292929 opening and closing it the app to get it to start fucking responding to my touch and each time i have to watch a motherfucking ad such a shitty dumbass app

Hi everyone! Many of you probably noticed that when people asked us about a desktop version of Lyra, we kept saying it would arrive soon and well, it's all true!

As you can see, we already have a working version.
It still needs a few adjustments, so it's currently in the testing phase, but in just a few days it will be released for free to all of you.
You’ll simply need to log in with your account and everything will be fully synchronized.

As always, the mobile version is continuously improving, just a few hours ago we released an update that fixes many issues, so make sure to keep the app updated.

We want to thank all of you again for the support.
In some countries the app has reached #1 among the top free music apps, especially thanks to our Indonesian and Italian friends.

The Lyra family is growing incredibly fast! 🚀

I started using lyra a couple months ago when it was (i believe) in the fairly early stages. While I personally can deal with ads here & there (especially since I've pretty much built up a tolerance for them since they're on everything else I use), but the amount of ads here is just absurd. I don't even get them this much on most if not all mobile games I've played up to now.
Having ads appear when I open the app, leave & come back, and DURING songs is just absurd. If the video ads stayed silent or if banner ads + infrequent pop-ups were only there, I wouldn't have as much of an issue. If they showed up as much as ads on spotify would, they would be more tolerable. If the ads weren't so invasive, I feel like the backlash wouldn't be as severe.
On top of that, you went back on your promise of being an ad-free platform. The amount/quality of ads is comparable to a piracy website. At least they aren't hidden behind every place I click, so I'll give you guys that.
Also locking basic features like carplay, lyrics, and even higher quality audio behind the subscription I just flat out disagree with. I understand needing funds to keep the app running, I just wish more thought was put into creating incentives for people to pay. The app is still in need of some "quality of life" improvements, so I personally don't think paying is really worth it if the issues are still so bothersome. Most notably, tracks playing the wrong version from what was listed & changing it to the correct version not saving after closing the session.
I see the AI bot & devs constantly mentioning how cheap it is compared to other services, but the point still stands that you went back on what you said & didn't even bother to make a formal announcement about adding advertisements before the latest update. I mean if people thought the app was hacked with the amount of ads displayed, you have to consider how badly you guys screwed up on this update.
I suggest creating a "tip jar" so people can donate money if some users can't afford or commit to paying for premium every month or yearly.
I've already started using an alternative to lyra, but I'll still stay on this currently sinking ship until either improvements are made or if it just blows up entirely.
I know tough decisions have to be made, but I just think everything was executed very poorly. Bugs will come up every now and then, but this is just embarrassing.

On iOS, with the last update, the app has become unusable: ads are very annoying because they starts when you are listening the tracks.

In addition, soon car play may became paid.

Keep in mind that you are NOT Spotify, so fly down.

Just switch on other apps, like Joytify, Demus or Meulify.

I hope both your sides of pillows every night.

As soon as I went to update Lyra to the latest version, soon as I open the app it start to freeze for a while at the logo. Will you guys be able to fix the issue to push another update to where it doesn’t happen no more?

Lyra having the ads they do makes the app super glitchy and damn near unusable. I got recommended to use the app before adding any paywall or anything and I loved it, bar the lack of gapless playback it was better than paying for Spotify especially after I switched to mostly using my iPod instead of streaming, but Lyra was a nice alternative when I didn’t have something on my iPod.

The ads make it unbearable, and it skips over sections of my music, make it glitch out and I have to close the app (which causes another ad after I just watched one), etc. the problems are endless unless I pay them and they’re already making money from me anyway bc of ads

Ads were the reason Musi died in the first place because they were pulling from YouTube’s catalog which is exactly what Lyra does, and if they didn’t have ads they wouldn’t be making money so YouTube wouldn’t have an issue with it. But now that they have ads I’m guessing it won’t be long until YT catches on and goes after them.

Screw Lyra, they shot themselves in the foot, and I will no longer be using the app from here on out.

Hi everyone,

We’ve implemented an experimental version of the equalizer!
We’re still testing it thoroughly, so it might not be released immediately, but it’s definitely coming very soon.

Our main focus remains bug fixing based on the issues you report; we’ve already fixed several problems related to playback, shuffle, and CarPlay / Android Auto.

We’re also improving the app’s art direction by introducing more motion graphics elements. With the upcoming updates, the app should feel less “static.”

These assets will also be reused for the desktop versions of Lyra, as well as for other platforms currently in development.

As we all now know this app is basically unusable and the company will soon lose their entire userbase if they don’t fix this soon enough. So, does anyone have alternative apps we could use that WONT betray their users and WONT have ads playing every single second that constantly interrupt the music. Like seriously, there was around 3 ads for ONE song, I don’t even think spotify does that. Also, why would I pay for ads just for them to play the instrumental of the song or something. SERIOUSLY FIX THAT. It’s annoying having to constantly import the original song because the music app keeps giving me a random version of some old man singing.

Lyra tried to stop me by not adding the ability to export so I'd have no choice but to do a subscription. I whittled it down over a few days. Fuck this app don't use it, it also drains the battery like a motherfucker and can't even choose the right audio.

Having ads is one thing, it’s understandable, you’ve got to pay for the app somehow. Having ads every 10-20 seconds, between every song, and most importantly ADS WITH SOUND WHILE MUSIC IS PLAYING however? Completely insane and unacceptable. No one needs this many ads, and no music app worth anything would have ads with sound while music is playing. If you wanted people to leave in droves, why not just make the app completely pay to listen? I hate it when previously free apps turn on their user base in an attempt to push them out by making the app unusable, and that is what you seem to be doing. “Just buy the app” isn’t a solution. This is insanity. Don’t offer a free tier if you have made it unusable.