I’ve been trying to get off of Spotify for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money to spend on a Deezer or Tidal subscription, which is required to listen to more than 30 seconds of a song. I also have an extremely large playlist that needs transferring, so I need an unlimited version of FreeYourMusic if it exists. Thanks! Edit: Thanks for all the replies and advice! Unfortunately, I’m too stupid for almost all of it, but I appreciate it anyways. The solution I went with is using Newpipe on Android and a Spotify adblocker called Blockify on pc. Have a good day!
Good
Free
Not run by the devil
Pick 2. Actually maybe 1 if you’re lucky.
As others have said the high sails are your best bet.
I see. Good to know. Is there a decent way to block ads on Spotify completely? Either on mobile or desktop.
Just use the web version on Firefox with ublock origin. Been using the free version for years. You’ll get a few seconds of dead air now and then as a few ads cycle through without playing, but it’s far from the full length that the ad break is supposed to be.
Super easy and still works
I’m currently getting ad-free Spotify on Android using XManager
Yoo that still works? Xmanager shut down and I can’t get revanced to work. I’ve been running spotify with spotx on desktop
Did it shut down? I’m on their Discord server and I’m not seeing any sign that’s the case. Anyway it’s still working for me at least
I haven’t been able to use Spotify for a few months now :^(
Yoooo could you maybe dm a link to that discord server pretty please
Wait, by “free” are you also expecting ad-free too?
I mean, it’d be nice, but no.
Who’s going to pay for the infrastructure if it’s free free? Are you going to be donating to them?
I don’t care if there’s ads. I care if I have to pay my hard earned doubloons to some random company so they can fund a genocide.
But… the ad money from you hearing the ads can fund genocide. What’s the difference between giving them your money or your attention? The money is all the same to them.
That’s why I’m trying to get off of spotify. And the difference would only be that I get to keep a large amount of money.
Yes. Go Premium. No ads.
Simplest way. Spotify Duo here, not a lot of money per month, two accounts, works on my phone, computers, in my car. The car app is absolute horse shit, but I’m thinking of switching to Qobuz. Hopefully that’s better.
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You can throw some money at artists periodically, some random $10 donation to whatever their fan site or on merch will probably net them more than a lifetime of listening to their stuff on Spotify, since streaming revenues add up to roughly five atoms of currency per stream or so.
Why does your comment sound like a jolly accordion?
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How does one go about that activity?
There’s a comm on lemmy.dbzer0.com. Alternatively, google FMHY. When I bailed from Spotify, I just used SpotDL to download all my music a playlist at a time. Worked fine, but might be a bit beyond your skill level to set that up.
Looks like it. I should probably start learning a bit about this sort of thing.
If you haven’t yet, I recommend checking out Soulseek
There are many ways to capture a stream
Yo, ho, haul together,
HOIST THE COLORS HIGH! 🏴☠️
Yes, but how? Keep in mind, I know nothing about computers, and rather little about the practice. I’ve downloaded a few pdfs, and I have a site that I use to watch a couple shows, but that’s it.
I’m not an expert, ask in [email protected] (btw, this comm is blocked by some instaces)
Yeah, those guys are cool lol
Do you have a torrent client installed? Do you know how to download using a torrent client? If you don’t have one yet then I can recommend qBitTorrent. It’s a well developed torrent client.
I can recommend watching some YouTube video on how torrenting works. It’s fairly straight forward. You basically download a small .torrent file (or use a magnet:url.
A magnet is the same as a torrent but there is nothing to download first. Just add the magnet address to your torrent client.
In the torrent client you then get a window that asks you where to place the downloaded file and also a few other tweaks you can do. Usually you only need to press OK and the download starts.
The hard part in sailing the high seas is finding good websites with the content you are looking for. Every torrent also needs another person to upload the file. If you have no one to download from then you will not get your file.
It is common courtesy to keep the torrent client running even after reaching 100%. This will help others download the file from you. This is the core feature of torrents. Everyone that downloads also helps with sharing the file. That’s how we keep spreading the data. As long as there is 1 person uploading, then the torrent will be alive.
Please note, a torrent can have 0 people sharing (Seeders) for the moment but might become active several hours later once another person turn on their computer and start sharing the file again.
I hope I didn’t ramble too much and you got something out of it. Best of luck!
Buy on bandcamp and buy cds to rip them. Then host your own plex/jellyfin/subsonic server.
I mean, that’s cool but OP even wrote the “free” part in capitals. Not saying it is realistic to ask for that but it’s pretty clear they don’t want to pay.
Op said free, also hosting your own server isn’t something everyone has the knowledge, time, and resources to do.
This is the way.
radio
and it comes with free radio waves
its got ads but you don’t have to pay for them in bandwidth; the radio station pays for them.
get a radio
There are literally thousands of free streaming radio stations on the Internet. This is a good place to start. Many have no ads, even.
ETA: That site I linked seems to be having problems ATM. This app for Android will get you going straight away. Hasn’t been updated in a couple years, but still works great, and even has a record function.
I mean … you are saying the same thing about Spotify.
You don’t want a solution … you want to argue. Ciaobaby
Reply to the wrong person? I’ve no idea what you’re on about.
I don’t think that most radio stations play much of what I listen to. My playlist is 7000 songs. I’m trying to sacrifice as little of it as I can.
Except ClearChannel has taken over a massive number of stations
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Radio Paradise. Good music. Free app on Android / iOS.
Also: SomaFM. Same as above: free, good content, not managed by the devil.
Notable mention: Kexp, The Current
You guys must be new to online music scene…
You guys must be new to online music scene…
Your comment was wholesome until this part.
SomaFM has been up a remarkable number of years, more or less in its current format. It’s not everyone’s jam, but props to them to keep a good thing going.
It’s pretty amazing and scartches a weird itch I can’t get elsewhere. But I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea
Start stocking up on CDs and ripping them to FLAC yourself, and self-host those rips on an MPD server. Free streaming from a server you own and control the content on.
the Hoopla app is available for free through public libraries. you can download 15 items (music, movies, books) each month for a week at a time
Libraries typically have CDs too, which you can rip.
Bandcamp kinda counts
I post a lot of bandcamp links on [email protected], but apparently bandcamp got bought out and will inevitably go down the road of enshittification.
Shazam app with youtube.com plus ezmp3.cc
Long answer:
Cloud infrastructure is expensive. You won’t find any free streaming platform.
The best route is to manage your own Playlist manually.
Workflow:
Interesting music playing on radio/party
-‐> shazam to know title and artist -‐> search youtube.com for that title and artist --> copy url of video that best matches --> paste url on ezmp3.cc for converting to audio --> await conversion, download generated audio --> Use a smart-mp3-tags app to add tags and album art automaticallyProns:
- until now, i’ve paid $0 for music I listen to. Evil bastard, I know. I, however, have bought poweramp for $5. Best purchase yet.
- you will find any music this way no matter how niche and weird it is. Unlike surfing the pirate ship
- bonus: you most definitely will find your favorite audiobooks.
Cons:
- no music discovery features. Which is truly the only downside you can’t replace.
- no backup in case of device loss, so you better make copies manually
Just use
yt-dlp -x $SONG_URLto download the audio directly.You just need -x?
I usedyt-dlp -t mp3 $partBehind?v=the entire timeLOL, OP was looking for an alternative to streaming platform, not an introduction to this whole new universe of terminal,
Plus, yt-dlp doesn’t work (at least to my knowledge) on a smartphone (maybe on termux? I dunno, haven’t tried it)
YTDLnis is an Android version that’s available on the Izzy store.
Tidal and Deezer are pretty devilish as they support Israel
FUCK! I switched from spotify to Tidal… Any other paid app you can recommend that isn’t supporting a genocide and generally less shitty to artists, and like everyone?
EDIT: Qobuz seems to be recommended, gonna have a look… or maybe do some light sailing… really don’t want to go back to doing fucking interviews for what.cd (now-defunct) and spend hours organising shit.
Piracy :3
Youtube
- Is free
Use uBlock on desktop and NewPipe on android to remove ads
My friend told me to use Newpipe to download my music onto my phone. Had to watch a 45 second tiktok ad to download one song. Does it not normally have ads?
I think you might have downloaded a fake Newpipe…
Did I download malware like a fucking toddler? God dammit.
It’s open source, so someone may have taken the code and added crap to it. Where did you get it? If it was the Play Store, then it may well be okay & someone just put ads in it to cash in on someone else’s work - happens all the time, unfortunately.
Just the playstore. I deleted it earlier. Couldn’t find it again when I looked just now.
The Play Store is honestly full of malware, be careful.
It makes it even more of an insult that Google wants to mandate a registry of approved developer accounts in the name of “security” when they can’t even guarantee the security of their own store.
Get Droidify, which is an alternative front end for the F-Droid & Izzy app stores for Android. You can download numerous apps that stream ad-free from YouTube (many seem to be based on the same code with minor tweaks). NewPipe proper (without ads) is there, too. However, I recommend YTDLnis instead as it does a better job with the metadata - it’s on Izzy, which you can also use the Droidify app for.
I’ve never seen any ads. I think you downloaded a scam app. Newpipe is only on fdroid, or else direct download from their website
Gotcha. Well, now I have the real one. That’s good.
Did you know you can play music without a service?
Get music, press play. Amazing!
Been doing it for decadesPsst… https://fmhy.pages.dev/
or just fmhy.net in short
