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!
What app is that?
Soulseek. It’s Napster for today. I share an ass load on there.
Did you know you can play music without a service?
Get music, press play. Amazing!
Been doing it for decadesYoutube
- 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’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.
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 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.
iBroadcast
been using it for years now, devs are great and very responsive
Torrent + Winamp
I usually just use YouTube
isn’t run by the devil
https://github.com/mostafaalagamy/Metrolist alternate youtube music app. youtube account recommended. no ads. frequent updates. oled support.
https://github.com/badmannersteam/murglar-downloads/releases desktop and droid app. supports russian stream services, deezer, soundcloud. no ads.
https://moddroid.com/apps/music/deezer-hq/ cracked deezer. no ads.
you can look around for cracked spotify or other cracked stuff on the mobilism forums, but spotify sometimes bans those cliens, and might shadowban your account as well.
whatever you do, you gonna support the devil by choosing any mainstream music service. so keep using them for free and support the bands with money or going to concerts. discs are overrated, merch gives them low commission.
if you wait a few hours the “you should selfhost” comments will arrive.
Previously a program called “sidify” was able to rip full quality audio files from Spotify including a Playlist
Unsure if it still works but its worth checking out. However, there’s just one issue: the “download” is the length of each song played end to end.
Worth it if you dont have any other options
there’s another one called SpotDL. It is pretty decent.
If the full playtime is required to download, then it’s probably not “full quality”, but re-encoding it as it plays which will definitely not satisfy quality snobs.
Free and ad-free music streaming (even with some limited local downloads!) supported through many public libraries:
Create your account with your public library card and gain access to all the music unlimited ad-free streaming. I also get 5 free downloads of songs a week for local storage, but I don’t know if that varies by library. There is a web client and the Android app is pretty decent too.
Waaah, we don’t have this. We have Hoopla music but the catalog looks so random. Somehow the freaking Lakeland library system has that but not Hillsborough? I will ask them I guess. I keep the YouTube music because the family plan is ok and the kids & husband use the videos, and their catalog is deep and interface getting better.
This is cool. Not avilable in Drumpf land though.
Sadly I’m in the same type of land, but it is available in my library system. In my state, you are allowed to get a library card at any public library in the state. Even if your public library system may not have it, the next down over and if your state works the same as mine, you could get a library card there and use the service for free.
Texas:
Alabama:
South Carolina:
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.
Well shit. Guess it’s time to self host…
Wait… Am I the devil now?
Yes, unless you share access to it with me :3
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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.
So you’re telling me to keep using Spotify but to also start buying some of the artists’ stuff sometimes?
Yo ho, yo ho…
Personally I just use Pandora and YouTube ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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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
If you live in Canada, CBC Radio/Music. Fucking banger songs and everyone sleeps on CBC Radio/Music.
Is Quobuz free?
Doesn’t look like it.
Of course it isn’t.
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.
xManager spotify. It that still works…
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.
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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.
I think revanced has patches to remove ads on a few apps
I’m currently getting ad-free Spotify on Android using XManager
Is that on a specific store? Fdroid or something?
You have to get it from their Discord server or website
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
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
Mobile: Use Firefox Nightly with uBlock Origin and you must follow this https://adminswerk.de/spotify-web-on-android/
