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What are your favorite non-foss apps? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know some of you have gone complies FOSS, but I believe if the developer wants to make money from their apps, there's noting wrong with it, as long as they are ethical. So what are your favorite non-foss apps?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, then you could just use xManager to get pirated Spotify premium. It just doesn't let you download stuff but if you pirate them separately anyways, then this should work for you. Or are you literally directly ripping the music from Spotify??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I pay for premium for my sister and niece on a family plan thing anyway so it isn't like I would save any money by not using it as it is there and paid for regardless. I'm literally ripping the music from Spotify using soggfy.

I use soulseek as well which is fine but a lot of idiots on there lock their files away which goes against the very nature of piracy imo, using this Spotify method is often easier to get some of the things I want and then I can tag them using my desired naming convention too rather than having to clean up other peoples messy as fuck tags.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah OK, interesting! Well, if you have access to a family subscription this seems like the way to go :)

I mostly use bandcamp + yt-dl to get music (or I actually buy it as well). But it is a bit tedious to import the files into my library...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am also an avid band camp user and will buy as much as I can afford times being what they are though that is less and less so I have to prioritise what I want to pay for.

The music I am into also releases a lot of things as vinyl only which is utter bullshit IMO so I will pirate the shit out of any of that I can get my hands on as I won't pay for a giant piece of obsolete media that I then have no way to actually use xD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bandcamp is really my favorite site to buy or download music. I love just what you said about it, that I can prioritize what I want to pay for :)