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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

free-mp3-download.net (but don't forget to backup your music collection)

Edit: Unlike what the website name suggests, it allows you to download FLACs, and not just MP3s. These come from Deezer HiFi.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh thank you for this 😍

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

+1

For real been looking for something like this since I switched.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is its source? Torrents in background?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From what I could find, Deezer using free trial Deezer HiFi accounts.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As much as I am a fam of alternative Software and such, what are actual advantages of using spotube over Spotify premium? Disregarding the membership fee.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact you're using a libre client that doesn't do extra data collection.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anything you do in the UI has some associated backend request (everything relevant at least). Search queries, loading albums, skipping, changing settings, anything is just a Web requ on their backend server which could still be collected. The custom ui does not save you from relevant data collection. Only thing potentially not getting tracked is empty navigation between tabs, but there is not a lot of info in tab switching

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's what I meant by "extra data collection," it just gets data that has to do with what you do on the server, which is significant, but you're still protected from kinds of local collection (e.g.: device model, IMEI if possible, screen resolution, networks you connect to, etc.) other than not having analytics trackers and ads. It may sound a bit crazy, but it is possible to collect this kind of stuff to fingerprint you, just like browser fingerprinting.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Let's see how long until Spotify kills it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Spotube is too laggy for my liking. Innertune is my preferred streaming app that isn't self hosted.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL that there are open source clients for spotify. time to go down another rabbit hole, thanks linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Youtube music too, YT Music Revanced for modded app.

Innertune, Vi Music if you prefer FOSS clients

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Ah yes Spotube, for when I want to hear a song 2 minutes from now after it finally buffers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use YT Music with UBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie manager and Dark Reader. Works like a charm, no advertisements

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might like ViMusic. It is a 3rd party client for YT music. I started using it recently and really liked the UI.

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

Yeah ViMusic is pretty good for what it is, but it's not really better than the original YouTube music client.

My main complaint is that the sound quality is worse than YouTube Music with YouTube premium and that you're not able to cast to other devices

Also, I don't like how lyrics are displayed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I just keep downloading albums of MP3s like I have since the late 90s. It used to take hours and half the songs were mislabeled and real sketchy quality. Now, it takes seconds to download an entire album, and they're almost always correctly labeled and high quality. I tried Spotify for a while, but it really seemed like it was for attention span deprived people who want something different every song. Gimme full albums any day.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eh, I'm a full album guy (Pink Floyd ftw) but I still enjoy Spotify. I've been introduced to a lot of good music I probably wouldn't have found otherwise, and sometimes I'm just not in the mood to commit to a full album.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I like the concept of original spotify, but this new one where they give joe fuckwit rogan billions and then screw musicians around for fractions of a cent per playback kinda turned me off of their model.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe I used it wrong, but I joined for a few months, and just used it to search up artists I already knew and listen. And then, I found it less convenient than my MP3 collection which easily fits on an SD card or my phone's drive. I only very periodically search for new music. And I usually end up obsessing over one artist for a long time before moving onto another. We're talking months to years. I've been listening to almost nothing but Rush for a few months now. I was never a fan growing up, but decided to give their whole discography a fair shot. Now, I can't stop listening to Rush.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Something you may be interested in is the "Artist Radio" feature. You start out by searching artists/song you know (like you said you already did) and then it will search out other artists that you may enjoy.

I've been introduced to a ton of great artists from all over the world this way. It's one of the coolest features of the platform

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You forget PC users do also exist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've always preferred YT Music over Spotify, now I use InnerTune in Android and Monophony on Pc and it's all I need.

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

I just tried InnerTune, seems neat, but how do you add an artist to your library?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just download the songs and play them off of Musicolet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Musicolet is nice, I've started syncing lyrics to my downloaded songs, it's a nice activity to kill time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I always found spotube to be so slow.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks for the meme, now i know spotify has open-source client

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

Also see comments and their suggestions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

InnerTune way better

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does anyone know of a Spotify client that works on ARM? I put an Orange Pi 5 as a smart TV box but Spotify doesn't work in the browser because no Widevine on aarch64 Firefox.

The poor Orange Pi can also barely play video without dropping frames, the GPU drivers are awful. I might try to uninstall them and just do software-rendering everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who needs spotify when we have vi music.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I remember when I heard the free software song first played on vi music!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Buffering takes an eternity.

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

Tidal HiFi + tidal-tdl is the best combo

Yes I have to pay $20, but I basically get like hundreds of dollars of music downloaded at their highest possible fidelity for free. Slap that shit on my DAP.

Literally better than soulseek because you can get obscure music in 48khz/24 bit that doesn't even exist as an mp3 on that platform.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have to pay $20

for free

So which is it, is it free, or is it $20?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have to pay 20$ for a can of beer ….

I can drink it for free.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Fyi: you don't get the songs in the highest quality. They're actually compressed, because Tidal HiFi isn't actually lossless. This video goes more in deph: https://youtu.be/pRjsu9-Vznc?si=8Az9OhX-Y0dhEz2A

If you want lossless, use Deezer and something like Deemix. In my experience it also has more nieche music than Tidal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AAAAAAAAGH, you sent me down a rabbithole again! To be fair, a lot of the music I listen to probably only exists in CD quality at best, but if I'm going to pay money I want the option of having the best there is. Thanks for letting me know about this!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/pRjsu9-Vznc?si=8Az9OhX-Y0dhEz2A

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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