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This is probably a dumb question but what is a better way to send a link to a song to friends without using Spotify? I don't use Spotify anymore so I don't like going back to that website just to copy a song link so people could hear it. I know I could send something like a YouTube link but I'm trying to degoogle so I wanted to see if there was an alternative? Can you send songs as last.fm links? Idk I just randomly thought about this and wanted to ask if I'm being weird or something Thanks in advance

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Cool! I didn't know about this. Thanks for the recommendation.

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

That's perfect! Thank you so much!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The degoogled, open source way is to send them a link to your self-hosted media server.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I wish I could but I don't have one :( I have no money and no knowledge of where to search for a good guide to start

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't listen to these guys, there's a really easy solution:

  1. Set you voice mail greeting to the song you want to share
  2. Share your phone number with your group or post it online to the folks you want to share the song with
  3. Don't answer your phone for a few days
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lol that's one way of doing it I suppose

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

what if your friends are in another country

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

For private use, you could set it up on any old pc, a router or a Raspberry Pi.
The time to learn is the limiting factor.

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

Can the device be turned off to give it a rest or does it need to be running all the time? I dont know if my dad is still going to use our pi3 for games (and i know i dont need anymore computers rn either)... maybe i could run it on my laptop? But i use it for school... I gotta think about it. In the meantime, do you have any guides that can reduce the time to learn?

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

I'm not super well-versed on the music side of self-hosted media management, but in regards to running it all the time - you can shut it off, however no one will be able to access any media from it while its offline (unless there's a download/save-offline feature for whichever platform is used).

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

Alright that makes sense, thank you

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

It needs to be running all the time you need its services. If it's not running it can't serve you music.
Modern PCs and laptops don't have an issue with that, even with Windows 10/11.
But a Raspberry Pi with a large HDD (with its own power supply) attached would be perfect IMO.

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

Alright, thank you. I'll see if I can use the pi for this then

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a self-hosting Community here: [email protected]

But for a pretty easy and low cost way to get started you can't go wrong with yunohost - it has lots of music server apps such as funkwhale, amapache etc.

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

Ooh thank you for the community and the link! I'll have to look into those!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

this is the only correct answer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I know I'm middle aged but ... MP3s? A few megabytes isn't that much these days.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't touched an MP3 file for years. Everything's streamed.

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

I still touch MP3 because it is compact and we need everything to be stored locally.

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

I just didn't want to look weird/sus plus mp3s don't always do a preview thing in discord (I know, I'm trying to switch to matrix) so sometimes it makes you download the file But yeah I guess I can just send the file

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

Some alternative clients of Apple Music I use use the API of this to copy “universal” song/album links. It also has functions as a music search engine so maybe it can be useful to you. It’s not FOSS and its privacy policy could be better though. https://odesli.co/

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

That looks interesting!

[–] slurp 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious about this too, but more for for sharing long, self-made playlists. A single song is not too bad to send or find on YouTube but a playlist is difficult

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

I use iBroadcast for this. Free but not open-source. Works great, though, and devs are super responsive.

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

Find it on Piped or some other YouTube front end that isn't associated with Google aside from allowing you to watch the videos uploaded to YT.

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

Maybe piped?

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

I'm confused, can you not just search "Blur Song 2 spotify" (for example) in your browser and copy the link that comes up without ever actually clicking it or using Spotify? I don't use Spotify either but sometimes want to show my friends songs and I know they won't listen unless it's a Spotify link so I do this.