I really want to ditch spotify, but its just so convenient to be able to search and stream music on any device at a moments notice. Not to mention the fact that its integrated with a music player that can quickly queue up, or add to playlist a searched song. Is there any software (or collection of software) that can emulate the convenience of spotify?

  • xarvos
    16·
    3 years ago

    There is Nuclear. Note that sometimes songs can’t be downloaded, though.

    • onlooker
      13·
      3 years ago

      The testimonials on that page are just the best. I gotta try this app when I get back from work.

      EDIT: Or maybe not.

      • xarvos
        61·
        3 years ago

        Hmm certainly not nice seeing it shilling FB. There’s also FreeTube (desktop) and NewPipe (mobile), though I didn’t have nice experience with FreeTube—some basic features like creating a new queue are not there.

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
          41·
          3 years ago

          Hmm certainly not nice seeing it shilling FB.

          Either you’re trolling or you aren’t aware that YouTube, which you’re shilling, is made by Google.

          • fleurc
            4·
            3 years ago

            Not shilling youtube, freetube and such are third party ways to use youtube which basically require no account and get you to be anonymous. But also that person doesn’t get that it was a joke

    • Vegafjord eo
      3·
      3 years ago

      I looked at one of the quotes on the frontpage where the user is litterally shitting on the software XD

      Not claiming that Nuclear is bad or good, but it was kind of unexpected.

      • xarvos
        2·
        3 years ago

        I just took a look (didn’t before) and lol every of them were shitting on it (some of them are “piracy bad”)

  • ghost_laptop
    111·
    3 years ago

    I download all music using Nicotine+ which uses the soulseek protocol, you can find the weirdest of shit there, and I use Lollypop to play on my PC, when I want to listen to some on my phone and I don’t have wifi I just dump a couple albums there, if not I use NewPipe.

    • ghost_laptop
      62·
      3 years ago

      good thing about having shit local is that you got the .flac files and it sounds perfect, maybe spotify does this but Im sure theres a bit of quality loss

    • RandomSomeone
      3·
      3 years ago

      This is by far the best answer. Having the music locally is crucial, and sharing is even more awesome. Although this doesn’t solve the problem of music discovery. Spotify is very convenient to find new tracks you may or may not like.

      • ghost_laptop
        21·
        3 years ago

        True, but I don’t need discovering that much since to me it is a natural process of rabbit holing where I generally end up finding stuff through other stuff. Using RateYourMusic also works if you follow cool people.

  • Vegafjord eo
    10·
    3 years ago

    I believe the best way to ensure freedom over our music is to allow emigration without loosing your music collection. Not securing this freedom, will create needless dependency to the distributor.

    If you leave spotify you loose your music collection. Even if you have spent hundreds of bucks on the service. In contrast, services like bandcamp allows you to download your music. So if you one day figure you want to ditch the service for something better, at least that won’t be an headache.

  • DessalinesMA
    101·
    3 years ago

    Simple solution: get a torrent client for your phone like libretorrent, and vlc or any music player you like. Search sites like 1337x.to or my torrents-csv.ml for music. Click torrent, open music player.

    More complicated one: install navidrome and qbittorrent on a home server, get the dsub and qbittorrent remote android apps. You now have a music server that you can add torrents to, and navidrome will auto add music from a watched folder.

  • uthredii
    5·
    3 years ago

    NewPipe can play youtube and soundcloud and bandcamp songs in the background.

  • azron
    41·
    3 years ago

    You have to get on private torrent sites. Redacted , orpheus, etc. That coupled with Lidarr is pretty good. Just having the curated music catalog is amazing. I pay for multiple streaming services and buy music on Bandcamp and still go to torrent sites for recommendations and convenience.

    • BridgeBum
      3·
      3 years ago

      I have RevoTT, but could always use some more privates. Have any invites available?

    • handvat
      2·
      3 years ago

      You can’t keep many MP3 on your phone internal MicroSD

      I disagree, if you’re storing your music in MP3 or any other lossy format, such as AAC or Ogg Vorbis, with a bitrate of 320kbps, a 4 minute pop song will take up 10MB of storage in my experience. 32GB of storage is going to get you storage for 3200 songs.

      Maybe that isn’t enough for you, but I’ve been using a 64GB SD card for years now and it still hasn’t filled up completely. I’ve got 1557 songs on there, good for 3 days and 7 hours of music, taking up 27.80 GiB of space. Less than I told before, but I tend to store most of my music as FLAC with average filesizes of 30MB per song because I’m to lazy to re-encode the files.

      I wonder what the size of your music library is if it doesn´t fit on a SD card.

      • m-p{3}
        1·
        3 years ago

        My current music library sits at 2.4TB.

        I personally host it alongside my Movies and TV Shows library on Plex, and sync a portion of it using PlexAmp­.

        • handvat
          1·
          3 years ago

          That’s impressive! In that case, I can imagine using your phone’s storage or MicroSD being very impractical, although for tiny music libraries it certainly is a less complex option than the server-client setup.