• multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
    4·
    2 days ago

    Spotify sucks. Youtube sucks. MP3s suck.

    https://newpipe.net/ (for mobile, playlists, background play, no ads)

    https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube (desktop youtube app, no ads)

    If you have an android phone, you can just seach for “Spotify premium apk” and you can find a cracked Spotify premium.

    But if music is “your thing”, then there really is no substitute for the library of FLACs available on private torrent trackers for music. What.CD has been down 8 years now (rip), but RED and OPS exist.

    You can pass an interview on IRC to get into the trackers. The interview is a short test about file formats, rules and transcoding, they give you the page where to learn it all.

    https://interviewfor.red/en/starting.html

    https://interview.orpheus.network/starting-the-interview.php

    For a lossy format alternative to mp3 try (ogg) vorbis.

      • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        1 day ago

        Yep, it can use your Spotify account if you want to play mport your playlists and doesn’t have ads because it fetches the music from YouTube.

        It looks like YouTube did something to their API and a bunch of apps that use it are not working, including Piped, but some solution is being worked on.

        • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
          2·
          1 day ago

          Thanks for the second sentence actually, I decided to download the app and it looks great but it couldn’t play anything, and I was wondering if it was bc I have a Huawei phone without google services.

          Unfortunately it seems free APIs are now becoming a thing of the past :(

          • Kras Mazov@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            Yeah, bad timing on my end to recommend it lol. From the little I read on their GitHub, I don’t think the API change was intentional to break stuff, just so happens to do so, but I could be wrong. Hopefully it gets solved soon enough, at least there is already a pull request to that fixes it.

            • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
              2·
              6 hours ago

              Naah just gotta wait until they fix it and it’ll be smooth sailing. Hope it works as well with my headphones and in the car as Spotify does.

    • Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml
      1·
      23 hours ago

      i use soulseek all the time and i see tons of flacs to the point of it being annoying because i put mp3s on my phone still and they take up too much space, i stick with 320kbps mp3

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    2 days ago

    tbh spotify solved a lot of headaches I had with organizing my music. I used to torrent full discographies from artists I discovered and organize the files on my PC which took up a lot of space. Eventually I started converting the mp3s to lower bitrates to save on space lol. I also had to spend time and harmonize the album titles and song titles within the folders because sometimes when you download music torrents the ripper likes to put a bunch of stuff or write everything in all caps. Spotify essentially does all that categorizing for me and with Spicetify I don’t even get ads anymore and I’m still on the free plan.

    Only thing I don’t like with them is the algorithm, it’s so bad. Youtube’s is much better, google hasn’t enshitified that yet at least.

    • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
      2·
      2 days ago

      Try private torrent trackers, they have rules on tags/labels as well as quality control. It is much better to rip from FLAC -> 256kbps mp3 than it is to rip from 320kbps mp3 -> 256kbps mp3.

  • Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml
    10·
    1 day ago

    Download all your favorite music locally, and back it up so you can keep it forever.

    You can use tools like MusicBrainz Picard to add proper metadata to all your music, and use fully-customizable music players like MusicBee to perfect your listening experience.

  • commiespammer@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    3 days ago

    based, I have a giant folder full of random soviet/anime songs I’ve liked for a little bit and downloaded for no reason, sorted in a half-complete and obsessive way in ‘properties’ by my characters I think fit with them best.