I’ve been trying to get off of Spotify for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money to spend on a Deezer or Tidal subscription, which is required to listen to more than 30 seconds of a song. I also have an extremely large playlist that needs transferring, so I need an unlimited version of FreeYourMusic if it exists. Thanks!

  • well5H1T3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    8 hours ago

    Shazam app with youtube.com plus ezmp3.cc

    Long answer:

    Cloud infrastructure is expensive. You won’t find any free streaming platform.

    The best route is to manage your own Playlist manually.

    Workflow:

    Interesting music playing on radio/party

    -‐> shazam to know title and artist 

-‐> search youtube.com for that title and artist 

--> copy url of video that best matches 

--> paste url on ezmp3.cc for converting to audio 

--> await conversion, download generated audio 

--> Use a smart-mp3-tags app to add tags and album art automatically

    Prons:

    • until now, i’ve paid $0 for music I listen to. Evil bastard, I know. I, however, have bought poweramp for $5. Best purchase yet.
    • you will find any music this way no matter how niche and weird it is. Unlike surfing the pirate ship
    • bonus: you most definitely will find your favorite audiobooks.

    Cons:

    • no music discovery features. Which is truly the only downside you can’t replace.
    • no backup in case of device loss, so you better make copies manually
      • well5H1T3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        LOL, OP was looking for an alternative to streaming platform, not an introduction to this whole new universe of terminal,

        Plus, yt-dlp doesn’t work (at least to my knowledge) on a smartphone (maybe on termux? I dunno, haven’t tried it)

        • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
          1·
          2 hours ago

          This is true. I’m incredibly slow. I don’t understand a lot of these comments. Unfortunately, I do not have my own server. The CD thing is a good idea, except for the fact that it would take an extremely long time to manually rip all of the songs I want. My playlist is 7,200 songs lmao