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!
navidrome if you can self-host and is not the devil.
no ethical consumption under capitalism besides that.
Maybe pick a few radio stations you like.
I donated to rtrfm.com.auTorrent + Winamp
Yt-dlp. Then put music files on your device. If you want an actual streaming solution then you’ll need to self host a media server.
Psst… https://fmhy.pages.dev/
or just fmhy.net in short
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Radio Paradise. Good music. Free app on Android / iOS.
Also: SomaFM. Same as above: free, good content, not managed by the devil.
Notable mention: Kexp, The Current
You guys must be new to online music scene…
SomaFM has been up a remarkable number of years, more or less in its current format. It’s not everyone’s jam, but props to them to keep a good thing going.
You guys must be new to online music scene…
Your comment was wholesome until this part.
Buy on bandcamp and buy cds to rip them. Then host your own plex/jellyfin/subsonic server.
Op said free, also hosting your own server isn’t something everyone has the knowledge, time, and resources to do.
I mean, that’s cool but OP even wrote the “free” part in capitals. Not saying it is realistic to ask for that but it’s pretty clear they don’t want to pay.
Yup my bad, didn’t have my coffee yet :)
This is the way.
Good
Free
Not run by the devil
Pick 2. Actually maybe 1 if you’re lucky.
As others have said the high sails are your best bet.
I see. Good to know. Is there a decent way to block ads on Spotify completely? Either on mobile or desktop.
Wait, by “free” are you also expecting ad-free too?
I mean, it’d be nice, but no.
Who’s going to pay for the infrastructure if it’s free free? Are you going to be donating to them?
Mobile: Use Firefox Nightly with uBlock Origin and you must follow this https://adminswerk.de/spotify-web-on-android/
Just use the web version on Firefox with ublock origin. Been using the free version for years. You’ll get a few seconds of dead air now and then as a few ads cycle through without playing, but it’s far from the full length that the ad break is supposed to be.
I’m currently getting ad-free Spotify on Android using XManager
Is that on a specific store? Fdroid or something?
Yoo that still works? Xmanager shut down and I can’t get revanced to work. I’ve been running spotify with spotx on desktop
Did it shut down? I’m on their Discord server and I’m not seeing any sign that’s the case. Anyway it’s still working for me at least
I haven’t been able to use Spotify for a few months now :^(
Yes. Go Premium. No ads.
Simplest way. Spotify Duo here, not a lot of money per month, two accounts, works on my phone, computers, in my car. The car app is absolute horse shit, but I’m thinking of switching to Qobuz. Hopefully that’s better.
Yo, ho, haul together,
HOIST THE COLORS HIGH! 🏴☠️
Yes, but how? Keep in mind, I know nothing about computers, and rather little about the practice. I’ve downloaded a few pdfs, and I have a site that I use to watch a couple shows, but that’s it.
Soulseek comes to mind, which is still active and pretty easy to use.
I’m not an expert, ask in !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (btw, this comm is blocked by some instaces)
Yeah, those guys are cool lol
Do you have a torrent client installed? Do you know how to download using a torrent client? If you don’t have one yet then I can recommend qBitTorrent. It’s a well developed torrent client.
I can recommend watching some YouTube video on how torrenting works. It’s fairly straight forward. You basically download a small .torrent file (or use a magnet:url.
A magnet is the same as a torrent but there is nothing to download first. Just add the magnet address to your torrent client.
In the torrent client you then get a window that asks you where to place the downloaded file and also a few other tweaks you can do. Usually you only need to press OK and the download starts.
The hard part in sailing the high seas is finding good websites with the content you are looking for. Every torrent also needs another person to upload the file. If you have no one to download from then you will not get your file.
It is common courtesy to keep the torrent client running even after reaching 100%. This will help others download the file from you. This is the core feature of torrents. Everyone that downloads also helps with sharing the file. That’s how we keep spreading the data. As long as there is 1 person uploading, then the torrent will be alive.
Please note, a torrent can have 0 people sharing (Seeders) for the moment but might become active several hours later once another person turn on their computer and start sharing the file again.
I hope I didn’t ramble too much and you got something out of it. Best of luck!
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You can throw some money at artists periodically, some random $10 donation to whatever their fan site or on merch will probably net them more than a lifetime of listening to their stuff on Spotify, since streaming revenues add up to roughly five atoms of currency per stream or so.
Why does your comment sound like a jolly accordion?
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How does one go about that activity?
There’s a comm on lemmy.dbzer0.com. Alternatively, google FMHY. When I bailed from Spotify, I just used SpotDL to download all my music a playlist at a time. Worked fine, but might be a bit beyond your skill level to set that up.
Looks like it. I should probably start learning a bit about this sort of thing.
If you haven’t yet, I recommend checking out Soulseek
There are many ways to capture a stream
So you’re telling me to keep using Spotify but to also start buying some of the artists’ stuff sometimes?
Personally I just use Pandora and YouTube ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Adblock was assumed
Yo ho, yo ho…
radio
and it comes with free radio waves
its got ads but you don’t have to pay for them in bandwidth; the radio station pays for them.
get a radio
@FerretyFever0@fedia.io
There are literally thousands of free streaming radio stations on the Internet. This is a good place to start. Many have no ads, even.
ETA: That site I linked seems to be having problems ATM. This app for Android will get you going straight away. Hasn’t been updated in a couple years, but still works great, and even has a record function.
I mean … you are saying the same thing about Spotify.
You don’t want a solution … you want to argue. Ciaobaby
Reply to the wrong person? I’ve no idea what you’re on about.
I don’t think that most radio stations play much of what I listen to. My playlist is 7000 songs. I’m trying to sacrifice as little of it as I can.
Except ClearChannel has taken over a massive number of stations
Download music using Nicotine+, stream music from youtube.
Sorry it’s run by the devil, but it is free. On your phone you can listen without ads if you use an adblocker with the desktop version of the site.
You can also listen to internet radio using Pandora. Pithos is a free client that doesn’t play ads. Adblockers work on the desktop site, and you can download Blokada 5 from their website to block ads on the Android app.
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 automaticallyProns:
- 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
Just use
yt-dlp -x $SONG_URLto download the audio directly.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)
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
You just need -x?
I usedyt-dlp -t mp3 $partBehind?v=the entire time
Start stocking up on CDs and ripping them to FLAC yourself, and self-host those rips on an MPD server. Free streaming from a server you own and control the content on.
the Hoopla app is available for free through public libraries. you can download 15 items (music, movies, books) each month for a week at a time
Libraries typically have CDs too, which you can rip.
