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! Edit: Thanks for all the replies and advice! Unfortunately, I’m too stupid for almost all of it, but I appreciate it anyways. The solution I went with is using Newpipe on Android and a Spotify adblocker called Blockify on pc. Have a good day!
Did you know you can play music without a service?
Get music, press play. Amazing!
Been doing it for decadesI usually just use YouTube
isn’t run by the devil
What app is that?
Tidal and Deezer are pretty devilish as they support Israel
FUCK! I switched from spotify to Tidal… Any other paid app you can recommend that isn’t supporting a genocide and generally less shitty to artists, and like everyone?
EDIT: Qobuz seems to be recommended, gonna have a look… or maybe do some light sailing… really don’t want to go back to doing fucking interviews for what.cd (now-defunct) and spend hours organising shit.
Piracy :3
Free and ad-free music streaming (even with some limited local downloads!) supported through many public libraries:
Create your account with your public library card and gain access to all the music unlimited ad-free streaming. I also get 5 free downloads of songs a week for local storage, but I don’t know if that varies by library. There is a web client and the Android app is pretty decent too.
This is cool. Not avilable in Drumpf land though.
Sadly I’m in the same type of land, but it is available in my library system. In my state, you are allowed to get a library card at any public library in the state. Even if your public library system may not have it, the next down over and if your state works the same as mine, you could get a library card there and use the service for free.
Texas:
Alabama:
South Carolina:
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.
xManager spotify. It that still works…
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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.
Super easy and still works
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?
I don’t care if there’s ads. I care if I have to pay my hard earned doubloons to some random company so they can fund a genocide.
But… the ad money from you hearing the ads can fund genocide. What’s the difference between giving them your money or your attention? The money is all the same to them.
That’s why I’m trying to get off of spotify. And the difference would only be that I get to keep a large amount of money.
I’m currently getting ad-free Spotify on Android using XManager
Is that on a specific store? Fdroid or something?
You have to get it from their Discord server or website
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
Yoooo could you maybe dm a link to that discord server pretty please
I haven’t been able to use Spotify for a few months now :^(
Mobile: Use Firefox Nightly with uBlock Origin and you must follow this https://adminswerk.de/spotify-web-on-android/
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.
navidrome if you can self-host and is not the devil.
no ethical consumption under capitalism besides that.
🚢🦜⚓
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…
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!
Buy on bandcamp and buy cds to rip them. Then host your own plex/jellyfin/subsonic server.
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 :)
Op said free, also hosting your own server isn’t something everyone has the knowledge, time, and resources to do.
This is the way.
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
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.
It’s pretty amazing and scartches a weird itch I can’t get elsewhere. But I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea
You guys must be new to online music scene…
Your comment was wholesome until this part.
Lemmy: You’re too sensitive. Don’t take online comments too seriously. A lot gets lost in text (tone, for instance). It was meant more tongue in cheek. We’re all Kumbaya here. I took it out anyway. Cheers
sensitive
Well I wasn’t hurt by it 😆 I’m just saying… You keep using the same tone though, with the new comment, by calling me too sensitive. You took it out of the first comment and inserted it into the follow-up 😂 Good job! 🙃
Maybe pick a few radio stations you like.
I donated to rtrfm.com.auThere’s a local non-profit station that plays the wildest stuff, and you never know what you’re going to get. They play stuff I’ve never heard of about 70% of the time.
They’re great! And free of course.
Ofc it’s in Oregon lol. Thanks for the recommendation.
Psst… https://fmhy.pages.dev/
or just fmhy.net in short
