free-mp3-download.net (but don’t forget to backup your music collection)
Edit: Unlike what the website name suggests, it allows you to download FLACs, and not just MP3s. These come from Deezer HiFi.
Oh thank you for this 😍
+1
For real been looking for something like this since I switched.
What is its source? Torrents in background?
From what I could find, Deezer using free trial Deezer HiFi accounts.
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Why not just use yt-dlp?
I used to do that, but oftentimes what you find on YouTube is multi-generation lossy re-encodes which can sound poor with earphones.
I still rip from YouTube if certain songs are not on Deezer or flacmusicfinder.com.
Also, this is faster.Yt-dlp can rip from a lot of website though, not just youtube. Here’s a full list
I end up downloading these as webm, and exporting the audio to MP3 in Audacity. It’s a bit annoying for remixes that aren’t put on SoundCloud by the original uploader, and the audio quality difference can be noticeable sometimes ☹️
Thank you, you just changed my life.
As much as I am a fam of alternative Software and such, what are actual advantages of using spotube over Spotify premium? Disregarding the membership fee.
Let’s see how long until Spotify kills it.
Spotube is too laggy for my liking. Innertune is my preferred streaming app that isn’t self hosted.
TIL that there are open source clients for spotify. time to go down another rabbit hole, thanks linux.
Youtube music too, YT Music Revanced for modded app.
Innertune, Vi Music if you prefer FOSS clients
Ah yes Spotube, for when I want to hear a song 2 minutes from now after it finally buffers.
I use YT Music with UBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie manager and Dark Reader. Works like a charm, no advertisements
You might like ViMusic. It is a 3rd party client for YT music. I started using it recently and really liked the UI.
Yeah ViMusic is pretty good for what it is, but it’s not really better than the original YouTube music client.
My main complaint is that the sound quality is worse than YouTube Music with YouTube premium and that you’re not able to cast to other devices
Also, I don’t like how lyrics are displayed
You forget PC users do also exist.
I just keep downloading albums of MP3s like I have since the late 90s. It used to take hours and half the songs were mislabeled and real sketchy quality. Now, it takes seconds to download an entire album, and they’re almost always correctly labeled and high quality. I tried Spotify for a while, but it really seemed like it was for attention span deprived people who want something different every song. Gimme full albums any day.
Eh, I’m a full album guy (Pink Floyd ftw) but I still enjoy Spotify. I’ve been introduced to a lot of good music I probably wouldn’t have found otherwise, and sometimes I’m just not in the mood to commit to a full album.
I like the concept of original spotify, but this new one where they give joe fuckwit rogan billions and then screw musicians around for fractions of a cent per playback kinda turned me off of their model.
Maybe I used it wrong, but I joined for a few months, and just used it to search up artists I already knew and listen. And then, I found it less convenient than my MP3 collection which easily fits on an SD card or my phone’s drive. I only very periodically search for new music. And I usually end up obsessing over one artist for a long time before moving onto another. We’re talking months to years. I’ve been listening to almost nothing but Rush for a few months now. I was never a fan growing up, but decided to give their whole discography a fair shot. Now, I can’t stop listening to Rush.
Something you may be interested in is the “Artist Radio” feature. You start out by searching artists/song you know (like you said you already did) and then it will search out other artists that you may enjoy.
I’ve been introduced to a ton of great artists from all over the world this way. It’s one of the coolest features of the platform
Yeh I feel you, I used to be the same way actually. Gradually over time my habits changed and now I look forward to the Discovery playlist each week. But I totally get where you’re coming from, I used to just listen to the same artist over and over ha ha.
What are you finding works well for that?
I download quite a bit from YouTube, but sometimes the quality is variable
Anything remotely popular will end up in a torrent somewhere. Anything harder to find, there’s Soulseek.
Didn’t know about Soulseek, thanks :-)
Now, it takes seconds
Maybe if you have fast internet
True. I am biased because I’ve lived in Korea the past twenty years. Internet access is ridiculously fast, cheap, and ubiquitous here.
I just tried InnerTune, seems neat, but how do you add an artist to your library?
You can press the favorite icon on the top right (heart symbol)
I just download the songs and play them off of Musicolet.
Musicolet is nice, I’ve started syncing lyrics to my downloaded songs, it’s a nice activity to kill time.
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thanks for the meme, now i know spotify has open-source client
Also see comments and their suggestions
Does anyone know of a Spotify client that works on ARM? I put an Orange Pi 5 as a smart TV box but Spotify doesn’t work in the browser because no Widevine on aarch64 Firefox.
The poor Orange Pi can also barely play video without dropping frames, the GPU drivers are awful. I might try to uninstall them and just do software-rendering everything.
Spot is okay.
Tidal HiFi + tidal-tdl is the best combo
Yes I have to pay $20, but I basically get like hundreds of dollars of music downloaded at their highest possible fidelity for free. Slap that shit on my DAP.
Literally better than soulseek because you can get obscure music in 48khz/24 bit that doesn’t even exist as an mp3 on that platform.
I have to pay $20
for free
So which is it, is it free, or is it $20?
I have to pay 20$ for a can of beer ….
I can drink it for free.
Fair point
Fyi: you don’t get the songs in the highest quality. They’re actually compressed, because Tidal HiFi isn’t actually lossless. This video goes more in deph: https://youtu.be/pRjsu9-Vznc?si=8Az9OhX-Y0dhEz2A
If you want lossless, use Deezer and something like Deemix. In my experience it also has more nieche music than Tidal.
AAAAAAAAGH, you sent me down a rabbithole again! To be fair, a lot of the music I listen to probably only exists in CD quality at best, but if I’m going to pay money I want the option of having the best there is. Thanks for letting me know about this!
Well you won’t find anything better than CD quality on any streaming service since it’s pretty large. A single FLAC can be a few hundred MBs large and you won’t really be able to tell the difference. Also it’s extremely rare
There still are some services where you can buy lossless music in higher quality, but Tidal isn’t one of them
Do you think I should switch then? Is deezer just a better deal overall? I never bought into the MQA hype so I’m solely asking on an audio quality basis.
There is also Qobuz, which offers 96 kHz/24 bit streaming if you live in a supported country
