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!

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    21·
    4 hours ago

    Free and ad-free music streaming (even with some limited local downloads!) supported through many public libraries:

    Freegal Music

    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.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 hours ago

    navidrome if you can self-host and is not the devil.

    no ethical consumption under capitalism besides that.

  • TheFonz@lemmy.world
    152·
    21 minutes ago

    I can’t believe no one has mentioned Radio Paradise. Good music. Free app on Android / iOS.

    Radio Paradise

    Also: SomaFM. Same as above: free, good content, not managed by the devil.

    Notable mention: Kexp, The Current

    • tnarg42@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 hours ago

      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.

      • TheFonz@lemmy.world
        1·
        21 minutes ago

        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

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      131·
      12 hours ago

      You guys must be new to online music scene…

      Your comment was wholesome until this part.

      • TheFonz@lemmy.world
        1·
        20 minutes ago

        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

        • Victor@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 minutes ago

          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! 🙃

  • MoonRaven@feddit.nl
    144·
    13 hours ago

    Buy on bandcamp and buy cds to rip them. Then host your own plex/jellyfin/subsonic server.

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
      8·
      17 hours ago

      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.

          • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world
            31·
            14 hours ago

            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!

  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
    36·
    18 hours ago

    🚢🦜⚓

    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.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    192·
    18 hours ago

    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

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
      9·
      16 hours ago

      @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.

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
      52·
      17 hours ago

      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.

  • well5H1T3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    14 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·
        8 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)

          • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            I can find it on Droidify, but there’s only a Share button, no install button :(

        • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
          1·
          8 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

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
      1·
      17 hours ago

      My friend told me to use Newpipe to download my music onto my phone. Had to watch a 45 second tiktok ad to download one song. Does it not normally have ads?

          • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
            3·
            17 hours ago

            It’s open source, so someone may have taken the code and added crap to it. Where did you get it? If it was the Play Store, then it may well be okay & someone just put ads in it to cash in on someone else’s work - happens all the time, unfortunately.

              • vateso5074@lemmy.world
                41·
                15 hours ago

                The Play Store is honestly full of malware, be careful.

                It makes it even more of an insult that Google wants to mandate a registry of approved developer accounts in the name of “security” when they can’t even guarantee the security of their own store.

      • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
        4·
        17 hours ago

        Get Droidify, which is an alternative front end for the F-Droid & Izzy app stores for Android. You can download numerous apps that stream ad-free from YouTube (many seem to be based on the same code with minor tweaks). NewPipe proper (without ads) is there, too. However, I recommend YTDLnis instead as it does a better job with the metadata - it’s on Izzy, which you can also use the Droidify app for.

      • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        I’ve never seen any ads. I think you downloaded a scam app. Newpipe is only on fdroid, or else direct download from their website

  • thepompe@ttrpg.network
    12·
    10 hours ago

    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.