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!
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.
navidrome if you can self-host and is not the devil.
no ethical consumption under capitalism besides that.
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.
I haven’t tried is, as I only use it for YouTube, but I see a lot of spotify-related patches in ReVanced.
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?
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.
Mobile: Use Firefox Nightly with uBlock Origin and you must follow this https://adminswerk.de/spotify-web-on-android/
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
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.
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! 🙃
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.
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 :)
This is the way.
🚢🦜⚓
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.
So you’re telling me to keep using Spotify but to also start buying some of the artists’ stuff sometimes?
Yo ho, yo ho…
Torrent + Winamp
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
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
Or skip the middleman, and just use YTDLnis on Android to grab from YT directly.
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)
YTDLnis is an Android version that’s available on the Izzy store.
I can find it on Droidify, but there’s only a Share button, no install button :(
That usually means it’s not compatible with your device. They only make a 64-bit version available (ARM64-v8a) on Izzy, and require a minimum of Android 7 with a target of Android 15. If you don’t meet that, then try from the project site - the current release is here. If you’re not sure which version to get, then download the one with “universal” in the filename - it’s got all three main CPU architecture builds in it so it’s three times the size, but if it’s going to work at all on your device that version of the APK will have 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
Youtube
- Is free
Use uBlock on desktop and NewPipe on android to remove ads
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?
I think you might have downloaded a fake Newpipe…
Did I download malware like a fucking toddler? God dammit.
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.
Just the playstore. I deleted it earlier. Couldn’t find it again when I looked just now.
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.
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.
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
Gotcha. Well, now I have the real one. That’s good.
https://github.com/mostafaalagamy/Metrolist alternate youtube music app. youtube account recommended. no ads. frequent updates. oled support.
https://github.com/badmannersteam/murglar-downloads/releases desktop and droid app. supports russian stream services, deezer, soundcloud. no ads.
https://moddroid.com/apps/music/deezer-hq/ cracked deezer. no ads.
you can look around for cracked spotify or other cracked stuff on the mobilism forums, but spotify sometimes bans those cliens, and might shadowban your account as well.
whatever you do, you gonna support the devil by choosing any mainstream music service. so keep using them for free and support the bands with money or going to concerts. discs are overrated, merch gives them low commission.
if you wait a few hours the “you should selfhost” comments will arrive.
