CDs nuts

I just moved to qobuz and although it's missing some releases, the discovery is leagues beyond what Spotify has become.

I've found more new bands to follow in the past 3 months than in the prior 4 years of Spotify.

If it's just a matter of data usage, YT premium caches music and I set the quality lower when streaming on mobile, so it uses a negligible amount of data for me.

Tidal is the shit

I will say, I've discovered more music from small artists through recommendation algorithms than I otherwise would have, by a large amount. It's one of the few areas where I'm fine with algorithmic recommendations, cause it's not really trying to push me down a political rabbit hole to change who I am.

There’s dozens of us! Dozens!

But frfr, I’m always surprised when I open it and it’s still going. Feels more like they are being funded by a few eccentric billionaires than anything else these days.

If I ever want anyone to know I'm old, I either tell them about the snowstorm of '32 or that I use Pandora. Still got all my stations from college!

At least for red facism you can use a patched apk and get all features (except download)

Where's the blue one?

I'm over here using Spotiamp to listen to my Spotify playlists through Winamp as a Shoutcast.

It's somewhat there, I guess.

I'm on Navidrome for music, and use AudioMuse and its Navidrome plugin for (as far as I can tell) Sonic Analysis like functionality.

AudioMuse should be available for Jellyfin as well.

That was my thought before I stopped giving money to American companies. Another huge perk was the ability to add YouTube videos to music playlists for those odd songs that were never officially published.

"ad-free youtube"

Weird, my YouTube is always ad free, and I can skip sponsored content. Without paying a cent.

Ad blockers and sponsor block for desktop, and a revanced modified version of the youtube app and I haven't seen a YouTube ad in several years.

I use an alternate frontend to YouTube - PipePipe, and I see no ads and can listen to the audio with my phone locked.

I also use a FOSS music app called Musify that scrapes the audio off of YouTube videos. I can download the audio too.

Point is, don't give Google money if you don't have to!

Qobuz streaming literally includes this service as the first step after signing up for a free trial. It copies all of your Spotify playlists and collections and creates exact replicates in Qobuz to use immediately. Worked flawlessly for me.

you can also use last.fm to build recommendations based off your MP3 collection you play.

also, you can learn about music genres, and investigate the bands/musicians and their connections to each other.

Pandora is also an alternative.

i dont have enough storage or money to do that, otherwise i would

I've discovered so many artists because of Spotify, I need to give it credit where it's due. And I have bought concert tickets and physical and digital media of artists that I have discovered solely because of Spotify. It is far from perfect, but there's been an upside to my use.

So I do both, but I love finding new music.

As I always say: I am my own spotify.

YouTube Music

Please do not the SD card.

You dumb fuck