post
CDs + locally saved files. Like with movies, we have quit using all streaming services and we own the media we watch... or we don't watch them.
Not sure why nobody mentioned it yet, but I switched to Metrolist a while back when RiMusic/ViMusic stopped working. Never had to look back and never had issues so far.
🏴☠️
Qobuz (pronounced Co-buzz). Based out of France.
youtube-dl your songs.
Buy music and then upload it to your phone. Thats what I do. You can get 10-15 albums for the cost of 1 year of YouTube Music. You could have 30 albums in just 2 years. Music that won't go away increase in price, and the Apps you can use to play them won't show you ads even after you pay for your music
I use Musify from F-droid for what your describing.
To be honest though I only really listen to my offline collection and radio/internet radio for discovering new music.
Check out The Indie Beat. It's an internet radio station playing music from artists on the Fediverse, like Radio Free Fedi used to. All my favourite discoveries from the last couple of years have been by or via Fedi artists.
Purchase DRM free music to have locally. HDTracks and 7Digital are two great resources
I've been loving Qobuz so far. Migrating our family was easier than I thought.
Plus it comes with a free music migration tool.
Qobuz distributed royalties due to labels and publishers corresponding to an average amount of US$0.01873 per stream
This means that Qobuz generates on average five times more revenue per user than the market average,
How much does Spotify pay per stream?
Spotify pays artists between $0.003 - $0.005 per stream on average.
That works out as an approx revenue split of 70/30 - so that’s 70% to the artist/rights holders and 30% to Spotify.
Funkwhale may worth a look: https://www.funkwhale.audio/ I used for quite some time and was nice, the main issue was the unmaintained Android app.
I'll get downvoted but to find music and have a tiny hair of privacy Apple Music may be efficient for the mainstream audience.
I download the audio that I like and store in a local server but I can't expect every person in the world doing the same.
I have been googling my life for a few years.
🫠
What are you using?
I "steal" the music and either have it locally on my devices or stream it through VPN from my home server.
Coincidentally, I use PipePipe to download the audio from YouTube music videos. Been using it more than torrents for quite some time.
If you have a NextCloud instance with NextCloud Music app installed you can use its Ampache or Subsonic API implementation with a client in your devices (I recommend Ampache as the implementation is a literal server clone).
If not, as other people suggested Funkwhale.
If you still depend on YT Music, there is RiMusic as a client but prolly will give you errors too after some time if your network is denylisted.
Lidarr + Deemix + Navidrome + Tailscale + Symfonium
Absolutely flawless and beautifully automated.
If that YSK post about Deezer's main shareholder CEO wouldn't have come out, then I would have suggested that, since that's what me and my friends are using in the family plan after being disappointed with Tidal as a Spotify alternative.
Plexamp with music stored on my homelab
I'm using SoundCloud via the browser. I enjoy the suggestions, keeping things fresh.
For offline on mobile I use their app which does have an offline mode for your "Liked" songs and specific playlists.
If I wanted an offline library proper, I'd sail the high seas but I personally do not feel the need for it for now.
Apps that depend on ytmusic (like OuterTune) are not reliable, but you can try RiMusic, it works for me currently.
I use InnerTune with proton VPN (though I had to exclude it in the split tunneling setting) and all works just fine.
I buy music from Amazon music, hd tracks or band camp it's all drm free and put it on my server behind a subsonic based server . That'll give you the closest to a streaming service. Otherwise just sync music on your phone old school.
Sabnzb + lidarr + jellyfin/finamp?
top 45 comments