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    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    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.

    [–] lemann@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Oh thank you for this 😍

    [–] mihnt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

    +1

    For real been looking for something like this since I switched.

    [–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    What is its source? Torrents in background?

    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    From what I could find, Deezer using free trial Deezer HiFi accounts.

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    [–] zweieuro@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] gianmarco@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The fact you're using a libre client that doesn't do extra data collection.

    [–] zweieuro@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Anything you do in the UI has some associated backend request (everything relevant at least). Search queries, loading albums, skipping, changing settings, anything is just a Web requ on their backend server which could still be collected. The custom ui does not save you from relevant data collection. Only thing potentially not getting tracked is empty navigation between tabs, but there is not a lot of info in tab switching

    [–] gianmarco@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's what I meant by "extra data collection," it just gets data that has to do with what you do on the server, which is significant, but you're still protected from kinds of local collection (e.g.: device model, IMEI if possible, screen resolution, networks you connect to, etc.) other than not having analytics trackers and ads. It may sound a bit crazy, but it is possible to collect this kind of stuff to fingerprint you, just like browser fingerprinting.

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    [–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

    Let's see how long until Spotify kills it.

    [–] Carter@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago

    Spotube is too laggy for my liking. Innertune is my preferred streaming app that isn't self hosted.

    [–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    TIL that there are open source clients for spotify. time to go down another rabbit hole, thanks linux.

    [–] portside@monyet.cc 4 points 1 year ago

    Youtube music too, YT Music Revanced for modded app.

    Innertune, Vi Music if you prefer FOSS clients

    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago

    Ah yes Spotube, for when I want to hear a song 2 minutes from now after it finally buffers.

    [–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I use YT Music with UBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie manager and Dark Reader. Works like a charm, no advertisements

    [–] iamak@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You might like ViMusic. It is a 3rd party client for YT music. I started using it recently and really liked the UI.

    [–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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

    [–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

    [–] ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

    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.

    [–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] XaeroDegreaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

    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

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    [–] Ignacio@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

    You forget PC users do also exist.

    [–] tfkhdyt@lemmy.my.id 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] andrew1412@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've always preferred YT Music over Spotify, now I use InnerTune in Android and Monophony on Pc and it's all I need.

    [–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I just tried InnerTune, seems neat, but how do you add an artist to your library?

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    [–] Interstellar_1@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

    I always found spotube to be so slow.

    [–] regalia@literature.cafe 6 points 1 year ago

    InnerTune way better

    [–] usedtobelurking@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    thanks for the meme, now i know spotify has open-source client

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    [–] SneakyWeasel@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I just download the songs and play them off of Musicolet.

    [–] portside@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago

    Musicolet is nice, I've started syncing lyrics to my downloaded songs, it's a nice activity to kill time.

    [–] Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    When I'm playing a song the app is making this noise similar to when an audio cable isn't plugged in all the way, like a high pitched buzzing noise. Kind of a bummer, but so is paying 10.99 for Spotify premium.

    [–] Espi@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] deven@kerala.party 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Who needs spotify when we have vi music.

    [–] havokdj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    I remember when I heard the free software song first played on vi music!

    [–] EbonyEarl@lemmy.fmhy.net 3 points 1 year ago

    Buffering takes an eternity.

    [–] havokdj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] WiildFiire@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have to pay $20

    for free

    So which is it, is it free, or is it $20?

    [–] mggnn@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

    I have to pay 20$ for a can of beer ….

    I can drink it for free.

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    [–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] havokdj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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!

    [–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    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

    [–] havokdj@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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