Any advice?
I WANT OUT
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Any advice?
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Just stop listening to music.
Not gonna happen
You'd be surprised.
Your best bet is building a local collection. And go see music live you'll have more fun.
YouTube has songs on it, and not just officially uploaded ones.
Dont want youtube either, do I really have to go back to being an mp3 autist?
There is nothing wrong with an offline device that is free and get this, all the music in there is free as well.
This is the only way. If you're like me, you probably rarely listen to new music anyways, so it makes little sense to keep paying (or listening to ads) to play the same set of songs.
>keep paying (or listening to ads)
do zoomers UNIRONICALLY not use adblockers?
i have seen or heard an ad on youtube or spotify in over 10 years. not a single one.
what drives a zoomer to just go "fr fr this 2 min ad is hot ah!!"
I installed a modified YouTube app that blocks ads on my smart TV and my zoomer gf refuses to use it. She will close it and open the regular YouTube and when I ask her why she just says it feels weird without the ads.
They have been conditioned their entire lives.
I was referring to Spotify, which I do not use. My understanding was that they injected ads into the audio stream, so I'm assuming it's not possible to skip them.
they aren't. it's literally a track that is inserted between other tracks, and yes, ublock blocks them entirely.
The fuck is wrong with that
YouTube Music is just better.
If you only want to overcomplicate what already is there for you.
what the fuck is actually wrong with that? at least i dont need an internet connection to listen to my music, unlike you, kek
Zoomer spotted, depends on constant internet connection to do something as simple as listening to music
mp3 autist here. do it. after a schizo episode, I decided to delete every account I had on the internet aside from banking and a singular protonmail account. I used soundiiz to convert my spotify playlists into youtube playlists then used yt-dlp to download all of my playlists into mp3. I then bought picrel on amazon for like $35.
>why not just use your phone?
a number of reasons I won't get into. I have roughly 3000 songs on this which are all backed up on an external hard drive in case something were to happen to the mp3 player itself. feels good actually "owning" your music instead of being cucked by services like spotify or youtube that require an internet connection to operate if you don't opt for paid subscriptions. take the mp3 pill anon. I'm a zoomer too btw and my peers do give me some odd looks but they're the retarded ones, they just don't know it.
>YouTube has songs on it
True, I actually prefer some low quality songs from youtube compared to higher quality, because I got used to it.
I'm glad to be out. Now I have a better software selection and there is no need to pay each month. Spotify's search is still pretty good. Good luck, I won't recommend any piracy.
>Now I have a better software selection
are you going to tell me what it is cunt?
The music selection or the source? A lot of thrash metal, D&B and orchestral music are only available for download elsewhere. When it comes to where, <NO>, not only do I enjoy being a cunt, but I revel in it. (Beg a bit better and I'll give you something in return).
common israeli behaviour, enjoy autofellatio while you are at it
To be honest, while I'm not actually israeli, it seems likely that I have been genetically bred to have VERRY similar traits (you are not the first to mention this). Some also claim that "they" control the music industry, so would this not be against such behavior as you describe?
Anyways, h<ere are some sources (which I legally recommend you stay away from):
1. searx be's "Files" section may lead you to btdig com or other similar sites.
2. There exists many qBitTorrent search plugins (which can be downloaded from a site like GitHub).
3. 1337x to is a known piracy site, which I definitely wont recommend, because they currently have such a large selection of pirated music, games and other software.
I almost forgot SoulSeek.
I thought you were going to say you get all your DnB from DB9 and classic music from LzTr but then you fucking mentioned
>btdig.com
LOL
>1337x.to
LMAO
how new are you? holy shit
New, yes. And I'll continue to enjoy my FLAC copies of the classic 90s albums/singles (Good Looking Records included). But I must admit that I have been dying to get any organ compilation of Georg Böhm in lossless audio. Any clues?
soulseek retard
>Georg Böhm
site name?
redacted
it's a private tracker
enjoy you deezer "flac" transcodes from 1337x retard
>Any clues?
>Beg a bit better and I'll give you something in return
https://vox.rocks/blog/10-sites-for-buying-lossless-music-in-flac
>https://vox.rocks/blog/10-sites-for-buying-lossless-music-in-flac
LMAO "BUYING"
it's actually pretty good, better recommendations than apple music and youtube music
I haven't tried Apple Music, but in my experience the YouTube Music recommendations are better than Spotify.
an algorithm can't detect or recommend music when it's making money off of suggesting artists that pay for exposure. An algorithm can't detect what your tastes are to begin with, it's arbitrary and just a matter of rolling the dice. Whichever is 'better' is irrelevant. It's just a diceroll. Go listen to music you actually want to by searching for elements you like; learn to search rather than pretend an algorithm knows what's best for you. It doesn't, it just got lucky it served you an ad you happened to like
Not true. It's bad at the start, but the more you listen to the better it'll be at recommending things that's are of your taste. It's your own fault if all you listen to are top 40 bands. You need to make some effort to dig a little bit. But I've found some really cool stuff on Spotify on playlists it made for me that I would of never listened to on my own.
top 40 is not a taste, furthermore nothing I've said has been falsified by you
An algorithm will never rec you things with 20 views.
>my taste isn't predictable by an algorithm
yes it is buddy
>it's making money off of suggesting artists that pay for exposure
source lmfao?
Feel free to doubt whatever it is you think i said.
Set up a jellyfin media server and use the finamp app to stream your music
I din't want to troon out
Just delete your account. I did a bit ago and it was uncanny how quickly I got used to it. archive.org, youtube, blogspot, soulseek for getting music
I was in the same spot. I downloaded a music player on my phone & download/rip all my music from Slav Art, and rarer stuff from Soulseek, Soundcloud or VK. I have all metadata & cover art, I've never looked back and happily share my collection with people on Soulseek. Comfy.
If you want an algoyrithm, use a music player that connects to last.fm, or just make an account on RYM. If you're worried about phone space, either buy a microSD card (if you have an android) or use a cloud storage provider. Cloud storage is cheaper than you think, look up storage.market
>Slav Art
>VK
cheeki breeki
>RYM
dial8
>cheeki breeki
slav art isn't russian you complete retard
deezer
Use rutracker to pirate
https://libre.fm/listen.php
I got a cracked Tidal/Qobuz/Deezer account on Nulled.to and then use https://github.com/nathom/streamrip to rip a flac.
turntable, stereo receiver and a pair of floor standing klipsch loudspeakers. then start collecting vinyl
https://redacted.ch/
https://interviewfor.red/
i use xmanager on android and web player + adblock on desktop, i also rip any CDs i get
private trackers fucking suck
Is this a phonehomosexual problem? I use spotify through my browser on PC and see no need to ever pay for it. Especially when you block the ads.
buy second hand cds, own your music and dont give money to record labels at the same time
Why would anyone unironically use Spotify? You literally cannot listen to songs any higher than 300kbps
You can hear higher than transparency rate? How did you get a job to afford the HE-1? Or was it inheritance?
Spotify says lossless support is coming soon™ so we'll see how that pans out. I feel like 300kbps is a nitpick, if it was Pandora-tier or something with maxed out 192kbps quality then I'd understand, but not only does spotify have 320kbps support but it's on some improved lossy codec like vorbis or aac, literally nobody can tell the difference between that and a lossless copy unless you have superhuman hearing
>get a 3 month free trial for Tidal
> January: get recommended nothing but rap and black dudes
>listen to weeb music and rock, get recommended nothing but rap and black dudes
> February: Black History month: get recommended nothing but rap and black dudes after two months of liking and blocking stuff
>March: Women's History Month
I see. Ive also noticed that it has a horrible search engine. Ill search for an exact title and get stuff not even related to it as the top result. The ACTUAL song, with the exact name, does not show up. After looking up the singer I can find it near the middle of their "top" songs. The best and most enjoyable music streaming service is youtube.
Weak pasty white hands typed this post
apple music or collecting cds (or both for easy sync)
At least that way you get lossless music. 24bit on apples service, 16bit on cd.
I tried Spotify for the first time recently, I listen to a niche music genre and was trying to see if it would recommend me literally anything new. I got one dead band out of it but usually I find better shit through YouTube anyways.
The worst was the constant “get the vaccine” ads and everything else was just about naggers. I thought the term nagger exhaustion was a meme until Spotify. Holy shit.
Tip for non-paying anons that hate spotify ads. On desktop or phone, just close and re-open the app whenever you get an ad. Automatically cancels all ads and you can go back to what you were listening to. Takes about 3 seconds and beats having to listen to a minute of ads.
jesus at that point just use youtube with ublock anon
why are you so fucking poor jesus christ
just share your account with 3 other people and the cost is completely negligible
soulseek? youtube? rutracker?
none of these are good alternatives imo. Spotify is that one normie service that is actually worth it.
Pedos get the rope.
Just rip CDs
go to slavart, download the music for free from Spotify and save locally
this?
https://divolt.xyz/invite/TStW7rFg
youtube-dl --ignore-errors --format bestaudio --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 160K --output "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --yes-playlist
then either tag the mp3s manually or use something like picard to scan and do it automatically.
>it takes too long
Try actually listening to music for once and not just consuming next product.
Is there anything (free preferably) that does the "daily mixes" and/or "discovery mix" that spotify does?
lmaoing at the boomers itt giving 'advice'
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
https://github.com/amd64fox/SpotX
https://music.youtube.com
not really giving much to work with aside from no youtube lol
only real alternatives are tidal, qobuz, or storing it locally.
storing it locally is ideal. you can use lidarr-extended to download tracks from tidal if you have a sub. I mainly use spotify, but sync my spotify likes/playlists to lidarr and then have it rip the tracks off tidal if they exist there.
I don't mind paying for an extra sub because tidal's ui & recc engine is absolute dogshit but I still want local copies and don't want to bother letting random nerds leech off my cpu cycles if I can just steal it straight from unethical corporations
for local access it's really however you want. roon was super cool but cost money and refused to play nice with my dac - its recommendation engine is the only other music discovery service in existence that matches up to spotify, but it's geared more towards full albums than individual tracks
i settled on plex for convenience for remote streaming and fall back to that sometimes
otherwise, for a local client I used to use musicbee but it runs like shit so I just stick to fb2k lmao
docker run slskd
docker run jackett
docker run deluge
docker run jellyfin
It's that simple. If you want recommendations as well and you live in the EU/CA then get a full data export and import to last.fm/libre.fm
>full data export
how?
10 years a pirate, now I'm paying $10 a month and never looking back.
Just pirate every single song yoy like.
At the end of the day this. But using Spotify or something to find more new music to download is good.
Apple Music is the best allrounder when it comes to streaming music. It's better than Spotify in the area that is the most important: sound quality. The standard codec used by Apple is superior compared to Spotify's highest quality codec. On top of that, lossless is included in the base price in Apple Music. Apple Music also has a bigger library and there are some great artists that are on Apple Music, but not on Spotify. What Spotify does do better is music recommendations and user created playlist. Sharing music with friends on Spotify is also better.
Apple have always cared about sound quality, especially because of Steve Jobs was an audiophile. Their audio products are also good competitors and are good audio quality wise.
yt-dlp and foobar2000
lemme guess, you need more
How big are your libraries? I have around 15000 songs it Spotify that would take literal ages. Even my boomer dad has probably 30k songs on CDs.
I used one of the GitHub scripts to rip my entire library from Spotify to local over the course of a month. I still use the free version on occasion for the discovery features and it's not too bad to pull new stuff to my offline store.
>I used one of the GitHub scripts to rip my entire library from Spotify to local over the course of a month
Can you explain how to do this? Spotify's already removed a few things I've liked on there, and I'm confident it's going to eventually happen again.
I think this guy posted it
There is also zspotify, or just write your own script with libspotify.
there's a special place in my heart for foobar
Plexamp ?
>Any advice?
apple music lossless sounds pretty fucking good. free spotify is awful. They have the most woke "muh black lesbians" (literally) ads every 2 songs. for that reason I will never pay them another fucking dime.
other than that, I think I am going to put more effort into ripping my own CDs. 5th gen ipod's are kickass.
The only thing with Spotify is that if you only ever listen to one genre you will absolutely run out of recommendations. You have to broaden your tastes if you're going to ever find new music. Like if I only ever listened to Doom metal and only listen to the playlist Spotify made for me, I would think Spotify sucks because I'm not getting enough new recommendations. So you have to take baby steps outside of your genre and then you'll find recommendations that combine Doom metal with this other stuff and that's where the cool music is.
just download a sketchy modded apk
Download your playlists in CSV format and write a shell script to use elinks to grab URLs from YouTube and download them with yt-dlp.
I did this and after I removed the hundreds of Indian scam videos I had all my music off line.
Nicotine Plus, a NAS, and Roon Remote and Roon ARC
>Any advice?
If you like getting suggestions don't take Deezer - their algorithm is terrible.
Other than that it's alright.
Turn on the record player
ytdlp or google "album name.flac download" and virus scan it. or just stop listening to music.
idk man just use a streaming service if you value your time and if you don't just dl everything from slsk. Personally I only dl albums I like/expect to like so I can self host or whatever but use streaming on the go or for anything I'm expecting to not be huge on. TBF 40% of my library at least isn't on streaming so if you've been on spotify for this long without issue there isn't a reason to jump ship unless you have an actual reason
Get free trials from best buy for Apple music every few months
>youtube
>search "[game ost] extended 30 minutes"
Let me guess, you need more?
Just go to concerts?
Download them, nagger.
>ads
nagger wtf ru doin
use web player with ublock
no ads
Use ViMusic on your phone and invidious on your laptop. It's literally that easy.