Download all your favorite music locally, and back it up so you can keep it forever.
You can use tools like MusicBrainz Picard to add proper metadata to all your music, and use fully-customizable music players like MusicBee to perfect your listening experience.
based, I have a giant folder full of random soviet/anime songs I've liked for a little bit and downloaded for no reason, sorted in a half-complete and obsessive way in 'properties' by my characters I think fit with them best.
on that note, here's a handy tool to download Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata from YouTube https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader
I'll plug a little known project that downloads it all from Spotify. It's called Zotify. https://gitlab.com/team-zotify/zotify The setup is a little less user friendly but it works pretty well.
I've used spotiflier I think it's called from f-droid app "store". It's alright, pulls music from YouTube and the playlists from Spotify
nobody pirates FLACs these days
There's two private trackers for music full of FLACs: RED and OPS
Soulseek is great and I'll one day regret not using it more instead of Spotify.
i use soulseek all the time and i see tons of flacs to the point of it being annoying because i put mp3s on my phone still and they take up too much space, i stick with 320kbps mp3
I am a high quality music from soulseek/rutracker on:
- a shanling q1
- an sbc running navidrome behind tailscale
kind of guy
The YouTube music Vanced/cracked Spotify user in the corner:
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Spotify sucks. Youtube sucks. MP3s suck.
https://newpipe.net/ (for mobile, playlists, background play, no ads)
https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube (desktop youtube app, no ads)
If you have an android phone, you can just seach for "Spotify premium apk" and you can find a cracked Spotify premium.
But if music is "your thing", then there really is no substitute for the library of FLACs available on private torrent trackers for music. What.CD has been down 8 years now (rip), but RED and OPS exist.
You can pass an interview on IRC to get into the trackers. The interview is a short test about file formats, rules and transcoding, they give you the page where to learn it all.
https://interviewfor.red/en/starting.html
https://interview.orpheus.network/starting-the-interview.php
For a lossy format alternative to mp3 try (ogg) vorbis.
tbh spotify solved a lot of headaches I had with organizing my music. I used to torrent full discographies from artists I discovered and organize the files on my PC which took up a lot of space. Eventually I started converting the mp3s to lower bitrates to save on space lol. I also had to spend time and harmonize the album titles and song titles within the folders because sometimes when you download music torrents the ripper likes to put a bunch of stuff or write everything in all caps. Spotify essentially does all that categorizing for me and with Spicetify I don't even get ads anymore and I'm still on the free plan.
Only thing I don't like with them is the algorithm, it's so bad. Youtube's is much better, google hasn't enshitified that yet at least.
Try private torrent trackers, they have rules on tags/labels as well as quality control. It is much better to rip from FLAC -> 256kbps mp3 than it is to rip from 320kbps mp3 -> 256kbps mp3.
Yoo does Spotube remove ads too? That's exactly what I was looking for on mobile
Yep, it can use your Spotify account if you want to play mport your playlists and doesn't have ads because it fetches the music from YouTube.
It looks like YouTube did something to their API and a bunch of apps that use it are not working, including Piped, but some solution is being worked on.
Thanks for the second sentence actually, I decided to download the app and it looks great but it couldn't play anything, and I was wondering if it was bc I have a Huawei phone without google services.
Unfortunately it seems free APIs are now becoming a thing of the past :(
Yeah, bad timing on my end to recommend it lol. From the little I read on their GitHub, I don't think the API change was intentional to break stuff, just so happens to do so, but I could be wrong. Hopefully it gets solved soon enough, at least there is already a pull request to that fixes it.
Naah just gotta wait until they fix it and it'll be smooth sailing. Hope it works as well with my headphones and in the car as Spotify does.
Hey, just a heads up, Spotube should be fixed right now when using the Youtube backend in the settings.
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The Piped backend looks to still be broken tho.
Thanks! I wouldn't have checked otherwise lol. It works now! Youtube is good enough for me lol
