👀👀spotify bad; spotube good

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.
- Oh thank you for this 😍
  
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  For real been looking for something like this since I switched.
- What is its source? Torrents in background?
  
  From what I could find, Deezer using free trial Deezer HiFi accounts.
- Thank you, you just changed my life.
- Why not just use yt-dlp?
  
  I used to do that, but oftentimes what you find on YouTube is multi-generation lossy re-encodes which can sound poor with earphones.
  I still rip from YouTube if certain songs are not on Deezer or flacmusicfinder.com.
  Also, this is faster.

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

Let's see how long until Spotify kills it.

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

TIL that there are open source clients for spotify. time to go down another rabbit hole, thanks linux.
- Youtube music too, YT Music Revanced for modded app.
  Innertune, Vi Music if you prefer FOSS clients

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

I use YT Music with UBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie manager and Dark Reader. Works like a charm, no advertisements
- You might like ViMusic. It is a 3rd party client for YT music. I started using it recently and really liked the UI.
  
  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

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.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
- What are you finding works well for that?
  I download quite a bit from YouTube, but sometimes the quality is variable
  
  Anything remotely popular will end up in a torrent somewhere. Anything harder to find, there's Soulseek.
- Now, it takes seconds
  Maybe if you have fast internet
  
  True. I am biased because I've lived in Korea the past twenty years. Internet access is ridiculously fast, cheap, and ubiquitous here.

You forget PC users do also exist.

ViMusic enjoyer
- Do you run it in Waydroid?
  
  No, i use it on my phone

I've always preferred YT Music over Spotify, now I use InnerTune in Android and Monophony on Pc and it's all I need.
- I just tried InnerTune, seems neat, but how do you add an artist to your library?
  
  You can press the favorite icon on the top right (heart symbol)

I just download the songs and play them off of Musicolet.
- Musicolet is nice, I've started syncing lyrics to my downloaded songs, it's a nice activity to kill time.

thanks for the meme, now i know spotify has open-source client
- Also see comments and their suggestions

I always found spotube to be so slow.

InnerTune way better

Who needs spotify when we have vi music.
- I remember when I heard the free software song first played on vi music!

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.
- Spot is okay.
  https://github.com/xou816/spot

Buffering takes an eternity.

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.
- I have to pay $20
  for free
  So which is it, is it free, or is it $20?
  
  I have to pay 20$ for a can of beer ….
  I can drink it for free.
  
  Fair point
- 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.
  
  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!
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/pRjsu9-Vznc?si=8Az9OhX-Y0dhEz2A
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
  
  There is also Qobuz, which offers 96 kHz/24 bit streaming if you live in a supported country

Spotube was good but often slow and didn't even work sometimes so I just switched back to the pirated and cracked version of Spotify premium

Spotube is currently very buggy. After one song it often stops the playback instead of continuing for example. But if this is fixed, it's a very decent Spotify alternative.

spotube works good on my mobile network, automatic win

Wxcited to try this on my pos kindle from 2015