I’ve been trying to get off of Spotify for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, I don’t have the money to spend on a Deezer or Tidal subscription, which is required to listen to more than 30 seconds of a song. I also have an extremely large playlist that needs transferring, so I need an unlimited version of FreeYourMusic if it exists. Thanks!

  • MoonRaven@feddit.nl
    81·
    1 hour ago

    Buy on bandcamp and buy cds to rip them. Then host your own plex/jellyfin/subsonic server.

    • ook@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      13 minutes ago

      I mean, that’s cool but OP even wrote the “free” part in capitals. Not saying it is realistic to ask for that but it’s pretty clear they don’t want to pay.

  • TheFonz@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 hour ago

    I can’t believe no one has mentioned Radio Paradise. Good music. Free app on Android / iOS.

    Radio Paradise

    Also: SomaFM. Same as above: free, good content, not managed by the devil.

    Notable mention: Kexp, The Current

    You guys must be new to online music scene…

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
      8·
      4 hours ago

      I see. Good to know. Is there a decent way to block ads on Spotify completely? Either on mobile or desktop.

      • verdigris@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 hour ago

        Just use the web version on Firefox with ublock origin. Been using the free version for years. You’ll get a few seconds of dead air now and then as a few ads cycle through without playing, but it’s far from the full length that the ad break is supposed to be.

  • well5H1T3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    1 hour ago

    Shazam app with youtube.com plus ezmp3.cc

    Long answer:

    Cloud infrastructure is expensive. You won’t find any free streaming platform.

    The best route is to manage your own Playlist manually.

    Workflow:

    Interesting music playing on radio/party

    -‐> shazam to know title and artist 

-‐> search youtube.com for that title and artist 

--> copy url of video that best matches 

--> paste url on ezmp3.cc for converting to audio 

--> await conversion, download generated audio 

--> Use a smart-mp3-tags app to add tags and album art automatically

    Prons:

    • until now, i’ve paid $0 for music I listen to. Evil bastard, I know. I, however, have bought poweramp for $5. Best purchase yet.
    • you will find any music this way no matter how niche and weird it is. Unlike surfing the pirate ship
    • bonus: you most definitely will find your favorite audiobooks.

    Cons:

    • no music discovery features. Which is truly the only downside you can’t replace.
    • no backup in case of device loss, so you better make copies manually
    • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
      6·
      5 hours ago

      Yes, but how? Keep in mind, I know nothing about computers, and rather little about the practice. I’ve downloaded a few pdfs, and I have a site that I use to watch a couple shows, but that’s it.

          • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world
            11·
            2 hours ago

            Do you have a torrent client installed? Do you know how to download using a torrent client? If you don’t have one yet then I can recommend qBitTorrent. It’s a well developed torrent client.

            I can recommend watching some YouTube video on how torrenting works. It’s fairly straight forward. You basically download a small .torrent file (or use a magnet:url.

            A magnet is the same as a torrent but there is nothing to download first. Just add the magnet address to your torrent client.

            In the torrent client you then get a window that asks you where to place the downloaded file and also a few other tweaks you can do. Usually you only need to press OK and the download starts.

            The hard part in sailing the high seas is finding good websites with the content you are looking for. Every torrent also needs another person to upload the file. If you have no one to download from then you will not get your file.

            It is common courtesy to keep the torrent client running even after reaching 100%. This will help others download the file from you. This is the core feature of torrents. Everyone that downloads also helps with sharing the file. That’s how we keep spreading the data. As long as there is 1 person uploading, then the torrent will be alive.

            Please note, a torrent can have 0 people sharing (Seeders) for the moment but might become active several hours later once another person turn on their computer and start sharing the file again.

            I hope I didn’t ramble too much and you got something out of it. Best of luck!

  • PhilipTheBucket@piefed.socialEnglish
    39·
    6 hours ago

    🚢🦜⚓

    You can throw some money at artists periodically, some random $10 donation to whatever their fan site or on merch will probably net them more than a lifetime of listening to their stuff on Spotify, since streaming revenues add up to roughly five atoms of currency per stream or so.

  • grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one
    10·
    5 hours ago

    the Hoopla app is available for free through public libraries. you can download 15 items (music, movies, books) each month for a week at a time

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    142·
    5 hours ago

    radio

    and it comes with free radio waves

    its got ads but you don’t have to pay for them in bandwidth; the radio station pays for them.

    get a radio

    • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
      7·
      4 hours ago

      @FerretyFever0@fedia.io

      There are literally thousands of free streaming radio stations on the Internet. This is a good place to start. Many have no ads, even.

      ETA: That site I linked seems to be having problems ATM. This app for Android will get you going straight away. Hasn’t been updated in a couple years, but still works great, and even has a record function.

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
      6·
      5 hours ago

      I don’t think that most radio stations play much of what I listen to. My playlist is 7000 songs. I’m trying to sacrifice as little of it as I can.

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
      2·
      5 hours ago

      My friend told me to use Newpipe to download my music onto my phone. Had to watch a 45 second tiktok ad to download one song. Does it not normally have ads?

          • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
            4·
            5 hours ago

            It’s open source, so someone may have taken the code and added crap to it. Where did you get it? If it was the Play Store, then it may well be okay & someone just put ads in it to cash in on someone else’s work - happens all the time, unfortunately.

              • vateso5074@lemmy.world
                21·
                3 hours ago

                The Play Store is honestly full of malware, be careful.

                It makes it even more of an insult that Google wants to mandate a registry of approved developer accounts in the name of “security” when they can’t even guarantee the security of their own store.

      • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world
        3·
        5 hours ago

        Get Droidify, which is an alternative front end for the F-Droid & Izzy app stores for Android. You can download numerous apps that stream ad-free from YouTube (many seem to be based on the same code with minor tweaks). NewPipe proper (without ads) is there, too. However, I recommend YTDLnis instead as it does a better job with the metadata - it’s on Izzy, which you can also use the Droidify app for.

      • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I’ve never seen any ads. I think you downloaded a scam app. Newpipe is only on fdroid, or else direct download from their website

  • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    https://github.com/mostafaalagamy/Metrolist alternate youtube music app. youtube account recommended. no ads. frequent updates. oled support.

    https://github.com/badmannersteam/murglar-downloads/releases desktop and droid app. supports russian stream services, deezer, soundcloud. no ads.

    https://moddroid.com/apps/music/deezer-hq/ cracked deezer. no ads.

    you can look around for cracked spotify or other cracked stuff on the mobilism forums, but spotify sometimes bans those cliens, and might shadowban your account as well.

    whatever you do, you gonna support the devil by choosing any mainstream music service. so keep using them for free and support the bands with money or going to concerts. discs are overrated, merch gives them low commission.

    if you wait a few hours the “you should selfhost” comments will arrive.

  • thanks AV@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Previously a program called “sidify” was able to rip full quality audio files from Spotify including a Playlist

    Unsure if it still works but its worth checking out. However, there’s just one issue: the “download” is the length of each song played end to end.

    Worth it if you dont have any other options