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!

  • FerretyFever0@fedia.ioOP
    7·
    7 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
          21·
          4 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!