Ways to pirate music as convenient as Spotify?

The reason I gave up on MP3’s and subscribed to Spotify was because Spotify was easy. I’ve been listening “Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds” song every day and like a week ago, its removed. This was the last straw for me. Right now I’m trying to find “Stremio” of the music world. Can someone assist?

Key features I’m looking for:

  • Synchronization between devices
  • Offline play
  • Playlist support
  • Both desktop and mobile apps
  • Wide music library (optional if I will upload music)
  • Lyrics (optional)

Update: thanks to everyone who shared their solutions 🙏

WereBearGareBear,

YMusic

pewgar_seemsimandroid,

spotube is not piracy but it works for some things

mydude,

I use ViMusic, front end for Youtube Music (I think) for Android. Needs to be sideloaded (obviously). You can search up existing playlists. I have not found a single song that can not be found on this app, since it also includes the normal youtube library. It just works. There are other open source front end for spotify that are similar to this, but I’ve been using this for a while, and not found anything bad about it. So highly recommend. Also, the radio function is the best radio function I have ever tested.

MTK,

F-droid

mydude,

Isn’t F-Droid, alternative appstore, just sideloading, made easy?

MTK, (edited )

Yes, but if you have root or a supported rom it can install in the background, like the play store

And it only contains FOSS

257m,

I personally use MetroPlayer and downlpad songs with spotiflyer. Spotiflyer just takes a link whether it be spotify or youtube and downloads it. You can put the link of your playlists or just individual songs. Some songs might give errors when downloading from spotify so if that happens use youtube as a backup. I have only had 6 songs fail so far with a playlist full of 700 songs.

jeremyparker, (edited )

iBroadcast lets you upload your music and listen to it anywhere - phone, browser, or offline access. I have like 42,000 songs and I’ve been using it for years. It’s awesome.

To get the mp3s, I still use the website that’s often referenced in old /mu/ memes/instructions.

I’m pretty sure it hits all your features - I’m not sure about lyrics though.

MayonnaiseArch,
@MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org avatar

Hey that sound too good to be true, no ads and a free tier? Amazing

jeremyparker,

Idk if it’s actually open source, but they seem to be going on the open source financial model: make an awesome thing and then survive on the generosity of people with money who appreciate it.

hunt4peas,

I use Spowlo in my Android phone to download the songs. There’s an offline music player known as Harmonoid which fetches lyrics over the internet. It’s available for both Android and Windows.

RatzChatsubo, (edited )

Tidal-dl on your phone using sharable links on tidal. Then ftp your flacs to a Plex server. It’s all in order with artwork that way and is super easy to do

Then use Plexamp

rockhandle,
@rockhandle@lemm.ee avatar

It’s easier to install streamrip (beta version) on the server directly. That way, you can download music directly to the server and skip the whole ftp part.

strahlemann, (edited )

yt-dlp -x -f 251 music.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWTig2kBKE

I upload all my music to a selfhosted Jellyfin server. Finamp is a great Android/iOS app for Jellyfin that has offline play.

TheMadnessKing,

What’s the usual cost for self hosting a server? Also, is there some way I can use Google Drives/OneDrive/Mega as storage solution for these services?

StickBugged,

Likely very cheap, you just have to buy all of the hardware first. I’ve got a raspberry pi b+ (the 2012 one) that I’ve previously used to host my music.

strahlemann,

I have a RockPro64 and 2TB SSD connected with USB. I measure it at around 5,5W so in a month thats ~4 kWh electricity. For storage I think its not feasible to host it on a cloud, see jellyfin.org/docs/general/…/storage/

FeelzGoodMan420,

I’m sorry to hijack this thread, but does anyone know of any other mp3 players that work with foobar2000 other than classic ipods? I would need lossless support too, either ALAC or FLAC or something.

dislocate_expansion, (edited )

why not buy the album and then use it locally on your device? vlc runs pretty much everything and you could fit thousands of songs while offline (could even remove the gsm/wifi/bluetooth from a phone running some FOSS os and turn it into your offline media device). or just get a cd player for $1 at a thrift store, offline, private, full access

thrift stores sell albums for $1 and there are a few sites that sell new music to be downloaded for cheap

CmdrShepard,

Can you even buy DRM free music these days?

dislocate_expansion,

yeah not sure. are there ways to rip a drm physical album to audio file?

CmdrShepard,

There are ways to rip physicsl media but they break the encryption which is ‘illegal’.

I meant more just having control of the actual files when buying from places like Amazon or ITunes rather than just being given library access to the songs for so long until that company loses the license and deletes them from your library.

dislocate_expansion,

exactly

flora_explora,

On bandcamp! If I want to support artists, this is the site I always go to. And yt-dlp works also great on bandcamp when I’m not feeling so generous ;)

Stephen304,

I’ve been downloading tons of my Spotify music using spotdl and sticking it on Plex, which kinda accomplishes most of what you want. I then organize it with lidarr. Spotdl doesn’t actually download from Spotify but it uses Spotify metadata to tag files after matching with and downloading from YouTube music, it might just use youtube-dl/p under the hood but being able to give it a Spotify playlist, artist, or album url from Spotify makes it super convenient. For some artists I just download the entire artist in one go.

Dsklnsadog,
@Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Wow this is gold. Thanks

null,

Now this is what I’ve been looking for!

I like to DJ sometimes and I typically just create playlists for sets I want to do and listen to them over and over to get familiar / play around with the order / discover new tracks that fit by letting Spotify make suggestions.

It’s a pain to then have to go find all those tracks manually, so this sounds perfect for my usecase.

TonyStarkRevant,

@deezertogdrivebot you can use this bot on telegram to download from Spotify and it even support playlist and gives you zip file link and the source of audio is Deezer so it can goes up to FLAC

Tronn4,

Are we saying the quiet parts out loud now?

RatzChatsubo,

The benefits of not being reddit

weedwhacking, (edited )

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    clmbmb,

    Didn’t apple use to delete your local music and replace it with whatever remastered re-re-release bullshit? Even if they don’t do it anymore, it was shitty in their part and I wouldn’t trust them anymore. Also, their app on Android doesn’t support casting to other devices… At least it didn’t work as it should when I last tried.

    Cold_Brew_Enema,

    What do you mean it’s removed? I literally just listened to that song. Final song on Book of Souls

    0ops,

    I also still have it. Maybe it’s a regional thing with op?

    iso,
    @iso@lemy.lol avatar

    https://lemy.lol/pictrs/image/0bea2496-47d1-4f1e-91df-af032211e595.png

    Its like this. I can’t play from web-player and desktop too.

    statist43,

    Mybe it got blocked where you live. Maybe you can try a vpn ?

    iso,
    @iso@lemy.lol avatar

    Didn’t worked. I think its decided by account country and to change that, it says I need a card from abroad. So no solution. I don’t understand why this album is not available specifically 🤷‍♂️

    statist43,

    Man, Im sry for your loss. Pirating seems to be the easier option again nowadays. With all the intermational differences in copyright regulations its just getting absurd.

    navi,

    Plexamp is a great Plex music front end if you already have a Plex server with music.

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