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 🙏

Towerofpain11,

I have Lidarr on Steroids to automate downloads. It uses Deemix to download automatically. Deemix will download in MP3 with a free Deezer subscription, but if you want FLAC you need the premium suscription, or the month trial.

In Lidarr you can import a spotify playlist and it will add all the artists for you, which then downloads through Deemix. You can even download the entire discography if you like. Plus extras like album art.

For streaming I use Airsonic from my PC, then the Substreamer app on my android for the front end. You can create playlists in here and can also download songs on your device for offline play.

When I’m done downloading the majority of my playlists Artists and want to get rid of the Deezer subscription, I’ll probably switch to Usenet and Soulseek to download.

It payed off today, we had a mobile/internet outage for most of the day and I was still able to stream music.

ashok36,

This looks great. Im using the lidarr extended scripts which can use deezer or tidal.

Towerofpain11,

Yeah I tried to get that working but couldn’t get it going for some reason.

Aussiemandeus,
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Are you Australian and with optus by chance.?

Towerofpain11,

Yeah both my mobile and internet are with Optus haha

HerbalGamer,

On mobile; Soundbound is the new Spotiflyer and recently still worked for me

fluffery,
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Is it on f-droid?

HerbalGamer,

think it is

1984, (edited )
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Use deezer. I’ve been on them for many years and it’s just like Spotify without the social media shit.

www.deezer.com

Good looking apps etc. It’s also French so no bullshit around privacy.

This is not piracy though but it’s such a good service that I’m paying for it.

HotChocoBum,

It’d also French so no bullshit around privacy

Lol no 😂

SilentStorms,

The was an app a couple years ago called Freezer, which was cracked Deezer with HQ playback and offline downloading. It shut down a while ago, and I’ve been looking out for a replacement ever since. It was perfect.

It should still be possible because deemix, free-mp3-download etc. still grab from Deezer afaik

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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.

    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.

    webghost0101,

    I much prefer to download music as flac and keep them local but i have 2 issues.

    Finding new musis is hard because i am rarely exposed to it.

    Music i like tends to be more obscure and harder to find a flac download for.

    Ive started to use Spotify this year for those reasons but i hate it. I would love an alternative.

    Aux,

    Spotify is pretty much the only quality tool to learn about new music which fits your taste. Google services tend to disappear after a while, like Google Music did, and the only other option is Apple Music I guess, but I’ve never used it, so not sure.

    I remember the days before Spotify still: downloading gigs of music, only 1% is ok, loads of time wasted. Fuck it, I’ll pay for Spotify and then download what I like for permanent collection. My time is a lot more worth than a subscription fee.

    MoxFcCloud,

    I've had better luck with Tidal's recommendations. Spotify just kept playing me covers and live music on my weekly and it was driving me crazy.

    Aatube,
    @Aatube@kbin.social avatar

    It’s the opposite for me.

    small44,

    Warez websites
    Blogs
    Bandcamp daily
    Youtube and twitch feedback channels
    Sorry but it’s easy to discover new music without algorithms

    webghost0101,

    I am glad those work for you but music is very subjective and personal and these wont work for me. and my autistic peculiar tastes

    I literally just managed to build a system so i never need to see the youtube website again. Its what made me wonder if i could do the same for Spotify

    Nervyalloy5,
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    Take a look at Musicroamer
    you type in a favorite artist and it uses the spotify recommendation stuff to find similar artists
    if you find one that sounds nice then you can then create a branch of artist that are similar to them
    (probably a horrible explanation, just mess about with it for a minute and you'll get an idea how it works)

    I've personally used it to find quite a few new favorites since ditching Spotify in favor of a self hosted Navidrome server

    as for FLAC downloads check out Qobuz, which has unlimited DL plans
    alternatively if you would rather sail the seas, search up Firehawk52 for a guide

    warmaster,

    There’s a bunch of apps on Flathub for that, but if you’re looking for a Windows app, then iidk.

    zaknenou,
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    There’s a bunch of apps on Flathub
    come on bro, don’t let us hanging on the cliff

    Dreyns,

    Yt-dl and use any media player, it’s the easiest way to get most of those option ticked.

    Aatube, (edited )
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    yt-dlp, the p is important

    atom,
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    theshatterstone54,

    Janky setups, or functional setups? For Janky setups, sync manually. For functional setups, I’d suggest hosting your own Nextcloud instance and using it to sync your music library throughout your devices.

    coughrelief,
    @coughrelief@lemmy.world avatar

    Download your stuff with soulseek, sync them between devices with syncthing

    theskyisfalling,

    Seen as OP already uses Spotify I would add in ripping music directly from there using something like soggfy for anything you can’t find on soulseek.

    Obviously doesn’t help with the removed iron maiden song but is an easy way to be able to make your own copy of things still on there.

    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.

    navi,

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

    angelsomething,

    My setup is lidarr+airsonic. This setup fulfills all the requirements you listed. The webplayer is really good and you can use free apps to stream your library on mobile devices. Highly recommend “substreamer” for iOS and android. To access my library at home, I use Twingate (Zero Trrust Access VPN that uses the QUIC protocol and it’s lightning fast). Also, the mobile app allows for offline playback and has cool playlist builder features.

    Jakdracula,
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    Take a look at funk whale.

    www.funkwhale.audio

    Norgur,

    The easiest thing to do is probably something like YouTube Music revanced and/or Spotube.

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