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 🙏

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

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.

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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.

    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.

    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,
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    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.

    Dreyns,

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

    Aatube, (edited )
    @Aatube@kbin.social avatar

    yt-dlp, the p is important

    atom,
    @atom@lemy.lol avatar

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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.

    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

    HerbalGamer,

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

    fluffery,
    @fluffery@lemmy.ml avatar

    Is it on f-droid?

    HerbalGamer,

    think it is

    Jakdracula,
    @Jakdracula@lemmy.world avatar

    Take a look at funk whale.

    www.funkwhale.audio

    calzone_gigante,

    Doesn’t have offline support, but it’s easy to setup, ytmusic vanced on mobile with ytmusic with ublock origin on desktop.

    flora_explora,

    Another even easier only-online solution would be to install modded Spotify via xManager

    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

    WereBearGareBear,

    YMusic

    pewgar_seemsimandroid,

    spotube is not piracy but it works for some things

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