free-mp3-download.net (but don't forget to backup your music collection)
Edit: Unlike what the website name suggests, it allows you to download FLACs, and not just MP3s. These come from Deezer HiFi.
Oh thank you for this 😍
+1
For real been looking for something like this since I switched.
What is its source? Torrents in background?
From what I could find, Deezer using free trial Deezer HiFi accounts.
Why not just use yt-dlp?
I used to do that, but oftentimes what you find on YouTube is multi-generation lossy re-encodes which can sound poor with earphones.
I still rip from YouTube if certain songs are not on Deezer or flacmusicfinder.com.
Also, this is faster.
I end up downloading these as webm, and exporting the audio to MP3 in Audacity. It's a bit annoying for remixes that aren't put on SoundCloud by the original uploader, and the audio quality difference can be noticeable sometimes ☹️
As much as I am a fam of alternative Software and such, what are actual advantages of using spotube over Spotify premium? Disregarding the membership fee.
The fact you're using a libre client that doesn't do extra data collection.
Anything you do in the UI has some associated backend request (everything relevant at least). Search queries, loading albums, skipping, changing settings, anything is just a Web requ on their backend server which could still be collected. The custom ui does not save you from relevant data collection. Only thing potentially not getting tracked is empty navigation between tabs, but there is not a lot of info in tab switching
That's what I meant by "extra data collection," it just gets data that has to do with what you do on the server, which is significant, but you're still protected from kinds of local collection (e.g.: device model, IMEI if possible, screen resolution, networks you connect to, etc.) other than not having analytics trackers and ads. It may sound a bit crazy, but it is possible to collect this kind of stuff to fingerprint you, just like browser fingerprinting.
Spotube is too laggy for my liking. Innertune is my preferred streaming app that isn't self hosted.
TIL that there are open source clients for spotify. time to go down another rabbit hole, thanks linux.
Youtube music too, YT Music Revanced for modded app.
Innertune, Vi Music if you prefer FOSS clients
I use YT Music with UBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie manager and Dark Reader. Works like a charm, no advertisements
You might like ViMusic. It is a 3rd party client for YT music. I started using it recently and really liked the UI.
Yeah ViMusic is pretty good for what it is, but it's not really better than the original YouTube music client.
My main complaint is that the sound quality is worse than YouTube Music with YouTube premium and that you're not able to cast to other devices
Also, I don't like how lyrics are displayed
Ah yes Spotube, for when I want to hear a song 2 minutes from now after it finally buffers.
I just keep downloading albums of MP3s like I have since the late 90s. It used to take hours and half the songs were mislabeled and real sketchy quality. Now, it takes seconds to download an entire album, and they're almost always correctly labeled and high quality. I tried Spotify for a while, but it really seemed like it was for attention span deprived people who want something different every song. Gimme full albums any day.
I just tried InnerTune, seems neat, but how do you add an artist to your library?
I always found spotube to be so slow.
thanks for the meme, now i know spotify has open-source client
Also see comments and their suggestions
I just download the songs and play them off of Musicolet.
Musicolet is nice, I've started syncing lyrics to my downloaded songs, it's a nice activity to kill time.
Tidal HiFi + tidal-tdl is the best combo
Yes I have to pay $20, but I basically get like hundreds of dollars of music downloaded at their highest possible fidelity for free. Slap that shit on my DAP.
Literally better than soulseek because you can get obscure music in 48khz/24 bit that doesn't even exist as an mp3 on that platform.
I have to pay $20
for free
So which is it, is it free, or is it $20?
I have to pay 20$ for a can of beer ….
I can drink it for free.
Fyi: you don't get the songs in the highest quality. They're actually compressed, because Tidal HiFi isn't actually lossless. This video goes more in deph: https://youtu.be/pRjsu9-Vznc?si=8Az9OhX-Y0dhEz2A
If you want lossless, use Deezer and something like Deemix. In my experience it also has more nieche music than Tidal.
AAAAAAAAGH, you sent me down a rabbithole again! To be fair, a lot of the music I listen to probably only exists in CD quality at best, but if I'm going to pay money I want the option of having the best there is. Thanks for letting me know about this!
Well you won't find anything better than CD quality on any streaming service since it's pretty large. A single FLAC can be a few hundred MBs large and you won't really be able to tell the difference. Also it's extremely rare
There still are some services where you can buy lossless music in higher quality, but Tidal isn't one of them
Do you think I should switch then? Is deezer just a better deal overall? I never bought into the MQA hype so I'm solely asking on an audio quality basis.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/pRjsu9-Vznc?si=8Az9OhX-Y0dhEz2A
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Who needs spotify when we have vi music.
I remember when I heard the free software song first played on vi music!
Does anyone know of a Spotify client that works on ARM? I put an Orange Pi 5 as a smart TV box but Spotify doesn't work in the browser because no Widevine on aarch64 Firefox.
The poor Orange Pi can also barely play video without dropping frames, the GPU drivers are awful. I might try to uninstall them and just do software-rendering everything.
Buffering takes an eternity.
Hint: :q!
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