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Just pirate, use a decent vpn and soulseek. For a vpn, I would reccomend proton or mullvad, soulseek is a peer to peer music sharing program. Extremely higb quality music. If you get into DAP's check out fiio for neat music players.
If you live in Canada, CBC Radio/Music. Fucking banger songs and everyone sleeps on CBC Radio/Music.
Soulseek. It's Napster for today. I share an ass load on there.
soma.fm I've discovered a lot of cool artists. Love the groove salad channel.
80 underground is soo nice too, love soma
Fantastic recommendation. Thanks!
Did you know you can play music without a service?
Get music, press play. Amazing!
Been doing it for decades
Piracy :3
Not to be a party pooper but piracy too is run by the devil. You dont notice it because its more hidden that the fuckfaces at google, meta, amazon etc but its still run by mobsters and people like (but not specifically) andrew tate.
Piracy groups dont do and release things just for fun you know :p
Source: ive dug a bit too deep into console piracy scenes since gamecube-days. Its all ran by one fuckface : Max 'MAXiMiLiEN' Louarn.
The fuckwad has ran off with millions in tool sales, ad revenue, and downloads while he gives 0 shits about bricking your consoles. If apple or whoever is bad for such practice's, he is too.
And thats just console piracy stuff, im sure movies, series and music is the same thing, or worse
What the hell are you talking about? There's still lots of peer to peer trackers and most make their money asking users for donations or selling premium status. I've been using some for years and haven't spent a dollar.
Who runs the trackers? Who gets stuff on the trackers? I have also never spent a dollar, but if you do, your money doesnt not always go towards who you think. And in this day and age, not spending money doesnt mean another party isnt profiting.
Person A: I'm pirating that.
You: hon hon, if you pay for that pirating you are getting ripped off!!
The trackers definitely aren't all run by one dude. Files are shared/seeded by users, myself included. I'd guess less than 1% of users are paying/donating and mods are volunteers. There's money to be made, sure. But arguing that money is going to something nefarious because it potentially could is a lame argument IMO.
Oh ye, in case of torrents its not all one guy. It never is. In case of consoles it was paradox, or team executor, or ...
(All financed by max in this case, but hes never alone).
And even with trackers i sure hope and assume its different teams.
I didnt mean to say piracy is evil itself, thats like saying all arm-base phones are evil.
Just saying there is way more evil and devils there than you think. Mobsters are a thing
if you are paying money to pirate something than you are pirating wrong
Did i say i am paying to pirate?
Tidal and Deezer are pretty devilish as they support Israel
FUCK! I switched from spotify to Tidal... Any other paid app you can recommend that isn't supporting a genocide and generally less shitty to artists, and like everyone?
EDIT: Qobuz seems to be recommended, gonna have a look... or maybe do some light sailing... really don't want to go back to doing fucking interviews for what.cd (now-defunct) and spend hours organising shit.
Well shit. Guess it's time to self host....
Wait... Am I the devil now?
I usually just use YouTube
isn't run by the devil
Good
Free
Not run by the devil
Pick 2. Actually maybe 1 if you're lucky.
As others have said the high sails are your best bet.
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You can throw some money at artists periodically, some random $10 donation to whatever their fan site or on merch will probably net them more than a lifetime of listening to their stuff on Spotify, since streaming revenues add up to roughly five atoms of currency per stream or so.
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Buy on bandcamp and buy cds to rip them. Then host your own plex/jellyfin/subsonic server.
I mean, that's cool but OP even wrote the "free" part in capitals. Not saying it is realistic to ask for that but it's pretty clear they don't want to pay.
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Op said free, also hosting your own server isn't something everyone has the knowledge, time, and resources to do.
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radio
and it comes with free radio waves
its got ads but you don't have to pay for them in bandwidth; the radio station pays for them.
get a radio
@FerretyFever0@fedia.io
There are literally thousands of free streaming radio stations on the Internet. This is a good place to start. Many have no ads, even.
ETA: That site I linked seems to be having problems ATM. This app for Android will get you going straight away. Hasn't been updated in a couple years, but still works great, and even has a record function.
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Free and ad-free music streaming (even with some limited local downloads!) supported through many public libraries:
Create your account with your public library card and gain access to all the music unlimited ad-free streaming. I also get 5 free downloads of songs a week for local storage, but I don't know if that varies by library. There is a web client and the Android app is pretty decent too.
Waaah, we don't have this. We have Hoopla music but the catalog looks so random. Somehow the freaking Lakeland library system has that but not Hillsborough? I will ask them I guess. I keep the YouTube music because the family plan is ok and the kids & husband use the videos, and their catalog is deep and interface getting better.
This is cool. Not avilable in Drumpf land though.
Sadly I'm in the same type of land, but it is available in my library system. In my state, you are allowed to get a library card at any public library in the state. Even if your public library system may not have it, the next down over and if your state works the same as mine, you could get a library card there and use the service for free.
Texas:
Alabama:
South Carolina:
I can't believe no one has mentioned Radio Paradise. Good music. Free app on Android / iOS.
Also: SomaFM. Same as above: free, good content, not managed by the devil.
Notable mention: Kexp, The Current
Radio Paradise is the best! I even throw a few dollars their way every month to keep it going.
SomaFM has been up a remarkable number of years, more or less in its current format. It's not everyone's jam, but props to them to keep a good thing going.
It's pretty amazing and scartches a weird itch I can't get elsewhere. But I know it's not everyone's cup of tea
You guys must be new to online music scene...
Your comment was wholesome until this part.
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navidrome if you can self-host and is not the devil.
no ethical consumption under capitalism besides that.
Start stocking up on CDs and ripping them to FLAC yourself, and self-host those rips on an MPD server. Free streaming from a server you own and control the content on.
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