I really want to ditch spotify, but its just so convenient to be able to search and stream music on any device at a moments notice. Not to mention the fact that its integrated with a music player that can quickly queue up, or add to playlist a searched song. Is there any software (or collection of software) that can emulate the convenience of spotify?

  • DessalinesM
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    12 years ago

    Simple solution: get a torrent client for your phone like libretorrent, and vlc or any music player you like. Search sites like 1337x.to or my torrents-csv.ml for music. Click torrent, open music player.

    More complicated one: install navidrome and qbittorrent on a home server, get the dsub and qbittorrent remote android apps. You now have a music server that you can add torrents to, and navidrome will auto add music from a watched folder.

  • Vegafjord eo
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    12 years ago

    I believe the best way to ensure freedom over our music is to allow emigration without loosing your music collection. Not securing this freedom, will create needless dependency to the distributor.

    If you leave spotify you loose your music collection. Even if you have spent hundreds of bucks on the service. In contrast, services like bandcamp allows you to download your music. So if you one day figure you want to ditch the service for something better, at least that won’t be an headache.

  • ghost_laptop
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    -12 years ago

    I download all music using Nicotine+ which uses the soulseek protocol, you can find the weirdest of shit there, and I use Lollypop to play on my PC, when I want to listen to some on my phone and I don’t have wifi I just dump a couple albums there, if not I use NewPipe.

    • ghost_laptop
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      -12 years ago

      good thing about having shit local is that you got the .flac files and it sounds perfect, maybe spotify does this but Im sure theres a bit of quality loss