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The YouTube with ad block sounds like the best option if there is a way to easily import the playlists to Youtube's playlist feature. I might consider a new account dedicated solely to music. SO can take advantage of the algorithms suggests for discovery (When it's not trying to grift them).
I'm actually curious, do you know of a good way of migrating playlists to YouTube?
Soundiiz and tunemymusic work fine
I switched to Qobuz, their playlist migration process from spotify was seamless. However, i'm finding the recommendations and discovery lacking, and there's not any kind of "radio". On spotify I would just hit play and let it do its thing with Qobuz I have to be much more deliberate in finding music, when an album or playlist ends it just stops playing and it's back to searching around for what I want to listen to next.
With all that said it's still a solid option, their catalog is pretty large, they seem to have a lot more genre diversity, anything lossless sounds great, and their editor curated playlists have introduced me to some good music. It's worth doing a trial run to see if it's right for you.
I heartily endorse Qobuz and had a similar experience. Heartily endorse it! The only thing I miss is wrapped, but I know that's largely spotifys way of promoting itself, so...
I bought an actual MP3 player and download music. I know it sounds like a pain in the ass, but it makes you think much more intentionally about the music you listen to and you engage a lot more and get a better sense of your preferences. This is also makes it way easier to listen to whole albums the way the artists intended and give a much better experience overall than just listening to whatever random mix of songs the algorithm wants to throw at you.
It also means I can have real outputs and use better and more inexpensive headphones and can listen wherever and whenever I want without needing to worry about internet access or data usage and I can pick it up and listen to music without having to read whatever bullshit notifications or communications are on my phone at any given time.
I have found that making decisions that minimize how often I have to look at my phone has made my mental health a lot better. I read books with real books or on a separate e-book device, I listen to music with a music player, I play games on a handheld console, I watch video entertainment on a TV. I use my phone for communicating and reading the news, that's about it, and I think its a lot better that way.
Hey you and me agree very much!!
SO isnt quite in that mindset. They still like things easy and convenient. Its a slow process to get people away from corporate addiction but I did get them to switch to Linux and use signal so its working step by step!
Honestly all they want is to be able to listen to music while working all day, access to their Playlist and then recommendations to new music sometimes.
I went to tidal. I would happily self host, but I value the discovery of new music through these services. Throwing on a "radio" based on a song to get a certain vibe and then maybe finding songs I didn't know about.
YouTube music isn't awful but for years it drains my battery fiercely. I think it's related to me having my main Playlist downloaded, it always seems to be permanently stuck in a downloading status. Maybe some song on there is no longer available.
Speaking of these apps, why do barely any of them let you take your "liked" songs and filter by genre? Sometimes I just want the metal songs from my Playlist, or whatever. Spotify did, but they're shitty nowadays.
Radio Garden or other Internet radios are an option too
I discovered I actually prefer Internet radios entirely to song dna streaming type stuff
I use Plex for my media and enjoy using PlexAmp for music.
And use onthespot to rip the music.
https://github.com/justin025/onthespot
I moved to tidal with their trial for 60 days/$2, have ripped thousands from them already. The Anna's archive broke some Spotify rippers, otherwise I'd keep ripping from them
I use soulseek for music acquisition.
I only share on there. Sometimes it's just quicker to go straight to the source.
I liked Deezer a lot when I used it, but their library (at least as of 2018/2019) felt very limited. Been 6 or 7 years of minutes (...) but I want to say their agreements with East Asian labels was woefully lacking?
I used spotify for a year or so until they tripled down on sending joe rogen dump trucks of cash while he was pushing anti-vax shit.
These days I use a mix of Youtube Music and plexamp/mpd. The former because I "get it for free" with Youtube Premium and love it for discoverability or checking out a new band. The latter being how I store the songs I like enough to buy (or otherwise obtain). And ListenBrainz for getting discoverability out of that.
I do “self host” but they would want more than whats in our music collection. Plus hdds are fucking spendy now.
A 15 track album (Protomen's Act 3) in FLAC is 393 MB. If you are neither a data hoarder nor an audiophile, you can shrink that considerably (A 320 kbps mp3 is generally about a third to a fifth the size of a FLAC). Storage is a mother fucker, no argument there. But you don't actually need that much for a music library.
And I'll just add: Plenty of artists are very open that buying a 1 dollar album on Bandcamp tends to give them a LOT more money than like a day straight of listening to them on one of the streaming services. Shit is bleak.
Lidarr to get music, PlexAmp to listen to it. Might migrate to Navidrome in the future.
there's a site called TuneMyMusic that helps transfer spotify playlists to other sites, and gives you a list of sites to choose from.
Wonderful! Thank you,
Are Tidal and Quobuz really the only choice?
From what I heard from them, those two are a good alternative to Spotify and also have better audio quality if you're a audiophile and it matters to you. If I recall, other music streaming platform don't have the best discovery feature ever and also depending on which music genre you like, they may not have as many the music you would listen.
That being said, I suggest giving either one of them a try.
I have tidal now for over 2 years and I am very satisfied with it. Catalogue is all I want and need, quality is amazing and the suggestion feature works very well for me. Discovered quite a lot of new music and old stuff I already forgot about. So I can recommend tidal.
Symfonium can work from a google drive and you can spin up a new account and just throw 15gb in for free.
Otherwise I would just go with the YouTube route. Export the playlist and load it onto YouTube. Then pick a Ytdlp frontend and download it
I can only think of 3 services:
Youtube,Bandcamp,Soundcloud
Or even rarely:
Physicaly/Retail copy of the Music.
SoundCloud supports importing playlists. I feel it has a lot of popular music nowadays, but I mostly listen to stuff some guy made on their laptop, so I'm not the best person to ask.
Lidarr and usenet, it's sweet
Im still amazed they haven't shut down usenet.
But that won't work on a work laptop unfortunately
Because we don't talk about it ssshhhh
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I switched my family from Spotify to Tidal. There was a migration script that made it nearly seamless.
No podcasts though.
Thats ok we have antennapod for that
for music: mpv to play good old audio files saved on a hard drive, from ripped CDs.
Did the same move recently and am currently using qobuz. Higher price aside, it's great and I think worth it.
My one caveat is that the android app has something seriously wrong with it where one of my two phones battery drain like crazy, and a search indicates this seems to have been a recurring issue for years...
My only issue is Chromecast bugs out occasionally. I got one of the few missing obscure albums added to the catalogue just by messaging the record company!
Discover page is the tits, so many good new albums i would've missed.
Quitting Spotify for me was like cigarettes lol
I need to be so for real right now. Nothing beats Spotify in terms of speed, catalogue, and features. But every other service blows them out of the water because Spotify is just that bad with AI and artist abuse. I still use Spotify for searching for songs because its search is still bar none so far, but I don’t listen to tracks or have premium anymore
The closest alternative is Tidal, it’s fast and has third party integration that leaves much to be desired but it’s there. Still janky but closest you can get to Spotify or Apple Music and it’s a good service on its own.
If you like music discovery and good taste and hate AI, Qobuz is pretty great. But it’s not a replacement, Qobuz is new, slow, and lacks features. I can’t block artists in Qobuz yet so I don’t do a lot of listening there. If that feature is in and they make it faster I’d use it full time
Honestly, the entire way we use the web has regressed a bit and I had to mourn it honestly cause through and through the internet sucks now. But smaller web has charm that I’ve missed, only constant in life is change or w/e
Yes, Qobuz definitely needs an artist blocking feature. It's been putting Taylor Swift in my daily playlists ever since I listened to a Feist album and I am actually pretty fucking offended by that, to be honest.
I mostly like Qobuz, though. It's been a solid Spotify replacer outside of a few issues.
On mobile I use Youtube Music Revanced to get Youtube Music for free with no ads. Every so often I'll add the new tracks I've liked to a playlist and download that with ytdlp for local play.
At some point I'll get the *arrs set up to replace the shitty yt rip with higher quality.
Sure that works fine on the phone, just not on the work pc
What I'm enjoying now is simple. I have the Android apps Retro Music and Seeker for a soulseek client. I search an album in seeker, find a modest file size, download. I set up the folders for the apps once and I don't do any more work. I can delete tracks or albums from the music player app too. I recommend this, it is quite easy for Android.
As someone from a country that Quobuz doesnt support, and someone not willing to give money to a US owned company (Tidal), what are my options for streaming music? Something that has playlists obviously, and allows me to save the stuff I like. Possibly being able to add downloaded songs if theyre not available in the services library(?)
Is there anything like this? Most suggestions here on lemmy seem to be for Quobuz or Tidal
I buy all my songs from iTunes, I have have never even installed Spotify on my phone.
I refuse to rent my music.
My thinking is that should I end up in hard times, nothing will change for me with regards to my music, I have no subscription to get rid of, I won't experience more ads, I can just keep listening.
