Bandcamp kinda counts
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I post a lot of bandcamp links on !gothindustrial@lemmy.world, but apparently bandcamp got bought out and will inevitably go down the road of enshittification.
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Shazam app with youtube.com plus ezmp3.cc
Long answer:
Cloud infrastructure is expensive. You won't find any free streaming platform.
The best route is to manage your own Playlist manually.
Workflow:
Interesting music playing on radio/party
-‐> shazam to know title and artist
-‐> search youtube.com for that title and artist
--> copy url of video that best matches
--> paste url on ezmp3.cc for converting to audio
--> await conversion, download generated audio
--> Use a smart-mp3-tags app to add tags and album art automatically
Prons:
- until now, i've paid $0 for music I listen to. Evil bastard, I know. I, however, have bought poweramp for $5. Best purchase yet.
- you will find any music this way no matter how niche and weird it is. Unlike surfing the pirate ship
- bonus: you most definitely will find your favorite audiobooks.
Cons:
- no music discovery features. Which is truly the only downside you can't replace.
- no backup in case of device loss, so you better make copies manually
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Jango.com
Funkwhale. But it is hard to find working instances. It is a part of the fediverse.
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Re: music transfer app
I quite liked Playlisty.
Relatively cheap and unlocked forever, unlike some who have IAP that are double the price and only allow full app access for a few weeks/month.
KEXP.org
https://github.com/mostafaalagamy/Metrolist alternate youtube music app. youtube account recommended. no ads. frequent updates. oled support.
https://github.com/badmannersteam/murglar-downloads/releases desktop and droid app. supports russian stream services, deezer, soundcloud. no ads.
https://moddroid.com/apps/music/deezer-hq/ cracked deezer. no ads.
you can look around for cracked spotify or other cracked stuff on the mobilism forums, but spotify sometimes bans those cliens, and might shadowban your account as well.
whatever you do, you gonna support the devil by choosing any mainstream music service. so keep using them for free and support the bands with money or going to concerts. discs are overrated, merch gives them low commission.
if you wait a few hours the "you should selfhost" comments will arrive.
Previously a program called "sidify" was able to rip full quality audio files from Spotify including a Playlist
Unsure if it still works but its worth checking out. However, there's just one issue: the "download" is the length of each song played end to end.
Worth it if you dont have any other options
there's another one called SpotDL. It is pretty decent.
If the full playtime is required to download, then it's probably not "full quality", but re-encoding it as it plays which will definitely not satisfy quality snobs.
iBroadcast
been using it for years now, devs are great and very responsive
Start a conversation on telegram with @ deezload2bot
I don't want to break the rules that may or may not be in this group so all I'll say is your free now lol
Wavlake is a good option. Keep in mind, though, that no popular music of today (think The Weekend, Eilish, etc.) will be on this platform. Instead, it'll be Bitcoiners who also produce music and podcasts.
You don't have to use BTC with a Lightning Network wallet, though, as that's option. Nostr is another option that you can use, but again, that's optional.
Otherwise, use a net to catch the music you want. If you get the reference, then you know I'm a viewer of Louis Rossmann's content.