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Ways to pirate music as convenient as Spotify? (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The reason I gave up on MP3's and subscribed to Spotify was because Spotify was easy. I've been listening "Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds" song every day and like a week ago, its removed. This was the last straw for me. Right now I'm trying to find "Stremio" of the music world. Can someone assist?

Key features I'm looking for:

Synchronization between devices
Offline play
Playlist support
Both desktop and mobile apps
Wide music library (optional if I will upload music)
Lyrics (optional)

Update: thanks to everyone who shared their solutions 🙏

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't know if there exists a solution with all your requirements. You could host your own music library via Plex or something, and aquire stuff via lidarr but this doesn't have the instant availability of Spotify.

I'd probably use ViMusic (android) if we didn't have a family apple music sub going. It basically uses the YouTube music backend. Super easy to set up and use, has on-device playlist and download support. I don't think it does synchronisation though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does ViMusic support Android Auto? That's a nifty find, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It seems there is a way to get it to work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the bitrate gonna be on ViMusic though – is it whatever is on actual YouTube video uploads? I imagine that would be very lossy. I could be wrong. If it was ~320kbps I'd be all over it. That's what I'm looking for really. Short of my current solution, which is Soulseek > cloud service storage > CloudBeats (Android app) for stuff I want decent quality of, and Spotify adfree using XManager for discovery and lower quality listening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Most songs are between 130 and 160kbps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah thanks for letting me know. Not ideal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think YouTube music is different to actual YouTube but I'm not exactly sure. You can always just try it and see if it's good enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hyperpipe (self-hostable YTMusic frontend) supports accounts, which allows for syncing between devices. It really needs an app on at least mobile for it to really be worth it though, as right now it can only be used through the web UI.