Ways to pirate music as convenient as Spotify?

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 🙏

strahlemann,

yt-dlp -x -f 251 music.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWTig2kBKE

I upload all my music to a selfhosted Jellyfin server. Finamp is a great Android app for Jellyfin that has offline play.

FeelzGoodMan420,

I’m sorry to hijack this thread, but does anyone know of any other mp3 players that work with foobar2000 other than classic ipods? I would need lossless support too, either ALAC or FLAC or something.

dislocate_expansion, (edited )

why not buy the album and then use it locally on your device? vlc runs pretty much everything and you could fit thousands of songs while offline (could even remove the gsm/wifi/bluetooth from a phone running some FOSS os and turn it into your offline media device). or just get a cd player for $1 at a thrift store, offline, private, full access

thrift stores sell albums for $1 and there are a few sites that sell new music to be downloaded for cheap

Stephen304,

I’ve been downloading tons of my Spotify music using spotdl and sticking it on Plex, which kinda accomplishes most of what you want. I then organize it with lidarr. Spotdl doesn’t actually download from Spotify but it uses Spotify metadata to tag files after matching with and downloading from YouTube music, it might just use youtube-dl/p under the hood but being able to give it a Spotify playlist, artist, or album url from Spotify makes it super convenient. For some artists I just download the entire artist in one go.

null,

Now this is what I’ve been looking for!

I like to DJ sometimes and I typically just create playlists for sets I want to do and listen to them over and over to get familiar / play around with the order / discover new tracks that fit by letting Spotify make suggestions.

It’s a pain to then have to go find all those tracks manually, so this sounds perfect for my usecase.

Tronn4,

Are we saying the quiet parts out loud now?

weedwhacking, (edited )

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    clmbmb,

    Didn’t apple use to delete your local music and replace it with whatever remastered re-re-release bullshit? Even if they don’t do it anymore, it was shitty in their part and I wouldn’t trust them anymore. Also, their app on Android doesn’t support casting to other devices… At least it didn’t work as it should when I last tried.

    Cold_Brew_Enema,

    What do you mean it’s removed? I literally just listened to that song. Final song on Book of Souls

    0ops,

    I also still have it. Maybe it’s a regional thing with op?

    iso,
    @iso@lemy.lol avatar

    https://lemy.lol/pictrs/image/0bea2496-47d1-4f1e-91df-af032211e595.png

    Its like this. I can’t play from web-player and desktop too.

    statist43,

    Mybe it got blocked where you live. Maybe you can try a vpn ?

    iso,
    @iso@lemy.lol avatar

    Didn’t worked. I think its decided by account country and to change that, it says I need a card from abroad. So no solution. I don’t understand why this album is not available specifically 🤷‍♂️

    navi,
    @navi@lemmy.tespia.org avatar

    Plexamp is a great Plex music front end if you already have a Plex server with music.

    Towerofpain11,

    I have Lidarr on Steroids to automate downloads. It uses Deemix to download automatically. Deemix will download in MP3 with a free Deezer subscription, but if you want FLAC you need the premium suscription, or the month trial.

    In Lidarr you can import a spotify playlist and it will add all the artists for you, which then downloads through Deemix. You can even download the entire discography if you like. Plus extras like album art.

    For streaming I use Airsonic from my PC, then the Substreamer app on my android for the front end. You can create playlists in here and can also download songs on your device for offline play.

    When I’m done downloading the majority of my playlists Artists and want to get rid of the Deezer subscription, I’ll probably switch to Usenet and Soulseek to download.

    It payed off today, we had a mobile/internet outage for most of the day and I was still able to stream music.

    Aussiemandeus,

    Are you Australian and with optus by chance.?

    Towerofpain11,

    Yeah both my mobile and internet are with Optus haha

    ashok36,

    This looks great. Im using the lidarr extended scripts which can use deezer or tidal.

    Towerofpain11,

    Yeah I tried to get that working but couldn’t get it going for some reason.

    angelsomething,

    My setup is lidarr+airsonic. This setup fulfills all the requirements you listed. The webplayer is really good and you can use free apps to stream your library on mobile devices. Highly recommend “substreamer” for iOS and android. To access my library at home, I use Twingate (Zero Trrust Access VPN that uses the QUIC protocol and it’s lightning fast). Also, the mobile app allows for offline playback and has cool playlist builder features.

    HerbalGamer,

    On mobile; Soundbound is the new Spotiflyer and recently still worked for me

    fluffery,
    @fluffery@lemmy.ml avatar

    Is it on f-droid?

    HerbalGamer,

    think it is

    1984, (edited )
    @1984@lemmy.today avatar

    Use deezer. I’ve been on them for many years and it’s just like Spotify without the social media shit.

    www.deezer.com

    Good looking apps etc. It’s also French so no bullshit around privacy.

    This is not piracy though but it’s such a good service that I’m paying for it.

    HotChocoBum,

    It’d also French so no bullshit around privacy

    Lol no 😂

    SilentStorms,

    The was an app a couple years ago called Freezer, which was cracked Deezer with HQ playback and offline downloading. It shut down a while ago, and I’ve been looking out for a replacement ever since. It was perfect.

    It should still be possible because deemix, free-mp3-download etc. still grab from Deezer afaik

    Oha,
    @Oha@feddit.de avatar

    Tidal-Dl/Soulseek + Navidrome works for me

    Sanyanov,

    Can confirm, incredibly powerful combo. Allows for lossless downloads!

    Jakdracula,
    @Jakdracula@lemmy.world avatar

    Take a look at funk whale.

    www.funkwhale.audio

    Norgur,

    The easiest thing to do is probably something like YouTube Music revanced and/or Spotube.

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