Thanks for your insight
To be honest I’ve never bought into the whole cloud music thing, at the minute I’ve most of my storage taken up by music and TV on my phone.
I use Neutron music player for music and for video a mix of Stremio and mx player pro.
InnerTune uses YouTube music, so far it’s been really good. No sign in, no ads, decent quality, and grabs alternative versions like covers and acoustic versions too.
It allows you to download the songs, build a library, create playlists, and you can free listen to related music.
Edit: Corrected typo, it’s InnerTune.
I’ve been using the fork Outertune, which seems more compatible with youtube music sync across devices, if you care about that
It’s asking me to sign in and nothing will play until I do.
Edit: using the forked version linked on izzyondroid’s fdroid repo works fine
I use RiMusic which is Google Music without the adds. You can get it via Fdroid with the IzzyOnDroid repos added. There is also Spotube for all platforms, also available on Fdroid. I haven’t had time to try this one out.
They kept jacking up the prices and making the streaming services worse so I finally pulled the plug and went offline. It’s a pain in the ass, to be honest, but once it’s all set up it’s really quite nice. The only long term issue is discoverability. I feel a bit like I’m stuck with the music I have now and discovering new music and listening to it is such a hassle that I just don’t do it. That said, I no longer pay for streaming, and I like what I have, so I’m not complaining.
I can strongly recommend Plexamp, which integrates well into an existing Plex setup.
Lidarr is a great complement to an existing Arr stack. And if you’re going to host your own music, you might as well look at Sonarr and Radarr, which are so great.
Personally, I just pirate the FLAC files from RED, and play them with VLC. Several advantages to this:
- Spotify is owned by a shitty, greedy company with shitty, greedy practices.
- Spotify enforces DRM on almost all its media.
- FLAC files have superior quality as they are lossless
- I can play them offline without a subscription
- Downloads are pretty much instant, as private trackers have insane seeder to leecher ratio
I’m sorry if this isn’t the response you’re looking for, but as other people have already given recommendations for alternatives, I thought I would just give my 2 cents.
FYI for everyone, RED is a private tracker
AKA a single point of failure
What exactly do you mean by “a single point of failure”? Do you mean that if the tracker goes down, I cannot pirate more music?
How is that different from Spotify? Does Spotify not have “a single point of failure”? At least with RED, I keep all my FLAC files even if the tracker gets busted.
What are you trying to say with this?
Spotube: It’s not the greatest UX, but will read your Spotify Playlists and supports offline mode.
jokes aside, spotube’s great
annoying that they get preachy about it
Youtube Music ReVanced should be good, it’s the legacy of Youtube Music Vanced, which has served me well for years, even after its takedown.
Been using YT music Revanced since summer and it’s great. No ads and being able to have my phone off is heaven.
I really don’t get why Spotify people hate YT music and get so elitist about it, it literally has every song to ever exist; if it’s on YouTube, it’s on YT Music. I especially love it cause videogame OSTs are on there and frequently I see people crying “why isn’t it on Spotify?”
As a YTM hater, here are my reasons:
- They closed down Google Play Music, which was an objectively better service, and didn’t have feature parity in YTM when they did so. They had promised it, so regardless of arguments towards what it might have now or what features might not be needed because XYZ reasons, they promised that all the features from GPM would be in YTM before GPM was sunset and that was simply not true.
- Maybe this has changed, but at launch, I couldn’t “Like” a song to influence my generated playlists without it “Liking” the video on main youtube, which influences my video recommendations. I don’t want YouTube serving me exclusively music videos because it sees my YTM Likes and vice versa.
#3 every fucking song is edited . If I hear another edited Hollywood undead song again I’m going to fucking lose it
