free-mp3-download.net (but don't forget to backup your music collection)
Edit: Unlike what the website name suggests, it allows you to download FLACs, and not just MP3s. These come from Deezer HiFi.
Oh thank you for this 😍
+1
For real been looking for something like this since I switched.
Why not just use yt-dlp?
I used to do that, but oftentimes what you find on YouTube is multi-generation lossy re-encodes which can sound poor with earphones.
I still rip from YouTube if certain songs are not on Deezer or flacmusicfinder.com.
Also, this is faster.
Thank you, you just changed my life.
As much as I am a fam of alternative Software and such, what are actual advantages of using spotube over Spotify premium? Disregarding the membership fee.
The fact you're using a libre client that doesn't do extra data collection.
Anything you do in the UI has some associated backend request (everything relevant at least). Search queries, loading albums, skipping, changing settings, anything is just a Web requ on their backend server which could still be collected. The custom ui does not save you from relevant data collection. Only thing potentially not getting tracked is empty navigation between tabs, but there is not a lot of info in tab switching
Spotube is too laggy for my liking. Innertune is my preferred streaming app that isn't self hosted.
TIL that there are open source clients for spotify. time to go down another rabbit hole, thanks linux.
Youtube music too, YT Music Revanced for modded app.
Innertune, Vi Music if you prefer FOSS clients
I use YT Music with UBlock Origin, NoScript, Cookie manager and Dark Reader. Works like a charm, no advertisements
You might like ViMusic. It is a 3rd party client for YT music. I started using it recently and really liked the UI.
Yeah ViMusic is pretty good for what it is, but it's not really better than the original YouTube music client.
My main complaint is that the sound quality is worse than YouTube Music with YouTube premium and that you're not able to cast to other devices
Also, I don't like how lyrics are displayed
I just keep downloading albums of MP3s like I have since the late 90s. It used to take hours and half the songs were mislabeled and real sketchy quality. Now, it takes seconds to download an entire album, and they're almost always correctly labeled and high quality. I tried Spotify for a while, but it really seemed like it was for attention span deprived people who want something different every song. Gimme full albums any day.
Now, it takes seconds
Maybe if you have fast internet
True. I am biased because I've lived in Korea the past twenty years. Internet access is ridiculously fast, cheap, and ubiquitous here.
Ah yes Spotube, for when I want to hear a song 2 minutes from now after it finally buffers.
You forget PC users do also exist.
ViMusic enjoyer
Do you run it in Waydroid?
No, i use it on my phone
I always found spotube to be so slow.
thanks for the meme, now i know spotify has open-source client
Also see comments and their suggestions
I just download the songs and play them off of Musicolet.
Musicolet is nice, I've started syncing lyrics to my downloaded songs, it's a nice activity to kill time.
Tidal HiFi + tidal-tdl is the best combo
Yes I have to pay $20, but I basically get like hundreds of dollars of music downloaded at their highest possible fidelity for free. Slap that shit on my DAP.
Literally better than soulseek because you can get obscure music in 48khz/24 bit that doesn't even exist as an mp3 on that platform.
I have to pay $20
for free
So which is it, is it free, or is it $20?
I have to pay 20$ for a can of beer ….
I can drink it for free.
Fair point
Fyi: you don't get the songs in the highest quality. They're actually compressed, because Tidal HiFi isn't actually lossless. This video goes more in deph: https://youtu.be/pRjsu9-Vznc?si=8Az9OhX-Y0dhEz2A
If you want lossless, use Deezer and something like Deemix. In my experience it also has more nieche music than Tidal.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/pRjsu9-Vznc?si=8Az9OhX-Y0dhEz2A
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
There is also Qobuz, which offers 96 kHz/24 bit streaming if you live in a supported country
Who needs spotify when we have vi music.
I remember when I heard the free software song first played on vi music!
Does anyone know of a Spotify client that works on ARM? I put an Orange Pi 5 as a smart TV box but Spotify doesn't work in the browser because no Widevine on aarch64 Firefox.
The poor Orange Pi can also barely play video without dropping frames, the GPU drivers are awful. I might try to uninstall them and just do software-rendering everything.
Spot is okay.
Buffering takes an eternity.
spotube works good on my mobile network, automatic win
Spotube is currently very buggy. After one song it often stops the playback instead of continuing for example. But if this is fixed, it's a very decent Spotify alternative.
Wxcited to try this on my pos kindle from 2015
Spotube was good but often slow and didn't even work sometimes so I just switched back to the pirated and cracked version of Spotify premium
