Recently switched to using slskd (sharing) + Picard (organizing) + Navidrome (streaming) + Amperfy (client) for my music needs. It’s obviously more cumbersome than Spotify, but it’s mine, in my control, and has all the content I want.
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It’s never been so easy to download music. Soulseek, yt-dlp, torrents for older stuff, spotify downloader websites etc. I still have spotify but I started growing my local music collection a few years ago. Considering canceling my spotify subscription.
Soulseek will IP block you for leeching, always keep it on
Is there any guide on how Soulseek works? I don't really understand how to use it and how it works
Can yt-dlp download lossless formats or is it just mp3?
It's more like the old school file sharing networks of like napster and emule. You give it a directory to share and it makes files in those directories available to download on the network and you can download what other people are sharing.
Soulseek is a simple peer-to-peer sharing network. You can share directories and see other users shared directories when they are online. It can be a bit flaky but is a useful tool.
yt-dlp downloads from youtube will be in youtube quality, so ~128kbps VBR opus most of the time. Sometimes ~256kbps VBR if you have Premium. I still find it handy for hard to find recordings and new albums etc that have not been shared in flac yet.
I just ditched spotify completely in favour of a jellyfin private server that works like spotify for me. If I want to get recommendations, listenbrainz gives me a weekly list based on what i listen.
Using lidarr with the arr-extended scripts, soularr and slskd is the way. Add the music to your jellyfin server, stream with symfonium.
If I'm using lidarr with Windows can this still be done or is this a Linux only thing? I checked out the website for soularr and it looks like it's Linux or docker only.
What are these scripts you mentioned? I'm running practically the same setup otherwise:
- Searching: Lidarr, Soularr, slskd
- Navidrome for a backend, Feishin on desktop, Symfonium mobile
- Beets for metadata management
I'll give this a try. Thanks
I was using xmanager for a long time, then I moved on from Spotify altogether. I think it depends on how you use Spotify. I was really trying to hold onto streaming music because I didn't want to loose my playlists, but when I looked at my Wrapped every year, I was listening to the same artists and songs alot of the time.
For me it made more sense to buy the music I loved, rather than pay a monthly fee to listen to the same tracks. Now I have a great currated music collection on my phone that I control. If you decide to buy music, 7digital and Bandcamp are great.
I used a program called spotdl to download all the music in my playlists and then ditched the whole thing.
Have you patched the latest version? Mine stopped working within the last week. Just downloaded the new version and patched it. Has been working fine since.
For desktop I've been getting playlists I like from the web Spotify UI, then using spotdl to download them.
On mobile I've been trying out Kreate (YouTube Music frontend) and so far it's not bad. It doesn't have a real algorithm but I tend to browse by genre until I land on a playlist, or go to a song I feel like and hit Song Radio. UI is still a bit clunky in my opinion but it has worked so far for me otherwise.
Didn't spotdl cease to work a long time ago? Maybe I'm confusing it, I used to use some AUR package which I thought was called that, then the API thing happened and it ceased to function so I gave up on it.
I use arch BTW.
Even spotube stopped working since the dev received a cease and desist, you have to go back to the old hacked app.
I use soulseek to download, AOTY.org to find new music. To listen I use musicbee on PC and Poweramp on Android.
You can set up musicbee to scan and sync music automatically to your phones album folder when you plug it in the PC with USB. It can even convert them to smaller files like mp3 or opus if you like. I recommend opus.
Musicbee also has a replaygain feature to analyze the volume of your music library, and adjust them so they all play at a similar volume. This metadata also carries over when you sync to Poweramp. Just need to enable the option there.
You can use soulseek on your computer or on Android phones. I mostly download on my PC since then I don't need to go into the folders to move albums. Just need to plug in the phone to sync.
If I really need streaming for some reason I use revanced youtube music. But I mostly just search up recommendations on AOTY and add them to my library.
It took a little tinkering to get it how I like it, but it was fun, and once set up it's quite smooth and works well. I prefer it over streaming now.
Make sure to buy some albums every now and then to support your favorite artists directly.
Nicotine+ is an open source client for the soulseek network.
Nice! This looks really pleasant! Always thought the official one needed some work. Thanks!
To download spitify, zotify maybe work.
Have you tried Spotube?
Not sure what Revanced changes/add/subtracts, but Spotify is basically Spotify without ads and you can pick different sources (ex. YouTube) for the music.
Spotube is also complying with a cease and desist from Spotify and can no longer access the Spotify API or anything related with the service.
I hope spotdl still lives on, I'll probably start downloading before it's all gone
That's unfortunate.
Do you know when that is supposed to happen (currently works for me)?
They have already stopped development and removed all versions with Spotify implementation.
spotx still works fine, if you want to use that in migration
There is a lot of YouTube music clients on fdroid. Have you tried any of them?
Muffon is a bit jank but works quite well. It takes from quite a few sources and has the ability to reccomend
I didn't had luck with Revanced neither, however Grayjay works well for me, so I use it. It has it own cons tho