I’ve settled for Qobuz. Its discovery features are terrible, but it’s basically a music storefront with a streaming library. High-quality, had basically my whole library and I can buy albums directly for download.
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dimjim@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
When I got tired of Spotify’s shitty practices, I looked into other streaming services that could compare, and honestly I didn’t like any other offerings. So I said fuck it, I’ll just download everything and play it locally.
What made the jump easy was a service called Spotidown, I even paid for the ad free version it was so convenient. You literally copy the spotify link for songs and playlists and it let’s you download it. There’s a couple different services like this, that will make the switch easier.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
dimjim@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Oh I didn’t know you could buy music from Qobuz, is it a better system than bandcamp? I’ve never used either so Im at the perfect time to find a good one.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Both are great, and I think complement eachother nicely. Qobuz mostly focuses on label offered music catalogues, while Bandcamp has always catered to indies. If an artist offers their music through Bandcamp, I still prefer to make my purchases there, but if the artist is signed to a label then it’s a good shot Qobuz has it.
Either service offers the music in the highest quality provided, though lossless versions through Qobuz do tend to be priced a few dollars higher than the regular album.
dimjim@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Looks like I’ll be using both then lol, thanks for the input!
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Does SpotiDown have a linux version? If not, do you know an alternative?
rozodru@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Nicotine+/soulseek. won’t copy your spotify lists but you can manually download everything. will take time obviously as you’ll have to search for everything.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
You can use slsk-batchdl alongside a CSV of your Spotify Playlists to make quicker work of this.
hark@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
I wrote a little python script to download all my YouTube music songs for my navidrome setup. I’m sure you could do something similar for spotify if you know python.
dimjim@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Not that im aware of, sorry. There is a Windows based spotidown software, but no Linux. Spotidown is a web based service normally, so you could definitely use it in Linux. I actually downloaded all my music from it using my phone!
codapine@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
For Linux you can use ZSpotify. It runs in the command line, just use a burner account to run as in zspotify because it’s against their TOS of course, and might get you kickbanned. It also requires premium, but you only need it for a day at most, in order to run the download. Then you can cancel.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, you could just pay the artists for their music.
dimjim@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I do! I go to concerts and buy merch from the artists I listen to, which gives them exponentially more money than the fractions of a penny Spotify gives them. I’ve paid for Spotify long enough to justify downloading the music I had saved, any future music I want I’ll just purchase from Bandcamp or something similar.