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 😍
What is its source? Torrents in background?
From what I could find, Deezer using free trial Deezer HiFi accounts.
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.
Buffering takes an eternity.
Ah yes Spotube, for when I want to hear a song 2 minutes from now after it finally buffers.
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.
Eh, I’m a full album guy (Pink Floyd ftw) but I still enjoy Spotify. I’ve been introduced to a lot of good music I probably wouldn’t have found otherwise, and sometimes I’m just not in the mood to commit to a full album.
Maybe I used it wrong, but I joined for a few months, and just used it to search up artists I already knew and listen. And then, I found it less convenient than my MP3 collection which easily fits on an SD card or my phone’s drive. I only very periodically search for new music. And I usually end up obsessing over one artist for a long time before moving onto another. We’re talking months to years. I’ve been listening to almost nothing but Rush for a few months now. I was never a fan growing up, but decided to give their whole discography a fair shot. Now, I can’t stop listening to Rush.
Yeh I feel you, I used to be the same way actually. Gradually over time my habits changed and now I look forward to the Discovery playlist each week. But I totally get where you’re coming from, I used to just listen to the same artist over and over ha ha.
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
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.
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
Spotube is too laggy for my liking. Innertune is my preferred streaming app that isn’t self hosted.
