A brief overview of how to enjoy high quality music without subscribing to a
privacy-invasive and usually lower-quality music streaming service like
Spotify, YouTube Music, Deezer, etc.
I have over 4000 songs just in one playlist on my phone. I’ve never used a streaming app.
I try and find new music via Fediverse, Tiny Desk series, music acts from shows like: SNL, Tonight Show, etc. And of course I’ll check Billboard top charts once in a while.
If you know the artist and/or the song title you can simply download it via torrents, usernet or some collection on a website. Got Spotify? Even easier.
10k is quite a lot if you (at leas somewhat) handpick them and download them individually. I currently have about 4k songs saved on my PC, but I dont know most of them due to the fact, that I download them in bulk, since I was able to get my hands on the entire discographies of two labels that I like. One had 3k songs sorted in 150 Albums across 15 years. The other label had 1k songs. Dont know how many albums those are, or from how many years, since I havent been able to index all of them in a database to check what metadata they have.
I have over 4000 songs just in one playlist on my phone. I’ve never used a streaming app.
I try and find new music via Fediverse, Tiny Desk series, music acts from shows like: SNL, Tonight Show, etc. And of course I’ll check Billboard top charts once in a while.
For those that are streaming their own collection, I highly recommend scrobbling to ListenBrainz for discovery.
Ty. I’ll take a look.
Which places can you recommend in the fediverse?
Just a couple on my subscription list. I’m sure there’s plenty others.
https://lemmy.world/c/alternativenation
https://lemmy.world/c/music
https://lemmy.world/c/jazz
Finding music is one thing. How to you get it to your phone as a file?
Download it and transfer it to your device?
If you know the artist and/or the song title you can simply download it via torrents, usernet or some collection on a website. Got Spotify? Even easier.
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Personally, despite the hate for YT… maybe it works in FOSS replicants, I use a YouTube MP3 converter.
After I have several conversion downloads, I email them to myself and save to phone memory.
I like streaming apps for discovering new music. I have over 10k songs on Plex/jellyfin. As I listen on Spotify, I download to there
10k is quite a lot if you (at leas somewhat) handpick them and download them individually. I currently have about 4k songs saved on my PC, but I dont know most of them due to the fact, that I download them in bulk, since I was able to get my hands on the entire discographies of two labels that I like. One had 3k songs sorted in 150 Albums across 15 years. The other label had 1k songs. Dont know how many albums those are, or from how many years, since I havent been able to index all of them in a database to check what metadata they have.