The reason I gave up on MP3’s and subscribed to Spotify was because Spotify was easy. I’ve been listening “Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds” song every day and like a week ago, its removed. This was the last straw for me. Right now I’m trying to find “Stremio” of the music world. Can someone assist?
Key features I’m looking for:
- Synchronization between devices
- Offline play
- Playlist support
- Both desktop and mobile apps
- Wide music library (optional if I will upload music)
- Lyrics (optional)
Update: thanks to everyone who shared their solutions 🙏
Didn’t apple use to delete your local music and replace it with whatever remastered re-re-release bullshit? Even if they don’t do it anymore, it was shitty in their part and I wouldn’t trust them anymore. Also, their app on Android doesn’t support casting to other devices… At least it didn’t work as it should when I last tried.
why not buy the album and then use it locally on your device? vlc runs pretty much everything and you could fit thousands of songs while offline (could even remove the gsm/wifi/bluetooth from a phone running some FOSS os and turn it into your offline media device). or just get a cd player for $1 at a thrift store, offline, private, full access
thrift stores sell albums for $1 and there are a few sites that sell new music to be downloaded for cheap
There are ways to rip physicsl media but they break the encryption which is ‘illegal’.
I meant more just having control of the actual files when buying from places like Amazon or ITunes rather than just being given library access to the songs for so long until that company loses the license and deletes them from your library.
Take a look at funk whale.
Use deezer. I’ve been on them for many years and it’s just like Spotify without the social media shit.
Good looking apps etc. It’s also French so no bullshit around privacy.
This is not piracy though but it’s such a good service that I’m paying for it.
The was an app a couple years ago called Freezer, which was cracked Deezer with HQ playback and offline downloading. It shut down a while ago, and I’ve been looking out for a replacement ever since. It was perfect.
It should still be possible because deemix, free-mp3-download etc. still grab from Deezer afaik
There’s a bunch of apps on Flathub for that, but if you’re looking for a Windows app, then iidk.
