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      Honest question, how else do I easily discover music that matches my taste if I don’t use a streaming service?

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        last.fm is pretty good. download music locally, scrobble it to last.fm, look at recommendations ans/or similar artists. also recommendations from fans tend to work well (comment sections, subreddits, forums, etc)

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    As soon as I need to subscribe to multiple services to find my music I’m going back to piracy. Fuck that anti consumer shit.

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        fun fact:

        Jellyfin works for music (and audio books) just as well as it does for movies and TV shows!

        And being open source, there are apps specific to certain use cases. Like on ios there’s Finamp for music and Plappa for audio books.

        It also streams in FLAC quality!

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        The biggest band out of Bristol have told their record label to pull all their songs from music streaming app Spotify, in protest at its founder investing more than £500 million in a military AI company

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      Spotify: the company that continues to find ways to make YouTube play music not a horrible choice.

      Like… How the fuck.

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        I mean yeah, I have a Revanced yt music app so I don’t have to worry about ads or anything. It works damn near identical to Spotify too.

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      my only complaint with tidal is they suck at properly assigning music to the correct artists. i’ve opened tickets by contacting their twitter and they sometimes fix the issue but only until the next release of a song

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    I develop kew (a terminal music player), so I’m biased, but I started kew because I rejected Spotify many years ago.

    I think that kew (or other private/offline music players) together with flacs from Qobuz are actually a great alternative to Spotify. Throw in some Bandcamp albums in there for great justice. Once you have a decent collection, you will feel liberated.

    I especially think that Qobuz needs more exposure.

    https://codeberg.org/ravachol/kew

    https://www.qobuz.com/

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      I love Lemmy so much cause there’s people that make me feel dumb, and no one that makes me feel smart. It pretty fucking refreshing!

      Also thanks so much for your hard work. I got you on a small donation.

      Edit: super git ignorant, guessing code berg doesn’t have that button. You got a “buy me a coffee” type thing set up?