Spotify is owned by a shitty, greedy company with shitty, greedy practices.
Spotify enforces DRM on almost all its media.
FLAC files have superior quality as they are lossless
I can play them offline without a subscription
Downloads are pretty much instant, as private trackers have insane seeder to leecher ratio

I'm sorry if this isn't the response you're looking for, but as other people have already given recommendations for alternatives, I thought I would just give my 2 cents.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FYI for everyone, RED is a private tracker

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago

AKA a single point of failure

[–] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I use RiMusic which is Google Music without the adds. You can get it via Fdroid with the IzzyOnDroid repos added. There is also Spotube for all platforms, also available on Fdroid. I haven't had time to try this one out.

[–] snake@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

auxio for my offline collection (which i've been slowly building so that i don't have to stream anymore)

pipepipe for youtube

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They kept jacking up the prices and making the streaming services worse so I finally pulled the plug and went offline. It's a pain in the ass, to be honest, but once it's all set up it's really quite nice. The only long term issue is discoverability. I feel a bit like I'm stuck with the music I have now and discovering new music and listening to it is such a hassle that I just don't do it. That said, I no longer pay for streaming, and I like what I have, so I'm not complaining.

I can strongly recommend Plexamp, which integrates well into an existing Plex setup.

Lidarr is a great complement to an existing Arr stack. And if you're going to host your own music, you might as well look at Sonarr and Radarr, which are so great.

[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Try https://listenbrainz.org/

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Spotube: It's not the greatest UX, but will read your Spotify Playlists and supports offline mode.

[–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

collapsed inline media

jokes aside, spotube's great

[–] JayGray91@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

annoying that they get preachy about it

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

XManager still works fine for Spotify

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not for me, nor for a lot of other people.

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

It works fine, you just need to download an old version in order to login. It doesn't let you login in the latest version but you can update it once you are logged in