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 3 months ago (1 children)

FYI for everyone, RED is a private tracker

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 1 points 3 months ago

AKA a single point of failure

[–] nivellian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Youtube Music Revanced Extended, using NodeJS Builder on PC. Generally the audio on youtube music feels more alive than on spotify for me. I often experience where the same song has a wider stereo field on yt music, means spotify internally modifies the stereo spread in songs. Also yt music allows louder playback, spotify is stuck with standards that I have no sympathy for. I say if a song sounds good then just let it be, don't generalize all songs.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

collapsed inline media

jokes aside, spotube's great

[–] JayGray91@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

annoying that they get preachy about it

[–] Rodneyck@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

Try https://listenbrainz.org/

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

XManager still works fine for Spotify