If you're paying for music, stay away from any music publisher that doesn't give you the option of keeping a DRM-free copy for yourself that can be played back in perpetuity, unconditionally.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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Which one has the biggest selection and highest quality audio, ad-free for $0/mo?
I use YouTube Music ReVanced, and while the audio quality isn't the highest (because it's YouTube), you can't beat the song selection. Especially when it's free and ad-free.
ReVanced can also patch the Spotify app
Spotify has no music. I don't like it.
(Seriously, it's missing so many songs! But thanks anyway.)
You're likely violating the YouTube terms of service and can be banned at any moment. Also you're stealing from musicians. Lemmy has multiple piracy communities that can probably give you more options
"Stealing" from record industry executives, you mean. Artists make the vast majority of their income from merch, autograph signings, and ticket sales. I couldn't care less if a billionaire executive misses out on a few hundred bucks from me over my lifetime. And secondly, making a copy isn't stealing.
Edit: Also why would you think that I give a single shit about YouTube's TeRmS oF sErViCe? (Why would any non-government citizen?) Fuck Google.
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Is there a way to get a list of all the songs I like on spotify for archival purposes? Not the file, just a list. Like a shopping list.
If you are moving to deezer they will take over all your playlists. They have a third party service on teir website that does it. It moved thousands for me with minimal issues. A couple live tracks and very niche local sonfs missing. I would say easily 99.9% transfer accuracy and it listed the outliers.
The service works regardless of who you move to or from.
You can check out Soundiiz
Some of these services don't offer themselves in turkey (tidal)
I haven't heard of half of those but SoundCloud is in the "other" category.
I use Anghami myself
I am not able to find iOS apps for Deezer, Qobuz and Tidal.
Edit- not available in my region
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Currently streaming out of my Nextcloud server. Its nice. Does that count?
I think it does! Although you might want to check out iBroadcast for a few extra features :)
if only deezer didn't have data breaches