- Skip watching this video and save time
- Run a Spotify downloader like SpotDL (there are many of them out there)
- Point your downloader at your Spotify playlists and wait for it to download all your songs
- Put all these songs onto your phone, media player, Firefly Server or whatever
- Cancel Spotify
this post was submitted on 04 May 2026
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You forgot 6) and 7) and 8)
- realise that you discovered new music via Spotify only
- realise you cannot download any more music from Spotify
- yarr
So overall this is just a band-aid until you are ready to go full pirate on music again.
Bandcamp Fridays.
36 minutes??! Let me help tl;dr this thing.
Step 1: cancel account renewal
Step 2: Download/buy/OWN music
You're welcome, now you don't need to watch.
- where do I buy music?
- what device do I use to listen to music?
- if I use my phone, which apps should I use to listen to my music?
- if I use a dedicated device, how do I transfer music to it?
- if I use a dedicated device, how do I play the file formats I want?
- what's a file format? which should I choose?
- what if i want more music than my device can hold?
- what is self-hosting?
- if i want streaming, what services should I use? How do I install them?
- what if I want android auto/carplay support?
- if I do streaming, what apps should I use? On Android? On iOS?
- what if I want an algorithm to help me find new music?
- how do I fix metadata that is wrong or add album artwork that's missing?
(All questions answered in the video, btw.)
- Bandcamp, Qobuz, HDTracks, just to name a few.
- Any android phone will do. They still make dedicated music players that are better than an old IPod. Try a Fiio device.
- PowerAmp is my goto.
- USB cable
- Check the devices supported file formats and if they don't fit your needs keep looking.
- MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, VORBIS. The first three should cover all your basic needs.
- Get a bigger SD Card/Hard drive.
- Honestly that's overkill.
- Jellyfin plays music. Grab an aux chord. Use a bluetooth speaker.
- AUX CHORD!
- Spotify, Youtube, Tidal.
- Just listen to what the heart desires.
- There are metadata editors you can download. I use my ncmpcpp's(Linux) metadata editor and that works just fine.
(Didn't need a video to answer any of these questions btw. It's not rocket science. Hell, it's not even new in terms of using computers. Music was the first thing I figured out way back in the day. Been adding to the same collection of music for 25 years. You don't need a dedicated server to host music that you can put on an SD card and in your phone. Why on God's green earth would you want an algorithm?)
EDIT: Didn't realize I missed so many questions.
It's kind of hilarious that there is now a 36 minute video that essentially explains how everyone used iPods in 2003 as some difficult alternative
What's funny is iPods were the difficult alternative back then. You could only use iTunes and their proprietary files to put music on the thing. You had to do some hack to get around that. It had very limited space even for the time. They were expensive. Meanwhile me with my cheap mp3 player had gigs of music I just drag and dropped from the file manager. I feel bad for anybody that only knows Spotify as a way to get music. They don't know what they're missing.
I had an application called floola that I just dragged and dropped onto the iPod. There was a Mac Windows and Linux version so regardless of what you plugged the iPod into you could load music on. I didn't even have a Mac I just had an iPod
Tbf Limewire is free and private.
I haven't read that name in many moons
Damn that's old, why not use a newer method of piracy?
Limetorrents is just a part of qbittorrent search now. It sort of just happens if you're lazy.
If you're old enough to know what an mp3 player is then you can probably skip this video.
Use Amazon music or iTunes to purchase digital music. Buy physical media like a CD and rip the music. Piracy is the third option.
Use a tool of your choosing to export your Playlist from your favorite streaming service
Use your preferred mp3 music player. He really likes old ipods. 20min of the video is just him talking about his favorite music player.
What all these comments are missing is the browsing/discovery aspect. At least in my circles, thats the main (really, only) reason Spotify is used over traditional music stores or piracy. I appreciate that the video actually proposes a replacement for that in ListenBrainz. That said, given that the platform seems really niche, I have my doubts about how well it would work. For example, I have a friend who almost exclusively listens to non-western songs. Most other nerdier platforns offer nothing for this, and it seems like this would be the same.
Wow, pretty comprehensive. Nice.