Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium nor uses Electron

Re:Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium n... by blibble on Saturday January 20, 2024 @10:05AM (#39068237)

I spend quite a lot on bandcamp and amazon's mp3 store (couple of hundred bucks a year maybe?)

I am very very happy to pay for DRM free music

however this getting increasingly difficult as companies don't even seem to want to provide it for sale at all

under no circumstances am I going to pay a monthly subscription for a digital product that can be delivered as a one off download

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Re:Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium n... by hedora on Saturday January 20, 2024 @11:05AM (#39068910)

I know people that still buy CDs.

I've been meaning to dump my Tidal artist list to a spreadsheet or something, and figure out how to pay a few dozen artists directly this year.

One possibility is to buy their albums and copy them to my NAS. Paying for DRM-free downloads seems easier / better, but I'd want to make sure the artists' cut is higher than with streaming.

For what it's worth, iTunes is apparently DRM-free these days. I don't want to figure out their terrible GUI, but presumably there's some tool that'll copy the songs out of it and into a filesystem.

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Re:Open source Spotify client that doesn't require Premium n... by blibble on Saturday January 20, 2024 @11:19AM (#39069086)

I would buy CDs and rip them up until about 5 years ago at which point the stuff I liked vanished

> For what it's worth, iTunes is apparently DRM-free these days.

I'll try this!

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