• bblfrnz@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    The ads alone would make me throw off my headset in disgust.

    For a mobile, there is a modded apk,I’ve never heard ads there. For a PC, web player in Firefox with uBlock Origin, there are no ads at all there. The same goes for Tidal, I’ve never paid for these apps.

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        1 year ago
        1. spotx - well, I tried, but honestly, I don’t need one more app especially when everything works in the browser. Plus, I prefer portable setups and there’s no portable version of spotx, so, it’s pretty useless for me.
        2. It’s explicitly said on the Spowlo GitHub page that they use YouTube for downloading, so, there’s no way to get 320 kbps tracks or flacs. Instead, I’d recommend to try some Qobuz/Deezer-based solutions, there are quite a few of them there. Or use slavart or something like this, or good old soulseek, there’s even an Android client for it.
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          1 year ago

          Does it convert them to 320kbps when I choose that quality? Because when I play those downloaded songs, it indeed shows as 320kbps.

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            1 year ago

            That’s the question, because as far as I know, the highest ytmusic quality is 256 kbps. I would avoid using it

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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t solve the offline mode/taking a 13 hour flight use case, unfortunately.

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        1 year ago

        Well, that’s very specific case to be honest. In that case you can just download whatever you want beforehand, from soulseek, for instance. Generally people make preparations in advance for such things.

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        1 year ago

        Zotify works very well at downloading Spotify lists, from playlists to whole discographies. You have to sort the output a little as you’ll often get multiple copies of tracks due to remastered editions, songs released as singles etc. But overall it’s an incredibly easy way to download music.

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      1 year ago

      I use an iPhone though and I’d prefer not to use YouTube for music, or anything, really.

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        1 year ago

        Oh man, you shouldn’t be using iphone in the first place, the most useless device piracy-wise.

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          1 year ago

          Most people don’t pirate stuff on their phones. I use an iPhone and my hundreds of gigabytes of pirated stuff is available on my iPhone via plexamp/plex/etc.