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Ways to pirate music as convenient as Spotify? (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by iso@lemy.lol to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The reason I gave up on MP3's and subscribed to Spotify was because Spotify was easy. I've been listening "Iron Maiden - Empire of the Clouds" song every day and like a week ago, its removed. This was the last straw for me. Right now I'm trying to find "Stremio" of the music world. Can someone assist?

Key features I'm looking for:

Synchronization between devices
Offline play
Playlist support
Both desktop and mobile apps
Wide music library (optional if I will upload music)
Lyrics (optional)

Update: thanks to everyone who shared their solutions 🙏

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[-] dislocate_expansion@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

why not buy the album and then use it locally on your device? vlc runs pretty much everything and you could fit thousands of songs while offline (could even remove the gsm/wifi/bluetooth from a phone running some FOSS os and turn it into your offline media device). or just get a cd player for $1 at a thrift store, offline, private, full access

thrift stores sell albums for $1 and there are a few sites that sell new music to be downloaded for cheap

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Can you even buy DRM free music these days?

[-] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

On bandcamp! If I want to support artists, this is the site I always go to. And yt-dlp works also great on bandcamp when I'm not feeling so generous ;)

[-] dislocate_expansion@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

yeah not sure. are there ways to rip a drm physical album to audio file?

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

There are ways to rip physicsl media but they break the encryption which is 'illegal'.

I meant more just having control of the actual files when buying from places like Amazon or ITunes rather than just being given library access to the songs for so long until that company loses the license and deletes them from your library.