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As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend https://audiobookshelf.org

And also https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

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[–] sunbunman@lemm.ee 40 points 7 months ago (33 children)

Just a heads up to everyone, quitting Spotify and buying / "procuring" your own music and playing it via a music player makes reading this quite cathartic. Do it for the moral superiority and self esteem boost for no effort you come to the internet for anyways.

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 points 7 months ago (20 children)

How do you even buy music anymore?

[–] sunbunman@lemm.ee 30 points 7 months ago (19 children)

There's quite a few ways actually:

  • Bandcamp (preferred)
  • just google it
  • Artist's official website
  • contact artist via social media

If none of the above has worked, this is no longer an issue about whether you want to pay for the product or not, it's a supplier problem.

[–] flit@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also, when it comes to specific platforms, Apple Music is quite good, though they make it rather painful to buy music if you use Linux

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It is to be noted that while iTunes is DRM-free at this point (which is very nice and surprised me when I found out) it is unfortunately still lossy compressed audio which the perfectionist in me really doesn't like :P

Come on Apple, sell me your funny ALAC, you have it for Apple Music anyway

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

It is now? That's cool Would have been nice to not have lost my entire childhood library because it was locked behind iTunes.

[–] flit@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I wasn't aware of that. It doesn't bother me that much, since I personally can't tell the difference in audio quality, but that's still unfortunate to know

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

I mean same, but I'd still like to have lossless audio regardless :P

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