Hi! I am interested in getting a new app for playing music. Until now, I’ve been on the Spotify paid tier, but I hardly use it lately in order to justify keeping the subscription. I still have quite a few playlists that I would not like losing, though.

I’ve been looking around, and the only app I’ve found that’s very nice is BlackHole. However, after looking at it closer, I realized that it uses some API from India that only returns Indian music when you try to import/search. I had a good laugh on that one, after seeing all my imported playlists full of Bollywood music!

I continued my search, but I can’t really find something that allows you to import playlists from various services. SpoTube is nice, but it takes a long time to play songs (sometimes up to 1 minute or more after pressing the play button).

So, my question: What do you guys use to listen to music?

  • fern@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    ViMusic and InnerTune are both clients for YouTube music on Android. I prefer Innertune’s interface, but it seems like ViMusic might have an import feature? Personally I stream my music collection from my Jellyfin server with Finamp.

    • vandrw@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’d love to move to a Jellyfin server as well. I have everything ready, except a stable internet provider, haha.

      Do you happen to integrate Lidarr into this? I am curious how seamless it is to add new songs with just a search.

      • fern@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I do use Lidarr! It pulls from the MusicBrainz database, so you can only really search and add tracks that were released as a single. My use-case is to download albums and monitor new releases from my favourite artists, and it does a good job at that. I use LunaSea on my phone to add stuff to Lidarr, Sonarr, and Radarr.

    • vandrw@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes, on Android. Thanks for this! I initially brushed it off since I didn’t see the “Import playlists” feature! EDIT: It actually doesn’t handle Spotify imports. I’ll have to look around to find something that does that.

      • Hellfire103@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’s a web app I quite like called HyperPipe, which can be installed as a PWA on Android, iOS, Windows and Linux. It’s similar to Beatbump, but this actually works!

  • mrHeyer@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    “I still have quite a few playlists that I would not like losing, though.”

    I am a big fan of https://soundiiz.com/ for playlist backup/conversion. It has a free tier, but the paid tier is pretty cheap and definitely worth it.

    • arcrust@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This right here. Everytime I hop to a new service, I use soundizz. Works perfectly for me and I have a lot of Playlists. The free tier is pretty limited. I think it only let’s you do 50 songs at a time, or something like that. It’s worth it to pay for one month, transfer everything, and then cancel.

      Amazon music is decent. Apple music is pretty good. Tidal is awesome, but last time I used them I thought their algorithms were kinda weak.

      I actually use YouTube music myself because I have YouTube premium. I also use a yt-dl to download my music, and have it all backed up to a NAS.