On mobile i’ve got an app that lets me play youtube videos with the screen locked so i use that as well.
It’s a bit annoying cause the app does have ads as well, but only when you open it. If you put a video on and close it (leaving it playing on the background), there’s no ads
bandcamp is pretty great. Granted, they are still a for-profit company; a popular community based solution would be nice. But they do let you download lossless file to self-host or just listen on device.
The only complain is the lack of classical music (not modern/contemporary classical) on there. But I would imagine most classical music is public domain by now. I just don’t know where to find them…
What do you use for music?
“open directory” searches
(+“index of” +filename +(mp3|ogg|flac|aac|m4a))
yt-dlp
xdcc
VLC
Soulseek is good
Youtube + ublock
On mobile i’ve got an app that lets me play youtube videos with the screen locked so i use that as well.
It’s a bit annoying cause the app does have ads as well, but only when you open it. If you put a video on and close it (leaving it playing on the background), there’s no ads
Oh, I’ve been using Newpipe to do this. Zero ads, free and open source too. Interface is a little rough, but you’ll get the hang of it quick.
Oh nice. I’ll check it out, thanks!
Bandcamp (pay what u want) and soulseek.
Ahh soulseek. That takes me back
Back? It’s still extremely relevant for niches :)
bandcamp is pretty great. Granted, they are still a for-profit company; a popular community based solution would be nice. But they do let you download lossless file to self-host or just listen on device.
The only complain is the lack of classical music (not modern/contemporary classical) on there. But I would imagine most classical music is public domain by now. I just don’t know where to find them…
Edit: found it: https://www.classiccat.net/ or internet archive has a huge collection of classical music.
archive.org actually has quite a decent clearweb variety. The usual suspects have everything else.
yt-dlp to download, Strawberry and JetAudio as music players, and Kid3qt for batch renames/metadata management