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?

    • 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
        3·
        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!

  • kwj@szmer.infoEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    YouTube through NewPipe, Tidal (it pays the most to the artists afaik), radio through RadioDroid, buy CDs or just download torrents.

  • fern@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    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
      1·
      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
        3·
        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.