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First xmanager went away and I was devastated

Now revanced Spotify doesn't seem to work and I feel defeated.

I feel the cat and mouse game with spotify has caught up and I should just ditch Spotify altogether. Do you guys have any solutions?

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Have you patched the latest version? Mine stopped working within the last week. Just downloaded the new version and patched it. Has been working fine since.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 2 points 4 hours ago

To download spitify, zotify maybe work.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 hours ago

I used a program called spotdl to download all the music in my playlists and then ditched the whole thing.

[–] kandykarter@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 hours ago

Using lidarr with the arr-extended scripts, soularr and slskd is the way. Add the music to your jellyfin server, stream with symfonium.

[–] sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Muffon is a bit jank but works quite well. It takes from quite a few sources and has the ability to reccomend

I just ditched spotify completely in favour of a jellyfin private server that works like spotify for me. If I want to get recommendations, listenbrainz gives me a weekly list based on what i listen.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 4 points 10 hours ago

Even spotube stopped working since the dev received a cease and desist, you have to go back to the old hacked app.

[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 29 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

It’s never been so easy to download music. Soulseek, yt-dlp, torrents for older stuff, spotify downloader websites etc. I still have spotify but I started growing my local music collection a few years ago. Considering canceling my spotify subscription.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 8 points 16 hours ago

Soulseek will IP block you for leeching, always keep it on

[–] laggytoast@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is there any guide on how Soulseek works? I don't really understand how to use it and how it works

Can yt-dlp download lossless formats or is it just mp3?

[–] Mondez@lemdro.id 4 points 12 hours ago

It's more like the old school file sharing networks of like napster and emule. You give it a directory to share and it makes files in those directories available to download on the network and you can download what other people are sharing.

[–] qwestjest78@lemmy.ca 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I was using xmanager for a long time, then I moved on from Spotify altogether. I think it depends on how you use Spotify. I was really trying to hold onto streaming music because I didn't want to loose my playlists, but when I looked at my Wrapped every year, I was listening to the same artists and songs alot of the time.

For me it made more sense to buy the music I loved, rather than pay a monthly fee to listen to the same tracks. Now I have a great currated music collection on my phone that I control. If you decide to buy music, 7digital and Bandcamp are great.

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

For desktop I've been getting playlists I like from the web Spotify UI, then using spotdl to download them.

On mobile I've been trying out Kreate (YouTube Music frontend) and so far it's not bad. It doesn't have a real algorithm but I tend to browse by genre until I land on a playlist, or go to a song I feel like and hit Song Radio. UI is still a bit clunky in my opinion but it has worked so far for me otherwise.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

Didn't spotdl cease to work a long time ago? Maybe I'm confusing it, I used to use some AUR package which I thought was called that, then the API thing happened and it ceased to function so I gave up on it.

I use arch BTW.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

spotx still works fine, if you want to use that in migration

[–] SineIraEtStudio@midwest.social 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Have you tried Spotube?

Not sure what Revanced changes/add/subtracts, but Spotify is basically Spotify without ads and you can pick different sources (ex. YouTube) for the music.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Spotube is also complying with a cease and desist from Spotify and can no longer access the Spotify API or anything related with the service.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago

I hope spotdl still lives on, I'll probably start downloading before it's all gone

[–] SineIraEtStudio@midwest.social 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's unfortunate.

Do you know when that is supposed to happen (currently works for me)?

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 6 points 15 hours ago

They have already stopped development and removed all versions with Spotify implementation.