• down daemon
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      141 year ago

      Pirate and buy official merch, they make more of that anyway. Also live shows

      • @thorbot@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        It’s actually really easy if you just invest in a Synology NAS. You can install the music server package with a few clicks and copy music to the folder, then open a port on your firewall and the Synology music app streams it. Pretty nifty

        • @protput@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago

          Doesn’t even need to be Synology. Plenty of solutions that can be installed on your own “open” hardware (old PC, mini PC or just a more powerful server)

          • @thorbot@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            For sure. The Synology is just dead simple because it already has the package to install and there’s a mobile app it pairs with.

      • @desconectado@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        As a Spotify user, I’m not really ok with how much they pay artists… But I don’t use Spotify for “streaming” even though I stream a lot from them, I use it to discover new music, find obscure bands, their algorithm is amazing at that.

        I could easily selfhost as you suggested, but then it would be my own music bubble.

        I go to concerts and buy merchandise as much as possible when I want to support an artist.

      • ejmin
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        21 year ago

        Can confirm. Tidal has “lossless” audio, but app is horrendous, albeit better than Spotify’s.

        Also tech support is absolutely useless, still would prefer over Spotify every time.

    • @viking@infosec.pub
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      -101 year ago

      NetEase Music. It’s a spotify clone from China, and the VIP version costs like $1.20 a month.

      It doesn’t spy on your phone and requires zero permissions (I’ve tested this extensively), but you will need a VPN set to China, Hong Kong or Taiwan for it to work (assuming you don’t live in either place).

      • @TurtledUp@lemm.ee
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        171 year ago

        China and doesn’t spy on your phone, I’ll take things that don’t go together for 200 Alex

        • @viking@infosec.pub
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          31 year ago

          I’m in China and work as head of IT security for a European company. As such I monitor my phone religiously for any transgressions. Netease Music works with zero permissions (unless you want to use the downloader) and doesn’t try to exfiltrate any data whatsoever.

          Install PCAPdroid and see for yourself, you can monitor all traffic on system level on a per app basis.

          • @sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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            01 year ago

            at the very least, I expect it to make requests for every song you’re streaming which are associated with your account and payment information.

            they also get your music consuming habits, because they know the times you listen to music and to which music at each time.

            that’s a hell lot of data to analyze and sell.

            • zeroxxx
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              31 year ago

              As if Spotify and other services don’t lmao.

              Spotify even dug your bluetooth device name.

              • @sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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                11 year ago

                definitely. You’re absolutely right, Spotify is a privacy nightmare and I didn’t say otherwise.

                The post I was replying to was arguing that the service they were using was private, I just told them that even if the app doesn’t need any permissions they still have the ability to spy on their users and most probably do so.

            • @viking@infosec.pub
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              01 year ago

              And how, prey tell, should a music streaming service that delivers suggestions based on your preferences deliver content if not by analyzing your listening behavior?

              If you’re afraid of that, then there’s no music service whatsoever you can use.