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  • What's your music setup on mobile? 🎵

I rip CD's, save the files to pCloud, open the files using pCloud on my 6A, install the music files on the phone then use Muzio player which scans the phone and adds the tracks. Muzio Player presents songs, albums etc, creates playlists and all one would expect. It is a tedious process, always looking for a simpler way, thinking of going back to just using a CD player.

I seldom listen to music these days, but when I do, it’s from CD’s rips I did on my computer, and which I transfered to the phone over MTP. I use VLC as a music player.

Spotify with my Sony wf1000xm4 paired with Gadgetbridge.

It is the only non FOSS app I use on my main profile, I will look at alteratives to this post. Thanks for your suggestions!

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Pixel 6a - GrapheneOS

For my mobile setup I use Auxio with my Bandcamp FLAC library and my CD library.

Desktop - Debian - Sid/ Unstable

For my desktop setup I use Tauon Music Box with my Bandcamp FLAC library and my CD library.

Audio - Sony WH-1000XM4

For my Audi setup I use the WH-1000XM4. I fixed my first pair of the XM4 until they broke after wear and tear, bought the same set again instead of the XM5, and I will continue to fix and buy XM4's until they break a second time due to wear and tear.

2 months later

ViMusic, it's just a YouTube Music front-end and it tends to cache songs so it takes up a decent amount of space. I love it, free, no ads, and mostly privacy respecting(YouTube backend sure isn't). The only thing I don't like is that I can't really control what gets cached, I wish it were easier just to download any song I choose.

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itsjpb Not for me (main account in Spain and a alternate account in Turkey)
From what country download you?

    [deleted] shit idk i just tried to download it myself and i guess i'm in the wrong region too. think thats the only place they make it available sadly.

    a month later

    Libretube and Hyperpipe which is just YT and YT Music.
    I guess Spotify with just Discover Weekly too.
    I used Spotify for years and still have a Subscription because of my family.

    Spotube is great!

    a month later

    rambleon I checked the link but making a donation does not appear to result in a paid version of the app, unless I am mistaken. The app author has a long explanation about how he is tied to Google and any deviation from their policy means a ban.
    I see this a lot, I wanted one app from the UK, I offered and sent a silver minted coin from Australia, I got thanks for it, but I didn't get a paid app. - Google restrictions. I guess we all hate Google which is why we use GrapheneOS, and all this nonsense makes me hate google more.

    15 days later

    Kottonballs
    This, except that when I buy new music I can almost always buy a digital flac download and skip the CD step. Presto, qobuz, bandcamp, are a few sources for downloadable flac purchases.

    Until my recent switch to a new phone with GrapheneOS, I kept my music library on a 512GB microSD card in my phone, and used Musicolet as the player. Classical and Jazz play a large part in my music collection so a player that can search and browse by composer and other tags is important, and I haven't found anything that is nearly as good in an Android music app.

    (I'm not sure what I'll do post switch...I missed the fact that this Pixel doesn't have a SD card slot, and I didn't go for a large enough amount of memory to just dump it all into the internal storage. I probably don't need to have my music collection on my phone right now anyway, and can play it from my laptop, or use my old phone when need be.)