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  • What's your music setup on mobile? 🎵

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.)

    5 months later
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    I personally use Qobuz. Outstanding streaming service and high quality audio for most music they do have available. And considering the amount of music I listen to, it is more cost effective for me to stream my music rather than purchase it outright.