I’ve recently moved to pixel/graphene and I’m looking for a more open replacement for spotify.

I installed a bunch from F-droid to test (newpipe, pipepipe, libretube, RiMusic, SpMp, SimpmMusic, InnertTune, ViMusic, etc)

I’m testing them all but I’m a bit overwhelmed with choice.

I’d like to find something that lets me control the music from my desktop, either through KDE connect or a standalone app. FOSS / F-droid preferred

I plan to start maintaining my library locally but I still need some kind of streaming solution.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts

EDIT: I’m not interested in a paid subscription service, if I was ok with that I would have stayed on spotify. Thanks for all responses.

  • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 months ago

    You should be able to control every music streaming app from the desktop notification if you use KDE Connect. I use Tidal nowadays, which isn’t open source but it’s a very good streaming service. It normally costs 11€/month but the family plan is 17€/month for up to 6 people. Even if you only have 2 people in the plan it’s a lot cheaper than the individual plan or Spotify.

  • Osiris@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I buy most of my music and use Navidrome to stream it. Tempo is a great android app and the Navidrome web app is solid

  • Vinny_93@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Tidal now seems to be cheaper than Spotify. The algorithm gives me pretty similar stuff to what I got from Spotify. I find the desktop app okay.

    Big pro they pay the artists better than Spotify does. Another big pro for me is the integration with plex.

    Disclaimer: I’ve only had Spotify and Tidal, before I’d just download music, like buying it on Beatport or Bandcamp and host it on my own plex server.