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Alternatives to Apple Music? (lemmy.ml)
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Hi. I'm looking for a decent replacement to Apple Music. It'd be great if it had a streaming service/store that I can buy or stream music from, as well as be able to play local music on my computer. Are there any good alternatives/replacements?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Look into funkwhale for streaming, I haven't used it myself but am planning to spin up an instance for my music library at some point.

Funkwhale is a federated music hosting platform.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

For playing local files, Auxio on Android and Gapless on Linux is good, Outertune for Android lets you stream and download music from YouTube music, and Tubular for Linux, configured correctly, allows you to download music from YouTube music, provided with the link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm on windows, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

There are also local media players and yt-dlp GUIs for Windows, I've heard MusicBee is good as a media player

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think audio doesn't have backup and restore otherwise good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Backup and restore of what? Your playlists and audio files are just stored as files in the regular file system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Of playlists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Like I said, the playlists are just stored as m3u files, you can directly read them from any app

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh that's great will look into it 👍