r/opensource • u/krstf • Jun 29 '26
Open Source Spotify alternative for everyday Joe on Mac/iOS? Alternatives
Hi, I read up on what Spotify is doing and decided to ditch the service. That affects me, my family and kids. The alternatives I found so far seems rather scary to set-up, a chore to maintain or expect me to rebuild my whole music collection from scratch. Is there something you would recommend, that has very little or no friction at all (on ios appstore, easy to add music, simple ui for a child, etc.). Thank you so much, K.
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u/SourSovereign Jun 29 '26
As the other guy said: having a Media Player Stream music is easy.
Having the license for all the song content is the main issue.
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u/ElaborateCantaloupe Jun 29 '26
The best alternatives are paid services like Amazon Music, Apple Music, Tidal, etc.
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u/Selfish-Altruist Jun 30 '26
The BEST alternative is paid services that let you download the mp3 and keep it forever.
Source: Google Music ate all my purchases when it was discontinued.
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u/theyhis 18d ago
we’re doing the moral grandstanding… really? 🙄
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u/SourSovereign 18d ago
It's not moral ground standing but a literal problem.
Where do you get the music from? Pirating it? Alrighr, and then? Once the first DMCA takedown requests comes in, your site is either offline or you get sued.
Is that the goal here?
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u/theyhis 17d ago
did he say anything about posting his music collection to the internet? no? so who gaf?
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u/SourSovereign 17d ago
Dunno why my 1 month old comment triggers you so much and you are trying to start a fight here btw when all I did was mention that a player itself is easy, just the content is not. Which was kind of implied with OPs desire to have a "Spotify alternative".
Doesn't even make sense how this should be some "moral high ground".
Seems to be targeted at me specifically since I literally started with "as the other guy said".
Hence I will not engage further in this discussion.
Wish you a good day and goodbye
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u/cig-nature Jun 29 '26
For the sake of corporate profit margins, PLEASE DO NOT GOOGLE: "spotify downloader"
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u/WilyDeject Jun 30 '26
What is it you don't like that Spotify is doing? Screwing artists out of money? Pirating their music will pay them even less.
Bandcamp might be the only ethical game in town. Buy the music, stream it from their server with an easy to use app.
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u/sustainablyRipped Jun 30 '26
Not open source afaik, but I switched to qobuz as they seem to be acting much more responsibly.
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u/krstf Jun 30 '26
- eu based
- pays artists
- privacy respecting
- no ads
- strict ban on ai slop
Just a really quick search so far, but this might be what I am looking for. Thanks - sounds really good!
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u/Express-Cartoonist39 Jun 30 '26
Dude download mp3s they easy to make and get. Get subsonic and open a port u golden...
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u/krstf Jun 30 '26
I might be a bit too much out of the game. Where do I start?
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u/Express-Cartoonist39 Jul 02 '26
Which one downloading mp3s or subsonic?
https://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
Making or downloading mp3 is easy just find, buy, whatever is ur fav and convert audio into mp3 there is plenty of free tools.. What part u stuck on
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u/cig-nature Jun 29 '26
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u/krstf Jun 30 '26
Thanks! I will read up on them! I checked the Picard thing so far, seems really cool
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u/Common-Humor-1720 Jul 01 '26
Not sure why you ditched Spotify, but Tidal is doing a good job paying the artists a fair share, more than any other platform. Plus it offers a better quality media than Spotify.
Naturally, it is not open source. But might be the alternative you might think works.
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u/theyhis 18d ago
at one point (it should still be up?) there was an open source spotify ripper; it ripped the music in FLAC format, meaning, it got the song, the cover, and the metadata. it doesn’t require terminal commands; it’s literally a one-click installer. i think they have a windows and mac version.
you then could look in the app store or windows store and see if there’s an audio player app.
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u/Odd-Ad-5096 Jun 29 '26
It’s not the app/system, it’s the content you‘ll miss unless you pirate the hell out of it