There is a lot of YouTube music clients on fdroid. Have you tried any of them?

I use soulseek to download, AOTY.org to find new music. To listen I use musicbee on PC and Poweramp on Android.

You can set up musicbee to scan and sync music automatically to your phones album folder when you plug it in the PC with USB. It can even convert them to smaller files like mp3 or opus if you like. I recommend opus.

Musicbee also has a replaygain feature to analyze the volume of your music library, and adjust them so they all play at a similar volume. This metadata also carries over when you sync to Poweramp. Just need to enable the option there.

You can use soulseek on your computer or on Android phones. I mostly download on my PC since then I don’t need to go into the folders to move albums. Just need to plug in the phone to sync.

If I really need streaming for some reason I use revanced youtube music. But I mostly just search up recommendations on AOTY and add them to my library.

It took a little tinkering to get it how I like it, but it was fun, and once set up it’s quite smooth and works well. I prefer it over streaming now.

Make sure to buy some albums every now and then to support your favorite artists directly.

Have you patched the latest version? Mine stopped working within the last week. Just downloaded the new version and patched it. Has been working fine since.

Using lidarr with the arr-extended scripts, soularr and slskd is the way. Add the music to your jellyfin server, stream with symfonium.

I just ditched spotify completely in favour of a jellyfin private server that works like spotify for me. If I want to get recommendations, listenbrainz gives me a weekly list based on what i listen.

It’s never been so easy to download music. Soulseek, yt-dlp, torrents for older stuff, spotify downloader websites etc. I still have spotify but I started growing my local music collection a few years ago. Considering canceling my spotify subscription.

I used a program called spotdl to download all the music in my playlists and then ditched the whole thing.

I was using xmanager for a long time, then I moved on from Spotify altogether. I think it depends on how you use Spotify. I was really trying to hold onto streaming music because I didn’t want to loose my playlists, but when I looked at my Wrapped every year, I was listening to the same artists and songs alot of the time.

For me it made more sense to buy the music I loved, rather than pay a monthly fee to listen to the same tracks. Now I have a great currated music collection on my phone that I control. If you decide to buy music, 7digital and Bandcamp are great.

To download spitify, zotify maybe work.

Even spotube stopped working since the dev received a cease and desist, you have to go back to the old hacked app.

For desktop I’ve been getting playlists I like from the web Spotify UI, then using spotdl to download them.

On mobile I’ve been trying out Kreate (YouTube Music frontend) and so far it’s not bad. It doesn’t have a real algorithm but I tend to browse by genre until I land on a playlist, or go to a song I feel like and hit Song Radio. UI is still a bit clunky in my opinion but it has worked so far for me otherwise.

For the revanced, I just keep going through the steps each time it doesn’t work. Uninstall revanced app, download main app, split into apk, re-patch, reinstall. I’ve had to do it about 3 times in the past month, but it always gets it back running again.

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spotx still works fine, if you want to use that in migration

Have you tried Spotube?

Not sure what Revanced changes/add/subtracts, but Spotify is basically Spotify without ads and you can pick different sources (ex. YouTube) for the music.