I would like to switch away from Apple Music, and Spotify despite being a European company, is not a desirable option for me. What music streaming services would you recommend?

I managed to download a text-only list of the albums in my Apple Music library, so if there’s a simple library import option then that would also be very helpful.

  • drspod@lemmy.mlOP
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    4 days ago

    Ideally not much more than I currently pay (€10.99/mo).

    I’m not sure what risks you’re referring to, but I’m not going to download linkin_park.mp3.exe from Limewire if that’s what you mean.

    I have about 1000 albums in my library and I mostly just play my entire library on shuffle. I don’t want “mood” or “genre” playlists when listening, but I do like recommendation systems that just tell me what artists are similar to the ones I’m listening to (without auto-playing them).

    • pirat@lemmy.studio
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      4 days ago

      If you’re okay doing a little bit of legwork: Whatbox.ca as a remote service that you can upload (or download torrents) directly to it. I think they’re Canadian but I’m not 100% - just has a lot of good guides to get you up and running.

      I’m a fan of Plex, but they are an American company and they continue to enshitify with their policies - I bought a lifetime pass a long time ago because I really enjoyed their music player plexamp.

      Jellyfin is the free and open source option, but I don’t think you’ll get some of the nice features like music analysis and a library radio that tries to pull things together in a somewhat comprehensive way.

      This is my music solution. If you’re listening at lossless and only have 1000 albums their smallest option is 2tb(€14/mo) server slot which would likely be hosted in NL.

      RE: risk tolerance if you’ve got the know how you can set this up on a locally hosted server using Jellyfin and torrent directly to it. Advantage of a seedbox is the transfer of risk.

      • drspod@lemmy.mlOP
        1·
        3 days ago

        Thanks for the pointers. If I had 1000 albums already downloaded then I don’t think I’d have a problem setting up something like Jellyfin to stream them to my devices, but the problem is that I’ve only used streaming services for the past ~15 years or so, which means I would need to do a lot of legwork to locate all of these albums to download.