It’s $3/month more than Spotify, and you get both music and videos. That doesn’t seem that bad to me? Tidal is probably a better deal though, since it’s cheaper and all plans come with lossless (FLAC).
I’ve been using a Plex server with my own ripped CDs for a while. Jellyfin is good too. If you listen to the same music a lot of the time, why pay a monthly fee when you can just buy the album once, rip it to your server, and listen to it forever?
I’m with you. I save copies of all my music files externally.
For those who still want to stream though, use Metrolist. Works exactly the same as Spotify and is a FOSS/No Ads product. I made a YT video about it recently.
Now that I think about it, if the playlist are indeed stored on Google’s servers, I could probably also use google takeout to require my personnal data. It’s what pipepipe/newpipe uses to dump subscriptions from YT.
Cheaper than spotify when you consider you get both YT Music and YT at the same time. So when you are watching YT you are not wasting money on music and when you are listening to music you ain’t wasting YT money.
Here in Latvia I pay 19.99€ (24$) for family plan, wouldn’t be a problem if they raised by couple euros. I’m getting price rises everywhere right now because of dram shortage. My hetzner vps got bumped up by 2€ because of dram
It’s $3/month more than Spotify, and you get both music and videos. That doesn’t seem that bad to me? Tidal is probably a better deal though, since it’s cheaper and all plans come with lossless (FLAC).
I’ve been using a Plex server with my own ripped CDs for a while. Jellyfin is good too. If you listen to the same music a lot of the time, why pay a monthly fee when you can just buy the album once, rip it to your server, and listen to it forever?
I’m with you. I save copies of all my music files externally.
For those who still want to stream though, use Metrolist. Works exactly the same as Spotify and is a FOSS/No Ads product. I made a YT video about it recently.
Hmm this is a bit of a silly question but does Metrolist require to have a YouTube Music Subscription?
I’m quite surprised the github page doesn’t mention that. It just says you have to be in a region where YT music is available.
Nope. No sub required.
Thanks for the quick response!
Also is it possible to export your playlists in any way?
One of the ways Spotify keeps me “captive” is by making it difficult to export playlists so it makes migrating difficult.
So I would be tempted to move to another streaming platform but I would prefer to stay in control of my playlists.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, metrolist looks really neat.
I know you can sign in with your youtube account. You might be able to port them to youtube music and then see them in metrolist if that makes sense.
Now that I think about it, if the playlist are indeed stored on Google’s servers, I could probably also use google takeout to require my personnal data. It’s what pipepipe/newpipe uses to dump subscriptions from YT.
Apologies, but that one I don’t know.
Cheaper than spotify when you consider you get both YT Music and YT at the same time. So when you are watching YT you are not wasting money on music and when you are listening to music you ain’t wasting YT money.
Here in Latvia I pay 19.99€ (24$) for family plan, wouldn’t be a problem if they raised by couple euros. I’m getting price rises everywhere right now because of dram shortage. My hetzner vps got bumped up by 2€ because of dram