Spotify Alternative reviews from Reddit

Summary

We analyzed 206 Reddit reviews across 29 subreddits and 45 posts to rank the best Spotify Alternative brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/selfhosted, r/Piracy, r/fossdroid, r/BuyFromEU, r/degoogle. Top-rated brands include Tidal (4.6/5), YouTube Music (3.8/5), Deezer (4.0/5).

Stats
Reviews206
Subreddits29
Posts45
Brands81
Products9
Top communities
r/selfhosted40r/Piracy39r/fossdroid20r/BuyFromEU19r/degoogle11
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#1

Tidal

4.6
(14)
"The Tidal algorithm, song radios, daily discovery etc. is far superior to Spotify imo."
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"Tidal also pays artists more than Spotify."
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"Try Tidal? I hadn’t even given them a thought until I started to swap away from Sonos."
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"Just went to Tidal, after a couple of weeks, I am home."
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"TIDAL. The sound quality is amazing, they have more songs, they just LOWERED their price, and they pay artists more fairly."
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"Tidal. try it free for 30 days and decide for yourself."
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"Now happy again with Tidal"
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"The quality is audibly better, for sure."
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"I’m pretty happy with Tidal."
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"I’ve always used Tidal. It’s great."
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#2

YouTube Music

3.8
(13)
"R/RevancedApp or r/revancedextended's mods of YouTube Music"
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"YouTube music revanced"
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"YouTube Music. Easy to use UI, no learning curve and YT is integrated."
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"Youtube music"
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"I've been using YouTube Music and been satisfied with it, but it's cheaper than what it would be in the US."
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"Am I the only one who uses youtube music/premium. With a subscription based in Turkey. I can download the music and listen to it all offline."
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"YouTube music, CD, or you could get fildo"
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"I would say you should try YouTube music."
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"YouTube Music"
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"YouTube music is a good choice because it has the same songs that Spotify has."
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#3

Deezer

4.0
(12)
"Yeah, I go with Deezer for years. Imho better app, too."
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"So far Deezer and Tidal seems the most interesting."
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"Deezer. They have a playlist migration tool"
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"Deezer. Same as Spotify but higher quality"
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"Deezer, It is French I believe. Shame it doesn't seamlessly work with Shazam, but otherwise a fine app..."
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"Deezer"
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"Deezer"
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"Deezer"
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"Deezer"
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"I think Deezer is the best Spotify alternative."
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#4

Qobuz

4.2
(9)
"I’d recommend Qobuz and Bandcamp to get the files and then just keep everything organized on your computer."
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"I cancelled my Spotify Premium and installed Qobuz Premium. It was super easy to switch! All my Lists could be imported from Spotify."
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"The sound quality is a nice upgrade on Qobuz. Just switched my entire family."
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"They're #1 for me."
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"Qobuz; buy your music and stop renting it."
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"Qobuz from France"
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"I've used Qobuz for years. French."
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"Quboz sounds awesome. Def a less interesting and dynamic UX than Spotify."
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"Qubiz"
#5

Plexamp

4.2
(9)
"Honestly the sonic analysis is the secret sauce that makes Plexamp great. It's as close to a spotify like experience you can get with your own music collection"
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"I've found plexamp to be simply amazing because of the sonic analysis features. all i wanted was something to play my music with a pretty UI, but what i got was a music algorithm that beats every streaming service i've ever used."
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"Plexamp"
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"I use plex and plexamp"
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"Plexamp"
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"I use plex amp and im liking it so far"
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"One up for plexamp"
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"Plexamp"
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"Plexamp is what a lot of people use as an alternative."
#6

Navidrome

4.1
(9)
"Navidrome will become the best out there when the main dev finishes the new scanner and a complete UI redesign. It’s crazy fast and minimalist, strictly focused on music, entirely tag based."
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"Navidrome"
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"If you JUST want to do music, Navidrome is the better choice...it's designed for music, and seems to handle it well, and is pretty simple to"
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"I use navidrome, I use tempo as my android Client There's even an selfhosted alexa skill for navidrome"
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"I like to use Navidrome as the server. Symfonium for my mobile client. It's like $6 USD one time purchase and is packed with features. Feishin for my Windows client. It works well and has a good UI and some features."
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"Navidrome is probably the best one is your only interested in music. As client i use syfonium on my phone and feishin on my desktop."
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"Navidrome, Feishin as a client on desktop and Symfonium ($5 one time I think but worth every penny) for mobile."
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"I like navidrome with, beets.io to manage the library. Symfonium, Tempo, Stmps and the WebUI for playback, amperfy seems decent for iOS."
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"Navidrome works well for me, using Substreamer as client on Android."
#7

SoundCloud

3.6
(8)
"Try https://soundcloud.com/"
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"Soundcloud chalau"
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"SoundCloud"
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"Ngl i just use soundcloud, no ads free skips and listen to any song + shitposting"
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"SoundCloud and Apple Music are pretty good"
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"Soundcloud is based in Germany. Altough, some artists don't publish there."
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"Soundcloud"
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"Soundcloud which is pretty good but you might have to deal with people who upload artists music cause the actual artist isn't on the platform."
#8

Spotube

4.0
(7)
"Spotube's a lot better as an alternative"
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"I just started with Spotube, it seems to work fine and there is even a desktop version."
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"I'm currently listening to songs on spotube as I'm writing this and its been over 30 minutes that's been my routine since October. Its a great app."
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"Spotube"
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"Use Spotube , it uses the Spotify Api but loads the music from yt music"
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"Spotube is the best free version though I think but sometimes it plays the music video version of the song which is kinda weird at times."
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"U can use spotube, it is open source as well."
#9

RiMusic

3.7
(7)
"RiMusic and metrolist are the best right now."
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"Rimusic on fdroid is pretty good."
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"If you use music streaming mostly on android device, checkout Rimusic. It's a open source project."
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"RiMusic (v0.6.69) is working, have installed just tried worked without issues"
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"Rimusic or one of the innertune versions"
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"Rimusic has many customisability options but it's a bit more complex to use than innertune"
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"ViMusic, RiMusic"
#10

BluePlayer

4.0
(6)
"BluePlayer for iOS"
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"BluePlayer for iOS. No login needed"
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"Try BluePlayer it supports importing Spotify playlists"
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"BluePlayer"
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"BluePlayer https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blueplayer-video-music-player/id1564931348"
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"Try BluePlayer if on iOS"
#11

Innertune

4.0
(6)
"Innertune has a nice ui and its simple"
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"Innertune"
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"I use innertune and it is awesome"
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"Latest innertune version works well rn."
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"Is recommend innertune in fdroid it's free also u can connect your YouTube account so your YouTube playlist will get synced in the app also ofc it's free and u can download the music"
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"Innertune or ViMusic are pretty good alternatives. Open-source apps so they are pretty user friendly and don't even have ads."
#12

ViMusic

3.8
(6)
"I Can confirm too that ViMusic IS incredible."
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"Here https://vimusicapk.com/"
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"ViMusic, it's a free open source app that basically takes the YouTube library and turns it into a music player, (no ads and you get offline songs)"
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"I've been using ViMusic for a while."
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"ViMusic, RiMusic"
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"ViMusic aur yt music maybe"
#13

YouTube

4.5
(4)
"Youtube music, the best"
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"Use YouTube music on brave browser. Song recommendations are 10x better than Spotify and it's radio feature is just awesome"
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"YouTube Music. Use revanced to patch it."
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"YT Music Vanced, Spotify ad-free cracked"
#14

Apple Music

4.0
(4)
"SoundCloud and Apple Music are pretty good"
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"If you have an iPhone, apple music is seriously exactly as good as spotify."
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"Apple Music"
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"Apple Music "
#15

MusicBee

4.3
(3)
"Musicbee. And the iVideo theme is great."
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"I use musicbee on windows and symfonium on android"
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"MusicBee. Does everything. Come with lots of skins."
#16

Plex

4.0
(3)
"Plex, server software is easy to install. Clients are also great for free."
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"Plex sub with self hosted server would be a good option."
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"Plex is available anywhere you have internet."
#17

Symfonium

4.0
(3)
"I use musicbee on windows and symfonium on android"
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"Symfonium is great for Android"
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"Symfonium with Jellyfin as the backend."
#18

Xmanager

3.7
(3)
"Try using xmanager, the one from there has working podcasts"
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"Xmanager(Spotify but free on Android)"
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"Xmanager is decent too"
#19

Ampache

5.0
(2)
"Ampache is amazing, it has docker compose or native installation, the webui is customizable"
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"Ampache. Handles large libraries and has amazing devs. Server side transcode controls, ACL's, independent libraries for users and subsonic API. I've used them all and Ampache has been the best."
#20

Last.fm

4.5
(2)
"Spotify is trash. Last.fm has always been the best."
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"Checkout https://playlost.fm Submit one of your playlists and it’ll suggest similar user created playlists."
#21

YouTube Premium

4.0
(2)
"If you are considering another pay service, Youtube Premium provides you ad free YouTube and includes Youtube Music."
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"I stopped subscribing because I realized that getting a youtube premium was a much more better deal than spotify."
#22

YouTube Music Vanced

4.0
(2)
"Also Youtub Music Vanced is quite good."
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"You may wish to look into YouTube music vanced"
#23

OuterTune

4.0
(2)
"OuterTune on GitHub or F-Droid is pretty good"
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"If innertune debug doesnt work for you then you can use outertune from fdroid."
#24

Radio Garden

4.0
(2)
"Radio Garden in a brilliant app but only works in UK using a VPN"
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"Radio Garden, then you can listen to radio all over the world."
#25

Simpmusic

4.0
(2)
"Simpmusic, you can sync your google account there, and it is pretty much just like spotify and Yt music"
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"Simpmusic"
#26

Subsonic

4.0
(2)
"Subsonic is great too! I only moved because it takes too much ram with my library"
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"I run scripts a couple of times a week to pick random songs for my with subsonic. Use DSub on android."
#27

Lidarr

4.0
(2)
"Lidarr + arr script + deezer arls + navidrome + symfonium (android), feishin (windows), music assistant (any other device for streaming e.x. android tv) for me."
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"My setup is lidarr+navidrome+symfonium."
#28

Jellyfin

4.0
(2)
"So I just use Jellyfin for the library because it allows for multiple libraries which gets useful with larger collections. For player I use Symfonium."
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"Look into Jellyfin as well."
#29

Spotiflyer

4.0
(2)
"Spotiflyer can download songs from spotify."
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"There is a spotify downloader you can try, you only need Spotify URL to download songs: https://github.com/Shabinder/SpotiFlyer"
#30

Deeper

3.5
(2)
"Trying it now. It's pretty good. Much better than it thought it would be! Thank you for the recommendation."
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"Deeper requires an email address. But I use an alias. Tidal has better quality audio but prefer deezer's discovery features"
#31

Blackhole

3.5
(2)
"It was made for Android, I use it on a daily basis."
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""blackhole" download from GitHub"
#32

Feishin

3.5
(2)
"Feishin with a Jellyfin backend!"
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"Feishin and/or Finamp with a Jellyfin backend"
#33

Spotify

3.5
(2)
"I recommend still using Spotify, and combine it with "burnt sushi" its available on GitHub, and it blocks all the ad, that is for windows only."
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"Best free Spotify alternative is Spotify Mod Apk"
#34

NewPipe

3.5
(2)
"Newpipe is pretty good. It is an open source privacy respecting YouTube client."
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"Been using NewPipe as a 'YouTube Music' app client, not perfect but works so far."
#35

XManager

3.5
(2)
"I use xmanager to download modded Spotify to find new music"
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"Xmanager/revanced"
#36

Innertunes

5.0
(1)
"Innertunes really good."
#37

Manet

5.0
(1)
"Manet has been a godsend for my jellyfin. Very Apple Music like, loving it so far."
#38

Roon

5.0
(1)
"Roon is considered by many to be the gold standard."
#39

Revanced

5.0
(1)
"Revanced is amazing"
#40

Bandcamp

5.0
(1)
"I’d recommend Qobuz and Bandcamp to get the files and then just keep everything organized on your computer."
#41

InnerTune Debug

5.0
(1)
"Innertune debug. the best music streaming app and im never switching. it literally has speed and pitch adjustments."
#42

Musi

4.0
(1)
"App Musi. pay one off few dollars (or don’t) for ads-free youtube videos in an interface that allows you to block your phone and save favorites."
#43

Amazon Music

4.0
(1)
"I use Amazon Music, included with Prime, along with many other features. It has ads, limited skips, but it works. I pay for premium so no ads or limitations."
#44

BlockTheSpot

4.0
(1)
"Keep using Spotify with BlockTheSpot for Windows, xManager for Android, not sure about iOS/mac but other comments can help you."
#45

Burnt Sushi

4.0
(1)
"Burnt sushi works better than spicetify and spotx ime"
#46

Flacbox

4.0
(1)
"Flacbox app and mp3 files"
#47

Black Hole

4.0
(1)
"There is this open source app based on yt music and savan -BLACK HOLE search it on Google and give it a try it even allows to download every song"
#48

Gyawun

4.0
(1)
"Gyawun's pretty nice and puts downloads in /downloads/gyawun. Works pretty well for me..."
#49

Sonixd

4.0
(1)
"Sonixd works great and is resource friendly"
#50

Monet

4.0
(1)
"Monet iOS and Jellyfin backend"
#51

LMS

4.0
(1)
"Use LMS if you want to listen to music at home (multi-room, webapp, apps, etc)"
#52

Airsonic

4.0
(1)
"I use airsonic to host my music collection and it's working great for me."
#53

Mstream

4.0
(1)
"Mstream works for me"
#54

BeatBump

4.0
(1)
"For PC check out the website for BeatBump."
#55

Deezloader

4.0
(1)
"Check deezloader"
#56

Saavn

4.0
(1)
"I like Saavn. They've got cheap subscriptions and a terrific library."
#57

Audius

4.0
(1)
"New pipe Spotify APK 🤣🤷 Audius music"
#58

Rocket Player

4.0
(1)
"Use rocket player for android"
#59

WACUP

4.0
(1)
"Or wacup (winamp mod) on PC"
#60

Oliva

4.0
(1)
"If linux desktop I'd recommend Oliva"
#61

YouTube Vanced

4.0
(1)
"Youtube vanced/yt music vanced is what I would recommend if you don't want to download the music files for higher quality"
#63

Nuclear

4.0
(1)
"DistroTube just put out a video about a program called Nuclear. I think the Nuclear player is what you want"
#64

Jocky

4.0
(1)
"Jocky is pretty neat. You can have copies of them in your server."
#65

RVX Music

4.0
(1)
"Yeah get rvx music on revanced manager and stop dickin around with spotify that breaks their app every other week"
#66

Grayjay

4.0
(1)
"Either Grayjay/Echo music player!"
#67

Metrolist

4.0
(1)
"Just use Metrolist"
#68

Trebel

3.0
(1)
"Trebel"
#69

Cakeybot

3.0
(1)
"This ones good: https://cakeybot.app/"
#70

Harmony Music

3.0
(1)
"Harmony Music"
#71

Madsonic

3.0
(1)
"I use Madsonic I thought it was okay."
#72

Koel

3.0
(1)
"Noone mentioned https://github.com/koel/koel"
#73

Lyrion

3.0
(1)
"I did try all and end up with https://lyrion.org/ with https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-blissmixer"
#74

Finamp

3.0
(1)
"Feishin and/or Finamp with a Jellyfin backend"
#75

iBroadcast

3.0
(1)
"IBroadcast"
#76

SpotX

3.0
(1)
"SpotX, look on torrentgalaxy. It comes with Spicetify, installation is easy."
#77

RI Music

3.0
(1)
"Android- RI music or Xmanager, IOS- you are screwed"
#78

Innertube

3.0
(1)
"It works well and doesn't send your information anywhere."
#79

Amazon Prime Music

3.0
(1)
"If youve got amazon prime, then prime music."
#80

QQ Music

3.0
(1)
"QQMusic is a similar alternative."
#81

Pandora

3.0
(1)
"Pandora"

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