Alternatives to Spotify that are open-source and ad-free.

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/linuxmasterrace

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  • nuclear

    Streaming music player that finds free music for you

  • Nuclear is a music player that will use various sources around the internet such as YouTube and Bandcamp to search for and stream music completely ad free. The client itself keeps track of your artists, playlists, and likes. It doesn't require an account or any personal information to use and at times feels too good to be true. On the downside it's sometimes slow to play music of fails to play songs on occasion. You can easily grab it from Flathub but they also have other downloads available on the website. If you use snap packages I'd advise you to download the snap from their github instead. The one on snapcraft hasn't been updated for a while.

  • audius-client

    Discontinued DEPRECATED: Use the audius-protocol monorepo

  • Audius tackles this from a different angle, it's basically a decentralized streaming service. You don't find a lot of the top artists here but the concept shows promise. It's good at helping you find some snazzy music from artists you've never herd of before so that's the reason I'm often using it for music discovery. You do not need an account to stream music but you do need one of you want to make playlists or like songs. Nuclear can also play music from Audius so you can use that if you are dead set against making an account. They provide an appimage for linux desktops but it runs just fine in Firefox.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • spotify-downloader

    Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).

  • I use mpd+ncmpcpp with spotdl. works like a charm.

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