Free music streaming offline

As @Element321 has mentioned there aren’t any legal truly free streaming services…you can go the route of ad free for a relatively low cost per month on Spotify, Apple Music, Google or Amazon…or the ad supported versions of Spotify etc if the occasional 30-60 second ads don’t drive you crazy for 30 minutes of music at a time…

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Google music.

If.you have a Google account, you can create a playlist of their FREE music, and click to download.

What is downloaded is pure CODEC, not MP3.

You then go back to GOOGLE MUSIC, and select… PLAY DOWNLOADED ONLY.

that’s the only way I know.

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Google allows u to stream or listen to music, but if you have Amazon prime you can do the same stream or download their music and listen to it whenever wherever.

I use Spotify, Google, and Amazon music depending what I want to listen to and when

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This is very easy, just go back 10 years.

Save music as MP3 files, copy them to phone storage, use a media player app.

Every day my Raspberry pi programs to download BBC news at 10 and Newsnight to mp4 file, my phone has ssh server and my Pi uploads to my phone when I get to home wifii, then I can watch it if I leave home.

Brexit and walking the dog. No using mobile data.

What you ask is the technology we all used 10+ years back. It was an iPod.

I even managed to make this work on my smartwatch, I can run a ftp server on watch, I copied some mp3 files from server to watch and use an offline mp3 app on watch.

My watch has 2GB free space, my phone 256GB, my 8" tablet has 128Gb SD card.

Split screen phone helps background playing

Offline is my main usage.

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Is that still a thing? Srsly

Wow, I wish I knew 25% of what you know. :joy:

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A real professor !:ok_hand:

I ripped a lot of CD which you will never get for free!
So I run my private “disco” on my laptop.
This needs some memory space, but I am independent at all.

And I will stay independent from all that social media as well :joy:

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Tbh for listening music offline you’ll have to pay monthly subscription from Spotify or get Apple Music.

There are so many specialized internet radios.
I am sure those will touch every taste.
These are free. :grinning:

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That site is FUUULLLL of viruses

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The best one is the “Eightball” virus… And please do not go looking this up and trying to download it as you will literally destroy your comphter

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Yes! Absolutely full of viruses! That is why I got pretty good using Linux OS. Make a copy of the OS using Clonezilla, if it got infected then destroy and recreate. Those were the days!

Music streaming that doesn’t use data? That’s an oxymoron, unless you are streaming local content over you home network.

That said, the free Spotify subscription is pretty solid - there’s the eventual ad in between some songs and you can’t download, but that’s the price you pay. There are other streaming apps with free legal options, but Spotify is by far the best. If you can, though, paying the subscription is way worth it. Have you family sign in together and get a family subscription, 15 bucks for up to six people.

It’s not complicated. This is my own work, scripts.

Admittedly I have been programming since 1979. Oh how I do never miss machine code. I was probably dreaming in hexadecimal in the 80s.

You guys may see adverts. I don’t :slight_smile:

LINUX!!! What else! :heart_eyes:
There is no need to use other OS.

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Reading some hex-dumps to fall asleep? :grin:

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49 20 6a 75 73 74 20 77 6f 6b 65 20 75 70 :joy:

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