Any way to listen to music (privately?)

https://lemmy.ml/post/3091806

Any way to listen to music (privately?) - Lemmy

I’m going insane. I cannot for the life of me find a suitable way to listen to music privately. I’m on iOS, and I don’t know whether to just stick to Apple Music or give up on music in general (I tried, TRIED to go local, but all the apps are shitty). Any way to listen to music and not have your data compromised? Should I just stick to Apple Music and hope that laws change (maybe something like EU’s DMA?)

I’ll be honest, the only way to listen to music privately is to download it.

There are Github repositories with CLI programs to download complete Spotify playlists with Youtube and also download their metadata.

there are also CDs and vinyl 🤷
Whoa, you can store music on CDs? That’ll save me a lot of bandwidth!

something brilliant I've found with modern vinyl is a lot of them come with a download card so you can get lossless files.

now if they would just fucking advertise which ones that would be great.

This. There was music before the internet.