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TheAlchemist Aug 9, 2023

Any way to listen to music (privately?)

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?)

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Xirup Aug 9, 2023

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.

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TheAlchemist Aug 9, 2023

Any opensource music players for iOS you recommend? I found Flacbox which seems alright (a little buggy but you can’t win them all, can you?)

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Em Adespoton

I just use the Music app. With the privacy protections turned up and Apple Music disabled. All it does is ply my aac files without sending data back to Apple.

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𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 Aug 10, 2023

I’m not sure that’s totally true. The iOS ecosystem is very intertwined. It’s possible that the Music app isn’t sending data to Apple, but it is likely sharing it with whatever Apple calls the launcher, which likely shares it with Apple (or shares it with Siri or another app, which shares it with Apple).