Gah I need to get rid of Spotify
But I have about a decade, maybe more, of playlists and so on there.

I wish it weren't so hard to detangle from these things when they nosedive into bullshit.
#music #spotify #spotifyAlternative

Yes I know they never paid artists enough, that's why I try to go to gigs of people I discovered through it.

@noodlemaz I have only given this the most trivial try but it is promising...

https://nuclearplayer.com/

Nuclear - Free Open-Source Music Player

Nuclear is a free, open-source music player without ads or tracking. Search for any song or artist, build playlists, and start listening.

Nuclear Music Player
@lproven definitely would want some way to transfer over at least some playlists, I think that's the trickiest part. I have seen people discussing it but lost the threads annoyingly

@noodlemaz Oh my. I am old school, I still collect actual MP3 files like it was the noughties, so I don't use playlists at all.

I do recommend it. Thousands of tracks fit onto a £10 µSD card these days, and it works offline...

@lproven sensible!

@noodlemaz There's probably some tool, like some bit of Python, that can take an .m3u playlist or whatever and go and download them all for you...

Cf. https://beets.io/

beets: the music geek‘s media organizer