Youtube Music Revanced Extended, using NodeJS Builder on PC. Generally the audio on youtube music feels more alive than on spotify for me. I often experience where the same song has a wider stereo field on yt music, means spotify internally modifies the stereo spread in songs. Also yt music allows louder playback, spotify is stuck with standards that I have no sympathy for. I say if a song sounds good then just let it be, don't generalize all songs.

[–] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Spotube: It's not the greatest UX, but will read your Spotify Playlists and supports offline mode.

[–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

jokes aside, spotube's great

[–] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Personally, I just pirate the FLAC files from RED, and play them with VLC. Several advantages to this:

Spotify is owned by a shitty, greedy company with shitty, greedy practices.
Spotify enforces DRM on almost all its media.
FLAC files have superior quality as they are lossless
I can play them offline without a subscription
Downloads are pretty much instant, as private trackers have insane seeder to leecher ratio

I'm sorry if this isn't the response you're looking for, but as other people have already given recommendations for alternatives, I thought I would just give my 2 cents.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

FYI for everyone, RED is a private tracker

[–] vorpuni@jlai.lu 1 points 3 months ago

AKA a single point of failure

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

XManager still works fine for Spotify