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Nightcrawler

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Last year I downloaded lots of my favourite tracks from YOUTUBE and put onto a USB stick to play in the car.

I wanted to update with some more tracks but the app I was using is no longer in use. 

I know some are free and some subscription which I don't mind paying

Have any of guys got any recommendations or experience of such apps. 

There are a few out there but I don't want to keep downloading and installing them to find they don't work well. 

Just a longshot

Stillearly Veteran

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If your happy to pay then just get Spotify or Apple  ... you can make up playlists or choose playlists already done , depending on your mood / what genre you want to listen to 

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3 minutes ago, Stillearly said:

^ I have my phone connected to my car via Bluetooth, so whenever I get into the car , my playlist carries on from whatever I was last listening to 

Yeah I can do the same via Bluetooth. 

It's just down loading to my phone and or USB stick (mp3/4) that's the issue. I getting bored with my current playlists and want some new stuff that I don't have on my hard drives

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6 minutes ago, Stillearly said:

If your happy to pay then just get Spotify or Apple  ... you can make up playlists or choose playlists already done , depending on your mood / what genre you want to listen to 

A lot of different genres. Can you download from Spotify or just listen?

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3 minutes ago, Nightcrawler said:

A lot of different genres. Can you download from Spotify or just listen?

I have Apple , but I think that they are the same .. @galenkia has Spotify 

pretty sure you can download tracks , albums and playlists to listen to offline ... but if you cancel your membership, then they will probably just disappear from your devices 

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18 minutes ago, Nightcrawler said:

A lot of different genres. Can you download from Spotify or just listen?

I don't pay a fee for Spotify.

I can download to my phone, pod casts, but they are only playable via the app when off line.

I can play music whilst online, but to download music you need to pay for Premium. £11.99/month.

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galenkia Mentor

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10 minutes ago, boydeste said:

I don't pay a fee for Spotify.

I can download to my phone, pod casts, but they are only playable via the app when off line.

I can play music whilst online, but to download music you need to pay for Premium. £11.99/month.

I think I read albums get deleted from your playlist after 30 days from when you downloaded it, but stays on your online playlist while you’re online.

All the time you pay you can listen them offline endlessly.

Also you get things like bonus audiobooks etc.

I have been paying for years. But I get my money’s worth. The end of the year they give you a rundown of your years listening, top songs, artists etc. Last year I listened for about 95,000 minutes and was in the top 2% of listeners in the world.😀

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I got tired of paying for spotify, so I dusted of the HDD with ripped music and went back to mp3 and flac. Winamp is long gone as a player for PC, so now it's foobar2000. 

If you have access to usenet, you might be able to find the songs there in some newsgroup such at alt.binaries.mp3 or alt.binaries.sounds.flac or some other NG.

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1 minute ago, Lirchenfeld said:

I got tired of paying for spotify, so I dusted of the HDD with downloaded music and went back to mp3 and flac. Winamp is long gone as a player for PC, so now it's foobar2000. 

If you have access to usenet, you might be able to find the songs there in some newsgroup such at alt.binaries.mp3 or alt.binaries.sounds.flac or some other NG.

I've just been searching YouTube to MP3 and and few sites have come up which I am going to try at the weekend. I have about 50 songs that I want to download as MP3/4 

Will take a look at foobar. 

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3 hours ago, Lirchenfeld said:

I got tired of paying for spotify, so I dusted of the HDD with ripped music and went back to mp3 and flac. Winamp is long gone as a player for PC, so now it's foobar2000. 

If you have access to usenet, you might be able to find the songs there in some newsgroup such at alt.binaries.mp3 or alt.binaries.sounds.flac or some other NG.

I use MusicBee as player on my computer. My source for music is torrents.

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redwood13 Contributor

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3 hours ago, Lirchenfeld said:

 

If you have access to usenet, you might be able to find the songs there in some newsgroup such at alt.binaries.mp3 or alt.binaries.sounds.flac or some other NG.

Thought usenet was long gone and buried.  Thanks for that.

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20 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

I use MusicBee as player on my computer. My source for music is torrents.

Back in the UK, I still have almost 1,000 CD's. I ripped them all to 320 Kbps mp3 files when I first moved to Thailand 20-odd years ago. Since then, any new music I've wanted I've got from Warez sites and, in the last decade or so, from Torrent sites. Lossless FLAC files (clue - it's in the name, lol) weren't much of a thing back in 2004, and anyway HDD space was still limited and expensive so I chose the lossy mp3 format instead (though with the least compression) as it produced much smaller files than the lossless codecs. Nowadays, HDD space is cheap so I've downloaded the FLAC discographies of my favourite artists from Torrents. In total, I've got over 1 TB of music and I keep a small selection of it on a 64 KB USB stick to play in the car when I get bored with the radio. Of course, you can listen to almost any radio station via your phone and cast it to the car's infotainment system, I usually swap between Classic FM, Radio 2 and 103 FM. It's certainly a long way from my first car, a VW Golf bought back in 1979, which didn't even have a radio, lol! 

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42 minutes ago, Toy Boy said:

Back in the UK, I still have almost 1,000 CD's. I ripped them all to 320 Kbps mp3 files when I first moved to Thailand 20-odd years ago. Since then, any new music I've wanted I've got from Warez sites and, in the last decade or so, from Torrent sites. Lossless FLAC files (clue - it's in the name, lol) weren't much of a thing back in 2004, and anyway HDD space was still limited and expensive so I chose the lossy mp3 format instead (though with the least compression) as it produced much smaller files than the lossless codecs. Nowadays, HDD space is cheap so I've downloaded the FLAC discographies of my favourite artists from Torrents. In total, I've got over 1 TB of music and I keep a small selection of it on a 64 KB USB stick to play in the car when I get bored with the radio. Of course, you can listen to almost any radio station via your phone and cast it to the car's infotainment system, I usually swap between Classic FM, Radio 2 and 103 FM. It's certainly a long way from my first car, a VW Golf bought back in 1979, which didn't even have a radio, lol! 

I had built up quite a collection of cassettes and then CD's by playing the enroll in Columbia House Music club game. After meeting the purchase requirement I would cancel and re-enroll again. Later I converted the CD's to mp3 and that format has served me well over the years. I don't have a sound system that would let me hear the difference between mp3 and flac quality. Less so now with my advanced tinnitus.

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5 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

I had built up quite a collection of cassettes and then CD's by playing the enroll in Columbia House Music club game. After meeting the purchase requirement I would cancel and re-enroll again. Later I converted the CD's to mp3 and that format has served me well over the years. I don't have a sound system that would let me hear the difference between mp3 and flac quality. Less so now with my advanced tinnitus.

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Back in the days of cassettes, most local libraries in Britain had a decent stock and you could borrow a weekly allocation along with your library books, record them to a blank cassette and then return the originals to the library. I knew people who built up large music collections that way, but it meant they were still listening to cassettes years after everyone else had switched to CD's.

I've got a congenital hearing defect that appeared when I hit my early 20's, but with hearing aids I can hear most things clearly enough, at least outside of a crowded environment. The history of CD's was originally one of speed and greed taking priority over care and quality. In almost all cases they just recorded the vinyl master tapes to CD, ignoring the fact that the originals were optimised for vinyl playback which has a totally different range to CD's. It's one reason why so many people bemoaned the loss of vinyl, the original records really were better than the CD's in many cases. Nowadays, everything's been remastered for the frequency response on CD and it's usually flawless. Most discography's now will have the remastered versions, and I can compare my old mp3 rips with a new remastered FLAC copy and the difference is usually noticeable even to my ears. Just try downloading one of your favourite albums in FLAC format from Torrents and compare it with your current version, you may be surprised. 

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Success

Downloaded 267 new songs to MP3 files using YTMP3 site. Lightening fast and free. I was suprised. Took a couple of hours. Now saved to laptop, USB stick and phone. Good to go. 

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Fair play to those of you who go down the torrent route etc., but personally I can’t be bothered.

I pay £12 a month for Spotify, £5 a month for Netflix, £8 a month for Disney and £20 a month for Sky Sports as I’m on promotion. I cancel Sky Sports when it’s expired after 6 months or so and goes to full price. Then they contact me not long after and offer me a new promotion so renew again.

As far as I am concerned, it’s just a small outlay from my salary.

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