Best FOSS, Ad-Free Music Apps for Phones (iOS and Android)

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I need recommendations for apps similar to Spotify, that play through online songs automatically via playlists. I am thinking YouTube clients and frontends like Yattee (iOS), Invidious and LibreTube (Android) are the way to go, as they have audio-only playlist options.

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I’m wondering too if there is a frontend/client for YouTube Music too, if that’s possible

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LibreTube is currently by far the best client for YouTube and YouTube Music.

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This would be ridiculously game changing for literally everyone, the amount of people I see using Spotify with ads, including my past self, my brother and friends is crazy!

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Thanks! That’s what I was looking for :smiley:

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GrayJay isn’t FOSS, but supports YouTube, Spotify and Soundcloud.

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GrayJay is source first.

While GrayJay does support multiple platforms, unlike LibreTube, it’s still not on the same level as LibreTube as far as the YouTube watching experience goes.

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libretube sucks.
you cant even set your download location. wtf

Newpipe is 1000 times better.

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The whole app sucks because it’s missing a feature that barely anyone cares about? Sure.

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everyone cares. because everyone want to made different folders for different subjects.
also downloading is very slow.
Fullscreen sucks as controls fall away and no longer function
app gives constantly gives error

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I recommend Spotube on your Android phone.
If you want YouTube, LibreTube or NewPipe are great options.

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I think RiMusic is the best YouTube music player right now. It’s a fork of ViMusic with hundreds of new or improved features. It is a bit bloated with it’s many features and some confusing UI, but it hasn’t been a big problem for me.

There’s also Music You if you want ViMusic with Material You that works well and feels much simpler to use, although it is still relatively in early development with notably far less features.

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I don’t and everyone who uses LibreTube, so not everyone.

User error, just disable Piped proxy.

Never experienced any of those with LibreTube, only with NewPipe. That is the exact reason why NewPipe is being rewritten: Planning a new, modern and stable NewPipe · TeamNewPipe/NewPipe · Discussion #10118 · GitHub

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Had a whole text ready as well to recommend RiMusic! Check it out guys

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Thanks for the RiMusic recommendation! I’m using spotube, but i’m going to test this one out for a while!

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How does Clipious compare to LibreTube? I couldn’t choose between those two.

Clipious uses Invidious and LibreTube uses Piped.

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  • Uses way too much resources.
  • Total bandwidth limited by the peak capacity of the load balancer.
  • Coded in Crystal, a language that is relatively hard for beginners.
  • Caching is done at a backend level.
  • Invidious was a learning project.
  • Invidious crashes all the time.
  • Various hacks are required to keep an instance running at a reasonable stability.
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RiMusic and LibreTube seem to be the two popular contenders. I forgot to mention ideally the software should be cross-platform. At the moment I am using FreeTube, which I do not think is available for Android, I am happy to manually export and import my playlists, if this is even possible.

How does FreeTube as a desktop option compare to these apps? Is there a better desktop/cross-platform alternative? If not this is fine.

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I second this. Tried LibreTube and I can admit it’s pretty good, tried GrayJay but for watching videos LibreTube does feel better

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That’s true. I don’t know if it’s just me but in this PG page there’s an invidious embed and it never works, always crashes: Linux Overview - Privacy Guides

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