It’s bewildering how bad offline Apple Music is.

[lobo@wolp.tech]

@filippo I really like Doppler. It's paid but its really high quality, to the point I think it's worth its price. It's got a trial period too

[cigitalgem@sigmoid.social]

@filippo plexamp

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@filippo Foobar2000?

[ezekiel@hachyderm.io]

@filippo I can't save I've had this experience, if you have spotty reception and go to the offline section does it do the same thing?

Do you have any settings enabled to delete downloads?

[scaglio@gts.scaglio.id]

@filippo https://github.com/kushalpandya/Petrichor or https://github.com/muse-application/muse-macos

EDIT: sorry, I had read macOS 🤦‍♂️

[lynndotpy@mastodon.social]

@lobo @filippo I second Doppler, very good app for playing your own music files.

[joe@mastodon.blip.rocklin.dev]

@filippo Plexamp (if you have your music in plex) is quite good.

[federicomena@mstdn.mx]

@filippo https://apps.apple.com/mx/app/decoupled/id1382409837 has never failed me.

[starchturrets@mastodon.social]

@filippo VLC media player? Though personally I just spun up a jellyfin instance and went with finamp

[kraftnix@noc.social]

@filippo iOS apps I don't know.

But if you want to download almost anything in FLAC (or mp3) quality, a Deezer premium subscription allows DRM free downloads.

I use that alongside Deemix to acquire all the music I want easily and legally.

[abacabadabacaba@infosec.exchange]

@filippo Apple Music app can play MP3s. But if you are looking for alternatives, then VLC.

[sa@chaos.social]

@filippo i've been using plexamp since giving up on apple music recently and it's okay. it works, but i only used it because i already have plex.

that said, the semi-regular data breach notification emails from plex are not particularly great. at least they're honest about it.

(i'm still searching for something to play internet radio that's nicer to use than vlc)