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Download thing, open thing in vlc or music bee. People make complicated systems to automate this stuff but I don’t consume enough new media to make doing all of that worth it. Neither do I need my media remotely accessible, if I’m out doing something then I am busy and don’t need to be watching a movie or whatever. If I know the boredom situation is dire then I will bring my psp or a book with me. I’d rather consume media in my sort of nice audio and game setups than anywhere else anyways.
Music bee is like itunes from 10 years ago but without drm. I leave qbit and soulseek open cos sharing is caring
I advise using soulseek. Get the files for yourself to keep offline and have them shareable for others as well. Someone got the Mario 3d world soundtrack from me over the weekend via soulseek and I was happy I was sharing it.
Invidious. If you look up invidious instances you can find plenty of them and choose one that’s in your country so it’s nice and fast. Sometimes they take an extra second to load but there are no ads so it’s worth it
For music soul seek for whatever on Spotify doubledouble dot top
Soul seek to download files (works all the time) and musicbrains Picard to edit metadata en made (works most of the time, some manual editing will be necessary).
As for listening, I use musicbee on pc. It looks and feels like the itunes pc application used to. If I’m out and about, I have a usb stick with music plugged into my car console and a micro sd card with music in my psp.
This is what works for me and may not be ideal for you. Let me know what works :)