Music Guide for People Who Hate Spotify (in-progress)

This will soon be written up properly, but for now here's a bunch of helpful links and notes.

• foobar2000 (works best, but ugly)
• Clementine (or Strawberry on Linux) (also ugly)
• Wacup (WinAmp redux) (keeps crashing on me)
• DeaDBeeF (haven't tried yet)

• MusicBrainz Picard (my favorite)
• beets (too techy for me but if you're a nerd you'll love it)

• ListenBrainz
• Last.fm (still around!)
• Libre.fm
• Maloja (self-hosted)
• Pleroma (federated thing)

Download Wacup and hope it doesn't crash

Old school Winamp skins here: Winamp Skin Museum

Put Winamp on your website with this code from sadgrl

Used to be that you could get a bunch of free music to download, now of course everything's streaming and the freebies have mostly stopped. But if you look around you can still find some stuff…

• Bandcamp has lots of indie artists who give stuff away for pay what you want, or for free. Try searching through this tag to start with
• https://soundcloud.com/Soundcloud sometimes has free music but whether it's easy to download or not is up for debate
• Archive.org's audio collection