I’ve been working on degoogling and overall shifting away from the problem corps etc, I finally made the switch away from android (as much as I can for the moment) and picked up the FP6/e. Overall, it’ll due for what I need and the fact that I want to be on my phone less.
However, I need help on the music side! Ive had a Spotify for a decade now and am dragging my feet on the switch because life is busy and that’s a lot of curated playlists I’m not ready to part with yet. Issue is, Spotify just doesn’t work consistently on the FP, randomly stops, won’t play, will recommend I play downloaded music while it buffers when I’m already listening to downloaded stuff, god forbid I skip a song or change tracks in anyway. It freezes up, same with podcasts, can’t skip their mid episode ads because it’ll freeze up again.
So, I figured I’d let this be the push I need to finally break free and download audio directly to the device. I’m still trying to figure out a way to just import my playlists and pirate them as is (if someone wants to throw me a bone there too, Id appreciate it), but I started with some podcasts that allow direct download. The phone does not allow me to listen to more than 40 sec before it pauses, I press play again, it restarts, and pauses again at the 30-40sec mark. I skip ahead and it plays the file where I skip to correctly, but stops after the same time frame. Also doesn’t allow me to speed up the playback more than 1.9 (I usually keep it at x2-2.5, people talk slow).
I really want to enjoy this phone and all that it stands for, I don’t need the top camera quality (I barely take pics as is), I don’t need the fastest speeds, or the most RAM (I’m not a gamer). I need it to do basic phone functions, search the internet, tell time, and let me listen to audio files. Music in the ear keeps the voices in the rear!
I would be very grateful for any assistance here!
similar boat, fp6/e. what you probably really want to do is reconsider your music consumption in the first place.
im coming from youtube music, and ive found several front ends that i can log into my account and access playlist. im mostly liking Velune currently. but for just the ability to look up a track and play similar stuff, get a youtube music frontend.
id say start prioritizing local files and/or a selfhost option. ive dipped back into piracy (seeker fdroid) to fill the gaps. bandcamp will sell you most of your favorite records digitally. load it all into a jellyfin server or something and start rebuilding your playlists over there.
you can probably find a tool to download your spotify playlists, so spend a day knocking that out. honestly even screenshotting them can give you something you can recreate down the road.
or, hell, set your computer to record desktop audio and queue up all your playlists then turn the speakers off. later chop that audio up into each playlist.
there’s also stuff like pianobar which is a cli pandora client that i quite like.
i listen to primarily internet radio these days, so im not quite so stuck on spotify type services. WFMU is my favorite, but there are other great ones like SomaFM, BBC etc.
good luck!
I know you’re right, and its something I’m working on (life be busy for a hoe like me), but my current concern is that even the predownloaded audio player from fp6/e that I put the podcasts on that were dl directly from the creators aren’t playing properly, however a previous commenter mentioned vlc as a possible fix that I’ll be testing out soon.
I really appreciate the recs!
definately try some other local players from fdroid. if this is a problrm across the board you may have a faulty audio hardware or os install. i wouldnt think thats the issue, but who knows
You’re using VLC for your phone audio? I use it for my computer but FP6 comes preloaded with a audio player, seems silly that it doesn’t work. But if that’s the solution I’m about it! I can’t be alone with my thoughts lol
Luckily, murena has their own app store, f droid, and micro G for downloading apps that aren’t on there but still needed, like banking.
I mostly use VLC because I trust it to work with nearly anything. I never tried the original app.
I’ll give it a go as a fix, thank you!
Hopefully FP can work on this this, the preloaded app can’t be uninstalled, so it oughta be useful
