* Want some good music without paying for online streaming services? *
Local music works well; or if you are lucky and there's an interesting radio station you like.
Consider some of the Themed, Genre specific stations. Many out there, most freely accessible.
I work away at the computer here, listening to WNED Classical, they transmit in FM and also broadcast via internet. https://www.wned.org/radio/wned-classical-945/
If you like Jazz, there is a good station in Toronto, Canada, although they have some annoying commercial to keep the lights on, supposed to be a non profit so less ads than usual, and good music.
I sometimes raid tunein to add new stations. Pull up the website, find a stream you like, and dump packets to get the audio stream address. Then save it as a bookmark in your music player (e.g. vlc). It used to be possible to do the same with radionomy but that quit working a bit ago.
@khird That is neat, nice work, Kyle. 😛
I used to have Rdio, which I really liked and was content to sue as a free user. I now feel a tad guilty, since being happy with their generous content allowance for non-paying users ultimately led to their demise. And now we have less and inferior alternatives, Spotify being less enjoyable for me than Rdio was.
They had ads, but not so obtrusive as Spot. Have found ways to block the ads in spot, but that breaks the radio streams playback, which I like, a long session of music without having to make a playlist.