#freegal

[amethystsoda]

If you're someone who's interested in having more non-streaming versions of music that you actually own, see if your local library has the Freegal program!!

You log in with your library card and pin as password and you get 5 free downloads and 8 hours of streaming every week (it resets Sunday night)!

You can also build a wishlist of stuff you want to download when more free songs unlock.

#amethyst archives #music #hard copies #music archive #drm free music #music library #freegal #library programs

[thesocklesswonder]

I usually listen via spotify, but I've listened on freegal and used to listen to CDs, but I always somehow scratched them. I hate listening to the radio bc it's always the same stuff with little variation and you really can't get good metal music on a radio station where I live!

#poll #polls #music #spotify #radio #pandora #soundcloud #vinyl #music cds #youtube #freegal #hoopla #library

[rjs3566]

Made my first playlist on Freegal Music. I based it on an old demonstration record I had called "The Magic Of Stereo".

#freegal #Music #playlist #Library

[absentcaryatid]

Tagged by the lovely and kind @twancingyunhao to offer a ten song playlist shuffle and this is what my iTunes purchased/CD rips/Freegal imports came up with. (If anybody's library has a Freegal subscription make use of it to get free songs to keep every week, most of my K-pop came from there and they do have ATEEZ, Block B, BTS, GOT7, Monsta X, Seventeen, and Stray Kids among many other groups last time I used it before my library gave it up.)

I love soundtracks from media I watched so mixed in with the K-pop and a Tiesto is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Hans Zimmer's Millennium from PBS (not the Chris Carter show from the same era), Secret Garden K-drama, and a song off the My Neighbor Totoro film.

Love to see what any others enjoy listening to and encourage anybody else to participate.

#music #tag game #will describe on request #low energy night #And Allyssa you are such a dear for that other tag too! #freegal

[chicagomusicguide]

How to find Great new music in 2024

How to find great new music in 2024 Written by: Dennis M. Kelly – Image by Jiradet Inrungruang from Pixabay Are you feeling limited in your sources for music? Fear not, Spotify and Amazon are far from your only options, and I have some suggestions that might help make your 2024 much more musical! Shop Local (Bands): The first suggestion is to find local bands in your area for the freshest new…

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#Download #Freegal Music #hoopla #Library #New Music

[certifiedlibraryposts]

Hey You Should Check Out Freegal!

I'm surprised I've never seen a post on this service before (Or if I did I don't remember it, but if you know of one please send it my way and I'll add it to the queue here!).

Just this week I was clued into Freegal at one of my local libraries and I love it! It's music streaming service somewhat similar to Spotify or Tidal that libraries can get subscriptions for. Not only is it all free for library card holders to use, not only can you stream music with no ads at all, you can download a limited number of songs every week. For free. No weird rules that restrict you by making it only accessible through the app or anything. The MP3 file goes right into your device and it's yours to move or copy or burn to a CD or WHATEVER non-commercial use you wanna do with it!

To use it, you'll just need a card from a participating library (You can search for your library on the Freegal website) and an email address to make an account. You can access it through your browser on a desktop/laptop, or there's an app you can download through your phone's app store.

If you're like me and want to stop relying on music streaming services, Freegal is a great place to start! The exact limit differs between libraries as far as I'm aware, but it lets you download three to five songs a week, resetting on Monday. Even after you've hit your weekly limit, you can still add songs to a wishlist to have a convenient place for everything you want to download in the future!

I'd say one of the only downsides is that the selection isn't as big as the other services like Spotify. You're probably not going to find many of your favorite indie artists on there, but there's still a really decent selection and you're more than likely going to find something you're familiar with and enjoy! Also the app is...a bit rough around the edges and slow to load things at times (at least on Android, I haven't seen it on an iPhone) but it's not too bad. Imo everything else makes up for it.

I hope this post is informative and that you all have cards to participating libraries! If you don't, consider looking around for other libraries close by! It's a great service that I highly encourage you take advantage of, and increased awareness and demand for it might encourage more libraries to participate!

#certified library post #Library #Libraries #Library guides

[hillbillyoracle]

How to Create Downtime Menus

As a lot of my posts are, this one was inspired by a conversation with my partner. She seemed to think some of my ideas were helpful so I thought I'd write them up and share them here.

I use a combination of these ideas to do two things - redirect myself when I get stuck doomscrolling/freezing/obsessing and redirect myself when I'm stuck on the "must be good, must be productive" hamster wheel and can't seem to stop doing chores until I'm fucking exhausted or have pushed/hurt myself. Knowing you need to stop is one thing - knowing what to do instead is another.

Not all of these will work for every person at every time. Pick one or two that seem interesting and give them a whirl.

Habit of the Month

This is a small habit I can do in about 5-10 minutes a day. These are sometimes habits that I want to audition for my lineup or just want to focus on as a way of rebooting a given area of my life. Physical habits have been things like stretching, a walk, putting on moisturizer, drinking water, making tea, etc. Emotional habits have been things like stream of consciousness journaling, bullet journaling, recording myself venting, etc. Spiritual habits have been things like meditating, altar work, reading sutras, tarot readings, etc.

If I'm stuck in a loop and I haven't done that task yet, it serves as an easy win that feels moderately meaningful to accomplish. This is easier to do than longer or less interesting tasks.

Side Quests

These are little challenges I'd like to accomplish that are 100% fun and completely optional. They are specific and can me completed within a given time frame - usually a month. They usually aren't the most meaningful to keep them more fun and so I'm not letting myself down if I don't opt to complete it.

They've been things like:

The Minor Expert Challenge - read three books in one subject

The Kanopy Critic Challenge - use up all of my Kanopy credits that month

The Regal Freegal Challenge - download all the albums/songs I can on Freegal that month

The Monthly Playlist Challenge - create a playlist of the month where each song represents something about each day of that month; like a playlist diary

The Reverse Tarot Draw Challenge - pick/list a tarot card you best think represents each day of a given month or other time period; like a tarot card diary

The 100 Words Challenge - learn 100 words in a foreign language

As you can see, I prefer things that are pretty low energy friendly so I can work on them on days I'm super tired. Just little chronic illness things.

Alphabet Lists

I use these for my cleaning routines actually but I also have been trying them with my downtime. The way it works is you list out the alphabet and choose one self care or hobby task you'd like to do for each. They don't have to start with the same letter, it just serves as an easy way to limit how many you pick and keep track of what you've done. It's satisfying to cross off the whole list.

Tasks I put on these are things like

A - paint my nails

B - crochet a charity hat

C - write 5 letters for Letters Against Isolation

D - send a letter to a friend

E - play a solo rpg

F - play a solo board game

G - complete a puzzle

etc

They're fun tasks I'm not currently doing as often as I'd like but chill enough that it doesn't matter when precisely I do them more often. I try to pick tasks that are roughly 30 minutes to an hour long though some definitely take longer. I like to complete these roughly monthly but I try to complete a whole list before I start it again. Anything I just did not feel like doing and kept skipping gets scratched out and I rewrite a new list with new item to replace those. And I start again.

Whenever I'm like ugh I don't know what to do with myself, I try to pick at least one thing on the list and give it a try for 5 minutes. If I don't like it after that I can just put it away and pick something else.

10x10

10x10 lists are a different take on a similar idea. It's a list of 10 things you'd like to do at least 10 times in a given time period. Mine tend to be on the seasonal or annual timescale but maybe you're intense and prefer a monthly one. If I don't complete them in a given time period, I just continue with it until I'm done. Better to complete it on an altered timeline than not at all.

For me these tend to be slightly bigger tasks that take a little more planning or energy. I'm not totally sure why I use them this way since you could definitely use them for smaller tasks but that's just the space they occupy for me.

So examples of what would be on my list would be things like:

Grab a hot chocolate from the coffee shop (x10)

Complete a PokemonGo event (x10)

Have a spa night and watch a movie (x10)

Do something extra nice for my partner (x10)

Try a new game (x10)

Find a geocache (x10)

etc

Filing up a little 10x10 grid is pretty satisfying. Much more so than anxietying myself into my bed for the equivalent amount of time.

Seasonal Bucket Lists

I really enjoy making these though I really struggle with the current season (Spring) given my allergies. There's this idea my partner has told me about in DBT where you try to recall positive moments to help "build a life worth living". I think seasonal bucket lists are really good at helping with this for me. I look back on the seasons I made these lists way more fondly than the ones I didn't.

They generally center on seasonal activities I don't want to miss out on. So for summer that's stuff like going for a night swim/skinny dip, getting 5-10 good cloud photos, playing a yard game (like cornhole), seeing a street concert, etc. I also try to take pictures of those (if they don't already involve them) so I can reflect on them later and enjoy the residual happiness.

Conclusion

The point of these isn't to overwhelm you with options. It's just to have enough ideas prepped that you can find something no matter your energy level or time you're working with.

Remember - rest and enjoying yourself is necessary for human health. Folks how get good rest and experience flow states more regularly tend to heal better. People who spend time on what they enjoy are often more enjoyable to be around.

It's never a waste of time to make yourself happy.

#life advice #adhd #love a good list

[knittinglizards]

ds9 on a freegal site again

#p #apparently pluto swaps between it and voyager every 3 months so it's been voy since Right When I Started It #and it's just cable style not on demand. but still! i can see sisko on my big tv w subtitles and everything. exciting #learned while writing this that i DO NOT have the wahoo rat image on my phone. jotchua here in their stead #ds9

[autumnhobbit]

😑 freegal is not acting like my library exists 😑

[reallyginnyf]

🎶 when you get this, put 5 songs you actually listen to, then publish. Send this ask to 10 of your followers 🎶

Oooo thanks for the tag! I can't provide Spotify links because I cancelled premium at the beginning of the year. I use Freegal now because I have an easier time finding new-to-me music through that platform. The latest MP3s I've downloaded so I can listen in the car are:

Wir Sind Groß - Mark Forster

The Facts About Jimmy - Shawn Colvin

Eternal Rains - Ad Infinitum

Shoulder to Cry On - Alana Springsteen

Bauch und Kopf - Mark Forster

I tag anyone who wants to play and hasn't been tagged yet; I'm always looking for new stuff.

#tag game #music

[conscious-naivete]

hi!! I saw your post about the national library card from I think you said a library in Seattle?? I’m trying to get back into reading and this sounds super cool so I’m wondering how you did that and how it connects to libby! (I don’t have libby, so another question is do you like/recommend libby?) thanks!!

this is such an awesome ask to receive hihihi first of all i wanna say i'm also trying to get back into reading rn and libby is making it so much easier for me! listening to audiobooks at work i've already read more books in 3 months than all of last year. i'm not even sure which post you're coming from bc i've been making lots of excited posts about discovering new options lol

so the seattle thing i referenced is the books unbanned program the seattle public library is involved in and i recently reblogged a post listing several other libraries also involved, basically offering access to their digital library to anyone in the US (within a certain age group, but i'm hoping it's fudgeable?). i'm hoping you're in the US, idk how it works elsewhere

all i did was sign up for a card and i got an email with a card number which is good for a year! i'm still discovering this myself, so i haven't looked at any of the others or properly explored the options on the SPL website yet (on top of libby access they have their own online library!) i imagine the cards from the other libraries probably work the same way.

libby is an app for accessing ebooks and audiobooks through your public library. it's kind of the 2.0 version of overdrive, if you're familiar w that, from which it took over. you search up your library in the app and input your card number/account info and tada! access to whatever catalog your library has!

i would absolutely recommend libby, it's pretty easy to use, you can make custom lists of books with their 'tags' feature (i have a list i know i want to check out, one i want to take a second look at called "hmm," and one just called "whoa what" just for a collection of remastered old radio plays(?!))

i figured i'd try plugging the SPL card and was happily surprised to find it worked! i have two cards added rn, my local lib has a borrowing limit of 5 items at a time and SPL has limit of 10, and they both have a hold limit of 10. SPL has a way huger catalog than my local, and while the waitlists are longer, they have more copies(/digital lending licenses or whatever). it was so exciting to find all the new stuff that i hadn't had available before!

(i would check your library website to see what digital resources they offer and are connected with. i think libby is nearly universal? i've also used kanopy, which has tv and movies (my library had this one a couple years ago but i couldn't log back in recently i think they ended whatever subscription they had) and hoopla, which has books, audiobooks, comics, comics adapted into audio format, tv series, movies, music, sheet music,,,! and you get 10 borrows a month plus wvr bonuses they're currently offering. i love hoopla a LOT. i haven't had luck accessing those two using my SPL card, though. my library is also listing freegal for music and another couple services for specifically kids' books)

please feel free to ask me more questions if i didn't answer to your satisfaction, i got overexcited

#sunlit-sonata #asks #eta: i actually cant get anything on libby on my local lib side atm bc i currently have several overdue physical items.... #but i'm gonna return them it'll be fine

[absentcaryatid]

Just wanted to leave a note of appreciation to say @theaufanartist, @twancingyunhoe, @treasure-hwa, @smileysuh, @fallinwoozi (and anybody else I missed because I am still getting the names down and have not always recognized what group characters come from) have finally gotten me to pay attention to Seventeen despite having “Anyone” on repeat regularly and already liking Woozi after seeing the group on Knowing Bros.

The show is on USA Netflix under the name Men on a Mission and captioned in English. I caught season 5 (2020) episode 41 with Seventeen but I see they also were on season 4 ep. 32, and Seungkwan appeared in season 5 ep. 12 as well so now I have some more to learn.

Thank you all for this addition to my life!

#Seventeen #So much of my K-pop music has come from the library's Freegal subscription so the wider media was not on my radar beyond the songs

[dare-g]

I recently learned that our library has a partnership with the freegal music app and it's so good every week I get to download 5 songs permanently to my library and now I have accumulated 4 full albums I can listen without streaming

#they are all weather report #but anyway if you dont use it already check your library #theres also streaming but 5 songs a week builds a library pretty fast #talks

[cloama]

My public library offers lots of stuff but new free services were added in the pandemic years

-Mango, language learning app

-Brainfuse, interview coaching and resume lab

-Creativebug, art and craft tutorial similar to skillshare

-Freegal music

-Scholastic GO and Scholastic teachables

-CLEP exam prep!!!!!

#I've been testing my way through CLEP exams ALONE. NO ONE TOLD ME THE LIBRARY HAD ONLINE EXAM PREP #just raw dogging exams like a fool #library sciences #please go to your library #or just get a card and look online at all the resources

[hardcockcafe]

just got a new library card with access to different services.... friendship ended with hoopla freegal is now my best friend

#THEYVE GOT SO MANY THINGS IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR #it lets you download 5 mp3s per week like. to keep #in addition to unlimited streaming with like a pretty respectable range of artists #i honestly really enjoy accumulating mp3s slowly like this its more exciting when i get something i've been really wanting. like foraging