[Android General] loader72:
[UPDATE MARCH 2015]

So after another 3 month without Netease, there's some news.

Kugo and Kuwo really anoyed my, because of their bad streaming/downloading speed, as well because of the bad translation (which of course, I'm responsible for).

But guys, don't despair! There's a great alternative, available right here on xda :)

"Huawei Music Player" / "EMUI Music Player" is a great chinese service, even though fully in english! It allows you to stream songs for free and download them to MP3 (192kb/s).

If you manage to get a working Huawei ID, you can also use 320kb/s download as well as personal playlists and radios. Wasn't able to do that, since, quote: "This service is not available in your region".

So to get it, just google search "huawei music player apk" and take the xda result (still can't post links, sorry).

Have fun and happy easter :)

OLD THREAD

So, I finally got a working alternative for Netease CloudMusic: Kugou Music
It is NOT blocked at this time (15/12/2015) and the translation should work.
Translated APK will come soon, but I have some problems compiling, so you need to use the Xposed Module AndroTraductor and download the archive I created (h t t p://www8.zippyshare.com/v/lUZCXxXv/file.html) [Sorry, can't link websites right now, just delete spaces to http].
Also make sure to download the official app from the Playstore (search for "Kugou" and install the first result)
Extract the dv_translate directory to the root of your SD card and restart.

I DIDN'T test it for too long, so please comment your result :)
Keep in mind, that the translation is very bad, but I'll improve it in the future!

Hi guys, this is my first thread and english isn't my native language, so sorry. I hope this is the right section for that topic.
I guess there are a lot of people who are as sad as me about Netease blocking of foreign listerners.
At first, only the translated app was blocked by using an MD5 sum check, a pretty pitiful act in my opinion.
But now, they block EVERY CONNECTION from outside China mainland, which results in most of Western pop songs unplayable (they will be greyed out and a ">_<"-message pops up). So I was looking for some alternatives.

UPDATE: So after some more testing, I settled on translating the Kugou Music Player, since it serves the user better download performance. I'll update the thread eventually.
The user [MENTION=4738691]bloodvayne[/MENTION] brought my attention the the Spotify Mega Mod, which you can find on onhax.com. It gives you unlimited songs without ads, but some users (Android 6) experience lots of crashes. Even while it doesn't allow you to download MP3, it obviously is HIGHLY ILLEGAL and I advice you to *NOT* use it.

Well, the most legal way would be using [B]Spotify or getting the 3 free premium months of Apple Music[/B] (the app just got released for android).
But I even if you pay for their Premium plan, you will notice that you don't get the same functionality. Primarily, the download as MP3 function will be missed.
So I searched and found some alternatives, which give you allmost the same functionality as Neteasy CloudMusic and, who would have thought, all 3 of them are based in China as well.

So first, we have [B]QQMusic[/B], which isn't really that new and if you are able to create an account, you will get the best streaming quality and speed. But that's also a downside. As I said, you WILL HAVE TO create an account with QQ International to use it, and for me in particular, it didn't work. If you want to try it, ( h t t p://reg.imqq.com/) here you go and please leave a comment on wether it worked or not.
So, if you got an account, you just search the PlayStore for QQMusic and install the first app that pops up (yes it's chinese). It will prompt you to login and then you should be able to use it. I DIDN'T TEST IT, because of the reasons above.

The next app in the list is [B]Kugou[/B] (or 酷狗音乐播放器), which is basicaly the same as Netease CloudMusic. You CAN open an account to get download HQ, but it is NOT NECESSARY. The app's got a big music library, chinese and western. I personaly get very poor streaming speed, but a friend of mine said, for him it's faster than Netease was.
it saves your MP3 files in /sdcard/kgmusic and is [B]available in PlayStore[/B] ("Kugou").
As my testing shows, it appears to be [B]the best alternative[/B].

The last one I got is [B]Kuwo MusicBox[/B], which is actually the same as Kugou with a little prettier interface. I also have mixed feelings about the streaming speed, so please comment your results. It downloads the MP3s to /sdcard/KuwoMusic .
I am actually trying to translate the whole thing to english, but it's a hard task, since strings.xml got over 1200 lines.