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How are y’all pirating music? I can barely find any of my albums on any torrent trackers. Do I need to get into usenet for that?
I read a fortune cookie yesterday that calmed my mind. I’ll share it here because maybe it’ll help you, too.
“Rest your weary Soul. Seek the art and beauty that your mind craves to find peace and joy.”
I tell you when I read that, especially being emboldened by some parts of this fortune, I definitely found the “music” of life, whatever that means. Felt inspired, so I thought I’d comment my experiences.
I just use xmanager. Hopefully my streams still count and the artists gets their half a cent.
But lidarr also works for torrenting.
Yams and lucida
Money saved? I think not! I should know since i do it… one 8 bay synology with 4 6tb drives, 3 10tb drives, and 1 ssd for apps. Let’s just say I’ve spent a lifetime of subscriptions to get this setup. I would do it again in a heartbeat!
Yeah. Not only do you get to enjoy the stuff now, but you’ll be able to enjoy it into the future without fear that the service will decide you’re done… Because you actually own it now.
Corporations are not people, fuck 'em.
Metaphorically fuck corporations, literally fuck people. As long as it’s consensual.
Just remember corporations are a great source of already stolen resources.
Imnotgoingtohellforthis
You’re also helping that content survive. If it ever goes away, you actually have real copies on physical hardware.
This is a big deal for super niche artists. I have a few songs that probably don’t exist many other places and are almost entirely lost to time except for piracy.
So many unofficial live albums
Yes. And bootlegs! I have some mixes that are just not legitimate and never will be, so the art can’t really exist in a legally-safe form. It still has value despite that.
You have money?
Hundreds of RMB, he’s rich
I don’t even bother pirating Netflix shows anymore
Same, all of the ones that would be worth it were cancelled
I will just as soon as they produce something that’s worth the time and effort.
[…] Spotify […]
Where do you pirate music from?
Soulseek is great, you can find most stuff in there at high quality.
Oh shit. I was using Soulseek in like 2001. Time for nostalgia.
Thats where spotify gets a lot of its music. Why shouldn’t you?
You don’t need to convince me.
youtube-dl/yt-dlp, I punch in a command into my computer with url to the playlist, it downloads the video and rips the audio into mp3 format. It works with youtube and bandcamp. With bandcamp it just straight downloads the music files no extraction needed.
yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" <url to playlist>How’s the audio quality?
Youtube automatically encodes its audio down to at most 128k in m4a format. Im not sure about bandcamp but its extracting the songs that play through the web browser so they probably also use lossy mp3 for web streaming the songs not higher bitrate FLAC but can’t say for certain. In general the audio stays the same downloaded as you hear it streamed through video. If you’re a big music nerd that absolutely needs highest quality bitrate in FLAC you’re better off sailing the high seas, but a casual music enjoyer won’t notice or care unless the source itself is bad quality like a bootleg live recording.
The same command works on both sites?
yep. this particular format of the command perserves playlist order so you don’t have to manually enter track numbers to organize the album. I recommend yt-dlp installed with python3’s pip3 manager
That’s funny. Those are the only two things my wife gets so I have them occasionally.
