Streaming sites are convenient up until you want to listen to that mildly obscure artist from your country your parents used to listen to back in the early 50s. Then it's absolute bollocks.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2023
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Or if you live outside of America, the number of albums that don't let you play some of the songs is insane.
Not even old music.
Architecture In Helsinki is missing the third album on Spotify. There are plenty more, but that's always the first that pops in my head whenever I'm listening to Indie playlists, Of Montréal comes on and I realise I haven't heard Places Like This in a long time. Then I remember why, and I either have to dig through my old CD collection or download it.
That's why I pay for YouTube Music. YouTube has a pretty good collection of obscure tracks and it lets you upload your own files to access anywhere.
YouTube has a pretty good collection of obscure tracks
This is because current Youtube policy effectively bundles ContentID and YouTube Music. Basically if a rightsholder wants to put audio into ContentID, they are forced to also publish it on Youtube Music (topic channels).
My parents favourite music artists finally popped up on Spotify about 5 years ago. It was a dry run until then - I was PISSED when my brother lost my CD of a band I liked when we went back home on vacation.
Maybe I'll publish my 3 TB FLAC collection soon.
Yessir
Music piracy isn’t dead but it’s a shell of what it was. You can see even here most people would rather just stream
Soulseek needs more users though as the proportion of locked file users keeps increasing
Yeah fuck those traders and scammers. Soulseek isn't created for that shit.
Soulseek is great for finding and sharing music. I would strongly recommend Nicotine+ over the old SoulseekQt
Don't forget stream ripping. I used to rip internet radio direct to MP3 with no quality loss and then go back and manually edit the files for playback gaps, keeping the best in case of duplicate recordings. If you have really niche interests it sometimes was literally the only way to get copies of some tracks, especially rare remixes.
You guys don't just download stuff with yt2mp3?
You don't get high quality mp3s from that.
I use deemix for 320kbps, I originally had FLAC but as almost 100% of my listening is remote from my server I found 320 to be great.
I'm no Hi-Fi listener, but YT rips suck.
Is there something wrong with my ear that I can't distinguish between music quality levels?
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Keeping FLAC is such a hassle, it's not even worth.
I mostly listen to jazz, blues and classical. I use rutracker which has everything I want and in lossless formats. Mp3s too but I'm more interested in lossless.
I waffle on whether I should use my VPN or not with it.
Support your favourite artists directly. That wasn’t an option in the Napster days.
I like to have the older versions of songs before they "Remaster" and change them and if they stop selling everything but the remasters, it's time to fire it up.
It use P2P network so I don't think you need VPN for it...? IDK I'm not an expert.
Well torrenting is also P2P but people generally recommend VPNs for that.
Yea but with torrenting it's multiple peers you are connected to. Soulseek only connects you 1-1 so it's generally lots safer.
Ah, I see.
It's a service problem as always. I want to listen to all the songs in my library on shuffle and if your service can't offer that, I'll use AIMP with local files.
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Always open for suggestions though
I pirate everything I favorite on Spotify just to be able to continue to listen to it ad-free if I have a lapse in payment.
My go to for the past year has been using Qobuz free trials and qbdl but they've recently stopped allowing disposable cards for unlimited free trials. Guess I'll have to change tactics.
I just pay for Youtube Premium and I have REDacted, Orpheus and Jpopsuki for anything specific that's not on YouTube
I've got slskd and lidarr set up with jellyfin and FinAmp on my phone and honestly I don't open Spotify except to discover new music
Are these all fediverse like funnywhale Or p2p like torrent and i can't find them on play store
SoulseekQT and Nicotine+ are on desktop. You can find Seeker-Android on IzzyOnDroid or github.
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