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Why Do You Pirate Music? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago by silva@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I recently set up Sonarr and Radarr on my home server and I'm loving it.

However, I don't get why you would ever use Lidarr. Why would you ever download music using torrents? You can use tools like spotdl and yt-dlp to download songs from YouTube music and Spotify, it's faster and more reliable; I have had some issues finding torrents of music from less-known artists.

To me it seems like it would be much better to have a tool like Lidarr or have support in Jellyseerr to download music from common streaming services.

What are your views on this?

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[–] cheddar@programming.dev 41 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Because some music is not available on streaming platforms. Occasionally artists and labels decide to split their ways, and suddenly their older albums are gone. Over the years I started losing notable chunks of music I like from my playlists.

[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Not only that but the original mixes of albums often don't get put on streaming platforms because of licensing bullshit or whatever.

And especially for rock and metal the newer remasters of popular albums tend to be pretty bad and overly compressed or have weird post EQ added.