Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ
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It’s pretty dumb when record companies limit distribution by region like this.
It's totally dumb because it's not about getting a good deal for consumers or artists, purely about rights-holders maximising revenue. If they can't negotiate a good enough deal in a region they'll simply not allow it to be streamed. This is what happens when they separate the cultural value of "content" from the monetary value of it, the perceived desirability. Viewers and listeners want a good show to watch or album to hear, rights-holders simply want to get a good deal, regardless of what the stuff it.
Yeah, I once discovered an artist, even bought some albums, only to notice about a year later that the place I discovered them was now blocked in my country. If I would've come a year later, I would never have bought these albums.
This youtube link contains a tracking code ?si=.... Remember to remove it next time.
Quick guide that's been shared around online lately for those unsure what this is:
Nice link you have there as an example :)
You know the rules and so do I
this bothered me for a long time about youtube links. thanks for the incredible infographic
It's as if they're asking to be pirated.
they're asking for you to hand over your wallet, repeatedly
Yeah, this is the thing that's making me want to go back to having a private music library again. I pay for this shit, and they keep removing songs from my play lists.
I started back up again with Lidarr + Plexamp, with the noted exception that I've actually tried to buy music from Bandcamp.
- Not everything I want is available on the high seas
- I'm at a place financially where I can drop $40 on something like Lagwagon's back catalog.
Honestly? It's way better than Spotify - the Plexamp DJs work really well, I can offline download albums for runs/work (where I'm in the basement and have zero cell coverage).
I've done the same. You can get some obscure stuff from soulseek if Lidarr isn't finding all the stuff you want. I'm mostly using that and just using Lidarr for organizing and tracking.
You're 100% right about the plexamp DJs. They're super good. Love the deepcuts one.
If you are looking for an open source alternative to plexamp I recommend checking out Logitech Media Server. Don't let the Logitech in the name fool you.
My only reason besides stuff being free is that I want my music library offline. There are some services like Bandcamp that offer it, but it would not cover a meaningful percentage of all my library. Not gonna buy and rip CDs myself as well
Most of my music is "pirated" because you can't find it on any streaming platform, it's usually a YT download, often for game OSTs (often ones I own a copy of), and offline play allows stuff like Music Speed Changer to change the pitch and speed of the music!
Ahh remember the good ol times when you could insert a jrpg cd into a cd player and could listen to all the music.
650MB CD media. The game itself was 40-50MB and the rest 500-600MB was the audio in wav (CD player compatible) type
I see more often than I'd like to see retconned and greyed out releases in my playlist...
The fuck am I paying them.
God do I hate those publisher licensing agreements.
I try to buy all my music directly from the artist in CD form whenever possible. Whenever that's not possible, I try to get a version that I can save locally & play offline....
Bandcamp is also good. You get flac downloads and the artists get money and more so than on other platforms
Never tried bandcamp, but will have to try it out soon....
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/7CDKvdlD6uQ?si=5AQ8Z5TbLTdUwCf1
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
What word did he keep bleeping out?
enshittification?
"Enshittification"
Just highly theoretical, how would one have the best possible experience pirating music via DDL (no torrenting) and organizing it?
Usenet and Soulseek
For me, I subscribe to Deezer (or you can do a trial) and run Deemix which is able to download the music in MP3 or FLAC. It directly downloads the music using Deezer's API.
As far as organizing it goes, I typically just host it with Plex or a Subsonic player like Navidrome.
bandcamp but pay the artists please it's really fun to do i promise