Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

    • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      It’s not they probably just don’t know about soulseek / nicotine+

      It’s just so much better than any other method I have to assume anyone using these overly complicated methods just doesnt know

      Just the idea of downloading playlists instead of albums / discographies feels so incredibly icky to me

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        9 months ago

        Nicotine+ is OK, I upload about a tb a month on there and occasionally I find a missing track I can’t find on Deezer, Qobuz or Bandcamp. Turns out other people aren’t just imperfect versions of you.

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      9 months ago

      Soulseek is good for downloading albums and discographies, soundiiz, qobuz-dl and deemix-gui are good for that and also playlists of whatever. It’s also a good way to get FLACs. I download genre mixes, pitchfork’s top albums, it’s a good way to get 80gb of music in a night. It’s taken me 3 months to get that much off Soulseek. Sometimes you want to try out artists without downloading their whole discography.