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Why Do You Pirate Music? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I personally don't see a reason to torrent music when a simple download of a flac or something from yt if I can't find it anywhere else is usually fine. But I will say I'm more likely to pirate music from large artists/companies because I don't support large record companies and their shitty practices.

Similar thing goes for things like Vocaloid, UTAU/OPENUTAU, Synthesizer V, DeepVocal, etcetera, songs because the majority of the time the songs I'm listening to don't have an official download (or a link to a removed file) or way to get it through supporting the person who made them.