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Is music piracy dying? (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most of the discussion and sources of content talk about movies and series.

I've been recently looking for psy and techno music, finding FLAC or WAV with active seeders feels like striking gold. It's definitely been a while since I've looked for active torrent sites and it feels more barren than ever.

Edit: Thank you all for all that valuable information. The reddit group really wasn't this helpful and valued making fun over adding real use able knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I used yt-dl for downloading, but since I have a decent flat, I switched to just using yt music with adblocker or revanced.

What benefits do torrents of music provide over just downloading from yt?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Theoretically youtube doesn't offer as high a quality as flac or wav files do.

Practically for most people it probably doesn't matter

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much it,streaming is so convenient too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

At some point I wrote a docker container (with some help from a friend) which regularly executes yt-dlp to download my youtube playlists to my media server.

I mostly do that because I have limited mobile data and want offline copies of music

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Youtube audio quality is noticeably shitty through decent speakers or headphones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Being able to download a full discography in one go, not just songs.