• chordsphere1@sh.itjust.works
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    I just download to actually have the songs. No DRM, No Ads, No song getting removed from streaming service… I have 500+ songs downloaded in opus format and it only takes 2.5Gb with many of them being longer than 5 minutes. I don’t know why people keep using these services while they keep saying they hate it because there are so many ads or why they keep paying for DRM (aka. not owning anything)…

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      Opus at max bitrate is only like 1/4th the size of FLAC. At that point, why not just store it in 10GB while keeping the full quality?

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        5 months ago

        Not OP but I use bandcamp so I can pay the artist a decent amount rather than what ever Spotify does. Not sure if the new owner has increased the cut they take though

      • The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world
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        Musician here…

        …I tell people to download both the mp3 and the wavefiles from Bandcamp. Sometimes Soundcloud has a download option (depends on the artist). I still buy CDs where I can.

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        5 months ago

        Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there’s tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

        To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account “forever”.

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          5 months ago

          For Spotify, there is spotdl which downloads the music from YouTube Music, and then embeds the metadata from Spotify.

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            5 months ago

            Isn’t YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I’d rather not even bother ripping that lol

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                5 months ago

                If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don’t get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

                I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.

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      5 months ago

      Same here, been collecting since the iPod Mini days, 18,000+ songs and 100gb+ of data (almost all mp3 though)

      Serve them up with Airsonic and i’ve got my own streaming music service i can use anywhere.