• Geobloke@lemm.ee
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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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      5 months ago

      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.

    • ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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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.