• hyperhopper@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Yt-dlp usually rips the best quality possible from the source. Going to a private tracker won’t magically make quality better than where the artist posted their music. Or do you think yt-dlp only works on YouTube? (You would be wrong about that as well)

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      23 hours ago

      Which music library can it rip from? Last I checked it couldn’t do spotify’s due to the heavy DRM they use. All the tools you find online either do an audio out rip-and-reencode (lossy though minimally so) or more likely “look up on YouTube Music and download” which is objectively going to yield worse audio quality (though whether that matters for one’s usecase is very dependent on hardware and wetware specifics). The bigger problem with blind YouTube music rips is you’re occasionally going to end up with intros/outros and random diegetic noises from music videos.

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        22 hours ago

        Yt-dlp takes urls as an input, not libraries. It can rip from SoundCloud, Bandcamp, etc. Often places where small artists are uploading in the highest quality.

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          7 hours ago

          Yeah, most of the music I want isn’t on those platforms. Honestly, I tried torrenting music for a while but with the variety I wanted, my disk speed was too slow for my torrent client to keep up. Now I just suck it up and pay for Tidal.

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          15 hours ago

          I am well aware but any artist that is signed to a large-ish label is unlikely to publish on bandcamp, much less soundcloud. There aren’t 50 ways to pirate mainstream music, it’s either the old-school way or ripping off youtube. Or so a friend told me.

          And any artists that do have a bandcamp I would feel bad about downloading their music without paying for it, these guys usually aren’t T-Swift rich…