So what is the best for audiophile piracy? I’m asking for a friend who is a total audiophile. Spotify rips? Youtube rips?
Soulseek. Its the way to go honestly
Spotify and YouTube have such low quality audio that they should be immediately disregarded. Soulseek has a lot of really high quality audio but also regular mp3s otherwise QBDLX is phenomenal since qobuz has high quality.
Please don’t turn this community into a meme dumping ground. You can go to r/piracy for that.
No one should go to that website ever. But it’s true, we should have a dedicated piracy memes community, or do we already have one? But until lemmy is this small it wouldn’t help if the communities were even more fine grained.
Please, I hate discussion coms turning into meme chambers
yt-dlp was created in October 2020, Soulseek in April 2001, torrents in Juli 2001. Your “ol’ reliable” was created 5 years ago, 19 years younger than its competition. Youtube itself was founded in 2005.
I’m not sure you know what “ol’ reliable” means ;)
yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, which was released in 2006.
And still younger than the other 2, invalidating the initial point of the meme all the same.
Whooosh
Riiight. It’s just a shit joke. That would explain why I forgot to laugh.
you people are soulless
No, soulseek
I used to use YouTube rips, but I hated that the music video version isn’t the same as the album version and I kept getting songs that were a shitty bitrate because they’re not all available in at least 320 kbps.
I can hear all sorts of noise in a lot of my old files and it made my mix CDs noticeably sound like shit. I’m happy that you guys are happy using it, but for me it’s more of a last resort.
Why would I want shitty mp3s when I can get crispy flacs just as easily? Fkn lol
Maybe enjoy crispy 128 .opus? Yeah flacs are on another level… But 100MB/file just doesn’t justify the negligeable quality increase you won’t even notice anymore in your late 40s !
However, saving TB of disk space does !
There is a solution to this, get a real flac and convert it to opus 🙂
Well technically from youtube at least they’re either oggs or m4as. However, yeah, flacs are better if you can get real ones.
That’s great for you but I fucked up my hearing by listening to Linking Park on maximum volume in the cheapest Chinese earbuds a third world teenager’s allowance could buy circa 2006.
… And getting stuff from YouTube takes 3% less effort.
WHAT?!
