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.
Maybe Plex/Emby/Jellyfin paid shares.
Many people will download everything that exists, and paying a small amount is cheaper than the hardware you’d need to get it all, assuming you invest the difference in a global index like Vanguards VT.
https://github.com/embyshares/embyshares.github.io/blob/main/index.md
I used to buy 8tb disks for 200$ a pop, and I stopped at 800$, with barely enough to fit a reasonable number of 1080p movies.
What the heck how do vanguard funds relate to this?
I’m just saying its cheaper to pay sometimes than to buy all the hardware, as I found out.
Totally the opposite of my experience. Depends on you needs i guess. Storage in particular is pricey
Please don’t turn this community into a meme dumping ground. You can go to r/piracy for that.
It’s already bad enough this instance got spammed with a bunch of girl-dick images by some loser.
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.
Ah, and the redditors can’t cope with knowing their community has become just another meme community, and yet they feel like it is so important and the last good community for Reddit 😂
It is actually funny the delusionalism you get when you give a quick look there.
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
‘you people’? A fine starter to any topic.
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 🙂
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?!
Well technically from youtube at least they’re either oggs or m4as. However, yeah, flacs are better if you can get real ones.
