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.
flacs from qobuz/deezer. lucida.to
Lucida.to is great.
Or for faster downloads, just register for a Qobuz trial with a throwaway account, download all you want with stream rip or similar tool. Rinse and repeat.
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?
Using this as an opportunity to promote the new Soulseek community: !soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Oooh, neat! Thanks for spreading the word :)
Nah, I’m over that kind of shit. I used to DJ on Second Life and people were playing songs but it was obvious they ripped it from YouTube. Because the songs would either be the music video version, it would have some opening intro or an ending, worst if the video ends with asking for subscribers. Audio quality was always shit.
I know that falls under lazily editing to cut them out, but ripping YouTube videos for audio is just a lazy form of pirating.
Not to mention the jump in quality from the 128kbps audio you rip off YouTube (maybe 192kbps if you’re lucky) to the 320kbps mp3s you can off any self respecting torrent is MASSIVE (assuming non-shit source obviously). Heck, I can live with 320kbps. I barely notice the jump to lossless on my headphones/IEMs. 128kbps though, I’m not the most discerning listener but I can still hear the artifcats.
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.
She is over 18 but is it appropriate
I counted the original youtube-dl as the same for the sake of the meme; but you aren’t wrong.
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 !
What are you downloading that’s 100MB?
Maybe a WAV.Naah ! Most flac I have are in the 50/80 range but when you have a huge library it doesn’t make sense to archive in flac IMO.
It makes sense if you are music producer, but my whole library would need a huge SSD cluster :/
I have a massive music library and it doesn’t even make a dent. Literally any modern video game will take up more space than HUNDREDS of lossless records.
There is a solution to this, get a real flac and convert it to opus 🙂
Yeaaah ! That’s even better ! However, I’m listening to some obscure Electronic music which often doesn’t come in flac format :(
Oof, sorry that’s the case. I wish more artists would encode to a lossless format.
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.
show me anywhere other than youtube that has the demon cleaner cover by tool
point is that it is good for the random one-offs but agreed on how much easier it is to get flac over mp3, seems like most stuff i cant even find mp3
Please don’t turn this community into a meme dumping ground. You can go to r/piracy for that.
Memes always take over communities because of how much upvotes they receive. Also, they spark discusssions which sometimes are quite interesting (altough off topic).
There should probably be a piracymemes community to prevent this from the get go
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
It’s already bad enough this instance got spammed with a bunch of girl-dick images by some loser.
wat
It’s worse here too because you can actually filter out the memes from r/piracy, Lemmy has no such feature since it still lacks a flair/tag system
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.
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.
I use both lidarr and yt-dlp. Lidarr for when I want full albums in high bitrate, and yt for smaller songs where I don’t want the whole album.
Both as containers on my server, and they download to a folder navidrome scans. Pretty slick.
I’ve also got soularr linking my Lidarr to soulseek, but I’m running mine all through plex and plex amp. How is navidrome?
Also, have you solved finding a VPN that you can port forward? I’m struggling
What do you need VPN that port forwards for? Torrenting?
It’s been a while since I used VPN to hide my server, but I know Private Internet Access has/had the ability to forward one random port. I used to have a bash script then that would check the PIA port, change the port for my application, and restart it. There is some docker application out there called PIA-qbitorrent that will run download torrents through PIA with a killswitch as well.
I download mainly through usenet, and the few times i use torrents I just do it without VPN (Doesn’t seem like norway cares that much vOv)
My setup is a homeserver with wireguard vpn configured, and im renting the cheapest docker linux VM from hetzner. On that VM I run swag (the letsencrypt/reverse proxy thing) and wireguard together in a docker compose multi application thing. So now I don’t need to expose any ports on my home network (VPN port is forwarded though), and all traffic is routed through the reverse proxy VM that I control myself, hosted in Finland (to avoid cloudflare), through the wireguard VPN connection to my server. Works pretty great.
I’ve used navidrome for about a month, and I really like that it just reads the audio tags instead of trying to look things up, potentially making my library look “ugly” and messy. I’m having some issues with the play:Sub app on iOS not wanting to queue songs when I swipe them, but otherwise it works fine. I’ve basically been using spotify since the beta, so my music library is just what I’ve managed to download this month.
Just recently started using it again… but that’s mainly because I found “pinchflat” which gives a great front end for yt-dlp and a bunch of the options. Mainly thought it was a great project that I could use to start archiving channels that I want down the line like all of Demolition Ranch, but I came to realize it’s just a great front end for yt-dlp lol
I only use yt-dlp for the odd video I want in my Jellyfin server.
What I was surprised to learn: ItYitcan download from a multitude of other pages as well“Yit”? From a search of GitHub I’m not seeing a YouTube downloader that rivals yt-dlp… got a link?
Typo. I meant “it”
Pretty sure yit is just an autocorrect of yt-dlp
😂 kinda figured.
