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[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

So what is the best for audiophile piracy? I'm asking for a friend who is a total audiophile. Spotify rips? Youtube rips?

[–] Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca 6 points 16 hours ago

Soulseek. Its the way to go honestly

[–] Kena@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] vardogor@mander.xyz 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

flacs from qobuz/deezer. lucida.to

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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.

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

What the heck how do vanguard funds relate to this?

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Using this as an opportunity to promote the new Soulseek community: !soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Zoop@beehaw.org 2 points 14 hours ago

Oooh, neat! Thanks for spreading the word :)

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 105 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 ;)

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 77 points 1 day ago (2 children)

yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, which was released in 2006.

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And still younger than the other 2, invalidating the initial point of the meme all the same.

[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] 000999@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why would I want shitty mp3s when I can get crispy flacs just as easily? Fkn lol

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 !

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What are you downloading that's 100MB?
Maybe a WAV.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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 :/

[–] Kena@lemm.ee 1 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is a solution to this, get a real flac and convert it to opus 🙂

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeaaah ! That's even better ! However, I'm listening to some obscure Electronic music which often doesn't come in flac format :(

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 19 hours ago

Oof, sorry that's the case. I wish more artists would encode to a lossless format.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 8 points 1 day ago

Well technically from youtube at least they're either oggs or m4as. However, yeah, flacs are better if you can get real ones.

[–] ngdev@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] tkw8@lemm.ee 53 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Please don’t turn this community into a meme dumping ground. You can go to r/piracy for that.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 14 hours ago

Memes always take over communities because of how much upvotes they receive. Also, they spark discusssions which sometimes are quite interesting (altough off topic).

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

There should probably be a piracymemes community to prevent this from the get go

[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Please, I hate discussion coms turning into meme chambers

[–] Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

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

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] combatfrog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bzdalderon@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] combatfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I only use yt-dlp for the odd video I want in my Jellyfin server.
What I was surprised to learn: It ~~Yit~~ can download from a multitude of other pages as well

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“Yit”? From a search of GitHub I’m not seeing a YouTube downloader that rivals yt-dlp.. got a link?

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Typo. I meant "it"

[–] buliarous@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure yit is just an autocorrect of yt-dlp

[–] bigDottee@geekroom.tech 1 points 1 day ago

😂 kinda figured.