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 ;)
Why would I want shitty mp3s when I can get crispy flacs just as easily? Fkn lol
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.
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.
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
Please, I hate discussion coms turning into meme chambers
There should probably be a piracymemes community to prevent this from the get go
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.
Memes always take over communities because of how much upvotes they receive. Also, they spark discusssions which sometimes are quite interesting (altough off 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.
Using this as an opportunity to promote the new Soulseek community: !soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Oooh, neat! Thanks for spreading the word :)
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 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.
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.
People are arguing about the audio quality, meanwhile the only reason i don't do this is because i find it more work to tag and name the files properly. When you download from Soulseek/torrenting it usually comes already tagged
I do still have youtube downloads in my library, especially when it's just one or two songs.
