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Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way (www.wired.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

hey im a noob with music stuff, why would this be preferable to soulseek?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's not they probably just don't know about soulseek / nicotine+

It's just so much better than any other method I have to assume anyone using these overly complicated methods just doesnt know

Just the idea of downloading playlists instead of albums / discographies feels so incredibly icky to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Nicotine+ is OK, I upload about a tb a month on there and occasionally I find a missing track I can't find on Deezer, Qobuz or Bandcamp. Turns out other people aren't just imperfect versions of you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Soulseek is good for downloading albums and discographies, soundiiz, qobuz-dl and deemix-gui are good for that and also playlists of whatever. It's also a good way to get FLACs. I download genre mixes, pitchfork's top albums, it's a good way to get 80gb of music in a night. It's taken me 3 months to get that much off Soulseek. Sometimes you want to try out artists without downloading their whole discography.