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To anyone who thinks music piracy is dead (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by chuuqovn@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/726542

I have ~100 users downloaded ~1000 of my files in the last week alone. Music piracy is still alive and kicking. I encourage everyone to download and install SoulseekQT/Nicotine+/Seeker-Android and share whatever kind of music you have for everybody to download. Let's bring back music piracy!

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[-] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Soulseek is an old-style P2P network. It has nothing to do with my parent comment. I personally don't use it (see my other comments in this thread).

If you want to grab a non-reencoded file from YouTube, you can use a tool like yt-dlp

# see what formats are available for a YT vid
yt-dlp -F <youtube-url>
# format 251 is usually available as the highest quality Opus format
yt-dlp -f 251 <youtube-url>

That last command should grab you an Opus stream in WEBM format.

If you're not a CLI guy, others should be able to give you a good GUI recommendation.