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

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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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[-] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

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

[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 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.

[-] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 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.