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.

    • BlxterOP
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      21 year ago

      Thanks ill be honest I did not know it was a pay walled article I had no pop ups or anything on my phone.

  • @[email protected]
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    Weird… yt-dlp -f “ba” url

    Never need to use one of those horrible malware laden download sites again…

    • @[email protected]
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      141 year ago

      That’s not how I would get a discography, a non YouTube artist (some international ones), a whole album or lossless though - or am I mistaken?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Just FYI, yt-dlp does work with other sites, too. So you can get some pretty decent quality by downloading from bandcamp for example. But not all that what your asking for unfortunately…

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        I think he is talking about this

        The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    31 year ago

    I’m pretty current on technology but honestly never heard of Youtube-To-MP3 conversion.

    Thinking this may be the ticket to cutting the cord with Spotify, but as others have suggested, I fully intend to buy tracks of my favorite indie folks too.

    Do artists actually get a decent cut from Band Camp?

    • @[email protected]
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      71 year ago

      Bandcamp, according to their help page, takes a 15% cut from purchases until the artist makes 5k in sales, in which case they take 10%

      • Bone
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        31 year ago

        Bandcamp was recently sold as far as I’m aware. Also, after a recent purchase I made from them I had my credit card frauded. Can’t say with 100% assurance that it was because of something going on with bandcamp, but it’s my belief it was them. Something seems off from before, so I’ve decided to take a break from buying anything from them for a while.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          They were bought by epic games recently, but I don’t think it was bandcamp that stole your card info

          • Bone
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            11 year ago

            Ah. And you’re probably right. Just a coincidence.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      If you’re on linux use yt-dlp, it’s the tits, works on bandcamp too. If you’re on windows - they may have a win version, idk, check though because it rules.

      Can’t answer the other question though, sorry.

  • KptnAutismus
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    if there was a way to get spotify with at least CD quality and the artists getting the rest of the money that spotify doesn’t already take, more people would probably pay for it.

    i am in a spotify family plan already, but i get that paying 12 bucks a month for 320 kbit/s and getting the artist fucked over is too much.

    it’s a thing of morals for many people, like with steam. steam doesn’t actively fuck both the developer and the user over, they just take a 30% cut. you could argue about if that’s too much, but i’m fine with it.

    • @[email protected]
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      In terms of cents per stream, Tidal definitely compansates the most at 4x more than Spotify and 10x more than Deezer. Plus if you VPN to Nigeria on account creation, it’s only $4 a month. You can then use tidal-dl to download music and you can use *arr Scripts to download music using Lidarr.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Weirdly, that’s bandcamp today. Apparently they’re doing a thing where everything you buy today, they will give their usual cut to the artist too.

      Shame it’s not all the time, but I guess bandcamp needs to pay for servers, etc.

  • @[email protected]
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    531 year ago

    I used to do lots of piracy back in the days. I am so glad those days are behind me and have not been big on the scene. What would be some sites to avoid to not fall in the trap of being a criminal. I love giving companies all of my money and do not ever want to go back to my old ways. Please help me with a nice list of things to avoid.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        VPNs see everything you do, and you pay them for it. I don’t understand how people don’t see the irony there.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          they in theory see everything someone does, but in the case of mullvad they have no idea who you are

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Could you say how Mullvad differs from ProtonVPN? I have it with my mail subscription and it seems pretty good. I don’t know much about vpns though

            • @[email protected]
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              31 year ago

              haven’t looked into protonvpn much, but it’s more or less a different company providing the same service. I imagine the differences aren’t too significant if you trust both companies

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      You totally don’t want to just learn Linux command line and how to use the youtube-dl/yt-dlp packages through WSL or a Linux distro, that would deny corporations all of your money and be way too convenient. Thankfully it’s not intuitive to learn or there would be so much more piracy!

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Yt-dlp is also available on Windows. No reason to spin up wsl or a Linux distro. There are also plenty of yt-dlp apps with GUI for those who don’t want to use a terminal.

  • katy ✨
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    81 year ago

    apple killing ipods and deprioritising the itunes store probably contributed to this more than anything ironically

  • prince of space
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    101 year ago

    Anyone have a private tracker invite they’d share with me? Lidarr is the only arr I haven’t set up yet. Wouldn’t mind upgrading my library which I haven’t looked at since college.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 year ago

      Wow, that’s stupid. I consider ripping songs from YouTube to be the modern equivalent of taping songs off the radio. The quality is poor.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Basically, but it’s low hanging fruit. Kids not ripping a 20gb disco from pirate bay at school but they most certainly will download a song off YouTube.

        Shoot I remember back in the mid 2000s with my shitty mp3 player ripping music in any class with a computer.

  • @[email protected]
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    271 year ago

    Give me lidarr but with a smart daily generated playlist focus instead of collecting artist discographies

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Plex’s specialty audio client Plexamp is pretty good if you want to make your own “radio stations.” And if you have a Plex Pass, the server does “sonic analysis” of each track so it can do a good job of playing related music in its smart playlists.

        Of course, Plex Pass ain’t free, but if you are in it for the long haul the lifetime purchase may be worth it.

        (Everyone’s worried about Plex’s future right now but I would be surprised if they killed self-hosting. That’s another topic though.)

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      What was the service you could upload your own. Playlist and songs and share with friends? Last.fm? Something like that, shit was awesome.