To anyone who thinks music piracy is dead
To anyone who thinks music piracy is dead
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!
Nicotine+ is such a wild name for a piece of software.
Don't forget stream ripping. I used to rip internet radio direct to MP3 with no quality loss and then go back and manually edit the files for playback gaps, keeping the best in case of duplicate recordings. If you have really niche interests it sometimes was literally the only way to get copies of some tracks, especially rare remixes.
Soulseek is great for finding and sharing music. I would strongly recommend Nicotine+ over the old SoulseekQt
I waffle on whether I should use my VPN or not with it.
Support your favourite artists directly. That wasn’t an option in the Napster days.
I like to have the older versions of songs before they "Remaster" and change them and if they stop selling everything but the remasters, it's time to fire it up.
I share a pretty good size collection of music and fonts on Soulseek.
I pirate everything I favorite on Spotify just to be able to continue to listen to it ad-free if I have a lapse in payment.
It's a service problem as always. I want to listen to all the songs in my library on shuffle and if your service can't offer that, I'll use AIMP with local files.
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Always open for suggestions though
My go to for the past year has been using Qobuz free trials and qbdl but they've recently stopped allowing disposable cards for unlimited free trials. Guess I'll have to change tactics.