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[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 102 points 1 month ago

Everybody buy your music. These streaming platforms are trash.

[-] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago

Yes, yes buy. Do not sail the high seas.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 month ago

I want the bands to get some money. I buy from bandcamp when musicians are sensible enough to sell on there, or on their sites.

[-] ShunkW@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

I wish list stuff until a Bandcamp Friday comes around where artists get all the money. I've stopped buying physical media, so waiting on a digital purchase isn't an issue for me.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

I’ve almost never paid a cent for music.

My concert ticket stack is thicc though, and I have SOOOOO MANY hoodies, t-shirts, cups, and random bullshit. I’m not paying for DRM, but you can’t DRM a comfy zip-up!

[-] Asifall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Don’t give them any ideas

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.social 11 points 1 month ago

Or pirate the music, then send some money in an envelope to the artists themselves.

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 12 points 1 month ago

Or pirate the music, then go to a concert or buy some merch.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. Even if you pirate from some, and buy whole albums from a few when you can afford it, you're supporting artists instead of the shareholders of tech goon overlords.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Me too...I'm at 1500+ albums. But I do download them too for when the sad times to come...

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What.cd

I'm so glad nothing has replaced what.cd yet...

If there was though, what do you think it would be called? I would like to avoid it at all costs and continue to buy subscriptions

[-] athos77@kbin.social 10 points 1 month ago

I'm afraid that that information has had to be [redacted]. Choose another path.

[-] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Lidarr is pretty keen if you already have sonarr and radar running.

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 22 points 1 month ago

Am I the only one who finds it super annoying, that "detection through sound waves" (Sonar) does video things while "detection through light" (lidar) does the sound things?

WHY?! Swap names already! It's driving me nuts!

[-] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 1 month ago

I find the choice of name for Readarr more annoying, since we already had Radarr

Why use a private tracker when soulseek allegedly exists? There are also Telegram bots that can allegedly download FLACs from Deezer

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Private trackers are dope for very fast flac album downloads.

SLSK is godly for rare stuff.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

No need for Telegram bots. There are both proprietary and open source apps that you can use to do this yourself. Check out https://rentry.org/firehawk52 and https://ripped.guide/Audio/Music/

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

RIP what… was there for a decade. It was godly. Your other reply knows what’s up. So does the god Orpheus, he knows some heady chunes

[-] AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oink. Waffles.

Wait…..

[-] TK420@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

piracy is not stealing if buying isn’t owning

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or both Bandcamp for the win

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

There are three morbillion songs and I have no idea which ones I like. Streaming platforms became popular for a reason

[-] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah most people don't care to maintain a local music library. It's a lot of work and compared to streaming services that do it for you this offers no real benefit. If you listen to lots of new/different music all the time, streaming is actually far cheaper.

[-] wrekone@lemmyf.uk 3 points 1 month ago

For me, discovery is the entire reason to use streaming services. I have a ton of hard drive space, and know how to find anything I want to download. I have a fairly large music collection from before the days of streaming. But streaming services help me discover all kinds of things I'd likely never hear otherwise. They still suck, as in they're greedy as hell and the quality is mid, but I don't know what I'd do if I had to listen to the same stuff all the time.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

It's cheaper because the band doesn't get paid as much. The streaming service keeps most of the meager pay.

[-] PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

People make up for it by buying merch or going to shows. Margins on those things are much better for the artists.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago

In every service I know of, the platform takes a minority of revenue

[-] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

"It is a lot of work"? I don't know, for me it always seemed far more convenient than being locked to a single service, single player app and following restrictions.

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah this is fucking peak internet snobbery. "Just spend thousands dollars on music" ok.

[-] TK420@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I love buying CDs on eBay.

I also love buying direct downloads from artists.

Plex[Amp] makes this work in my pocket

[-] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I just realised iTunes (store) is no longer a thing. Everything's just streaming now.

Time to bust out the walkman

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

iTunes was an unhappy medium. I liked how you can actually buy albums, but they gave the MP3s weird filenames to make it more difficult to move to another device. I did it anyway, but I had to find the right folder, figure out what track it was, and rename the track. I'm against it but it's still better than streaming.

[-] amongstthetrees@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

You can still buy songs on iTunes and load them to an iPod, MP3 player, or in my case to my Navidrome instance for my own personal self-hosted streaming.

[-] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I recently encountered a song I could only stream but not buy anywhere without DRM. Kinda wild because it has over 5 million YouTube views.

If anyone knows how the buy Slow Song by The Knocks, lmk.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

YT + Music is worth its weight in gold.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Everybody ~~buy~~ pirate your music. These streaming platforms are trash.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Also this. But I want the bands to get paid.

[-] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Ok that's reasonable

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