overload@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Is music piracy is still a major thing these days? I’ve not even considered it for years, because every music streaming platform has all the music, it seems.
Movie and TV show piracy must be so much more rampant because of the fragmentation creating inconvenience to consumers.
It’s mostly hipsters with modded iPods, everyone else just streams music. You can stream it in lossless quality on some platforms and download most played songs to your device if your mobile bandwidth is limited.
Hell I’m a weird hipster who likes to have local copies of things and even I’ve given up.
Audiophiles like me listen to local .flac files through external DAC’s for better sound. And I’m not a hipster. Also lots of music I like isn’t even on streaming.
I use Foobar and Plexamp to listen to my FLAC collection. I have a lot of magazine CD inserts not readily available on the streaming platforms. Just feels really good knowing companies like Spotify aren’t making a dime off me.
Never heard of foobar, and honestly surprised it doesn’t have a linux version. It has a windows phone version, but NOT linux.
I know I shit on linux a lot on this site for having a small userbase, but COME ON!!! You make a windows phone version but NOT a linux version??? At least linux has something like 5% of the pc market userbase. And while that may be mockingly small, windows phone probably only ever had 5 users total!
You know it’s bad when I’M the one insulting a program for not having a native linux port.
Well, Foobar is ancient software and barely has any developers. It’s intended to be a WinAmp clone. I’m sure there’s an equivalent piece of Linux software that does something similar.
Most personal computers run Linux.
Because most personal computers are phones.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Music piracy isn’t rampant at all. It’s the “immigrant crime is out of control” of the internet.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
If anything, youtube is the biggest sharer of pirated music. You can listen to anything on it for free, from anyone.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Hell, most of the major labels post tracks themselves to sponge up that sweet ad revenue. You can just use the tool of your choice to download the audio straight out of it if you decide you want to keep it for later.
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
And download all the music you want without an account using yt-dlp.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Hell I still sometimes find those old “lyrics” videos. Remember those? They all had that bluish teal background? Some of them survive to this day.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
They’re still around for most big songs
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 15 hours ago
It’s honestly easier than torrents.