Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update

• Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d cancel it in a heartbeat but my wife would murder me.

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  • mzesumzira@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You could try moving to Tidal or Qobuz, they treat their artists better and there are tools to transfer playlists

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can also use Tidal in connection with tidalrr to back up the music locally

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Buying music on Bandcamp and similar has been good for me. When I got laid off I kept all the music I owned and didn’t have to pay anymore. All these subscription services suck.

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    • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m never, ever buying digital licenses to video or audio content. My limit is games because avoiding it is kind of impossible.

      Too many platforms close down. I’ve lost licenses from the Impulse acquisition and subsequent shutdown, plus one or two others. Any day these guys can just put up a 30 day notice and rip everything out of your library. Usually this happens after an acquisition… looks like bandcamp was sold in 2023 and the buyers shitcanned half the staff too.

      Disks are cheap and piracy works until they enforce digital IDs for all connectivity on the internet. At that point we’d be back to swapping thumb drives.

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      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I only buy drm free music and then back it up somewhere myself. Bandcamp at least is drm free, but who knows if they’ll turn to shit after being bought and sold.

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Honest question, did you try self-hosted music?

    Few weeks ago I thought this was a joke but… there is a TON of stuff out there already.

    From the "rough"

    • minidlna (with optionally tailscale to listen outside the LAN)
    • 1min setup github.com/9001/copyparty
    • NextCloud

    to having mobile apps

    • navidrome (with updates via lidarr)

    to minimalist

    • github.com/agersant/polaris

    to federated

    • www.funkwhale.audio

    to handling discovery

    • github.com/epoupon/lms

    … there is just so much out there!

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    • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Edit: since I wrote this message (15min ago) I setup LMS thanks to podman and shared it via ngrok and my wife can listen to my music on her phone instantly.

      So… yeah it’s that quick and convenient.

      Is it perfect, definitely not, but it’s also very quick to get started and to reconsider.

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      • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Spent another 5min to scp the container and ~/Music on my RPi5, which I keep on 24/7, has a 512Go microSD and tailscale… and I guess that’s it, I have my own music server. I don’t have discovery on though but still, already useful!

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  • biotin7@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Get a divorce

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  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was recently turned on to Stremio + Torrentio and it’s very good. I’m considering making a Pi5 device dedicated to it.

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    • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have an old Pi floating around that I should probably look at using for stuff like this.

      Are they going to be around once Google removes sideloading from unauthorized devs?

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