The quality is much better than you think. Most people also don’t have the acute hearing of audio technologist to determine if a song is 192kbps or FLAC without hearing them back-to-back repeatedly or would care much. It’s also why terrestrial radio is still a thing. People tend to either want full control of their library or just want something to listen to all without having to deal with an unfriendly interface.
Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
They don’t want a bad experience so they use shady websites to download music in the shittiest possibile quality? I don’t buy it.
People are just not able to afford what they want, that’s it
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 9 months ago
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 months ago
People tend to respond to whether something is getting better or worse, more than whether it’s objectively good.
Like virtually any community software, the piracy experience is getting better, but usually quite slowly.
But thanks to needless DRM, price hikes, and skimping on mobile app development, streaming services are actually somehow getting worse.
flintheart_glomgold@lemmy.world 9 months ago
There are no innocents here. There’ s a case to be made that nothing is more shady for consumers than the mass data harvesting, profiling, brokering and content shaping that flows from using Facebook, Twitter, Amazon or TikTok
You’re doing it wrong