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To anyone who thinks music piracy is dead (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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!

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[–] sorrybookbroke 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll be sticking to spotify personally out of convenience, and the fact that I'm paying for a family plan but to be fair paying that money directly to the artists you like will be much more effective while not supporting platforms that pay them very little for their work.

If you want though, using spotify adblock has been quite effective in my experiance. That way you have the convenience and you don't pay spotify shit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spotify is literally the only subscription service that I haven't cut ties with, because as much as I hate its horrific data harvesting, I'm running it on GrapheneOS with legitimately next to zero privileges in a sandbox, and for what I'm paying, I truly do feel I'm getting my money's worth. I use it every single day, and while I have all my music stored locally (as in legitimately scraped and downloaded, not 'downloaded'), I only did so as a precaution just in case Spotify decides to fuck things up and I also choose to cancel it as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try vimusic, from what i've seen its just spotify without the data harvesting (and the api's taken from youtube music, shouldn't change much though)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That actually sounds fantastic, cheers for the recommendation!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wouldnt count on it working for long. vfsfitvnm hasn't touched the repo since december with several PRs left untouched.

Seems abandoned to me. https://github.com/vfsfitvnm/ViMusic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're up for another recommendation, I suggest trying out Innertune [Link to Github repo]. It has been discussed on the GrapheneOS Discussion Forum as an alternative to Spotify for music streaming. Also, Innertune's dev released an update recently (2 days ago from the time of this post) that includes a major UI rewrite and other improvements to the app [Link to latest stable release].

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Spent the day recreating my Spotify playlists on Innertune. Thank you SO much for this recommendation, it is exactly what I've been looking for in an alternative. There's even a heap of shit available that I can't find on Spotify.