I’m coming into this area as a practical and philosophical result of:

  1. me wanting to own my music
  2. CDs are barely being made
    2.1. If they are - they’re not being shipped to my corner of the world
  3. Torrenting often failed me in terms of variety.

However - I am absolutely ignorant about equipment, maintainance, and know-hows of the audiophile world.

  • WhirlpoolBrewer@lemmy.world
    1·
    19 days ago

    As someone who is flirting with the idea of attempting to own my media, I have a question for you. If I couldn’t find a torrent for some song I wanted, is there a recommended tool or path for “collecting” my own version of a song? I don’t see myself getting into such a situation where I want some super obscure song, but knowing I have a path for getting a version from one of the major streaming services to bridge any gap I come across would be nice. Where would one go to learn how to safely collect rare/difficult to torrent music files?

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Oh hey, sorry I just remembered I never replied to this.

      If you have a song in mind that you can’t find anywhere - which definitely happens sometimes, no matter the artist - then you can always grab a copy to keep locally as long as they have it streaming somewhere eg Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. The quality will only be whatever the streaming provider offers, but it’s usually good enough if it’s nowhere else.

      So for instance YouTube has heaps of easy to use downloader apps such as Grayjay, yt-dl/yt-dlg on desktop pc. Or if on android there’s ‘yt-dl kivy’ on the IzzyOnDroid repo for F-Droid, or Grayjay, or Gyawun Music.

      If you need advice for downloading from specific platforms there are plenty of Lemmy communities that have knowledgeable people like the piracy community on dbzer0. This is their wiki - https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/music/

      P. S. its not a bad idea to download streaming files only from a VPN by the way, just in case you get your IP blocked by the service (very rare and usually temporary, but i thought I’d mention).

      • WhirlpoolBrewer@lemmy.world
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        13 hours ago

        Man, love all the options 🤣 I assumed there would be one or two, but it seems we have tons of options. Thanks for the great info!