And009Jul 3, 2023

Is music piracy dying?

https://vlemmy.net/post/455131

Is music piracy dying? - VLemmy

Most of the discussion and sources of content talk about movies and series. I’ve been recently looking for psy and techno music, finding FLAC or WAV with active seeders feels like striking gold. It’s definitely been a while since I’ve looked for active torrent sites and it feels more barren than ever.

Show threadplexnose

I pay for family spotify - we all use it a lot and the Daily Mixes, Release Radar, Discover Weekly playlists are unbeatble. I’ve used Tidal, Deezer, Youtube music before but their playlist creation is nowwhere near as good.

However I do download from Deemix as a backup . For me 128kbp is totally fine for what I need - yes its not the highest quality, but through bluetooth speakers in the car or bluetooth headphones it sounds absolutely fine for me. It might not be CD quality, but its better than broadcast radio, which is perfectly good enough for me.

Jul 5, 2023 at 10:27amWeb
Show threadthreeduckJul 5, 2023

128kbp

You must love AM radio

Show threadu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Jul 5, 2023
Rather the DAB/DAB+ radio in UK: youtu.be/27w3quNTP84
Why DAB sounds so BAD - the UK’s digital radio shambles

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Show threadplexnoseJul 5, 2023
128 is perfectly fine / it’s What you are getting most movies you download and way better than FM and most DAB.
Show threaddoitliveJul 5, 2023
My Spotify generated playlists are still only about 50% of what I actually want to hear. Release Radar is a complete joke for me, almost nothing is remotely new. It’s just “new” versions of old songs. Been using Spotify for music almost exclusively for a few years too. I still miss the playlist creation from Google Play Music, haven’t really used YouTube Music enough to know if it’s the same after the switch. On Spotify I generally just find playlists I like that were created by other people.
Show threadu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Jul 5, 2023

I used to be like that. Most of my music was 128kbps MP3, even going down to 32kbps AAC with one particular song. What’s worse, many of those were multi-generation re-encodes.

One day I got the taste of real FLAC. No going back. Maybe with 320kbps MP3, but anyway. Hearing HIFI quality for the first time, I remember the song, Gazebo - I Like Chopin, that was awesome! “Holly flying fridge with tomato salad, I can feel the music coming inside of me!”