themachinestopsOct 4, 2025

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

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54794811

Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update - Divisions by zero

Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry). Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.

Show threadxenomorOct 4, 2025
Just canceled. Thanks.
Show threadProve_your_argumentOct 4, 2025

I’m doing my part!

My renewal was literally tomorrow too. As these streaming services get worse, I keep on cancelling. Been two years for Prime (literally smashed cancel the day ads were announced) and all i’ve got left at this point is netflix and spotify.

Netflix pricing almost has me there.

Show threadtheredknightOct 4, 2025
latimes.com/…/spotifys-ceo-owns-an-ai-weapons-com…
Spotify CEO invested in AI weapons, now bands are pulling their music

Daniel Ek's investments in AI dronemaker Helsing have unnerved artists. One called Spotify a "violent armageddon portal."

Los Angeles Times
Show threadProve_your_argument
I’d cancel it in a heartbeat but my wife would murder me.
Oct 4, 2025 at 4:03pmWeb
Show threadBlameTheAntifaOct 4, 2025
I was recently turned on to Stremio + Torrentio and it’s very good. I’m considering making a Pi5 device dedicated to it.
Show threadProve_your_argumentOct 5, 2025

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?

Show threadmzesumziraOct 4, 2025
You could try moving to Tidal or Qobuz, they treat their artists better and there are tools to transfer playlists
Show threadVenatorOct 11
You can also use Tidal in connection with tidalrr to back up the music locally
Show threadjjjalljsOct 4, 2025
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.
Show threadProve_your_argumentOct 5, 2025

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.

Show threadjjjalljsOct 5, 2025
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.
Show threadGalactoseOct 4, 2025
Get a divorce
Show threadutopiahOct 5, 2025

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"

to having mobile apps

  • navidrome (with updates via lidarr)

to minimalist

to federated

to handling discovery

… there is just so much out there!

GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file

Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file - 9001/copyparty

GitHub
Show threadutopiahOct 5, 2025

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.

Show threadutopiahOct 5, 2025
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!
Show threadutopiahOct 6, 2025

Another update on that front, I added on my RPi5 :

  • yt-dlp which I use with its -x audio only option on RSS feeds
Show threadeddyizmNov 3
what is tone? curious on how you set up the rss feed ingest as well if you would be open to sharing.
Show threadutopiahNov 3

tone

this one github.com/sandreas/tone “tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac”

regarding RSS feed I just download them regularly, e.g on crontab one can add 0 3 * * * cd ~/Music && ~/bin/yt-dlp -x https://hearditherefirst.blog/category/dubstep/feed/ but if you need something a bit more refine with filtering consider e.g. jc --xml withjq and `wget.

GitHub - sandreas/tone: tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be downloaded as single binary for Windows, macOS, Linux and other common platforms.

tone is a cross platform audio tagger and metadata editor to dump and modify metadata for a wide variety of formats, including mp3, m4b, flac and more. It has no dependencies and can be downloaded ...

GitHub