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Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)
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[–] efstajas 2 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Where do you download them from?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Not OP but I use bandcamp so I can pay the artist a decent amount rather than what ever Spotify does. Not sure if the new owner has increased the cut they take though

[–] The_Tired_Horizon 7 points 5 months ago

Musician here..

...I tell people to download both the mp3 and the wavefiles from Bandcamp. Sometimes Soundcloud has a download option (depends on the artist). I still buy CDs where I can.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

YouTube Music

[–] lepinkainen 2 points 5 months ago

Soulseek is still a thing.

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

Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there's tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account "forever".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For Spotify, there is spotdl which downloads the music from YouTube Music, and then embeds the metadata from Spotify.

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

Isn't YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I'd rather not even bother ripping that lol

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

Do you have any recommendations on what would be better to do?

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

If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don't get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks, I certainly don't have to use Spotify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Napster