My current way is:
- bandcamp.com for some artists
- buying used CDs from a online music CD reseller and ripping them
- download a few from youtube via youtube-dl or something
Now a few of those from youtube are great, i’d like to buy now the album. bandcamp.com doesn’t offer it and it is too specific/too new to get a used CD.
i could buy them from apple Itunes since it is rather cheap and it offers a DRM free download option (i think), but i’d like to avoid apple and its walled garden and bad user interface for linux people.
Bandcamp almost exclusively. HD tracks and Bleep for bands not able to release elsewhere.
Oh and soulseek still works for rare things
Just use torrents.
Music trackers are one of the worst ways of finding new music. Having to worry about your ratio all the time really hinders your ability to find new stuff. The only thing they’re really good for quality control.
Direct p2p sharing will always be superior. https://slsknet.org
Or youcouldd just buy music on band camp.
youtube-dlp 🏴☠️
I also buy about 80-90% of my music from Bandcamp. If some music I really like isn’t on Bandcamp, then I download it from Youtube which would make up the other 10-20%.
I’ve thought about maybe buying the music that’s not on Bandcamp from Itunes instead, but I really don’t like the idea of giving Apple my money or even using their services.
torrents, and yt-dlp (works with bandcamp, soundcloud, etc, not only youtube).
with a few exceptions i only pay for music when i can do so without an intermediary taking a big cut and my data (eg, mostly only in-person at a show), but i have paid for things through bandcamp a few times.
I like paying for music when it comes with some merch or sometimes a really cool vinyl pressing. Also, seeing them live as much as possoble, however I haven’t seen any since before covid :(
Doesn’t give you what you’re looking for, but I grab almost everything from soulseek nowadays since I got tired of tools like deemix because you have to know if the album you’re looking for has any edits or removed tracks on streaming to avoid getting butchered versions. Occasionally I’ll buy a record from bandcamp or get a copy on wax, but not usually unless I’m already a fan.
The drive with my collection died recently, so I’ve been raiding the hell out of slsk.
Newpipe or Spotube
I use yt-dlp, and then use ffmpeg to convert it to mp3.
doesn’t yt-dlp download audio directly?
Nope.
I’m suprised. I think there is a -a audio only option
You’d be better off using soulseek or something unless you can only find the thing you’re looking for on youtube (which does happen sometimes).
