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Why Do You Pirate Music? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently set up Sonarr and Radarr on my home server and I'm loving it.

However, I don't get why you would ever use Lidarr. Why would you ever download music using torrents? You can use tools like spotdl and yt-dlp to download songs from YouTube music and Spotify, it's faster and more reliable; I have had some issues finding torrents of music from less-known artists.

To me it seems like it would be much better to have a tool like Lidarr or have support in Jellyseerr to download music from common streaming services.

What are your views on this?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

You sort of asked two different questions there. Generally I don't torrent music these days, though I have done in the past (Audio-4U, for example). I do use P2P methods like Soulseek for some stuff but predominately I rely on direct downloads through DoujinStyle.

In terms of why I pirate, it's because I can't afford to buy all my music and streaming services offer inferior quality, catalogue size and revenue to the artists. I'd rather manually curate my own offline collection and put the money I would spend on a streaming subscription directly towards an artist whose work I particularly liked whenever I can afford to do so.