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[–] [email protected] 101 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It’s pretty dumb when record companies limit distribution by region like this.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

It's totally dumb because it's not about getting a good deal for consumers or artists, purely about rights-holders maximising revenue. If they can't negotiate a good enough deal in a region they'll simply not allow it to be streamed. This is what happens when they separate the cultural value of "content" from the monetary value of it, the perceived desirability. Viewers and listeners want a good show to watch or album to hear, rights-holders simply want to get a good deal, regardless of what the stuff it.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I once discovered an artist, even bought some albums, only to notice about a year later that the place I discovered them was now blocked in my country. If I would've come a year later, I would never have bought these albums.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This youtube link contains a tracking code ?si=.... Remember to remove it next time.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Quick guide that's been shared around online lately for those unsure what this is:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nice link you have there as an example :)

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

You know the rules and so do I

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

this bothered me for a long time about youtube links. thanks for the incredible infographic

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's as if they're asking to be pirated.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

they're asking for you to hand over your wallet, repeatedly

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, this is the thing that's making me want to go back to having a private music library again. I pay for this shit, and they keep removing songs from my play lists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I started back up again with Lidarr + Plexamp, with the noted exception that I've actually tried to buy music from Bandcamp.

  1. Not everything I want is available on the high seas
  2. I'm at a place financially where I can drop $40 on something like Lagwagon's back catalog.

Honestly? It's way better than Spotify - the Plexamp DJs work really well, I can offline download albums for runs/work (where I'm in the basement and have zero cell coverage).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

If you are looking for an open source alternative to plexamp I recommend checking out Logitech Media Server. Don't let the Logitech in the name fool you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I've done the same. You can get some obscure stuff from soulseek if Lidarr isn't finding all the stuff you want. I'm mostly using that and just using Lidarr for organizing and tracking.

You're 100% right about the plexamp DJs. They're super good. Love the deepcuts one.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Quoting Cyberpunk 2077: fuck corpos

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

My only reason besides stuff being free is that I want my music library offline. There are some services like Bandcamp that offer it, but it would not cover a meaningful percentage of all my library. Not gonna buy and rip CDs myself as well

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Most of my music is "pirated" because you can't find it on any streaming platform, it's usually a YT download, often for game OSTs (often ones I own a copy of), and offline play allows stuff like Music Speed Changer to change the pitch and speed of the music!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Ahh remember the good ol times when you could insert a jrpg cd into a cd player and could listen to all the music.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

650MB CD media. The game itself was 40-50MB and the rest 500-600MB was the audio in wav (CD player compatible) type

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I see more often than I'd like to see retconned and greyed out releases in my playlist...
The fuck am I paying them.
God do I hate those publisher licensing agreements.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I try to buy all my music directly from the artist in CD form whenever possible. Whenever that's not possible, I try to get a version that I can save locally & play offline....

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bandcamp is also good. You get flac downloads and the artists get money and more so than on other platforms

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/7CDKvdlD6uQ?si=5AQ8Z5TbLTdUwCf1

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What word did he keep bleeping out?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

enshittification?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

"Enshittification"

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