cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/726542

I have ~100 users downloaded ~1000 of my files in the last week alone. Music piracy is still alive and kicking. I encourage everyone to download and install SoulseekQT/Nicotine+/Seeker-Android and share whatever kind of music you have for everybody to download. Let’s bring back music piracy!

  • Brochetudo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Streaming sites are convenient up until you want to listen to that mildly obscure artist from your country your parents used to listen to back in the early 50s. Then it’s absolute bollocks.

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      1 year ago

      Not even old music.

      Architecture In Helsinki is missing the third album on Spotify. There are plenty more, but that’s always the first that pops in my head whenever I’m listening to Indie playlists, Of Montréal comes on and I realise I haven’t heard Places Like This in a long time. Then I remember why, and I either have to dig through my old CD collection or download it.

    • Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      i feel this.

      though have gigabytes of pirated music in my hd, but i cant transfer that all on my phone that’s wy i have spotify

  • TornadoValley@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Music piracy isn’t dead but it’s a shell of what it was. You can see even here most people would rather just stream

    Soulseek needs more users though as the proportion of locked file users keeps increasing

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    I really don’t feel the need to. I pay fair prices for my music and get it how I want it when I want it where I want it.

    Im not pirating to shaft people out of money

    • Chuuqo@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I buy music on bandcamp/directly from artists all the time. I just dislike streaming services, as I always want to have the files, and the money artists get from them is abbyssmal anyway.

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        Especially for smaller/indie artists I wait for Bandcamp Fridays so all of the money goes straight to them (Fuck Epic). Buying even one album for $5-10 is more than they would earn from thousands of Spotify listens from you.

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    Soulseek is great for finding and sharing music. I would strongly recommend Nicotine+ over the old SoulseekQt

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      1 year ago

      Bandcamp is an excellent option, I often try to get releases from their when possible.

    • Chuuqo@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      I do when I can afford to, but you can’t really buy every song you listen to, can you?

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          With Spotify, both you and artists are still screwed.

          If you have Spotify free you will be interrupted by ads breaking all immersion in your albums. Artists will get paid barely anything.

          If you have Spotify Premium, you will have to pay money, and most of that money won’t even go towards the artists. The artists will get paid a little more then barely anything.

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    Don’t forget stream ripping. I used to rip internet radio direct to MP3 with no quality loss and then go back and manually edit the files for playback gaps, keeping the best in case of duplicate recordings. If you have really niche interests it sometimes was literally the only way to get copies of some tracks, especially rare remixes.

    • Chuuqo@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      The thing is, you barely support the artists you’re listening to when you use spotify.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t want to be a dick but you just posted that we should pirate music more which for some reason supports the artists more…?

        • Chuuqo@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
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          I’m not advocating piracy as a way to support artists, but a way to fight against the big corps/streaming platforms/the system that just take the majority of revenue for themselves while hurting both the consumers and the creators. As I replied to other comments, I try to look for ways to directly support artists individually whenever I can.