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    Money saved? I think not! I should know since i do it… one 8 bay synology with 4 6tb drives, 3 10tb drives, and 1 ssd for apps. Let’s just say I’ve spent a lifetime of subscriptions to get this setup. I would do it again in a heartbeat!

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      10 hours ago

      Metaphorically fuck corporations, literally fuck people. As long as it’s consensual.

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        Just remember corporations are a great source of already stolen resources.

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    You’re also helping that content survive. If it ever goes away, you actually have real copies on physical hardware.

    This is a big deal for super niche artists. I have a few songs that probably don’t exist many other places and are almost entirely lost to time except for piracy.

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        13 hours ago

        Yes. And bootlegs! I have some mixes that are just not legitimate and never will be, so the art can’t really exist in a legally-safe form. It still has value despite that.

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      youtube-dl/yt-dlp, I punch in a command into my computer with url to the playlist, it downloads the video and rips the audio into mp3 format. It works with youtube and bandcamp. With bandcamp it just straight downloads the music files no extraction needed.

      yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" <url to playlist>

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          Youtube automatically encodes its audio down to at most 128k in m4a format. Im not sure about bandcamp but its extracting the songs that play through the web browser so they probably also use lossy mp3 for web streaming the songs not higher bitrate FLAC but can’t say for certain. In general the audio stays the same downloaded as you hear it streamed through video. If you’re a big music nerd that absolutely needs highest quality bitrate in FLAC you’re better off sailing the high seas, but a casual music enjoyer won’t notice or care unless the source itself is bad quality like a bootleg live recording.

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          yep. this particular format of the command perserves playlist order so you don’t have to manually enter track numbers to organize the album. I recommend yt-dlp installed with python3’s pip3 manager