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[–] [email protected] 82 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yes, yes buy. Do not sail the high seas.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I want the bands to get some money. I buy from bandcamp when musicians are sensible enough to sell on there, or on their sites.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wish list stuff until a Bandcamp Friday comes around where artists get all the money. I've stopped buying physical media, so waiting on a digital purchase isn't an issue for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Bandcamp was sold off, no point using them going forward.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

The site is still the same, you still get your music to download, the band still gets most of the money. 100% still a point in using them.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Dude Bandcamp had been sold twice and the product has not changed from a user experience and I only use Bandcamp at this point...I will say you NEED to download anything you buy to archive your collection but at the moment Bandcamp still pays bands, still allows unlimited streaming and still amazing.

Do I expect it to remain amazing...nope, but for now it's still amazing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

For now, they still provide DRM free downloads in FLAC. And they still pay the artists on the Fridays. I'll continue using it till they inevitably fuck it up.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve almost never paid a cent for music.

My concert ticket stack is thicc though, and I have SOOOOO MANY hoodies, t-shirts, cups, and random bullshit. I’m not paying for DRM, but you can’t DRM a comfy zip-up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Don’t give them any ideas

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Or pirate the music, then send some money in an envelope to the artists themselves.

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

Or pirate the music, then go to a concert or buy some merch.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Absolutely. Even if you pirate from some, and buy whole albums from a few when you can afford it, you're supporting artists instead of the shareholders of tech goon overlords.

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

Me too...I'm at 1500+ albums. But I do download them too for when the sad times to come...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

What.cd

I'm so glad nothing has replaced what.cd yet...

If there was though, what do you think it would be called? I would like to avoid it at all costs and continue to buy subscriptions

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I'm afraid that that information has had to be [redacted]. Choose another path.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lidarr is pretty keen if you already have sonarr and radar running.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who finds it super annoying, that "detection through sound waves" (Sonar) does video things while "detection through light" (lidar) does the sound things?

WHY?! Swap names already! It's driving me nuts!

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

I find the choice of name for Readarr more annoying, since we already had Radarr

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

Why use a private tracker when soulseek allegedly exists? There are also Telegram bots that can allegedly download FLACs from Deezer

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

Private trackers are dope for very fast flac album downloads.

SLSK is godly for rare stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No need for Telegram bots. There are both proprietary and open source apps that you can use to do this yourself. Check out https://rentry.org/firehawk52 and https://ripped.guide/Audio/Music/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

RIP what… was there for a decade. It was godly. Your other reply knows what’s up. So does the god Orpheus, he knows some heady chunes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oink. Waffles.

Wait…..

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Or both Bandcamp for the win