Comment by ColdStream
16 hours ago
Huh... I'm still waiting for Bandcamp and Soundcloud to close their streaming download hole. It has been a few years now.
16 hours ago
Huh... I'm still waiting for Bandcamp and Soundcloud to close their streaming download hole. It has been a few years now.
If you're on Bandcamp or Soundcloud it's usually because you want to support artists directly, I doubt many people are purely interested in getting free music rips.
Pretty much. There would be some folks who are scraping large amounts of stuff but I don't think it is a giant issue.
Posting that here is one of the more promising ways of achieving that
That's such small potatoes. Anyone putting out an album on Bandcamp is probably thrilled that someone would want to pirate it.
As a musician, I can agree with this 100%.
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Yeah probably. But it also depends on how much it is exploited.
If 0.1% of people do it, then it probably isn't worth while. If it 10% of the audience, that needs to be focused on.
does it matter as long as yt-dlp is maintained?
Some people want more than "mystery meat" levels of audio quality.
I once did a blind test on myself. A FLAC audio file and a 128Kbit Ogg vorbis file of the same track that I could switch between as I pleased but without knowing which was playing. Yeah, I cannot tell the difference.
I am absolutely sure others can, but not me. I also think credit goes to far better encoders today than what we had 25 years ago.
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But bandcamp is only 128 kbit MP3 for free streaming, now that’s not a mystery, but probably also not worse than whatever YT offers.
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