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Why Do You Pirate Music?

I recently set up Sonarr and Radarr on my home server and I’m loving it.

However, I don’t get why you would ever use Lidarr. Why would you ever download music using torrents? You can use tools like spotdl and yt-dlp to download songs from YouTube music and Spotify, it’s faster and more reliable; I have had some issues finding torrents of music from less-known artists.

To me it seems like it would be much better to have a tool like Lidarr or have support in Jellyseerr to download music from common streaming services.

What are your views on this?

rockhandle ,
@rockhandle@lemm.ee avatar

Youtube and spotify do not offer lossless codecs. I prefer using tools like qbdlx and deemix but not all music can be found on said services. That is where torrents come in.

Tregetour ,
@Tregetour@lemdro.id avatar

My card issuer shouldn’t get to help itself to the profiling data, and the service shouldn’t get to lose my info in the data breach.

ElderWendigo ,

Downloading from YouTube or Spotify is still piracy. And those sources offer mostly shit quality far removed from the artist’s intent.

Believe it of not, there are things that aren’t on Spotify, YouTube, TIDAL, Apple Music, Bandcamp, or any streaming service. Sometimes when a streaming service does have a song or album, it’s either not the best quality or only a radio censored version available, even if Spotify claims it’s the explicit version. And that explicit tag feels like a slander because the original intent should be default and the radio edits should be the one’s with the CENSORED tag.

There is great music out there you can’t purchase or stream a digital release of.

There are old and often played CDs in my collection that can’t be ripped properly (by me) for one reason or another.

There are some really high quality vinyl recordings out there, done by people with better hardware and more skill than I. Again, many of these vinyl releases are not available in any other format and are no longer available for purchase anywhere.

The real primary reason I got into it, in the long ago times of Napster, was that I liked to make mixtapes/discs. When radio was no longer playing songs I wanted on those tapes, the wilds of Internet was the answer.

I still regularly support the artists I like as directly as I can: buying albums and merch directly from them at shows or their own websites. And I spend more of that money on more artists and especially less popular artists specifically because of the habits listed above.

SBS1313 ,

Ytdlp. It gives a lot of flexibility to download from yt and soundcloud where i build my playlist before adding them on my phone.

ilikenoodlez ,

$10 a month for the rest of my life seems expensive.

InternetUser2012 ,

As I kid I would record songs off the radio, and I would copy songs off other cassettes I liked. I did the same when cd’s became a thing and then when internet went to cable/dsl from dial up, that’s when I started downloading shit like it was my job.

AceFuzzLord ,

I personally don’t see a reason to torrent music when a simple download of a flac or something from yt if I can’t find it anywhere else is usually fine. But I will say I’m more likely to pirate music from large artists/companies because I don’t support large record companies and their shitty practices.

Similar thing goes for things like Vocaloid, UTAU/OPENUTAU, Synthesizer V, DeepVocal, etcetera, songs because the majority of the time the songs I’m listening to don’t have an official download (or a link to a removed file) or way to get it through supporting the person who made them.

kugmo ,
@kugmo@sh.itjust.works avatar

I never bought CDs to begin with because when I was little my dad pirated music and I followed his way. Then when YouTube was getting popular in the 2000s people uploaded music there and I never saw a reason to buy it.

vox ,
@vox@sopuli.xyz avatar

if you’re an audiophile you can get flacs and stuff (but tbh I’d rather store my music in opus, flac just seems like a waste of space)

the_doktor ,

I don’t have internet on the go and they’re killing CDs.

Artaca ,

I like the idea of using spotdl and yt-dlp but my eyes gloss over as soon as I see that there is no GUI. Lidarr kinda sucks but it gets me pretty close to what I need. Wish I was more comfy without a GUI but don’t really have the time to get the hang of it. So it goes.

the_doktor ,

There are several frontends available if you search…

Churbleyimyam ,

Check out Freetube. Also Newpipe on Android.

ReversalHatchery ,

Piracy for privacy!

Jolteon ,

Because I have a hoarding problem, and channeling it towards data hoarding prevents me from having all the conventional problems that come with hoarding.

three ,

I’m tired of scrolling through my playlists and seeing “this track is unavailable”.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

On the rare occasion it’s not on Spotify? Because it’s not on Spotify and I wanna hear it.

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