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I used to do lots of piracy back in the days. I am so glad those days are behind me and have not been big on the scene. What would be some sites to avoid to not fall in the trap of being a criminal. I love giving companies all of my money and do not ever want to go back to my old ways. Please help me with a nice list of things to avoid.
Please for the love of god avoid buying a real mp3 player with a metal shell, become a linux nerd, install yt-dlp, and run this command in the terminal
yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 -o "%(playlist_index)02d - %(title)s.%(ext)s" MUSIC-PLAYLIST-URL-LINK
It also totally doesn't work on other music websites like bandcamp.Screw MP3, Opus is better.
I personally carefully avoid ed2k, gnutella and soulseek, just like in the olden days. But you may also want to avoid YouTube with youtube-dl or YT search in QMPlay2.
Avoid Spotify dl. Easily installed and after insted from the command line by typing spotdl
Thankfully, my ISP informs me if someone on my network shares movies on Bittorent without a VPN. Do ISPs typically do the same for music on the ed2k and gnutella networks?
I don't know whether they detect it (technically no problem), but these are not widely used anymore. In USA maybe, but I live in Russia.
~~The~~ some of the old music sites are still there. But I would avoid torrentgalaxy.to it has curated weekly albums of top playlists from Spotify, tiktok, etc that have all the new stuff updated every week, for your local playback displeasure. Only uncool people play locally stored music, all the cool kids stream. Do not go there.
youtube-dl -F url
That will list formats; get one of the audio only formats
youtube-dl -f 140 url
Bonus is that the script works for lots of sites. It can get movies from tubitv for example
-f 140
is AAC, please don't do that.-f 251
is better since it's Opus, the best versatile lossy codec so far.I'll try that out. Thanks for the heads up.