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YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families
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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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I pretty much only use it for music, and most of the extensions have still gotten me by. At least long enough to rip the song to my hard drive for offline use. Fuck $16 a month. That's ridiculous. For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit. After a year, not only would I be supporting the artists directly and avoiding paying paying a scummy company, I'd actually have some discographies built up to permanently show for it. They're just inadvertently trying to support people sailing the high seas. So irritating..
So why don't you do that... ?
I actually did just buy a lot of albums in the last 48 hours, once I realized that I could bc my tax return lol. Before that I was pretty broke and wishing I could actually buy some. A light bulb finally went off and I was like oh yeah, I got some money now :p I do like to test drive a lot to see if I really vibe with it also. if it's something that actually touches me, I usually wind up wanting to have a higher quality version stored locally.
You can also set up a Jellyfin or Plex server and have your own streaming service :)
I'd like to have some home network type of deal set up, I've been meaning to look into that. Self-hosting comm more. I don't really have Internet right now though, aside from my cell phone, so I'm not sure if that would put a damper on things.
How would someone, hypothetical, do that ripping part?
Kind of janky but maybe something like this? https://soundclouddl.cc/ or something like this perhaps https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp if you just use a search engine to look up YouTube to MP3 or something to that nature you can find a lot of different results. I think they even make browser extensions as well.
Even easier is https://monochrome.tf/
I'll have to check this one out later, thanks for a recommendation!
Not YouTube, Soulseek. Nicotine frontend. Use a VPN.
For Soulseek you should use a VPN that support port forwarding. AirVPN is the one that's usually recommended.
I buy the discs from my disc shop then use soulseek to download the discs already ripped.
Other times I simply buy their discs from bandcamp so I get the digital files directly.