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Not necessarily piracy, but I realise that it might be the only option.

I'm planning to get away from Spotify. Is there some good places to get music. I don't mind paying for it. But I don't want a subscription service. I just want to be able to give someone money in exchange for a product. And ideally a MP3 or something similar so I can use it offline and move the file between devices.

Does something like that exist somewhere?

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[–] Nervyalloy5@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.qobuz.com

you can purchase individual albums through the download store.
or you can buy a month of the unlimited download subscription and download everything you want
can be downloaded in either MP3 or lossless FLAC (though, don't download above CD quality because you won't hear the difference)

there also may or may not be a set of resources out there under the name Firehawk52

[–] SanitationStation@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Great. That seems perfect! Time to go spend some money I guess.

I mainly get my purchased music from Qobuz and Bandcamp. If it's older, don't dismiss compact discs, used or new. A lot of times you can get the CD cheaper than the digital download, then just rip it to any format you want.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

Hit up your local thrift stores, they have tons of music cds, then rip them?

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there's Bandcamp if your favorite artists are on there, usually they allow download in exchange for money.

[–] wolfshadowheart@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Bandcamp is nice because even if the album is $0 you can still add some money for the artist.

Similarly, many times albums will be pay what you can, so it can be nice spending $0 on an album.

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

https://www.mp3va.com

I've been using them for years. They work off of a "add money to an account" model so you have to be willing to put money in before you buy your music. They look sketchy but never had a problem but always use Privacy.com CC just in case. The down side is the UI Sucks.

I just download my favorite music directly from YouTube with youtube-dl or something similar. It's not pay-walled and it usually doesn't even have ads on it.