Why are you still using this botnet?

I'm not. Just like everything else with VC funding this decade, it eventually became garbage. I unironically prefer ripping songs off of YouTube now.

>>61414114
people like free beer

it just works

Because shit is still better than diarrhea.

what OP can't afford 10 dollaroos a month?

>>61414893
5 if you're a student

>>61414114
i´m not

>>61414893
What are you paying for? to remove ads?

>>61414912
3.50 if you are a female student

>>61415093
That, higher quality formats, and offline """streaming""". It's mainly to remove the ads though because they make them so fucking loud and annoying specifically so you buy premium.

>>61415457
Does modifying the hosts file to route spotify's ad servers to 127.0.0.1 stop those ads?

>>61414114
Because I bought a summer's worth of premium for $10. Good for car rides.

But yeah, the discovery engine is shit since no one makes their own playlists anymore.

Isnt there some promotion where u get 3 months for like a dollar

>>61414137
>I unironically prefer ripping songs off of YouTube now.

>Recompressing 128kbps MP3s

lmfao kys

>>61415518
Haven't tried this. But I imagine that they have a countermeasure for this. Something like checking for a callback from the server after the ad finishes. (So, by using the hosts file, the ad never plays but the music never continues since it never received the callback.)

>>61415585
i believe there are patches that mute the ads, at least ive seen them pop up when searching AUR for the normal package

>>61414114
Is there an alternative? Spotify + ad blocker = Music for free

>part of a friend's Google play family subscription
>dl whatever I want them rip it with an app and keep it
It's almost too easy

>>61415583
the word you're looking for is reencoding and youtube haven't done mp3 for ages.

>>61415669
YouTube uses AAC at 128kbps even their 4k videos, you degenerate.

When you use those "YouTube Downloader" sites it recompresses again.

The only real way to rip it is to download the mp4, then demux it and take the AAC file out of the stream. In this case, your file will still be 128kbps lmao kys

Even the free version of spotify is 160kbps.

>>61415717
Lmao youtube has been streaming 160kbps opus for years (which is indistinguishable from 320kpbs mp3).

>>61415749
Lmao nice try.

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How else are you supposed to discover new music?

Let's say you got he mpd + npcmpp route.

You would have to somehow find out what you want to try next, then find a torrent for it (or whatever p2p you kids use these days), then download it, and to fix the shitty ID3 tags.

Then you find out the quality is shit anyway.

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>>61415749
Lmao

>Upload compressed AAC (god knows where the source came from) to YouTube
>Let YouTube compress it to 160kbps Opus or 128kbps AAC
>Recompress back to AAC/MP3 when you download

LMFAO fuck I hate /g/ sometimes. You guys are fucking stupid.

>>61415815
Soundcloud

>>61415815
/mu/ not even kidding

>>61415819
>>Upload compressed AAC
>implications
>implying spotify isn't upsampling 64kbps mp3s
lmao

>>61415749
JUST

>>61415819
>Upload compressed AAC
sounds dumb. youtube takes both raw pcm and flac.
>Let YouTube compress it to 160kbps Opus or 128kbps AAC
random video I checked was 192.
>Recompress back to AAC/MP3 when you download
no one is doing this.

>>61415832
>/mu/
literally just peep the fuckin essentials charts, they do not talk about anything else

>>61415838
You have no idea how streaming services work.

>>61415847
>youtube takes both raw pcm and flac.
Hahahahaha good luck with finding original source material that's uploaded that way.

99% uploads are muxed M4V and M4A at 128kbps or some shit.

Also even IF the rare %0.0000001 you find that has been uploaded by FLAC, YT is still compressing that shit, and then when you download you are still compressing it back. Also there's no way to know if the original upload was FLAC or PCM.

KYS.

>>61415878
>and then when you download you are still compressing it back
You do not understand how any of this works, do you?

>>61414114
because i'm not a terrorist

>>61415923
>You don't know what you're talking about
>Doesn't even attempt to explain why
Just keep using YouTube to mp3 downloaders.

>>61415815
Discogs, RYM and /mu/ occasionally.

>>61415923
Most people use shit like Youtube to MP3 websites and they recompress.

I use 4k Downloader and it dowloads the original from the stream, which is usually 128kbps trash anyway.

No thanks. I'll stick with Apple Music + My FLAC collection.

>>61415619
i have the modded app on my pajeetdroid phone, works fine and blocks ads, also has hq streaming etc

>>61415585
They haven't, been blocking all of their ads through hosts file and I don't even remember how the ads sounded like anymore

It barely got weeb music.

>>61415518
Yes that works

>>61415821
Isn't that shutting down soon?

>>61416241
it is

>>61416250
Any way to archive the whole site?

>>61416261
dunno, but there's a huge thread on plebbit about it

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/6n1pap/soundcloud_may_only_have_50_days_left_save_your/

>>61415440
0 if your an adblocking nigger

>>61415518
I'm not sure. Prior to getting their 3-months-for-$1 promo, uBlock would block the ad audio from playing, but it would get stuck and never play the next track until I reloaded the page.

I finally decided to give in to the botnet and started using Spotify a month or so ago, since What.CD was taken down months ago, and I don't know where else to conveniently get music from. (Of course, I'd buy it all if I could, but tfw poor college student life)

I was hoping to join another private tracker via WCD's forums, but yeah... Site went down the day I decided to seriously look in to that.

I used to use Demonoid before it was seized. Likewise with KAT. TPB seems sketchy, and doesn't always have the items I want. Barring those options, I've always tried Googling "'index of' album-i-want" to snoop private servers, but again, with mixed results.

Also, Spotify has been decent for discovering new artists, along with Gnoosic.com

>>61414114
I use Pandora via Roku. Nothing else.

>>61414114
Yeah, sometimes.
>Dead easy to download an apk with unlimited skips and no ads
>On phone plan that doesn't count Spotify streaming towards data usage
>Normie friends sometimes send Spotify playlists
>Normie friends don't freak out over my Clip+ when I play music in the car
>Can listen to music I don't have downloaded
>Scrobbles to last.fm
What's not to like?

>>61417520
>but tfw poor college student life
If your time at college isn't preparing you for a six figure income why do it?

>>61415717
>The only real way to rip it is to download the mp4, then demux it and take the AAC file out of the stream. In this case, your file will still be 128kbps lmao kys

No, you just find out which codecs are available with youtube-dl -F <url> and then download the one you're interested in with youtube-dl -f <format> <url> directly.

Fucking normie.

>>61414114
320kbps Ogg Vorbis is pretty good quality, song recommendation algorithm works pretty well for my taste in music. I never have to sync my phone/media player library again. Easily share playlists with friends.

>>61416310
>>61416241
https://blog.soundcloud.com

Just rumors..

>>61415585
They don't.
I'm using this exploit right now

>>61415749
Holy shit. Your brain has encountered a general failure, right?

>>61415815
>being so helpless

>>61414893
>not patching to apk for free

>>61415815
>How else are you supposed to discover new music?
sad

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I downloaded this shit a while ago, never used it, and just today discovered that it's consuming 10% of my battery. Uninstalled it and will never touch this shit again.

>>61414114
Don't ever imply that I've ever wasted my time with this trash again

>>61414114
Because my carrier had a promo to subscribe to premium for $2 about 3yrs ago, then whatever shit contract they had expired and now I'm still paying $2 for premium and aparently it will stay that way forever
Otherwise I would've moved to GPM, since the android app is laggy as fuck and a battery hog, but the offline "streaming" in high quality and syncing between devices at home make it worth it.

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>>61417726
Where did I say anything about my degree or what it's preparing me for? That future potential doesn't help me here and now, Anon. Do you expect future me to send present me monies?

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>>61414114
>Spotify

>30 million songs wherever you go; your desktop, laptop, phone, tablet, TV, speaker set and even your car
>shared, collaborative and public playlists
>share songs with your friends at the speed of light
>your entire library is synced across all of your devices
>320kbps Ogg Vorbis
>follow and get updates about new releases from artists and subscribe to artist playlists
>see what your friends are listening to right now (with their consent)

It's brilliant.

>>61415583
It's actually the best solution

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imagine valuing your time so little that you'd rather waste hours sorting through /mu/ shitposts and hunting torrents of specific files than spend $10 per month to let Spotify's godly recommendation engine handle everything

>>61420190
You do realise you're on /g/, home of the Linux elitists who install operating systems that require a shit ton of work for them to even have basic functionality.

>>61415815
read a book idiot

>>61419254
lol retard

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>>61420190
>geoblocking

>cause i already own all my music on cd
why waste money on something you won't even be able to own a copy of.
>foobar2000 mobile + opus 48kbps, for the win

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>Give Spotify a try by blocking all the ads
>Literally every song i look up doesn't exist in their catalog
I miss Grooveshark

Nah, my free trial ran out and they won't let me keep adding new 30 day trials.

>>61415749
I'm sorry for your hearing loss

Just use the modded app from Xda-developers. Holy shit.

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Uh, can anyone tell me how to save radio stations as m3u or pls or whatever fileformat so i can listen to it from Foobar2000?

I'm retarded.
This one for instance:
http://www.rdbfm.com/music

It doesn't cover my music. I'm glad that my local library gives me a free account for Naxos music library.

>>61423377
>raimersoft.com/tapinradio.aspx
>for all your streaming radio needs
the only thing you really miss out on with the shareware version, is the ability to manage podcasts

The best music streaming service is Google Play Music because it comes bundled with YouTube Red and you can get GPM + YTR for you and five friends / family for only $15/mo total

You do have five friends, right?

>>61423783
>subscriptions

>not saving all of your music locally as flac

>>61419618
lol poorfag. I bet you steal wifi too.

>>61420130
Is there a way to follow friends without facebook integration? I just got it and wanted to add a buddy of mine 'cause he has good taste and looks for new music frequently, but I couldn't see any option outside of connecting with fb, which I don't want to do.

>>61417567
Hook me up with the apk bro

>>61424526
Here faggot

file. io/fbe9J5

One time download so grab it quick

>>61424654
Shit someone prolly beat me, mega it for me my dude

>>61424736
I like these games, be quick fgt

Same link only /Oly5eE

>>61424071
Are you too fucking broke to pay $15/mo? Hell, I charge each of my friends $5/mo and actually make money off it.

https://cdn.sergiocastell.com/Spotify/#github

C'mon

>>61416317
This. My friends always complain about Ads because they actually downloaded the desktop app. Meanwhile in the browser I get zero ads because of uBlock.

>>61424448
You can search for their profiles in Spotify the same way you search for music.

>>61422347
>I miss Grooveshark

I don't. It was good for video game music and things, but the library organization was horrible. There were multiple duplicate copies of the same songs from the exact same album (each having a different quality -- you had to hunt for the one with the best quality), malformed metadata (incl. typos), many songs didn't have album art, etc.

If someone messes up the metadata upon upload, there was no way to correct it. You couldn't edit the metadata or file a ticket for the admins to edit it or anything. If the song didn't encode or upload right and you hear a loud noise in the track that shouldn't be there, that was too bad; it was there to stay.

>>61424882
thanks anon!

>>61424882
Couldn't this get taken down by a DMCA request?

>>61424736
that was me, I didn't even use it. straight to trash. you're welcome

>>61424912
gotcha, thanks.

>>61415749
This poor bastard lol

>>61422347
I'm curious, what kind of music do you listen to? Pretty much everything I listen to is on Spotify, save for some covers done by bands I'm a fan of.

>>61426272
Propably some unreleased track of an obscure underground sideproject of some semi-famous indonesian knitting soundtrack band.

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>>61414114
It has one job and it gets it done.

>>61424905
use EZBlocker on the botnet version

I pirated TBs of music since I started to use the internet (2000) and I think it's time to pay for shit I like. Spotify has a nice archive and it has everything I want. It's also cheap as fuck.

>>61414114
>great selection of music
>reasonably priced
>good ui
>lightweight and not a resource hog
>support across multiple OS
>high quality sounding music
>open APIs for third party developers
>friend collab playlists
>family plan packages
>not run by a massive corporation ala Apple or Microsoft.

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>>61428013
Or just pay for it, you commie freefag.

>>61414114
Find me a torrent for all the Sky discography then faggot

>>61415819
P L A C E B O

>>61416212
this
I prefer my 2hu tunes

>>61429068
Fuck off shill, you ruined /v/ and they love corporate dick now deep into their asshole.

>>61426272

Not him but spotify doesn't have anything by peter gabriel except a live album and solsbury hill

>>61426272
No kid crimson nor YMO

>>61414114
I'm too lazy to pirate music.

Honestly I just my music from /mu/ share threads and the /mu/ archives. It's pretty comfy. It feels like sharing CDs back in middleschool and ripping them in shitty quality.

>>61414114
Ever since they shut down Songza spotify has replaced it. Google Play music interface looks like a toy.

>>61429801
So what? It works fine, even if the UI is shit. It's the most economical solution since it bundles YouTube Red and the family plan is only $15/mo. Offline storage on phone, etc all work great.

>>61430163
What exactly is the difference between Youtube Red and Google Play Music?

>>61430371
GPM is just a music streaming service, YTR is ad-free YouTube that actually pays the content creators and gives you access to (shitty) exclusive content. They're bundled together but they used to be separate services.