I pay for apple music, but all the linux clients seem to just be webapps which support 256AAC at most. Any way to maybe automatically download my library as flac and keep it locally (legal or not idc)

cant move services as every other service sucks (yes i have tried them all (tidal, spotify, qobuzz, deezer)

thank you all

  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    bandcamp is great! you can just pay and donload music in whatever format (flac, wav, mp3), as easy as that.

    They don’t have the latest popular singers, but most indy band and artists are on there, which is good enough for me.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      Also, yesterday was Bandcamp Friday (they forgoe their cut and everything goes to the artist). The next two are Oct 4th and Dec 6th.

      • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
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        2 months ago

        Then if you care about the artists being compensated fairly, you can CD+rip; if not streamrip/torrent will produce a lot less waste and much more convenient.

        TBH most big names are millionaires anyway, I probably would care much more about my convenience than them getting paid 5 bucks for all my troubles.

        • 0x0@programming.dev
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          2 months ago

          I don’t care about the profits of big artists and i refuse rental/streaming, so if they have their own site or i can find them elsewhere, fine, otherwise it’s the high seas. HDtracks has some big names.

          For smaller bands there’s bandcamp. Is sellaband still a thing?

        • strawberry@kbin.earthOP
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          2 months ago

          I support the artists I love by seeing them love and buying their merch, pays them far more than a few streams would anyways