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Huh... I'm still waiting for Bandcamp and Soundcloud to close their streaming download hole. It has been a few years now.
by ColdStream 3mo ago
Huh... I'm still waiting for Bandcamp and Soundcloud to close their streaming download hole. It has been a few years now.
- flipped 3mo ago[dead]
- 9dev 3mo agoPosting that here is one of the more promising ways of achieving that
- noduerme 3mo agoThat's such small potatoes. Anyone putting out an album on Bandcamp is probably thrilled that someone would want to pirate it.
- ColdStream 3mo agoYeah probably. But it also depends on how much it is exploited. If 0.1% of people do it, then it probably isn't worth while. If it 10% of the audience, that needs to be focused on.
- markasoftware 3mo agodoes it matter as long as yt-dlp is maintained?
- BoingBoomTschak 3mo agoSome people want more than "mystery meat" levels of audio quality.
- ColdStream 3mo agoI once did a blind test on myself. A FLAC audio file and a 128Kbit Ogg vorbis file of the same track that I could switch between as I pleased but without knowing which was playing. Yeah, I cannot tell the difference. I am absolutely sure others can, but not me. I also think credit goes to far better encoders today than what we had 25 years ago.
- seba_dos1 3mo agoOpus - perhaps, but claiming that 128kbps Vorbis is transparent would be rather stretching it (unless it's a mono stream); though how easily it will be detectable depends on the kind of music used to test it. However, if you added, say, Bluetooth A2DP to the mix and made it go through a lossy encoder again the difference should be pretty obvious to anyone with good ears.
- bluescrn 3mo agoHearing also degrades over time. In my 20s I was a lot more fussy about audio formats and hi-fi gear. Approaching 50, with less sensitive ears and a bit of tinnitus, I’m happy with the convenience of Bluetooth headphones and whatever format Spotify uses.
- gfody 3mo agocrappy speakers?
- d3rockk 3mo agoI was about to say the same thing.. I use a dual A7X setup with a Sub10 Mk2 in a proper studio listening environment, and I can easily hear the difference between a low‑quality MP3 and a fully lossless WAV/FLAC. I do have trained ears, but even an untrained listener could probably notice that level of difference.
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- nmfisher 3mo agoIf you're on Bandcamp or Soundcloud it's usually because you want to support artists directly, I doubt many people are purely interested in getting free music rips.
- ColdStream 3mo agoPretty much. There would be some folks who are scraping large amounts of stuff but I don't think it is a giant issue.