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submitted 7 months ago by Blxter@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

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[-] pudcollar@lemmy.ml 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

2023 was absolutely the year I dove back into music piracy. I started with downloading youtube playlists but the real game changer was soundiiz, which allowed me to import text, m3u, csv, spotify, xspf playlists into qobuz and deezer so i can download whole playlists of FLAC with qobuz-dl and deemix-gui. My collection went from 20,000 to 100,000, downloading playlists from qobuz and deezer, xspf playlists from my remaining lossy music. I used streamripper on a few web radio stations just to get a list of songs to pull down this way. I only bought music for years and years, but that got me a narrow type of collection.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Man, I never knew there was a way to download my entire spotify playlist.

That's been the biggest thing tethering me to their service, since they empty you out when you unsubscribe.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

I'm getting my playlists out then ditching Spotify. It's the only service I pay for other than my ISP and VPN.

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