Most of the discussion and sources of content talk about movies and series.

I’ve been recently looking for psy and techno music, finding FLAC or WAV with active seeders feels like striking gold. It’s definitely been a while since I’ve looked for active torrent sites and it feels more barren than ever.

Edit: Thank you all for all that valuable information. The reddit group really wasn’t this helpful and valued making fun over adding real use able knowledge.

  • carson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s certainly alive and exists.

    But access to music is easy and affordable. It’s more inconvenient for me to pirate it than just use a streaming service.

    I also listen to a lot of independent artists and rather buy their stuff to support them.

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      1 year ago

      The only music I pirate is stuff that isn’t on Spotify, namely Nintendo game soundtracks

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      1 year ago

      I prefer there not being any lag in-between songs, which most streaming services have.

      I usually use a streaming service like YouTube (through piped) to find new artists, then use soulseek to download their entire discography.

      The problem with streaming is that the companies will eventually figure out new ways to squeeze every penny out of you. The once ‘free’ YouTube is now blocking adblocks, and Spotify requires DRM to be installed for it to function.

      For me, piracy isn’t just about convenience or price, it’s mainly about control over the media I have.

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      The thing is not every popular or moderately popular song is on any streaming site. I’m a fan of 90s and 00s trance music, and there are some notable songs that aren’t available on any of the most popular paid services, or are available only in newer, re-recorded versions or remixes - some of them are available on Spotify, but not all. YouTube Music has such an advantage that you can listen not only to the songs uploaded by record labels, but also to countless additional songs available on YouTube, however most of the time they are in worse quality (AFAIK max audio bit rate in YT videos is 128 kbps). So while streaming services are now affordable and have very extensive audio library, they have some shortcomings that one can only fill with physical media or piracy.