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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I know this does not make me look good - but I am a YouTube Premium subscriber. I had Spotify, but they jacked up their family plan rate, and it was only a few bucks cheaper than Premium, then I got the ad-free (without adblockers). I mostly did it to help my kids avoid the toxic ads that are littered into the kid content. The main reason I stick with some of this stuff is for the discovery. Pandora was great, Spotify is ok.

Regardless - the smart playlists, and AI stuff on YouTube music is AWFUL. I cannot put into words how bad it is. Spotify got it right about 1/4-1/2 of the time. YouTube, maybe 1/100. Constantly recommending a country, which I cannot stand. When it isn’t doing country, it recommends hard rock/metal which I also do not listen to. I feel like I need a new way to find music, then I could sever ties with all these trashy subscriptions.

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I still havent found anything can match the experience of finding music from online discussions or list hopping on RYM.

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What is rym?

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Anyone have a private tracker invite they’d share with me? Lidarr is the only arr I haven’t set up yet. Wouldn’t mind upgrading my library which I haven’t looked at since college.

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No one will give you one. Music trackers are more difficult than average to get into and harder than most to maintain ratio. I wouldn’t risk my account on it.

You can give this script a go though to download from Dezeer or Tidal from Lidarr

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Where is the scene to at least start being considered for private trackers?

I don’t understand how the scene is supposed to stay alive when it’s this exclusive. You have to be in a chat from a forum where you’ve spent years just to get the trackers, let alone do anything for the group other than seed.

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Does somebody know a good torrent music streaming app? Something like spotify but with data from musicbrainz or anything like that and the files from torrents.

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Lidarr + Navidrome works flawlessly for me. Navidrome also fetches data from LastFM, such as tending songs and artist info

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Give me lidarr but with a smart daily generated playlist focus instead of collecting artist discographies

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What was the service you could upload your own. Playlist and songs and share with friends? Last.fm? Something like that, shit was awesome.

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There’s a federated platform called Funkwhale that’s very similar to that.

https://www.funkwhale.audio/

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