I’m coming into this area as a practical and philosophical result of:

  1. me wanting to own my music
  2. CDs are barely being made
    2.1. If they are - they’re not being shipped to my corner of the world
  3. Torrenting often failed me in terms of variety.

However - I am absolutely ignorant about equipment, maintainance, and know-hows of the audiophile world.

  • ramble81@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    If you’re looking to “own” your music, another path is something like Zotify. You can actually download tracks from the service with the similar name. Philosophical issues aside, I have no issues using them for a bit to build out my collection.

    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      There’s also the revived Deemix-GUI project on github, which does the same for Deezer and supports 320kbit mp3 or 1411kbit FLAC downloads.

    • RanchBranch@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Also I can recommend Tiddl or even Tidarr if you want multiple people to be able to use. It does require a subscription but I used it outside of having copies of everything, mostly just to stream while I’m out and about or wanting too try new music