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Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group (www.billboard.com)
submitted 1 day ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719730

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7719728

Here it is: https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Then you're either transcoding when burning the CD or plugging in a modern player via aux, aren't you?

I understand why people might not want a music library in FLAC, but just pre-transcoding everything to MP3 in 2025 just seems silly

[–] skarn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I use, depending on mood or circumstances, a SD cars with a dozen GB of MP3, or use Finamp on my phone via Android Auto.

My collection is still made exclusively of MP3, mainly because it's a large-ish collection of pretty high quality files (mostly LAME V0) with all the tags just right (Picard+beet and a ton of work).

I curated this over the years, it sounds more than good enough on my hardware, and I don't feel like throwing the whole thing away because something a little fancier came along, especially if in this day and age it still means taking a loss in terms of compatibility.

Both with the car, and with my Yahama network receiver/amplifier. The car is relatively new (2020) the amplifier is a little more seasoned, but it can direct play mp3, while I'd have to transcode opus.

Someone shoot me the day I change HiFi hardware over codecs.

With this being said, I'm not sure I'd transcode Opus into MP3 on purpose.