I can't help but feel like calling 96 kbps as "normal quality" is a misrepresentation. That's pretty much the audio quality you're getting out of 240p youtube videos and it's enough to make the percussion sound bad.
Well, low is 24kbps if you want real low quality
[white noise] ah yeah man I love this part of this song! [white noise]
Spotify is stealing. They do not pay the artists shit unless the artist has a contract specifically with them. Fuck em.
nah, im good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Z8ZPRI-YQ
Internet points where? You talking post ratings here? Cause I've got them blocked via custom user CSS, so I fail to see how I'm doing this for "internet points". This isn't reddit.
And regarding ripping from Netflix, it's more about being able to watch shows I like when I'm offline. I've got every season/episode of many shows saved on a big SSD that I've saved over the past like 14 years or so. A few shows for example: Trailer Park Boys, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, Can't Pay? We'll Take It Away, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, The Office, Dragonball/GT/Z.
I wouldn't refer to ripping shows from Netflix as piracy, I'd liken it more to recording a TV show with a VHS recorder or a video camera. I could use any screen recording software to record the Netflix browser window and save the video that way but that would be asinine when the Internet Download Manager Firefox extension is a thing (though you do need a license key in order to use it for more than a trial period of time). If I recall, there was a rather large court battle between companies like Sony and other TV/film companies when VHS recorders came out regarding people filming copies of media for their own personal home use. I believe it went to court in the US and the courts ruled in favour of the VCR manufacturers on the grounds that home recording was for the purposes of "timeshifting".
your original post read like that copy pasta about using like 8 VPNs
ok dude we get it, you're internet tough guy who rips shit, put your bull horn away nobody really cares.
everyone on this forum pirates shit. the difference between us and you is you have this superiority complex about it
Well that's just like, your opinion, man.
I mean to be fair idiots were calling him a thief for downloading things off netflix, despite the fact that if he's downloading it off netflix he's already paying for it in the first place.
He might sound edgy but he's right in that fact that that isn't piracy any more than recording films off your TV is. And to be honest considering how stuff is constantly getting pulled off netflix for no particular reason I don't see much of a problem with that.
yeah and you wouldn't be buying their CDs either - you'd be buying merch at a gig because that's where bands make all their money
depending on the artist of course. Not all musicians do those kinds of gigs or even any gigs. Some sell their own stuff online on their own or via other sites like bandcamp etc
Advertisements make up about 50% of the data used to browse the internet. My phone is never going without an adblocker. Ever.
I try to buy music directly through places like Bandcamp, Amazon, etc. then manually store it on my phone. I figure the artist must get some portion of that $10 or so, and I usually buy merch if they have an online store (bands, please make more posters). I look up bands based on songs I hear elsewhere like in games, commercials, videos, movies etc., because every content suggestion service that's recommended things to me has been way off the mark, even Spotify. I then listen to the entire bands discography and buy the songs I like since most bands only have a few songsls per album that I like. I have a weird, specific taste in music that algorithms have trouble with I guess.
I don't have a good data plan and I also don't want low quality music, not do I want to pay for a subscription service that gives poor recommendations based on my taste or syncs music I'd just do with a USB cable, nor will I listen to ads, so I stick with this process.
I don't like ads, and I never will. Not just for security or privacy concerns, I don't like people trying to trick me. If I want something, I'll look for it. I'll judge the quality of the product via store page reviews, meta review aggregators, forums, videos, etc. When I think I've narrowed down my choice I buy it. Advertising makes me annoyed because it's not useful - I still need to research things I want to buy and in that process I'll come across that product anyway. If I'm not looking to buy something, the ad is doubly pointless. I content block certain parts of Amazon's website just so I can get a search bar, filters, and non sponsored items, because ads bother me that much, even if they're woven into the content.
I used a cracked spotify app for a while and also adblocked on PC, these days I've gone premium though. I really enjoy the discovery features and the variety of content I listen to is on there. The service they do provide is sufficient, in my opinion. Yet the way they somehow manage to remove features while at the same time making the app feel more bloated. It's amazing, really.
Well they shouldn't be calling him a thief, since it has nothing to do with the current argument posed. The argument wouldn't be the same if Netflix had a "Netflix with ads" and you were downloading off of that.
Except that if you listen to hundreds of thousands of songs through the radio features, you can't just go out and buy every song. That's the same with regular radio. At least by my subscription and the fact I'm listening in, I'm giving the artists on my discovery queue something rather than nothing at all. I'm not going to buy 400 songs by each artist in a list just to listen to them once and decide if I like it or not.
In this case, also because they don't allow endless skipping, it's very easy to detect if people outright skip ads using timing correlation.
The most you can do safely is silence the ads and wait out that duration.
It's just incredibly convenient to have all my music everywhere on practically any device. All i need is an internet connection, and that's not really a problem in 2019. And even then, you can download the songs and listen to them offline. And all that at a really reasonable price.
Frankly they should be paying me for shilling for all my enthusiasm towards them.
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