I pay for apple music, but all the linux clients seem to just be webapps which support 256AAC at most. Any way to maybe automatically download my library as flac and keep it locally (legal or not idc)

cant move services as every other service sucks (yes i have tried them all (tidal, spotify, qobuzz, deezer)

thank you all

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    462·
    2 months ago

    The easiest way to get lossless music is to buy a CD and rip it. Of course you can always sail the high seas too. 🏴‍☠️

  • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
    332·
    2 months ago

    bandcamp is great! you can just pay and download music in whatever format (flac, wav, mp3), no questions asked.

    They don’t have the Taylor Swifts of the world, but most indy bands and artists are on there, which is good enough for me.

    For classical music, there is presto music, but their download experience is not as straight forward as bandcamp IMO.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      2 months ago

      Also, yesterday was Bandcamp Friday (they forgoe their cut and everything goes to the artist). The next two are Oct 4th and Dec 6th.

      • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
        6·
        2 months ago

        Then if you care about the artists being compensated fairly, you can CD+rip; if not, streamrip/torrent will produce a lot less waste and much more convenient.

        TBH most big names are millionaires anyway, I probably would care much more about my convenience than them getting paid 5 bucks for all my troubles.

        • strawberry@kbin.earthOP
          7·
          2 months ago

          I support the artists I love by seeing them love and buying their merch, pays them far more than a few streams would anyways

        • 0x0@programming.dev
          2·
          2 months ago

          I don’t care about the profits of big artists and i refuse rental/streaming, so if they have their own site or i can find them elsewhere, fine, otherwise it’s the high seas. HDtracks has some big names.

          For smaller bands there’s bandcamp. Is sellaband still a thing?

    • kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de
      7·
      2 months ago

      This is the only true answer here. Answers like Bandcamp (which hardly has a repository big enough) or switching to Tidal aren’t practical. OP paid for his music, and deserves access to it.

      I have Amazon Prime as part of Prime Unlimited but holy Christ, have I never gotten their web app to stream in Linux. As long as greediness on part of these lousy corporations live on, piracy would remain the only true option.

  • thejevans@lemmy.ml
    171·
    2 months ago

    I know you said you don’t want to switch, but I was in a similar situation, switched to Qobuz, installed qobuz-dl and navidrome, and now Qobuz is just an input for my self-hosted streaming service.

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
    183·
    2 months ago

    Can’t help you there, I buy CDs and lossless copies from Bandcamp and Qobuz. Those work for me.

      • baseless_discourse@mander.xyz
        1·
        2 months ago

        If you can download music, you can either host your own using navidrome, or just use a local player like auxio.

        The only downside to this approach is that the artists you like might not get compensated fairly, as most streaming service pay by stream times. This is also why I prefer buying music than streaming.

      • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
        2·
        2 months ago

        Do you mean for downloading or for streaming? I use the normal Tidal app which already does the highest quality. Not the best app in the world but it does the job and I mostly listen to downloaded music anyway.

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’m sorry, I should have been clearer. Yes, I meant for streaming. I also have all my favorite music downloaded and play them locally (sort of, self-hosted from my home server). But way back when I was part of the Spotify crowd I came across great songs I didn’t know about, so streaming is a great way to find those hidden jewels. I just don’t want to have any of those apps trying to mine a boatload of data constantly from my devices.

  • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    cant move services as every other service sucks

    What are your requirements?

    I use Tidal and I know High/Max quality works in the web UI, just needs widevine support.

    • strawberry@kbin.earthOP
      4·
      2 months ago

      spotify doesnt have lossless, deezers app is really slow, tidals is janky and slow, qobuzz was missing 20% of my library (though maybe ill check again, they used a different service for transfers)

  • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    Check out some of the *ARR apps like Lidarr and pair it with something like sabnzbd or ubittorrent qbittorrent

  • beerclue@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    I don’t think it works with Apple, but I really like Streamrip. It works with Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer and SoundCloud. Just adding it to the list of recommendations.

    • thejevans@lemmy.ml
      91·
      2 months ago

      I don’t think the Apple Music Windows app does lossless or hi-res either

    • mranderson17@infosec.pub
      1·
      2 months ago

      the qobuz webapp is hi-res too, I just use it in Firefox and my dac reports the same bit/sample rate that qobuz does. AFAIK there’s no compression there though I haven’t extensively verified that, only that the end result is 24bit/192kHz if that’s what qobuz says is playing.

      EDIT: Also, qobuz is nice because there’s very few things you can click on in the web interface which cause the music to stop playing. I really appreciate that feature… looking at you bandcamp…

  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca
    11·
    2 months ago

    How many albums you plan to downloads that require automation? I downloaded mine off of various torrent sites (about 300+ songs) and I still haven’t listened to all of them yet