So, there was a “spotify hack” recently, from Anna’s Archive, as we all know. My question is:

  • Has the songs from that hack been made available? Can one easily get these songs? Say, I want song X from artist Y. Can I search and download?
  • rozodru@piefed.socialEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    I’ve actually had the opposite success rate going with soulseek. I’ve been able to find tracks or artists that simply aren’t on spotify. For eacmple a lot of Japanese bands that I follow simply don’t release full albums on the regular. usually just singles and EPs here and there. I rarely find them on spotify but on soulseek they’re on there within the day of them releasing the song. some with other obscure stuff. The soulseek user base is primarily made up of audiophiles so you’re going to find a lot more and a lot better quality stuff.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      There’s a lot of Japanese stuff on nyaa. They even have a lossless audio section. Lossy is usually 128k or 320k mp3. I do lossy myself, but I encode to m4a low-complexity 192k (the highest option it has). So I grab lossless and encode to my settings, then use mp3tag for perfect metadata control (free for you Windows guys; $30 on Mac). Then it’s a unique file. Can still be sonically identified, but so can the tracks you legit ripped from CD, so that doesn’t matter.

      Also collect Japanese music, mostly j-rock.