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where do you get your music from? (ideally: DRM free, online store with SEPA payment (or paypal), low price (feddit.de)

submitted 2 years ago by juergen@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My current way is:

bandcamp.com for some artists
buying used CDs from a online music CD reseller and ripping them
download a few from youtube via youtube-dl or something

Now a few of those from youtube are great, i'd like to buy now the album. bandcamp.com doesn't offer it and it is too specific/too new to get a used CD.

i could buy them from apple Itunes since it is rather cheap and it offers a DRM free download option (i think), but i'd like to avoid apple and its walled garden and bad user interface for linux people.

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[–] octt@feddit.it 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Today I basically only look for lossless music, which complicates things, since I can't just use yt-dlp and solve my problem.

The few times I can buy lossless music, i do so on Bandcamp, paying with PayPal.

When I can't pay, my order is the following:

Bandcamp (nice artists often put some free stuff too on there)
Archive.org
Going on adventure on search engines trying to find FLAC torrents, reupload websites or (it actually happened one time) unprotected private HTTP servers (!) that Google will just publicly index, absolutely not giving a damn about the fact that the server exists just because someone forgot to close a port on their router

[–] Whom@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

There's also qobuz, which has a hi-res store on top of its streaming service.