submitted 5 months ago by silva@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I recently set up Sonarr and Radarr on my home server and I'm loving it.

However, I don't get why you would ever use Lidarr. Why would you ever download music using torrents? You can use tools like spotdl and yt-dlp to download songs from YouTube music and Spotify, it's faster and more reliable; I have had some issues finding torrents of music from less-known artists.

To me it seems like it would be much better to have a tool like Lidarr or have support in Jellyseerr to download music from common streaming services.

What are your views on this?

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[-] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

but to answer your question, I've heard audiophiles complain about the highest possible quality you can get from a YouTube rip. so, I'm assuming that some of the torrents out there are higher quality than what you can get from youtube

[-] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Pretty much this. I like to DJ, mostly a hobbyist over paying gigs these days, and have plenty of tunes ripped from the tube. Now I have the fun task of trying to replace everything with higher quality versions. Shitty rips are fine enough for a house party on a humble audio system, but proper venues with subs and high fidelity audio setup make it obvious you ripped from YouTube.

In a perfect world I would love to buy what I use. Problem is I would need an insane budget to grab what I want. I listen to a lot of a music.