like be able to download the mp3 without being locked to a app.
My god, please use lossless flac or wav or something. mp3 is such a garbage format.
Hi For music :
- bandcamp
- quobuzz
- subvert.fm
- ampwall.com
I use heavely alternative.to for finding apps and website.
For music, Qobuz is my go-to, there’s also 7digital, bandcamp and HDtracks.
I prefer to use HDtracks as a last resort because they only allow you to download your purchase once, whereas with Qobuz for example, you can keep downloading your purchase for as long as it on their servers.
Bandcamp! It lets you download a few different file types.
Not sure about comics and movies, though. I would also like to know the answer to that one.
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What i find interesting is that pubblishes have gone to every length to reduce the benefits of consumers and increase their margins. Yet, pirating is still there. The question is whethere it has reduced. I was pretty content with buying media i liked and then ripping it but nowadays there is hardly a new CD or DVD being produced. Subscriptions are not the way, especially when only a few large players are controlling the market. They just do what they want.
Bandcamp for music. Libro.fm for audiobooks.
I would independently send money to the people who make the content and just pirate it honestly because then you support the creator and also get to control your content as much as you want
If buying isn’t owning pirating isn’t stealing.
This makes me sad :( I want to support art but I use the software I want and own the file. I hate everything is now renting it.
Donate to the artist the price then pirate it
The 2 options to solve this issue are buy physical & digitize it yourself, or pirate & donate to the creators…
If you’re open to a perspective change (similar to the patientgamers community), act as if mainstream digital content does not exist.
For movies there are basically no real options to buy DRM free video. There are a few very minor sources like the VOD store of Vimeo, but catalog is limited.
The only functional option for most content is to buy a drive compatible with Libredrive, get a license for makemkv, and just rip blu-ray discs, but that comes with a high startup cost and is more involved.
Alternatively, buy the physical copy and just torrent a digital one.
There’s 7digital, which has a music store offering DRM-free MP3 downloads, as well as FLAC for many selections.
Music : Quobuz - buy it, download it, it’s yours. Books : ebooks.com - same [EDIT:] if you buy within their “DRM free” selection.
But with Qobuz remember to download your music immediately, or it might disappear! Bandcamp does not suffer from this limitation.
I’ve had purchased music disappear from Bandcamp unfortunately:
ebooks.com is all Adobe DRM so this no good as it looked to a app
Not all. And their search tool lets you look for non-DRM books.
Yes but it is very limited on comic it 5 pages of drm free
forgot to say humblebundle.com is the only place i know you and buy and own comics files like pdf and cbz.
some indie publishers sell PDFs of comics, or include them free when you buy the physical copy
In general, buying straight from the publisher or artist gets the best results for all media.
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