Best source to download music (without DRM)?

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Bandcamp yes as far as I know (you get the actual music file).

Fastest way to know, give a try to both quickly. :slight_smile:
You’ll see which one you like more and fits your needs.

I want to make sure I can play the files with all players and on all devices without issues

If your player is not from before WW2, I guess it will be able to read .mp3, .flac and all in between without any issues. :+1:

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Aside from the YouTube front-ends PG already recommends and that do what you asked, I also like https://monochrome.samidy.com/. This is a web frontend to YouTube Music. It allows downloading songs.

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Thanks for the recommendation!

Also a very basic and nice stack with no extra fluff. :+1:t2:

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There is no such thing as legal or illegal, it’s a notion that fully depends on your jurisdiction. I suggest the *arr suite for your all content.

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If you want a detailed table of DRM-free games, music books and more go to this Internet Archive SnapShot from fckdrm.com and scroll down till the end.

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Very nice resource! Sad it’s down, hence I’m leaving a screenshot here for posterity in case the Wayback machine becomes obsolete and fckdrm.com is not accessible anymore.

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And yes, GOG rocks from A to Z! :sign_of_the_horns:t2::grin:

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Thinking of switching from QNAP to Synology or Asustor
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BTW, FCK DRM is even an initiative from GOG :grin:

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Yeah saw that, hence why I left it in my screenshot. They are quite known for those kind of moves!

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Oh didn‘t saw that it was already in your screenshot

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Bandcamp. Support artists.

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Really? Do they have any other similar interesting campaign that you know of :slightly_smiling_face:?

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It seems like Qobuz and Bandcamp are the best sources to buy high quality DRM free music.
Are their any significante differences between them?

I noticed that depending on the product one of the sites is cheaper for 20-40%, but I don’t really get why?

And that Qobuz sometimes offer higher quality and their website ooks more polished then Bandcamp

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Very objective and not very relevant to music DRM anyhow.
The quality is higher? Same, I would like to be sure that they are not cranking the numbers because I don’t see how it can be better than the vanilla output from the artist.

Probably depends on the middlemen, sponsorships, deals with brands, cut taken by X and Y.
Not sure it matters after you bought it. Since Bandcamp is the cheaper one, I indeed guess that there is less fluff you’re paying for in between you and the artist you’re buying the music from.

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Quality is in whatever the artists upload.

Qobuz has streaming + purchase option I believe, which is nice. Bandcamp isn’t as good of a UX, but if it’s cheaper might as well do that.

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For some songs or albums, Qobuz is cheaper.

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Guess you could use both then?
Not sure it matters that much at the end of the day. :hugs: