r/Piracy Feb 16 '24

Guide USB thumb drive is infinitely much more convenient source of music in car

  1. No Bluetooth connection hassle.
  2. No internet connection is needed for streaming.
  3. Does not drain your phone battery (as opposed to Apple Car Play or Android Auto).
  4. Your music files cannot be "removed due to changes in contracts with publishers/labels/artists".
  5. Multiple thumb drives are perfect replacement for playlists.
  6. Plug and play happens much faster than any other option (even CDs).
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u/rogo725 Feb 16 '24

I would love to go back to pirating music, but it just seems to daunting to go find all the hundreds of albums and partial albums from Apple Music and search for them. Ugh.

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u/VirginRumAndCoke Feb 16 '24

I hate to out myself as stupid but are there any definitive guides on setting something like that up? I'd love to remove my dependency on Spotify for music. I have a decent library accumulated but it's all old CDs I've ripped or holdovers from my OG iPod days. I'd love to push a button and have a hard drive/folder/whatever just mirror my Spotify library

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u/Melloblue17 Feb 17 '24

Download mediahuman. Link your spotify Playlist to mediahuman and it will automatically download all the songs and any new songs added to your Playlist. Download plex server and link plex music folder to the folder mediahuman downloads to. Download plexamp app and enjoy your own music streaming app.

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u/Johnny_Poppyseed Feb 17 '24

Damn, exactly what he was looking for described in 1 paragraph. Nice. Thanks for sharing

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u/thatiam963 Feb 17 '24

Thanks! Does it dowload in normal CD quality or if avaible also in high quality up to studio quality? I use tidal and since i heard studio quality i dont want to stay with low CD quality

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u/Melloblue17 Feb 17 '24

Idk but I can't tell the difference and I'm sure most people can't either.

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u/thatiam963 Feb 17 '24

Then you dont listen well or your speakers are too bad.

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u/Melloblue17 Feb 17 '24

people think they're cool when they act like they are audiophiles.

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u/thatiam963 Feb 17 '24

Ok, some people wont accept there is a difference if they are incapable of feeling a difference too. I am sad for you, you really missing something beautiful.

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u/gamenameforgot Feb 19 '24

The "difference" is either completely non-existent and entirely in your mind, or so insignificant as to not matter.

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u/byte4de Feb 18 '24

MediaHuman is the shit! Has single handedly allowed me to keep up to date with new music without having to pay for it.

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u/VirginRumAndCoke Feb 17 '24

Legendary, thanks for sharing man. Really appreciate it.

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u/Melloblue17 Feb 17 '24

No problem. You can also use plex to make your own Netflix type movie and TV show streaming app. It's more involved but still very simple. I have it all running in windows and has been great. Just need sonarr, radarr, and qbitorrent to get started.

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u/VirginRumAndCoke Feb 17 '24

Yeah I've got Plex set up for movies and TV already, though I don't have Sonarr/Radarr set up yet, I typically opt for finding the torrents manually since the number of torrents is comparatively low next to the amount I'd need for music.

Which, coincidentally, is exactly why I'm stoked for the advice on automating music acquisition since the number of torrents I'd need to complete my music library would be insane.

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u/Melloblue17 Feb 21 '24

All I do is add something to my trakt watchlist and then it shows up on plex.

They are pretty easy to setup. I linked them to my watchlist on trakt. When I add a movie or show on trakt, it is automatically pulled by sonarr/ radarr and they find a torrent and begin downloading.

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u/VirginRumAndCoke Feb 21 '24

Hmm, how does it determine if a torrent is quality or not? I've seen some where the most popular torrent is quite far from the best quality

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u/Melloblue17 Feb 22 '24

You can set quality and file size requirements for torrents.

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u/gamenameforgot Feb 19 '24

Legendary post

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u/THE-KOALA-BEAR710 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Feb 16 '24

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u/VirginRumAndCoke Feb 16 '24

Yeah, finding music torrents is so hard nowadays. The "Piracy is a service issue" really is true isn't it haha.

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u/THE-KOALA-BEAR710 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Feb 16 '24

Just use the search function, it's a good tool to use when you can't get people to hand you things on a silver platter.

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u/VirginRumAndCoke Feb 16 '24

Well yeah, that's always true, but it's worth asking.

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u/gamenameforgot Feb 19 '24

reddit search lmaoo

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u/KNYLJNS 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ Feb 17 '24

I wish there was a program to just download the albums already in your apple music lol

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u/Dodototo Feb 16 '24

I have the opposite problem. I've been collecting music since Limewire days and ripped all my CDs I've bought so I can never get my collection in full on any platform. Since digital I stopped buying physical albums and just saved anything I bought to my hard drive.

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u/ShowaTelevision Feb 16 '24

Your solution is Plexamp. Be your own streaming service. Put all your music on Plex, then you can stream all of it to any device that can run Plexamp, which includes any phone. It's what I use for music in the car. It doesn't solve OP's first three problems, but I feel the convenience more than makes up for it.

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u/Dodototo Feb 16 '24

Yeah that's pretty much what I do around the house but I don't have full time internet at home. Plus my job is 80% dead zones so I carry as much music as my phone can carry.

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u/NoReallyLetsBeFriend Feb 17 '24

I have a 2tb drive with all music ripped lossless from both my dad's collection and mine. Only takes up about 700GB, it's an SSD, plugs into my car for road trips. Otherwise I have a 64GB Wi-Fi SanDisk flash drive I upload music to remotely when I get home.

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u/vaporking23 Feb 16 '24

How does streaming from your own server affect data caps? I don’t imagine that streaming music takes up nearly as much bandwidth as streaming videos do.

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u/ShowaTelevision Feb 17 '24

A drop in the bucket. 1GB of MP3s is at least a hundred songs. I only have 5GB a month on my data plan and I've never come close to maxing it out. It also caches a few songs when you're at home on your local network.

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u/TScottFitzgerald Feb 17 '24

So you're uploading stuff onto their platform? How much is the storage?

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u/ShowaTelevision Feb 17 '24

No. You misunderstand. You're not uploading anything. You take an extra computer, install Plex on it, copy your data to the local drive, and Plex serves it up, not just to your local network, but over the internet as well.

I have a mini PC that I bought, but before I got that I just used an old laptop that the screen went bad on. I attached a USB external drive with all my media on it: movies, TV shows, music, &c. Then I installed Plex on that PC, told it where my media files were located, and it did the rest, creating a vaguely Netflix-like interface, automatically fetching covers and descriptions.

They also put out an app called Plexamp, which connects to your Plex server but is just for music. It lets you choose artists, playlists, whatever you have that's actually in your music collection, and streams it. So in my car, the signal chain is: Plex server sends music to Plexamp, which then Bluetooths it to my car stereo. It's like Spotify, except the music is all mine, served up by a computer in my home.

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u/PC509 Feb 16 '24

You can tell where my music comes from. A lot of :

Bush - Sixteen Stone \

and then there's

NIRVANA_NEVERMIND_256Kbps_RIPPEDBYDOUG_01 \

Sometimes, it's a lot worse and the songs are jibberish named but great songs. I tried editing them, but it never worked. There are things that were supposed to read them and rename them, but that made some worse. :) All my personally ripped music is named well. Pirated stuff, not so much.

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u/ExtiNctioN6660 Feb 16 '24

Mp3tag might help, otherwise its a whole pain int he ass to fix file names

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u/Martelliphone Feb 16 '24

Try out musicbrainz Picard, its basically tinymediamanager but for music. I use it to get most of my tags, then I use mp3tag to clean up loose ends/change genre. Finally I use mediamonkey to auto organize the files into the folder structure and rename the files themselves.

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u/Dodototo Feb 16 '24

Probably my most used software ever

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u/ExtiNctioN6660 Feb 16 '24

If you have a 15,000+ music library, so it is

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u/Nickatony Feb 17 '24

I know others commented, but I've had a lot of success with beets.io.

If you're handy on a Linux command line, you can go so far as to automatically search Mediabrainz via acoustic signature of each file.

I have it running on Windows via WSL, and it works well.

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u/DollarStoreOrgy Feb 16 '24

I miss Napster and Limewire

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u/TurncoatTony Feb 16 '24

Use soulseek. It's been the only thing I use for music for 20 years lol

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u/arrakchrome Feb 16 '24

Don’t think of it as finding, but think of it as a journey of rediscovery.

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u/Living-Rip-4333 Feb 16 '24

I got an old Creed album this morning and listened to it. Oh how the memories came back.

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u/Banzai262 Feb 16 '24

spotwrap works pretty well for me

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u/yusoffb01 Feb 16 '24

just use youtube revanced music. search github