this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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why not buy the album and then use it locally on your device? vlc runs pretty much everything and you could fit thousands of songs while offline (could even remove the gsm/wifi/bluetooth from a phone running some FOSS os and turn it into your offline media device). or just get a cd player for $1 at a thrift store, offline, private, full access
thrift stores sell albums for $1 and there are a few sites that sell new music to be downloaded for cheap
Can you even buy DRM free music these days?
yeah not sure. are there ways to rip a drm physical album to audio file?
There are ways to rip physicsl media but they break the encryption which is 'illegal'.
I meant more just having control of the actual files when buying from places like Amazon or ITunes rather than just being given library access to the songs for so long until that company loses the license and deletes them from your library.
exactly
On bandcamp! If I want to support artists, this is the site I always go to. And yt-dlp works also great on bandcamp when I'm not feeling so generous ;)