Piped?

Well at least a Local account doesn’t require internet access.

At least you can use Windows without an account, on MacOS you can’t even install an app without one I don’t think.

Just to be clear, I hate both of them, I’m a Linux user.

From the one time I tried MacOS in a VM, setup is similar to Windows with somehow even fewer options and stronger 1984 vibes.

I’m a Proton slave, all my eggs are in their basket so I’ll go ahead and provide some free marketing for them. ProtonVPN is pretty good since it’s ran by a good company that cares about you, getting Port Forwarding setup on Linux is a bit of a chore but I believe they’re working on automating it, the Windows app does have it automated already by the way.

I do worry about the long-term practicality of ProtonVPN because of this manual process, since as far as I can tell there’s no way to automatically hand your assigned port to the torrent client…

Every OS requires setup.

Printing flip-books for the videos and keeping that in essentially a time-capsule. With a vacuum if you can afford it. Not perfect but will definitely last for hundreds of years. Look at the Magna Carta for inspiration.

For the audio, vinyl and kept in an even stronger container, instruct everyone to use gloves before touching it.

I have experience with this, from a friend…

You can download without an account, but if I remember correctly it’s only certain types of media with a quality restriction.

I’ve got it downloading non-real time right now cause I was able to fix the Opus issue (PR is open on Github “Effective libopus support”), so I want to stress-test my changes a bit.

I’ll switch it back to real-time soon, and I’ll turn on the archive :P.

Thank you! Seems like Opus doesn’t work though which is a shame. I made an issue on the Github page. I’ll make a script to do that after and preserve the cover art.

I’ve now got it going with real-time downloads, this is going to take days 😭. However this tool is the best out of a set of compromises so I’ll make the most of it.

Seems like most of the tools I’m finding are CLIs, so iPhones or just phones in general are definitely a no-go I’m afraid.

If you listen to popular artists, you could try Soulseek. Not sure on how easy it is to access it on an iPhone though, I’ve never owned any Apple devices since I went off them at a young age so I’m really firing off into the dark.

Yeah I’m aware of Spotify’s 320k MP3 cap, but for the equipment I’ve got that’s fine. Thanks :)

Yeah, of course I shoot some support over their way. It’s just if I do that it also comes down to the whole ownership thing too, hence the downloading.

That was looking really good, however it doesn’t seem to download into separate sub-directories which is rather annoying. I’ll keep my eye on that though, thanks :D

See, torrent availability is more or less directly correlated to the size of the artist / band in question. So when you get someone who’s into some rather niche stuff and has quite a few small bands in their streaming library, torrenting is just not an option.

Packing games for fellow shipmates.

I pay for Proton Unlimited so I use Proton VPN. Getting port forwarding to work on Linux is a bit of a hassle but they have steps on their website. It’s hardly any slower than my internet connection, but that’s because I’m on the paid servers. The free servers are rather slow. They have a graphical client for Windows and Linux.

Proton Unlimited is €12.99/month. The VPN has a good number of features and you get the whole Proton suite with it and 500GB of storage. You can pay for just the VPN which is cheaper if you don’t want the rest of Proton.