My current way is:
- bandcamp.com for some artists
- buying used CDs from a online music CD reseller and ripping them
- download a few from youtube via youtube-dl or something
Now a few of those from youtube are great, i’d like to buy now the album. bandcamp.com doesn’t offer it and it is too specific/too new to get a used CD.
i could buy them from apple Itunes since it is rather cheap and it offers a DRM free download option (i think), but i’d like to avoid apple and its walled garden and bad user interface for linux people.
I use yt-dlp, and then use ffmpeg to convert it to mp3.
You’d be better off using soulseek or something unless you can only find the thing you’re looking for on youtube (which does happen sometimes).
doesn’t yt-dlp download audio directly?
Nope.
I’m suprised. I think there is a -a audio only option
It does.