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.

  • @chrysn
    3•2 years ago

    My primary sources are:

    • 7digital (who AIU primarily run white-label music sales platforms, but also have direct per-country shops like https://uk.7digital.com/). Reasonably simple interface, reasonable prices, good general coverage.
    • hyperion records for everything classical.
    • If everything else fails, Amazon Music; the way you get the music out of it varies over time, but in the end it has been DRM free for some time.