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Re:Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from f... by bigyabai on Thursday September 04, 2025 @02:14AM (#45124121)
Artists can disable full-length previews if this is a concern. Otherwise, I don't think Bandcamp's 320kbps MP3s are any more attractive than a YouTube rip.
Re:Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from f... by pxoe on Thursday September 04, 2025 @09:36AM (#45127142)
Previews/free streaming on bandcamp is 128 kbps mp3 only. If you buy music there, you get the whole spread, lossy and lossless, mp3 320/v0, aac, ogg, flac, even wav. (Only thing notably missing at this point is opus, which would be fantastic to have, like for example, opus at 64k (space saving/space efficient) and 256k (quality), although vorbis or aac at whatever quality they have it set to is pretty good as a space efficient option)