Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/25939068
Just gonna leave that here:
https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation
Syncs and deDRMs your Audible library in a configurable interval. Also works headless on your server
i don’t buy audible anymore but i had a sizable library from before and this works great!
Bandcamp, even though it’s ownership is questionable at this point, still has Bandcamp Fridays where the artist gets 100% of the sale, and they let you download DRM-free high quality FLAC files.
This is for all those who don’t like this, and want to demand DRM-free files.
sometimes, especially with niche artists, there aren’t that many high quality flacs out there in the first place
For games, always buy from GOG if you can. Unless it’s a game I really want I only buy from GOG.
But then you should also back up the optional downloadable install files for each game. Just using the launcher is not a fail proof way to keep your game collection
Indeed, there are many tools to do that, one of them of my own making: https://github.com/RikudouSage/GogDownloader
But even if you don’t back them up, at least you signal that DRM-free is important to you by buying there.
Many Steam games are actually DRM free. You can just copy the game folder onto a flash drive, sometimes modify a single file, and then run it from the flash drive in any PC.
You should still buy from GOG first imo, but I wouldn’t entirely count out Steam.
Well, it’s still a hack, not something officially supported, I wouldn’t really consider them DRM-free when you still need Steam to run the game officially.
I’m not ruling out Steam either, they’ve done a lot of good for gaming and I buy games there if I really want them and there’s close to no chance they’re coming to GOG (like the recent Dragon Age), but more and more often I decide that I don’t actually want that game that much.
I will never forgive Microsoft for just straight up deleting everyone’s (mine) MineCraft purchases and accounts, and then having the gall to tell us to buy it again. It’s still in my Microsoft Store purchase history, for Christ’s sake.
I’d sooner buy Skyrim 4 more times than buy back what was stolen from me.
I literally had to look this up just now. Such a high profile game did such a huge thing and somehow I am just now hearing about it? Insane, tbh.
I chose to pirate Minecraft back when Notch was charging $20 CAD for a game in which the health bar didn’t work, and I’ve been nothing but validated by every decision around the game since.
iTunes sells drm-free music downloads. The still do, if you go to the iTunes Store and not the Apple Music streaming surface.
There are better options out there though, like BandCamp.
256kbps AAC is still proprietary, but you can convert it to an MP3 with something like dBPowerAmp
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is patented and requires a license for legal use.
Bandcamp only works if the band originated there. Most labels don’t sell anything through bandcamp. If a label doesn’t release digital lossless for me to buy it’s getting downloaded on Soulseek.
