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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last year, over 17 billion visits were made to music piracy websites around the world, first reported by Wired.
We’ve come a long way since Napster, but people are once again using the internet to illegally download their favorite songs in a major way.
Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads.
Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers are using websites that rip audio straight out of YouTube videos, and convert them into downloadable MP3 or .wav files.
A simple Google search yields dozens of blue links to these sites, and they’re, by far, the largest form of audio piracy on the internet.
Google has hardline policies against copyright infringement in its terms of service but seems to let these music piracy sites scootch by.
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I really miss iTunes circa 2007 (I think?) before it got enshittified. I had it running on a Windows machine with my carefully-curated music library until the machine died. I got the music files off but had to reinstall iTunes and by that time it was a bloated piece of crap. I haven't found the equivalent since!
I was in the same boat as you about 5 years ago - I had been stubbornly using iTunes, but it was so slow and the store was just an annoyance, it was getting in the way of me actually listening to my music. I ended up choosing MusicBee over Winamp or foobar2000 because it has all the library management stuff (even a sync to mobile device function) and a great interface right out of the box.
Family sharing is the way to go for me.