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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Soulseek is the current best alternative for music downloading. No viruses disguised as music, afaik

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

Exactly. If you want to go back to pirating songs, just pirate songs wth.

[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

nicotine+ is fantastic

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No viruses disguised as music, afaik

How would that work? For games or software in general, something executable, I get it, but content beside mind blowing proof of concept, I have a hard time codecs can be hijacked so that such a payload gets to do anything via e.g. VLC or mpv.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Back in kazaa/limewire times, search for any music would always return a bunch of .exe files, like Metallica - Fade to Black.exe. A lot of people learned the difference between file extensions the hard way