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WindHasHobbies t1_iy83sdh wrote

Me with old Vocaloid music, where the highest quality file available in existence is ultra compressed 2011 quality youtube rips.

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lui_is_not_homo t1_iy8qx34 wrote

Its always available for download on some obscure japan only site, and then you will never get the flac beacuse no one cares enough to spend 500 yen on it and release it

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WindHasHobbies t1_iy99v7g wrote

If only I got that lucky, the majority of the links that I find on those japanese sites end up being dead, so even if the song is free it only exists on some japanese guy’s dusty hard drive from 2014.

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Arezz1337 t1_iy8mw81 wrote

Even newer most popular songs are available only as live/cover recordings. Have you had any success in searching any service where it is possible to buy/download FLACs of vocaloids?

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WindHasHobbies t1_iy99hau wrote

No idea what this subreddits rules are on sailing the sea, but I had some luck with a few from a new service I recently downloaded. More niche songs that don’t have a bandcamp release or a self hosted mediafire and are basically just random videos uploaded to NicoNico or YouTube couldn’t be found, but at that point I doubt the song was even produced beyond YouTube-level quality. Also note that most of the songs I’ve been downloading are very old and not QA’d at all, so I don’t have much input on getting new songs.

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