[Rant?] Is it just my misunderstanding or do most Indian OTT providers not show or have popular English TV series or Music any more?

[sama]

@6pack

I think usenet was blocked by indian isp’s. I don’t have broadband so can’t do all this. just mobile 5G internet now.

@@sama What’s RD? Real Debrid? What is it? I’ve heard of it on Reddit a lot. Edit: I saw a post on reddit. It’s a subscription based provider. I don’t have kodi so wont be using it.

The curated stuff has unrelated US and other songs embedded in it. If you mean Radio, then, I don’t like that since my taste is different from what others like. YT music quality has gone down a cliff after they introduced some Stable Volume feature. Now everything is either very low volume or very loud volume. And bass is blown out in most songs and distorted. I thought my music player or EQ settings changed but no, it was YT doing shit to the music. I think they did it because people were downloading music videos and saving it. So they decided to destroy everything. Now everything is compressed to shit. Even 720p video looks like 480p now and they removed the HD tag from 720p video resolution. No use of YT music now.

Edit: Guess going for ahem flac or apple lossless music (if free sources not available) is the only way now. Wonder if there’s a way to save apple lossless music from android to pc.

Yes, the beauty of Real Debrid is that is has nearly all popular torrents cached so it can be played back instantly.

Stremio is one such UI which integrates Rd but the Kodi add-ons are better in the sense that you can access all titles from all OTTs around the world instantly.

I never downloaded large files previously but now prefer the 50-100 GB Bluray rips when available as they playback instantly with subtitles and are of course immensely better in quality than what streaming services provide. Also use Trakt for tracking all watched content as that too integrates with nearly everything, keeps an history and provides recommendations based on it.