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Soulseek and/or private trackers, both with a VPN.
On a hard disk?
Android isn't well suited for this. It's fine for playing either by transfering your files or streaming them with something like subsonic, mod, etc.
This could work yeah.
By design MP3 is a lossy format, so no you cannot. What you want is FLAC, a lossless compressed format.
To add to the audio compression: it isn’t possible to further compress an mp3 file without losing any quality. You can either:
If you’re willing to spend some extra time learning about audio compression, you can download lossless files and compress those directly to whatever format and bitrate you want. The quality will be better than option 1 above, as the audio is only lossely compressed once instead of twice.
I though there are no reasons at all to do it. What could be a valid use case for this ?
It’s possible for a certain hardware/software setup not to support a certain codec. For example, my jellyfin client (Finamp) uses the iOS native decoders (afaik), which means opus files are practically broken. My music library (8000+ songs) contained exactly 1 lossy file, which just so happened to be an opus file. I decided to spend the extra ~20MB to standardise my entire library to flac files, ensuring I could play every song on all my devices.
Edit cause I posted too soon: you are generally correct; only in very specific circumstances will you encounter compatibility issues like this one in the modern world. This is 100% apple being apple, and you can expect pretty much every other (reasonably modern) device to support all codecs you might encounter in the wild.
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FLAC is best if space is no concern. But when your collection starts getting very big, there are better options like AAC (which I use). It's a lot less space than FLAC and mp3, and higher quality than mp3 as well.
https://primesound.org/audio-file-formats/
Thank you for the answers! As for the hard disk, do you mean something like a USB or SSD? In that case, how do I sync the music from there to my phone?