honestly, i still pay for music, i just then download it.
tidal subscription and streaamrip into navidrome
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Learn an instrument. Jam with the locals. Fuck the music businesses and inflated concert prices. Serve yourself. /s
as everyone else has said soulseek and nicotine+.
If you want to get your spotify playlists from soulseek use this script: https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl
basically you export your spotify playlists as a csv and slsk-batchdl will take that and try to find everything on soulseek and download it for you. anything it can't find it'll let you know. it might take awhile, if you have a server I'd run it on that via screen and just let it run overnight (that's what I did)
Keep in mind that Soulseek has A LOT of audiophiles on it so you'll find a lot of high quality audio and FLACs. if FLAC is too big for you and you're fine with mp3s you c an use Nicotine+ to just search for mp3s.
Why doesn't anyone started up an open source Soulseek like network?
Try OuterTune (available on F-Droid). It's a YouTube Music client without ads. And YT Music itself can be used with uBO.
You can pass interviews to get into OPS (Orpheus) or RED (Redacted). Both are dedicated to music and have a huge catalogue. I'm unsure if OPS is open to recruitment as of now, though. Hope you find what you are looking for:)
I'm gonna second Soulseek. It is pretty old, but so many of the people who use it are collectors who organize their collections well, and I've found some pretty obscure stuff on there as well.
I haven't tried it myself, but I want to try Soularr, which apparently lets Lidarr use Soulseek as a source.
Soularr works pretty well in conjunction with slskd. If you know how to use soulseek, it shouldn't be too hard to get set up. The interface is quite different from the other *arrs, but it was easy enough to set up for me.
I'm running on Windows and can't get Soularr to reliably look for it download songs. Any advice?
I'm set up in containers on Linux, but there should be a config file you point to both lidarr and slskd. You'll need the api key for each for them to connect, and in each you need them pointing to the same download location.
Getting it to work with Lidarr would be the most ideal situation. The biggest hurdle I'm facing is my wife wanting an easy solution. With Lidarr I can reverse proxy so she can request songs still.
rutracker isn't bad
I'll take a look. Thanks
rutracker ain't music dedicated, but the music it has is usually high quality, flac. 💪🏼
Not a torrent site but Soulseek/Nictone+ is a very old school Limewire-style service that you can curate with friends lists and choosing what to share and not share.
Orpheus is dedicated to music, and one other one which I forget the name of. It's kind of interesting how music trackers were what made torrenting explore originally but not music trackers are often an afterthought.
I was leaning towards torrents because my wife wants easy and Lidarr can be accessed outside the house.
Soulseek is very easy to use. Been using it for over a year now. Not sure how it's not more popular as I've been able to find lossless versions of just about everything. Highly recommend.
My experience with Lidarr (tried it after they fixed their DB problem) has been pretty poor, and doesn't seem to download music into album folders for some reason.
Yeah, I also don't think it's great but don't know of any alternative that I can sync up with Spotify. I need to make the transition as seamless as possible if the wife's going to give up her Spotify.
Everyone has already suggested soulseek, so I will also add that on rare occasions I've been able to find downloads with Yandex that I couldn't find on soulseek or anywhere else.
I'll take a look at Yandex, thanks!
+1 for Soulseek. Torrents for music tend to be very hit and miss.
Soulseek, but also redacted.
slskd if you use containers.
seconded, works great with soularr also