Too many releases, too much metadata.
New music ingestion has an actual department staffed with people at those companies. The pirates just can’t keep up.
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2026
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The pirates just can’t keep up.
You should check out private music trackers. The pirates are literally racing to get new releases up there. Maybe they aren't quite as complete as some music services but I think it would be hard to argue that they aren't keeping up.
Care to share some? Public trackers are trash for music.
Yeah like you can listen to anything on red
What does that mean?
It’s exceedingly hard to get ratio on redd
They do give away lots of freeleech tokens to get your ratio going, tho
It is definitely slow, but once you get quite a bit of stuff it isn't that bad. But if you want to easier economy just go for OPS.
There's no need when it's a lot easier to leach off existing music streaming services. See: https://forum.mobilism.me/viewforum.php?f=1332
In my experience - the Spotify cracks break frequently and require too regular patching to be worthwhile, but other platforms like Deezer tend to be pretty stable.
Stremio is a solution to video content being divided among platforms in a way that music is not, and there platforms being a lot more difficult to leach off of.
That annas archive Spotify dump plus streamio would go a long way.
It should be possible but I’m guessing that the final result would not be as seamless as Stremio. If you’ve ever tried using Lidarr you’ll realize that a lot of music just can’t be found in public trackers. Even if it is available, the file name formatting is not as consistent as it is for TV or Movie torrents. Since songs are so much shorter than other forms of media that adds a lot of friction. Using a streaming service, self hosted or otherwise, is probably the better solution anyways.
monochrome.tf
Not enough people seed or distribute music. The only good way I know is downloading from YouTube, but YouTube is working hard on blocking this too.
Any and everything is on soulseek
Eeeewww ! YouTube's audio quality is TrasH ! If you want to respect your ears and those arround you...Just dont download musique from there... It's not worth it !
I'm not talking about flac grade quality... But minima off 192k mp3...
Idk about the usability of stremio because I've never used it, but I type my music into one search box, 99% of the time click the first or second result in the result list, and about 10 seconds later it's in my music folder. I really don't know what I would improve there.
I don’t know what your experience with soulsseek has been but I’ve loved it. However, if you think the experience should be more seamless and integrated, you should program a bridge for slskd and navidrome that runs the downloaded media through MusicBrainz Picard or beets before putting it in the Navidrome library.
soulsseek would be better if the client supported a VPN/socksproxy (like QBTorrent does)
Fwiw, soulseek's usability is not horrid. I have about 8500 albums, mostly downloaded from there and bandcamp. I also combined libraries with a few friends over the years, which is always fun to just bring over a hard drive and share.
Yes, it's more work but with things like Plexamp I have all the music I could ever want and it works wonderfully when remote, even does the whole "radio" suggested artists thing within my own library.
Another friend of mine has 38k albums. Sometimes I'll change the source to his and bop around.
What good is piracy unless you're amassing a huge server full of all your favorite media
I mean I have like 300gb of music ripped from Soulseek just with my phone in the past few months, but that doesn't change the fact I'm using an app that looks like it's from 2010 (which is awesome I made this post as an excuse to plug it with the new update) to do it. The usability does suck, downloads randomly fail because I can't upload with my setup & honestly I have no desire to contribute to a proprietary network, I seed stuff I find on there that I like on normal torrents
Maybe downloads randomly fail because people block you for not seeding 🙃
That's what I mean. I see the notifs, it's just on the user end like "my downloads randomly fail and I have to try a diff source" I get why it happens. I just think the seed/leech model is saner
Are you having any problems with stremio currently? Since the weekend the t.v. app won't stream anything very well at all and keeps kicking me out or crashing all together. I've uninstalled and re-installed the app but it hasn't helped. Any advice would be great.
bc dad said no