I’ve been building up my digital music library again after giving music streaming the boot. I was going to attempt to digitize my CD and vinyl collection, but I frankly don’t have the time for all that. So I thought I might turn to file-sharing and download digital versions of my physical collection. I prefer FLAC or WAV if the former isn’t available. Can you recommend good places to get started?
Nicotine+, a soulseek client
Dumb question since its peer to peer that means you’ll need port forwarding if using nicotine+ over a VPN right?
the megathread has good sources, i personally use lucida
Lucida is great especially from Qobuz !
I’m late to the party since it is a well-known site but rutracker is quite good for FLAC content.
seconding this, rutracker and rutor are my go to’s
what.cd and a time machine
redacted.sh, no time machine needed
Ugh, knife to my heart
I use nicotine+ to download my music and it’s great! I can find almost everything I want to hear in flac. Maybe not the best choice for playlists but for downloading albumns is awesome
only thing I would add to this thread is occasionally usenet can be handy if you’re looking for music that’s fairly mainstream. If you’re looking for some weird 7” that was self released with 50 copies that’s obviously not gonna work though
Not exactly what you’re looking for in terms of being free, but you could get a Qobuz subscription then use Qobuz-dl to snag what you want to download in lossless quality.
This is what I do. The streaming subscription isn’t that much, and I can download a single album or a txt file with multiple album links with just one command. Only downside of the streaming subscription is you will occasionally run into albums that are or have purchase-only tracks that you can’t download without buying the album, but I don’t seem to run into those too often.
Managed to get my entire library in FLAC except for one album - “I Love You Because,” the soundtrack to what is apparently an obscure musical based on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”.
I’ve been using lucida to download from Tidal. It works very well.
Other than file-sharing or xdcc, where you can search for FLAC,
squid.wtfallows you to download FLACs from select providers.It seems to consistently throw a WebAssembly is not defined error.
A while ago when I last used it one of the two services worked while the other didn’t. Have you tried both?
Or are you using a webbrowser with no WebAssembly support or WebAssembly disabled?
Soulseek via slskd on my NAS to fill in the missings from Lidarr works really well. Gluetun with a VPN and sharing everything as it grows
