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where do people download music nowadays? Soulseek has consistently been the only place i've used throughout the years, but i was wondering if there's anywhere else.

>where do people download music nowadays? Soulseek has consistently been the only place i've used throughout the years, but i was wondering if there's anywhere else. Deemix

>rutracker >bandcamp >intitle index of [band] mp3 >youtube rips in the worst case scenario

rutracker and soulseek, indeed. Maybe RED if I manage to get an invite one of these days.

WinMX is active in currentyear lmao

>>10645 >rutracker and soulseek This. I almost always find what I want there, even the more obscure soykafs. Sometimes I just use yt-dlp on Bandcamp and YouTube if the thing is not available on the aformentioned.

>>10779 >yt-dlp on Bandcamp holy hell i didn't know that was possible still gonna buy stuff to the ones that deserves money, but i will put this new information to good use

>>10642 bandcamp if the music's cheap or free otherwise, soulseek and rutracker

>>10780 i'd also like you to know it works on whole albums, not only on songs. Welcome to the world of whole discography scraping by two clicks and two keystrokes per album. (i plan to write an actual discography scraper script, including album cover saving, and proper naming of files, but i'm a lazy cunt)

>>10642 Soulseek QBittorrent ytdl >>10644 Based I'm disappointing by how many people just want to rip from Youtube.

>>10642 I use soulseek mainly, if something isnt available, I usually try to trace a physical copy. Rarely do I buy stuff from bandcamp, stopped ripping soykaf from youtube years ago lol.

Not fun but reliable a fair amount http://download-soundtracks.com/

>>10644 >intitle index of [band] mp3

>>10780 >>10779 >I just use yt-dlp on Bandcamp How do you rip music from Bandcamp using yt-dlp? And do you get it in 320kbps/ flac or only just in 128kbps?

Redacted.ch is good but its been a while since I used it >>10815 The samples are 128kbps mp3's and usually well encoded. If I want the good soykaf I just buy the music.

>>10643 FPBP. ..................................................

>>10815 You can also bulk rip full quality albums from Bandcamp using bcdl (github) and k47.cz, the latter just being useful for Bandcamp in general.

>>10818 Forgot to add bcdl is only for free albums, but it's simple to acquire literally tens of thousands of free albums with this method. Otherwise there are plenty of similar tools to get the 128kbps streams in bulk.

There's a few niche blogs I follow that are good sources of flac rips for very specific genres.

Is it safe to use soulseek without vpn?

>>10821 I haven't had any issues and I share like 8TB of stuff.

>>10821 It's P2P, so your IP will be visible to anyone who wants to know it. I've never heard of a slsk related lawsuit but if it's still too spooky, make sure your VPN supports port forwarding for sharing to work.

>>10642 I download my music with apps like newpipe because i can hear my music in my cellphone and can hear in all the places i go, add to that i have airpods to hear in any place (before criticizing me, the airpods is a fathers gift and its works well in my samsung)

>>10830 >uses phone use an mp3, pleb

>>10833 >use an mp3, pleb use a proper device with FLAC support, pleb

>>10834 >doesnt know some music players can play more than one format plebians never learn

>>10642 In addition to Soulseek, torrents, et al., I use Nicotine+ and Perfect Dark (warning: there is also cp)... and these websites: >https://yakuithemaid1.bandcamp.com/ (maidcore) >https://ocremix.org/torrents >http://tracker.modarchive.org >http://keygenmusic.net/?page=pack/packlist&lang=en >Koronba https://www.mediafire.com/file/50b4kjhl1zosdj7/Koronba.rar/file & https://www.mediafire.com/file/qkb6ek3nqgscoey/Koronba_Pack.rar/file >Nishikigatsuo https://www.mediafire.com/file/lji9pg1uhnjxph1/Nishikigatsuo_Pack.rar/file >Kotemusob https://www.mediafire.com/file/gn1iqa0403q5o3g/Kotemusob_Pack.rar/file >Mark. 3 https://www.mediafire.com/file/6wk0hrrntmdhasv/MARK.3_Pack.rar/file >Rakkan Shugi https://www.mediafire.com/file/3fc9bgx8uef1upi/Rakkan_Shugi_Salmon_Pack.rar/file >2号 https://www.mediafire.com/file/8rn5nf24kocq4g1/2gou._Pack.rar/file >http://denpa.omaera.org (denpa) >https://yewtu.be/channel/UClFcNYw5Icgl4hsMbSXRDhQ (DenpaCake YT channel)

>>10833 >>10834 Being that modern day phones are being built without SD card slots (disgusting) I've been forced to convert all my songs on the computer to 128k Opus for the phone, but I have to say, Opus is an incredible format and I honestly can't tell the difference from 128k vs flac and even looking in a spectrogram it is crazy how much data it retains compared to say mp3. To answer the question, lately I just use youtube-dl or just invidious and switch to audio mode and right-click save the videos from that way, in audio-only webm format and then use mkvextract to extract the opus file from the webm. Works well altho you have to sometimes manually select the higher quality since it defaults to the lower quality sometimes, but if you manage to find stuff on those '-topic' channels it is all lossless uploads so great quality. Besides that, I already downloaded every discography by bands I like ages ago. Streaming services are the devil.

>>10820 This. >>10841 >In addition to Soulseek [...] I use Nicotine+ Doesn't Nicotine+ simply a client to access the Soulseek network ? By using N+ you're still using Soulseek. There is the network (Soulseek) and the tool to use it (SoulseekQt for Windows and Nicotine+ for Linux).

i see a lot of lains that use soulseek here, but i only ever used magnets and youtube. Although it's soykaf because i can't download good quality single tracks (most magnets and torrents are dead). can anyone tell me how soulseek works? I installed nicotine+ but i don't know if I am also required to seed stuff (that would mean i need a seedbox?)

>>10869 Sharing stuf is part of the culture anon. As it always was (yes even in the torrent community). So yes it's advised to share some music (and not a soykafty folder with 3 random songs). Depend on the users but you may be derezzed to dl from someone's folders if you're not sharing music. I usually don't ban except when the guy dl an huge amount of stuff in one row but have nothing to give to the community in return. Depending on my mood I sometimes just send them a message and see how he/she will reply and ban them or not accordingly. >share music >don't be an asshole >enjoy simple as.

>>10779 I use yt-dlp as well, but via a python script that calls FFmpeg after ytdlp downloads content in order to add metadata to the mp3s.

I was today years old when I learned that you can download from Bandcamp and in full bit rate FOR FREE!!!

>>10871 could you share the script with us anon? how does it work?

>>10889 >you can download from Bandcamp and in full bit rate FOR FREE I'm pretty sure you can't. Whatever script you are using might just artificially upscale the 128kbps you get

>>10909 See >>10818 Around 4/5ths of the stuff on Bandcamp is not free, but the Electronic category at three star or higher rating still scored me around 24 thousand albums at high quality br.

>>10915 >only works on free releases lmao, figured

>>10909 I meant the "name your price Albums", if you put 0 you can download it for free, I didn't know you can do that before, and so why my post.

>>10920 oh sorry, didn't understand it like that but yeah that's what's so good with bandcamp!

This album is still ridiculously good, are there anymore like it?

>>10929 >Ravedeath >Harmony in Ultraviolet With the one you cited are my favorites from Hecker.

Rip it from youtube ~ Paint It Black https://youtu.be/jQYOQOBc57A

>>10642 bandcamp newgrounds youtube (as a last resort)

>>10642 i seek it, with my soul

Youtube when I am lazy https://y2down.cc/en/

I use rutracker and Soulseek pretty much exclusively. I also have a Spotify subscription that I plan to cancel sometime soon, and I use Zotify to download some songs I couldn't find on other services from there. You can use Zotify on a free account, too, but it limits the quality (I think to 160kbps).

>>11365 Same here iv'e been Spotify free for about 6 months now. One of the best things i did. Soulseek + Torrents do the trick for me.

>>10642 stream lossless from streaming services, pretty much annoying yes but it's the quickest way

yt-dlp -x --audio-format flac bitch

>>11365 do you have to be able to grok enough russian to use the site or is there a language setting I'm missing?

>>11397 you just need to be able to navigate a webpage, its not badly designed. I don't know any russian but never had an issue with it. They have at times been hostile to non logged in searching and stuff, so maybe search with a seperate engine.

>>11365 Listen to radio stations that have music samples https://fbiradio.com/945fm/newmusic/

>>11395 you just convert a soykafty 128kbps mp3 to a fake flac. Hope you don't share your soykaf on Soulseek glitterboy. We hate people like you there.

>>11397 I remember having to use a translator for the registration process and setting my account but once you did it you just have to log in, type a search and dl. Still use a translator from time to time to read the comments or info about torrents. Rutracker is a good place for warez music (Russia have a deep and serious warez scene due to past history). But mostly I use Soulseek (Nicotine+ client on Linux) fot my music needs. I was also wondering if eDonkey is still in use, I see there is an amule package for Linux but the place may be dead (compared to Soulseek) now.

>>11716 I still favour Rutracker, personally. Why? Because Soulseek is a proprietary network, and because it's hard to find specific releases (to avoid remasters, for example).

>>11714 not my problem, keep using your proprietary soyftware

I just buy CDs, I'll demo stuff on youtube if it's on there but yeah at this point just straight CDs homie

>>11717 As a regular Soulseek user I must admit it's very tedious to find a specific release yes. When I'm looking for a particular edition I favor Rutracker to. Also as the vast majority of Soulseek users don't keeps NFO files (including me) files you have absolutely no idea what are you downloading. I just dl one or two songs, listen to them and if I'm happy I dl the whole album. If no, I'm looking for another user share. >>11719 >not my problem, keep using your proprietary soyftware said the guy who rely on Youtube. As long as you don't poison the network with fake lossless music, yes I will.

>>11724 >Also as the vast majority of Soulseek users don't keeps NFO files I don't either, but since a year or two, I systematically tag LABEL and CATALOGNO if I have this info.

TPB and downloading off youtube.

>>10642 Soulseek is the only resource needed but I sometimes use RED as well.

>>10642 For me, I use a yt-dlp app on my phone to download off YouTube and Bandcamp (specifically paid music, it saves the full thing). Sometimes I would torrent my music and get my music from websites that have MEGA links but I don't do that much as I used to. I also look in archives for obscure music.

I dont download much music, but when I do I get it from internet archive. I know they have soykafty politics but they generally have high quality copies of whatever I'm looking for.

Internet Archive, I've been downloading music from there for a while

>>11726 I have a decent collection of CDs I would be willing to rip and share, what should I do to tag them properly? I'm willing to do my own research but LABEL and CATALOGNO aren't great search parameters.