I would like to move away from using spotify for music. Are there any torrenting sites where I can torrent music with high quality audio (~320kbps) tagged properly?

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[–] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have soulseek/nicotine+ on my private server and I just use that. It's really easy. If you ever used Napster or limewire or Kazaa or whatever it's exactly like that.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    slsk-batchdl is pretty powerful too, if you're not afraid of a little command line

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    yup! I used that to pull my playlists from spotify and youtube to download my songs on soulseek. very powerful tool that worked great. just let it run on my server overnight and had all my songs by the morning.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Offtopic follow-up question:
    How do I prevent it from aborting when I launch it through SSH and want to quit the client?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I used screen. Just start a screen session for it like "music-downloads" and then you can quit the session and exit out OR install a DE like XFCE on your server and then use something like xfreerdp to remote desktop in, run the script in a terminal on the server, then just close your xfreerdp.

    I first used screen to download everything but then decided to install XFCE and Nicotine+ and just leave it up so people can download from my library also.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    I would love to do this from Spotify. Can you share any code snippets or examples?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    this was the script I used to download my youtube playlist, you can modify it to do spotify also:

    #!/bin/bash  
    
    PLAYLIST_URL="$1"  
    
    if [ -z "$PLAYLIST_URL" ]; then  
        echo "Usage: $0 <youtube_playlist_url>"  
        exit 1  
    fi  
    
    # Log file with timestamp  
    LOG_FILE="$HOME/music-downloads/download_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).log"  
    
    echo "Starting download at $(date)" | tee "$LOG_FILE"  
    echo "Playlist: $PLAYLIST_URL" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  
    echo "----------------------------------------" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  
    
    # Run sldl with YouTube playlist  
    sldl "$PLAYLIST_URL" --yt-dlp 2>&1 | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  
    
    echo "----------------------------------------" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  
    echo "Download completed at $(date)" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"  
    
    

    I just ran this in a screen session. You don't have to log everything but I did it so I could check to see what songs weren't on soulseek from my playlist.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I have never used soulseek. Isn't this basically just Napster/kazaa/bearshare/limewire kind of deal? Wouldn't it be loaded with garbage with bad tags?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Soulseek is popular with audiophiles, so there tends to be a lot of large, well-tagged FLAC collections

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    TIL. I'm picky but not that picky. I'll have to give it another shot.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    the tags are really decent, like the previous poster said it's pretty much all audiophiles so everything is tagged, a lot of FLAC stuff but you can sort by MP3 (Nicotine+ makes it really easy in that regard)

    The great thing about it and because the user base is mostly audiojunkies is that you can find some REALLY obscure stuff. Like things you'd never find on spotify or youtube music or any of that. I once found a set from a band I love from a show I was actually at.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    That's incredible. I used to have a hard drive I lost years ago with tons of obscure stuff and I was never able to find a lot of it again.

    Edit:

    Nobody is concerned about privacy? Seems to work a lot like bittorrent, exposing your IP

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    Eh. There's also a bunch of bozos there that'll literally rip 128 kbps mp3s from youtube and store them as FLACs. I saw it with my own 2 beady eyes right after the release of "The end of you" by Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante. So there's no way of knowing what source they've used.
    EDIT: I do like Soulseek a lot tho!

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