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Question: Downloading music in 2025?
(lemmy.ml)
I just use RED. The user collages are pretty nice to find new albums.
Oh fuck I didn’t actually answer your question! Sorry!
You want the two major private trackers for music. They both have active communities and all kinds of groupings of releases.
I like Nicotine for Soulseek, but it's been some time since I got on there, like pre-pandemmy
I subscribe to Deezer but use Deemix to download the FLAC files without DRM for my personal library. If the music you want is on Deezer, then you can download it.
You have two problems, curation and piracy.
Piracy is easy, get into a few good private trackers or download from YouTube or use soulseek (carefully!).
Curation is harder and if you don’t want to do it yourself you have to make friends with people who are into the same music as you or use the tools of feed based services like Spotify to dump into your piracy rube-Goldberg contraption.
It’s worth not doing the latter because you will end up failing the Dow Jones and the Industrials test if you just stick to only what the machine gives you because it’s what you like.
Go make friends with people and enjoy music, a collaborative hallucination unique to humanity, with them.
A hundred times soulseek, all the music nerds are there!
Since it's p2p do I need to use a VPN to not get with a dmca letter?
As long as you don't share anything you should be okay! It's not very ethical tough... But you can share your files list with users you trust (for example people you have already downloaded from).
At any rate i never heard of anyone getting in trouble for using soulseek.
Nicotine+ for a better interface of Soulseek
I'm more of a slskd kind of guy, even if the webapp is pretty terrible
I use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF
Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time
doubledouble dot top
cobalt dot tools
lucida dot to
Slskd
Yes, or nicotine +
Or Seeker (f-droid) on Android
I couldn't find that one in search.
Oh, sorry. I forgot you'll have to add the IzzyOnDroid repo first
Edit: assuming you're fine with this
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You can get Seeker directly from its github if that's all you want.
Edit2: there's an app for automating updates for apps installed directly but I can't remember the name.
Edit3: Seeker is also on the play store. 🤷♂️
The app for updating is obtainium. Highly recommend it.
That's it! Thank you.
Blessings to you, friend!
When you are lazy, and your tastes are niche - you just stop listening to music.
Or listen to OK Computer for the billionth time because it's perfect.
Yes, this too! Which I do, do. I miss new music, but I don't miss the bullshit.
If you haven't already done it, Pat (the Bunny) put all his stuff on archive and he's far from the only one.
I still use soulseek. Works great. No I haven’t tried anything else for 15 years.
If you're downloading music honestly there's no better alternative than soulseek.
Although I'd get the app nicotine+ it's a graphical client of slsk with a much better UI and more features..
I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)
Soul seek, although a lot of folk punk bands have their shit for free on bandcamp, all of Pat The Bunny’s stuff at least I’m sure
Try RuTracker.
Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore
If you're not opposed to doing it yourself, you can sign up for a free trial to Tidal and rip it.
Rutracker,bandcamp, yt-dlp with extract to mp3 :)
eu dot qobuz dot squid dot wtf
Returns 502 for me :/
You have to have the cookie for squid dot wtf first. Go there.
Weird, try same with na dot instead of eu dot
I got address not found
Wait, FOSS alternatives that hook? Are they in Fdroid?
RiMusic is one I know of
Idk about curated playlists but I use soulseek to share files with my friends.
I like the same genres, I can recommend you some albums I've been liking if you want
Bloodywood
But that's none of those genres...
I would like their stuff so much more if the nu-metal parts went away.
I am unsure what makes something "Swing", but I absolutely adore The Roar of '74 by Buddy Rich. I discovered it via my dumb rule of "See vinyl record with car on it, buy vinyl record with car on it"
I don't care much for most Metal. either.
A nice torrent is "Rolling Stones top 500 Albums of All Time".
Not very eclectic but there's a lot of gold there.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2025
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