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?
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?
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.
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?
Soulseek is popular with audiophiles, so there tends to be a lot of large, well-tagged FLAC collections
TIL. I’m picky but not that picky. I’ll have to give it another shot.
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.
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
As a Canadian, I’ve never worried about privacy when torrenting or using Soulseek, but if you are worried, then yeah you’d want a VPN
Same boat but there’s some moves happening lately that aim to change those laws
slsk-batchdl is pretty powerful too, if you’re not afraid of a little command line
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.
Offtopic follow-up question:
How do I prevent it from aborting when I launch it through SSH and want to quit the client?
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.
Looks like nohup, screen, or tmux are good options.
I’ve used screen before, it worked well. Though I’ve never used it to download stuff, it should work the same
I would love to do this from Spotify. Can you share any code snippets or examples?
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.
Look at the documentation on the Github-page. It looks difficult but you only need a few options and they give you examples as well.