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I'm want to move away from Spotify but my current Lidarr setup isn't doing very well at finding music. Are there any torrent sites dedicated to music?

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[–] IanM32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm gonna second Soulseek. It is pretty old, but so many of the people who use it are collectors who organize their collections well, and I've found some pretty obscure stuff on there as well.

I haven't tried it myself, but I want to try Soularr, which apparently lets Lidarr use Soulseek as a source.

[–] archemist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Soularr works pretty well in conjunction with slskd. If you know how to use soulseek, it shouldn't be too hard to get set up. The interface is quite different from the other *arrs, but it was easy enough to set up for me.

[–] AlexanderTheGreat@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm running on Windows and can't get Soularr to reliably look for it download songs. Any advice?

[–] archemist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm set up in containers on Linux, but there should be a config file you point to both lidarr and slskd. You'll need the api key for each for them to connect, and in each you need them pointing to the same download location.

Getting it to work with Lidarr would be the most ideal situation. The biggest hurdle I'm facing is my wife wanting an easy solution. With Lidarr I can reverse proxy so she can request songs still.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not a torrent site but Soulseek/Nictone+ is a very old school Limewire-style service that you can curate with friends lists and choosing what to share and not share.

Orpheus is dedicated to music, and one other one which I forget the name of. It's kind of interesting how music trackers were what made torrenting explore originally but not music trackers are often an afterthought.

[–] AlexanderTheGreat@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was leaning towards torrents because my wife wants easy and Lidarr can be accessed outside the house.

[–] TheKaul@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Soulseek is very easy to use. Been using it for over a year now. Not sure how it's not more popular as I've been able to find lossless versions of just about everything. Highly recommend.

My experience with Lidarr (tried it after they fixed their DB problem) has been pretty poor, and doesn't seem to download music into album folders for some reason.

[–] AlexanderTheGreat@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I also don't think it's great but don't know of any alternative that I can sync up with Spotify. I need to make the transition as seamless as possible if the wife's going to give up her Spotify.

[–] fu@libranet.de 1 points 4 hours ago

@AlexanderTheGreat I apologize, I'm not following you. Why do you need to sync with spotify if you are going to give up spotify?

[–] fu@libranet.de 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry I spaced on answering this but I am unfamiliar with funkwhale so I don't really know!

[–] fu@libranet.de 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

@SnotFlickerman #Funkwhale sounds like what you are talking about, but with ActivtyPub support funkwhale.audio/

[–] fu@libranet.de 1 points 4 hours ago

@SnotFlickerman I have an account @fu I love the IDEA but haven't used it much since I haven't met others who are willing to share their library with me for fear I may be a fed, or something.

[–] Marty_TF@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

honestly, i still pay for music, i just then download it.

tidal subscription and streaamrip into navidrome

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Learn an instrument. Jam with the locals. Fuck the music businesses and inflated concert prices. Serve yourself. /s

[–] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

as everyone else has said soulseek and nicotine+.

If you want to get your spotify playlists from soulseek use this script: https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl

basically you export your spotify playlists as a csv and slsk-batchdl will take that and try to find everything on soulseek and download it for you. anything it can't find it'll let you know. it might take awhile, if you have a server I'd run it on that via screen and just let it run overnight (that's what I did)

Keep in mind that Soulseek has A LOT of audiophiles on it so you'll find a lot of high quality audio and FLACs. if FLAC is too big for you and you're fine with mp3s you c an use Nicotine+ to just search for mp3s.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

I don't want MP3s anymore, so I usually download FLAC and convert to 192 kbps OPUS. Audiophiles might get angry but my ears don't hear any difference and my harddrive really likes it. You can get as low as 16 kbps for audiobooks, it's insane! :)

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] spacelord@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

rutracker ain't music dedicated, but the music it has is usually high quality, flac. 💪🏼

I'll take a look. Thanks

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago

Soulseek, but also redacted.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 days ago

+1 for Soulseek. Torrents for music tend to be very hit and miss.

[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Everyone has already suggested soulseek, so I will also add that on rare occasions I've been able to find downloads with Yandex that I couldn't find on soulseek or anywhere else.

I'll take a look at Yandex, thanks!

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

slskd if you use containers.

[–] slackarr@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

seconded, works great with soularr also

[–] bobbbu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can pass interviews to get into OPS (Orpheus) or RED (Redacted). Both are dedicated to music and have a huge catalogue. I'm unsure if OPS is open to recruitment as of now, though. Hope you find what you are looking for:)

[–] AlexanderTheGreat@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

I'll look into them. Thank you!