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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[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 60 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Soulseek is I2P not Torrenting, but I've found it to be the best place to find music by a long shot.

Edit: It's actually P2P not I2P

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I use Soulseek along with a little command line tool to download all the music for my radio show. It's an absolute joy to use.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Soulseek is the opposite of "tagged consistently".

[–] mistermodal@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago

Agreed but it is not open source, it depends on a central server, and personally enriches a man named Nil who went to Tel Aviv university. I would prefer a music tracker.

Plus, Soulseek has a lot of quirks that make it less reliable for slow downloads. It's not a "fire and forget" solution to acquiring files in the same way a magnet link with at least one seeder lurking around is. Soulseek will not just start again when they come back, it has other rate limits that can be jumped with their "donations"

[–] kinship@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

I use soulseek but still have no idea how to find quality sources. I just filter my search with .flac and scan the users's folder structure (the more organized the better odds at being a good rip?). Am I doing it wrong?

[–] SirIglooi@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Totally agree here. For tagging I also reccomend musicbrainz picard

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago

Picard is great. I find that beets is more accurate in some cases. Yymv so worth giving them both a try. Picard is a lot easier to use and doesn't maintain it's own library index which has its pros and cons.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago

I can recommend Beets for tagging, with the Lyrics plugin. Perfect for my Navidrome server and synced lyrics work perfectly on Symfonium

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nicotine+ is an open source client for the Soulseek network. Soulseek/Nicotine+ does not use i2p or do any type of anonymization; it' uses direct connections. Guessing you meant "p2p." The network has a lot of music I can't find through torrents, and I can almost always find the music I'm looking for as FLAC files.

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah I meant P2P my bad.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I2P?

[–] bktheman@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://geti2p.net/en/

But he updated to say he misspoke, he meant p2p

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah that's what I thought 😁

(Thanks anyway)

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

Yes, this. Torrenting music is not necessary. Slsk is a better option 99% of the time. Most of the tags are the automatic ones applied by the streaming service it was ripped from or MusicBrainz. But everyone seems to expect different things from tagging, so if you want every performer tagged and like every genre you're never gonna find that.