Nicotine+ is a very good soulseek front; I suggest to adjust tags with Picard.
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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 strongly suggest to always tag your own music. I think expecting to always finding every album tagged to your own (or you media center's) specifications and preferences in one place is a fantasy. At least it's one that I've given up on more than a decade ago. Your music will always come from multiple different sources and I don't think there is (or ever can be) one golden goose.
So yeah, +1 for Musicbrainz Picard. I'll throw in Puddletag for small manual corrections.
So I actually made a python script yesterday that uses spotify's web api to make a list of urls of every song on every album that I've liked one or more songs on. I then wrote a shell script which takes the file with all the urls and fetches the songs as 320 kbps mp3 files with a tool called zotify using a burner premium account I made. Unfortunately, it can only download songs in real time and will probably take around a month to finish downloading all the songs so I just set it to run on my vps. The mp3 files are good quality and have proper tagging and album art. I think I may have done it.
Would you be willing to share your scripts?
Well, I'll be darned - I hope it works out!
I will also add a cron job to check for new liked songs once a day after this big download of ~15,000 songs is finished.
YT Premium, YT music, yt-dlp and tag using Musicbrainz Picard. 256kBit/s Opus is done.
I've had good results with 1337x.to, but it's been a while because I moved and haven't set up a new VPN.
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.
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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
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.
Soulseek is the opposite of "tagged consistently".
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"
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?
Totally agree here. For tagging I also reccomend musicbrainz picard
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.
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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.
Yeah I meant P2P my bad.
I2P?
But he updated to say he misspoke, he meant p2p
Yeah that's what I thought 😁
(Thanks anyway)
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RED and OPS. If you want to join, try OPS first and after making decent ratio, you could try getting into RED.
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Private trackers
(Or soul seek but it's not open source)
There's a few uploaders that cross post in the more known public torrent sites, who have always uploaded MP3 320 and FLAC. Some of these websites also have ways to distinguish users who are trustworthy, and the music section shows they upload a lot of stuff. Whenever I want to download music, I seek this sort of user out. Never fails.
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