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What are the best places to dl FLAC music?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there any site that gives you all the different music services URLs, like a searcher that makes it easier?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The best way for me that I found is using Soulseek, sadly it's proprietary but it's really nice as a lot of people share on it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Just use SoulSeekQt and filter for .flac, if the song you're looking for was ever released on flac it'll be there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’re on CDs, you just need some gumption

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This. Physical media is awesome to own, and ripping extremely high-quality copies is actually pretty easy, just time-consuming.

I recommend EAC (Exact Audio Copy). It's free and there are some awesome guides online for setting it to get the best quality for your rips.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

deezer arls and qobuz access tokens from https://rentry.org/firehawk52 to dowload with https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Apart from lucida I use these,

yams

squid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Another way that needs a credit card:

Make a disposable e-mail, sign up for a month trial for Qobuz or Tidal and use a program like StreamRip to just download high-quality music straight from the platform.

When the trial ends, just make a new e-mail and repeat.

Someone mentioned Lucida here, which is more straightforward, but I found it slow and often failing. Once you're signed up, downloading is easy and it's the easiest way to get more obscure stuff in high quality.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

SLSK, private trackers, public trackers, random websites, open directories, ripping your own CDs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

FNP, TL, ST are good. Any general purpose PT is nice since you're probably never getting into RED or OPS anyways haha. Like me :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you expand the acronyms?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Private trackers. I think common ones. If you search them with "tracker" you'll probably find them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Isn't OPS relatively easy to interview in to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OPS is pretty easy to get into. The wait times for interviews can be long, but much much better than RED. The actual interview is pretty easy too imo. Just make sure to read through the interview prep.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know OPS provided interviews? If so, that'd be great since I've been wanting to join for months.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, just make sure you read up on the study material and understand it all well enough. I believe they hold interviews during the weekends and the wait times vary throughout the weekend but for me I had to wait about 3 or 4 hours before getting an interview.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't know about OPS but Redacted wasn't hard to interview into.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Perfect. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

underrated comment

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Use Nicotine+ on desktop and Seeker on Android.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

There is also a docker version https://github.com/slskd/slskd

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sweet! I didn't know about Seeker!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can get it on the izzysoft repo on F-Droid or directly from github

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

rutracker always has legit flac rips, some on soulseek can be fake

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

And when a source isn't clear, they mark the post as #doubtful.

It is where I get my music too. They even have tons of Vinyl or SACD rips, among other hi-res formats, if you're into that.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

not everything needs to be a dockerized web app for god's sake. just use Nicotine+

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

everything that isn't a dockerized container won't go into my server

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nicotine+ w/webUI, docker

Sorry, just poking at ya. Having these apps in docker does have its use cases, though. I run it in docker on my NAS since that’s where all my media files are, and I like for it to always be available to other downloaders even if my desktop is off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The link I supplied has docker as an "option".

You just be you, though, for god's sake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Easier to keep shares online 24/7 with a dockerised we app vs a desktop application I need to be logged in to a system for it to run. Best of both worlds would be a Nicotine+ like desktop fronted app that talked to the server component, but I don't think there is such a ui app for slskd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Came to say the same! 👍

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They are rebranding to a new website it is faster imo I don't like how when u unzip the files there is no parent folder however you have to make that.

Edit: New site https://lucida.to/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There's discord groups but they're hard to find because of snitches. I got in early so I have some access now but it's hard for newcomers