I get at least 1/3rd of my MP3s the super old fashioned way; by renting CDs from the library and ripping them lol. It does help that I live in a big city with an interconnected library system. Or you could try archive.org.
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Yes, or nicotine +
Or Seeker (f-droid) on Android
I couldn't find that one in search.
Oh, sorry. I forgot you'll have to add the IzzyOnDroid repo first
Edit: assuming you're fine with this
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You can get Seeker directly from its github if that's all you want.
Edit2: there's an app for automating updates for apps installed directly but I can't remember the name.
The app for updating is obtainium. Highly recommend it.
That's it! Thank you.
Blessings to you, friend!
I still use soulseek. Works great. No I haven’t tried anything else for 15 years.
Soul seek, although a lot of folk punk bands have their shit for free on bandcamp, all of Pat The Bunny’s stuff at least I’m sure
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Try RuTracker.
If you're downloading music honestly there's no better alternative than soulseek.
Although I'd get the app nicotine+ it's a graphical client of slsk with a much better UI and more features..
You have two problems, curation and piracy.
Piracy is easy, get into a few good private trackers or download from YouTube or use soulseek (carefully!).
Curation is harder and if you don’t want to do it yourself you have to make friends with people who are into the same music as you or use the tools of feed based services like Spotify to dump into your piracy rube-Goldberg contraption.
It’s worth not doing the latter because you will end up failing the Dow Jones and the Industrials test if you just stick to only what the machine gives you because it’s what you like.
Go make friends with people and enjoy music, a collaborative hallucination unique to humanity, with them.
I use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF
Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time
I always go back to just torrents.
Public torrents suck for music these days. Little available and a lot that is there is FLAC only, no mp3-320
Then let's start creating more again. And seed.
I subscribe to Deezer but use Deemix to download the FLAC files without DRM for my personal library. If the music you want is on Deezer, then you can download it.
Rutracker,bandcamp, yt-dlp with extract to mp3 :)
Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore
If you haven't already done it, Pat (the Bunny) put all his stuff on archive and he's far from the only one.
Idk about curated playlists but I use soulseek to share files with my friends.
I like the same genres, I can recommend you some albums I've been liking if you want
eu dot qobuz dot squid dot wtf
Returns 502 for me :/
You have to have the cookie for squid dot wtf first. Go there.
Weird, try same with na dot instead of eu dot
I got address not found
Oops, I meant us dot not na dot
Oh thank you man working now
I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)
Oh fuck I didn’t actually answer your question! Sorry!
You want the two major private trackers for music. They both have active communities and all kinds of groupings of releases.
I just use RED. The user collages are pretty nice to find new albums.
Wait, FOSS alternatives that hook? Are they in Fdroid?
RiMusic is one I know of
I like Nicotine for Soulseek, but it's been some time since I got on there, like pre-pandemmy
Bloodywood
But that's none of those genres...
I would like their stuff so much more if the nu-metal parts went away.
I am unsure what makes something "Swing", but I absolutely adore The Roar of '74 by Buddy Rich. I discovered it via my dumb rule of "See vinyl record with car on it, buy vinyl record with car on it"