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
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2025
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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"
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.
I can recommend Beets for tagging, with the Lyrics plugin. Perfect for my Navidrome server and synced lyrics work perfectly on Symfonium
Soulseek is the opposite of "tagged consistently".
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?
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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.
Searching isn't helping for these two terms, what's "RED" and "OPS"?
OpPS does not do interviews atm, so I'd recommend interviewing for RED.
RED is great, if you have the time and money needed to get ratio for downloading. You have to continuously buy new music on day 1 of release and have an ultra low latency server to serve it because of the way their algos direct bandwidth.
It is not for the faint of heart, but it is the catalogue of choice.
A lot of people just rip Qobuz, Deezer, and Tidal FLAC for free using shared keys that you can find on the megathread ("Knowledge & Tokens"). Autosnatchers will give you at least one snatch per upload. No one is actually buying most of that WEB FLAC. There also might be a big batch of freeleech tokens during December for kickstarting a library. Also, I'd recommend just going full FLAC from the start; MP3 is easier/smaller to snatch, but it's 2025 and no one wants MP3, so long-term you'll get the best results by perma-seeding a large FLAC library.
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Do they ever do "freeleech" periods or staff picks with freeleech?
I was able to boost my ratio back on what.cd back in the day by downloading and seeding the 2009 Beatles Remasters Box Set in flac.
Thing was absolutely massive, and none of the download counted towards my ratio, only upload. I think I got my ratio up to 12.
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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.
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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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
Eh. There's also a bunch of bozos there that'll literally rip 128 kbps mp3s from youtube and store them as FLACs. I saw it with my own 2 beady eyes right after the release of "The end of you" by Poppy, Amy Lee and Courtney LaPlante. So there's no way of knowing what source they've used.
EDIT: I do like Soulseek a lot tho!
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.
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Nicotine+ is a very good soulseek front; I suggest to adjust tags with Picard.
YT Premium, YT music, yt-dlp and tag using Musicbrainz Picard. 256kBit/s Opus is done.
Just use Soulseek.
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.
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Private trackers
(Or soul seek but it's not open source)
it’s not open source
Nicotine+ is.
The whole network behind it, isn't.
Like a open source frontend for YouTube. It's open source but relie heavily on non-FOSS softwares
I have less issues with a closed-source network than a client.
Maybe less, but still some
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.
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.
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