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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[–] rozodru@piefed.social 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

slsk-batchdl is pretty powerful too, if you're not afraid of a little command line

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago (6 children)

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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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Soulseek is popular with audiophiles, so there tends to be a lot of large, well-tagged FLAC collections

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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!

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

TIL. I'm picky but not that picky. I'll have to give it another shot.

[–] rozodru@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Same boat but there's some moves happening lately that aim to change those laws

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

Nicotine+ is a very good soulseek front; I suggest to adjust tags with Picard.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

YT Premium, YT music, yt-dlp and tag using Musicbrainz Picard. 256kBit/s Opus is done.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Private trackers

(Or soul seek but it's not open source)

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it’s not open source

Nicotine+ is.

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

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

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have less issues with a closed-source network than a client.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe less, but still some

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] L501@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] andyspam@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Would you be willing to share your scripts?

[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 1 points 5 days ago

Well, I'll be darned - I hope it works out!

[–] L501@mander.xyz 1 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 5 days ago

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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