Hello, recently I've been on the hunt for a private music tracker to populate my Lidarr Instance, I've found REDacted and Orpheus quite appealing, but they're "hard" to get into and are mostly for audiophiles.

I'm not an audiophile (more like a brokeyphile) and I don't want to wait 3-5 weeks on something I'll be just seeding instead of being active, do y'all have any recommendations? All I can offer is seeding 24/7 and a few proofs that I have good ratios

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[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Seriously, don't bother with torrents for music. Soulseek is way more reliable and at least someone has had any thing I've ever looked for in FLAC.

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

I was ruined by What.CD, haven't been able to find a satisfactory one since.

But also, with streaming services and smaller file sizes, torrenting isn't as necessary. I haven't seen these two listed, so here you go. Each site has a few options and server locations, so you just need to try the different ones until you know which one works. Some offer FLAC, some MP3 320.

For me, Lucida.to searching Amazon seems to be the most reliable.

https://lucida.to https://squid.wtf

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 1 week ago

Soulseek.. checkout slskd, amazing little daemon.

[–] HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Soulseek+lidarr+tidal is how I get everything.

Tidal will give you a 2 month trial for $2 and then there is tidal-dl along with the lidarr extended scripts.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

I've been using Nicotine+ for SoulSeek and I've been able to find just about everything I've been looking for.

It has a "Wish List" feature that I've used a couple of times.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Given streaming is so ubiquitous, private music trackers have a hard time having a big enough library to meet all of a users needs.

OPS is great but even they don't have all the tracks I search for. RED is better since there's more incentive to upload and more users.

Lucida and other DDL sites listed on fmhy are likely your best bet, aside from maybe rutracker.

https://fmhy.pages.dev/audiopiracyguide#audio-ripping-sites

[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I gave up on private trackers for music tbh I can't be asked to go through an interview for a tracker to be honest. I also don't use lidarr I set it up once but gave up because it just does not work well for me I instead find my music (98% of the time) from a different site (not a torrent site it's a direct download and has early releases updated all the time this is how I find new music aswell + last FM) and the rest I search for and find using slskd (old release s). If you want to use lidarr I would recommend setting up soularr (this needs slskd) or I believe there are lidarr integrations with deemix or others to rip the audio that way. But as said above I don't use any of that anymore. I'm a huge fan of slsk though