SoulSeek. Seriously, don't bother with anything else unless you can't find it on SoulSeek, which is very unlikely. Seriously, I've found weather channel music compilations on SoulSeek. If it exists, it's probably on there in some format.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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I looked at it and it's sooo easy to use I'll definetly be using it from now on
I reccomend the soulseek client "nicotine+" instead of soulseekQT. Much more betterer client, same soulseek under the hood.
Soulseek to get the music, Musicbrainz Picard to standardize the formatting and fix metadata if it isnt already there
I'll throw MP3tag into the mix as a tagger/formatter. Always preferred it to Picard and the solo dev seems a nice guy.
Soulseek my friend
yeah it seems great but what do I do when people don't have what I want? probably just go back to my roots
I have some obscure tastes and have been shocked by what I can find on soulseek
doubledouble(dot)top
https://fmhy.net/audiopiracyguide
DAMN this will be great for future use aswell. Thanks a lot!
rutracker.org, rutracker.ru
You can use mp3tag to rename/title/number/tag/whatever, the stuff you've already downloaded.
well that's still manual and tedious that's the thing that I'm trying to avoid even if I try to use a automated tagging it usually doesn't have the music that I listen
beets.io with the discogs plugin has never failed me. If its on discogs you will get tags
Discovered beets a few weeks ago. Tagging, organizing, converting, ... You can specify all of it in a config file and just add a new album and it handles everything for you
Have you tried freedb? It's had the majority of albums I've needed to tag, even stuff like female blues artists of the 1920's. I tagged and renamed the files on about 300 albums in a couple hours, so for me, yeah, it was a manual process but it was still quicker and easier than searching for and re-downloading a similar number of albums. But you do you - it's your music!
a ladder!
1 you can buy shit or steal in a shop which sucks
2 you could search for song on youtube,deezer,spotify and record it yourself
3 install nuclear(osx,win,lin -> https://github.com/nukeop/) or ViMusic(android > https://f-droid.org/de/packages/it.vfsfitvnm.vimusic/) and just search and download everything from there
4 you can try any xdcc indexer and grab from irc
...for the lazy I stick with 3 ...it has just become too convenient.
How can I record songs myself that's the only part I don't understand
easy! install audacity and record system audio. might wanna google the settings....
If you just want to rename everything and get the track numbers done automatically you might try the godfather. I used to use it pretty exclusively when I was downloading a lot of mp3s.
MusicBrainz Picard was another one I used a lot to organize and name music.
I don't think those are for downloading music. If so it'll still be tedious downloading them myself. Thanks for the help!
All these suggestions are great. I'll just add that qbittorrent has a built in search feature that is often outstanding. And rutracker is great for music torrents.
how did I not now this before
You can download from Spotify using Zotify. Albums, playlists, if you set it to Artist unfortunately you will get a bunch of singles and EPs that you have to clean up.
If you have Premium you can download at high bitrates, otherwise you get Ogg Vorbis at around 150 ABR. You can automatically transcode to whatever format you want, then I feed it to beets to catalogue and deliver it with Ampache.
I like the moderate bitrate OGGs myself, as I often stream from Ampache to my phone and our mobile service is quite slow. So this system works great for me.
Deemix and spotube
doesn't deemix require a premium subscription?
Thank you to everyone who recommended soulseek! I've been looking for a platform that has hard to find, high-quality music and after a quick look at the software it looks very promising. I'll report back if I've had any obscure songs I cannot find.
I download all my music from Youtube Music with yt-dlp