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Hi! I wanted to start to hoard my favorite tracks in the best possible quality. A lot of stuff is available through Deezer or Tidal i know, but what sources are you guys using when FLACs for particular albums or songs cannot be found on Deezer or Tidal? I wanted to get the Rock n Roll Train song from ACDC in FLAC, but Tidal doesn't have it in FLAC.

Are there any good Public/Private trackers for Music?

Cheers.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would use Soulseek for that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know about it until a few days ago somehow (I'm kinda getting back into sailing at the moment after a long break), and I can confirm it's great and easy to get into. Has loads of flac too even if I prefer to stick to 320kbps MP3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I barely use it atm, because of telegram deezer bot solutions. But if you're looking for specific things you can't find on the other platforms it's quite nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I prefer using Deemix with a deezer Hi-Fi ARL. Has an amazing docker container which I simply sync to a Navidrome instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You pay for the hi-fi subscription or there's a way to obtain a free hi-fi ARL?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What telegram bot? Can you share the link?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Soulseek and then set the search filter to only .flac

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, that's my go-to as well. Their own search it shit though, but site:rutracker.ru on google works great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm fucked up, I read it as nutcracker for a sec

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

One thing I like about rutracker, is that the sources are apparently checked. Whereas sources from Soulseek for example, could be Youtube rips that are "upscaled" to flac.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Redacted and Orpheus are good private general music trackers with loads of FLACs. Join by interview or getting an invite.

https://interviewfor.red/

https://interview.orpheus.network/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Orpheus is good. I used to have an account but it got disabled because I wasnt using it as much as I thought I would. Great tracker. They do a lot to make sure you can keep your ratio positive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Too add on to this, many private trackers will not disable your account for inactivity if you reach a certain user class or make a one time donation (including OPS).

Plus reaching out to the staff on IRC is a good way to have an account re-enabled if it does get disabled.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're looking for rock/metal then en.metal-tracker.com usually has lots of flac rips.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Metal tracker is the best around. Now if only I could get a signup confirmation email to go through.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Nicotine+ (Soulseek)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A $15 deezer subscription will last you a month and you can download as much flac quality tracks as you want with deezloader or deemix. They don't have everything but they have a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Getting a tidal trial and using tidal downloader would be better imo. In my experience you can get multiple trials even with the same CC when using different email address, have done it 4+ times with the same CC.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Soulseek via Nicotine+, you can filter for file type and bitrate as well as avoid those assholes who lock all their files for trading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This! I'm rebuilding my collection right now so its great to just copy whole chunks of other people's libraries.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Seems like this question gets asked every week, and every time this is my answer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Deemix with a free trial of Deezer, I've downloaded 2,000 albums this week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you just mass downloading and sorting later? Or actually archiving the lot

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a really good torrent on TL that has just about every version of every song they played up until 2016. I’ll admit, it is a bit overwhelming and ~300GB in size. Look for:

ACDC - Collection 1978-2016 [273 ALBUMS] FLAC

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's quite big. I'll look into it, hopefully it's freeleech.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Search: "tidal-dl GitHub".

I think they have a Spotify version linked as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That may save to the FLAC format but is it going to be actual FLAC quality?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Rutracker maybe 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
  • soulseek
  • rutracker
  • Usenet
  • deezloader or tidal-dl
  • hd24net (you'll need a mega account)

R/Rip requests used to be a good source before it got shut down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Has the deezer docker webgui stopped working for others? Ive heard cli still works but cant find any guides. I dont use the bots as i usually grab the discog for an artist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Still working fine for me, it'll be a sad day when it goes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I meant deemix

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