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What are the best places to dl FLAC music?

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

underrated comment

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Perfect. Thank you.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

rutracker always has legit flac rips, some on soulseek can be fake

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

And when a source isn't clear, they mark the post as #doubtful.

It is where I get my music too. They even have tons of Vinyl or SACD rips, among other hi-res formats, if you're into that.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Use Nicotine+ on desktop and Seeker on Android.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

There is also a docker version https://github.com/slskd/slskd

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Sweet! I didn't know about Seeker!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can get it on the izzysoft repo on F-Droid or directly from github

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They are rebranding to a new website it is faster imo I don't like how when u unzip the files there is no parent folder however you have to make that.

Edit: New site https://lucida.to/

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's discord groups but they're hard to find because of snitches. I got in early so I have some access now but it's hard for newcomers

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

deezer arls and qobuz access tokens from https://rentry.org/firehawk52 to dowload with https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Apart from lucida I use these,

yams

squid

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

FNP, TL, ST are good. Any general purpose PT is nice since you're probably never getting into RED or OPS anyways haha. Like me :(

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Can you expand the acronyms?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Private trackers. I think common ones. If you search them with "tracker" you'll probably find them.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't OPS relatively easy to interview in to?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know about OPS but Redacted wasn't hard to interview into.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

OPS is pretty easy to get into. The wait times for interviews can be long, but much much better than RED. The actual interview is pretty easy too imo. Just make sure to read through the interview prep.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't know OPS provided interviews? If so, that'd be great since I've been wanting to join for months.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, just make sure you read up on the study material and understand it all well enough. I believe they hold interviews during the weekends and the wait times vary throughout the weekend but for me I had to wait about 3 or 4 hours before getting an interview.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Just use SoulSeekQt and filter for .flac, if the song you're looking for was ever released on flac it'll be there

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

SLSK, private trackers, public trackers, random websites, open directories, ripping your own CDs.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Another way that needs a credit card:

Make a disposable e-mail, sign up for a month trial for Qobuz or Tidal and use a program like StreamRip to just download high-quality music straight from the platform.

When the trial ends, just make a new e-mail and repeat.

Someone mentioned Lucida here, which is more straightforward, but I found it slow and often failing. Once you're signed up, downloading is easy and it's the easiest way to get more obscure stuff in high quality.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

They’re on CDs, you just need some gumption

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

This. Physical media is awesome to own, and ripping extremely high-quality copies is actually pretty easy, just time-consuming.

I recommend EAC (Exact Audio Copy). It's free and there are some awesome guides online for setting it to get the best quality for your rips.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Is there any site that gives you all the different music services URLs, like a searcher that makes it easier?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

The best way for me that I found is using Soulseek, sadly it's proprietary but it's really nice as a lot of people share on it

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