What are the best places to dl FLAC music?
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Perfect. Thank you.
rutracker always has legit flac rips, some on soulseek can be fake
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.
Soulseek
Use Nicotine+ on desktop and Seeker on Android.
There is also a docker version https://github.com/slskd/slskd
Sweet! I didn’t know about Seeker!
You can get it on the izzysoft repo on F-Droid or directly from github
Doubledoubletop
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/
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
deezer arls and qobuz access tokens from https://rentry.org/firehawk52 to dowload with https://github.com/nathom/streamrip
deemix
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 :(
Can you expand the acronyms?
Private trackers. I think common ones. If you search them with “tracker” you’ll probably find them.
Isn’t OPS relatively easy to interview in to?
I don’t know about OPS but Redacted wasn’t hard to interview into.
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.
I didn’t know OPS provided interviews? If so, that’d be great since I’ve been wanting to join for months.
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.
SLSK, private trackers, public trackers, random websites, open directories, ripping your own CDs.
Just use SoulSeekQt and filter for .flac, if the song you’re looking for was ever released on flac it’ll be there
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.
They’re on CDs, you just need some gumption
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.
Is there any site that gives you all the different music services URLs, like a searcher that makes it easier?
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
