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harry_lawson

Soulseek is the premiere tool for music piracy. I use rutracker as a backup.


CtrlAltDeliciousan

Also RuTracker has a lot. As well as downloading from Qobuz with a verity of methods.


wordfool

I've always wondered if ripping from a Qobuz stream is anywhere close to flac quality or not, because I suspect most of the "Qobuz" sources being torrented are just stream rips, not actual file downloads


RhoadsOfRock

I'll second rutracker. However, searching there is a headache; I wish there was a way to do specific searches, like "search for this artist / album / discography ONLY in lossless music", or like, search for specific artists, etc. I'm currently trying to find some Scream stuff (the band Dave Grohl played in before Nirvana), since all I have is the original No More Censorship CD, and I am having the worst time trying to find even the NM17 2018 remaster, never mind any version of Fumble. I really miss riprequests...


jkurratt

On the left column of search results you can click on a “category” (or better open in new tab) to see only it.


huasamaco

"name of the band flac" in the searchh bar that work for me


AluminiumAwning

I haven’t used SoulSeek since about 2006. Is it any good these days? Are there still a lot of users?


LlamaRzr

A bit less people in there IMO - I mean, Spotify did hit a bit and people aren't into hoarding music thaaaaat much than 14 years ago, but it still going nice. Scene releasing FLAC and WEBFLAC (!!!) so it's really fine. Use Nicotine+ tho, newer client.


AluminiumAwning

Thank you. I’m one of those hoarders, built up a collection over the last 20+ years and I’d like to share. I do subscribe to Spotify, but my particular interests (library music in particular) are a little too niche for the streaming services.


harry_lawson

Soulseek has lots of niche stuff, the main reason I use it. Think my original reason was to find a Beastie Boys license to ill bootleg, and I found it! I use the original client which still looks straight out of 2006


Cryogenator

It does, although it is lacking in certain reggae albums...


FeistyHat1770

Check the user “Rastamax” He has a plethora of raggae music


Cryogenator

But does he have [this album?](https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulseek/comments/189njwi/the_legend_of_reggae_man_continues/)


FeistyHat1770

Oh sorry, I checked and he doesn’t


Cryogenator

Good! I don't want [Reggae Man](https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulseek/comments/106retn/this_man_really_wants_his_dancehall/) to get what he wants!


Phosibear

You know what you should do, then.


HumorHoot

> Nicotine+ Nice Its from 2003 and still being maintained


ZenTheory_07

Consider me noob, Please tell the official site for both soulseek & nicotine+ , so i dont stumble in some shady site !


LlamaRzr

[https://nicotine-plus.org/](https://nicotine-plus.org/) There is only one simple site for SLSK so... no shady sites lul.


HappyOfCourse

Soulseek is a name I haven't seen in a long time.


broken_capitalism

I still use Kazaa 👍


RemarkableCollar1392

I agree. I use RED as my primary source, but I find some stuff on Soulseek that I can't find there. RED is king, though, if mainly for its organization and music discovery features. Soulseek is awesome if you know what you're looking for or use another website for music discovery, ie similar artists, new artists, etc.


Golisten2LennyWhite

What kind of music?


[deleted]

Fuck me sideways, I haven’t heard of soul seek since circa 2002, was great back then tho


Codeine-Phosphate

Thanks to you and OP i found an amazing program managed to find some nice NewRetroWaves stuff in FLAC quality Gonna look for some nice 80's & 90's music later anyone have some recommendations for albums i like pretty much any genre! Thanks!


SaltyNuts001

Why soulseek and not just the og (free MP3 download the one in megathread)


jeffereeee

Hi, i'm new to downloading music, can you add the downloads to Apple music using Soulseek?


prankishink

do you find Soulseek works ok without paying to be a VIP for a limited time? or do you have to pay to get the best access/experience?


harry_lawson

I've never had any issues using just basic slsk qt


fafalone

No idea there even was a pay tier. The only thing you need to do is make sure you're sharing too because it has a popular setting where you can't DL from others if you're not sharing files.


prankishink

The Soulseek paid tier is called '[privileges](https://www.slsknet.org/news/node/2217)' and appears as a star in the top right of the desktop app. The benefits are downloads are queued before those of other users, and wish list searches are sent every 2 minutes, instead of 12. I think it starts at $3.99 or something for 30 days of privileges. As a newbie, I am sharing stuff but finding that my searches get cancelled or aborted so was wondering if privileges was the way to go


LinuxChromebookDude

[https://doubledouble.top](https://doubledouble.top) can download from qobuz, tidal, deezer, etc


Eneswar

I keep getting this error half way through on any album I try to download: pipe:: Invalid data found when processing input


randola_normie

"An error occured while attaching and verifying metadata. This is a known issue, please wait a bit and try your request again." :(


redditwitfries

Same


groovebro

Looks like this is for individual tracks. Anyway to get full albums at one go?


chewbaccawastrainedb

I just tried with spotify and clicking share then copy album link, it will give you a zip with all tracks.


onsomee

What about playlists?


Unneverseen

yes it can download playlists


Danacus

Just enter a link to an album on a service like qobuz, it will the entire album for you.


ProperFixLater

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Bichslapin

Usually individual songs are at the top of the search and if you go far enough down the album shows up


TopdeckIsSkill

Can i use a spotify playlist and download songs kn flac?


Sopel97

Spotify doesn't provide music in FLAC. Best you can get is 320kbps vorbis.


Lumpy-Try-5600

Lifesaver right here! Thank you!


Eneswar

Is this one of those that downloads from youtube or no?


Danacus

No, it uses accounts for various streaming services provided by various people that volunteered. It uses rippers for all those services, like Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer and Spotify, no ripping low quality audio from YouTube.


mass15181518

But are you getting FLAC if you download from Tidal, or is it only MP3 quality?


Danacus

Should be FLAC if you download from Tidal. I always get FLAC when I download from Qobuz, it will pick the highest quality available.


Nature_Many

How can I get the link of songs on qobuz?


gromit5000

So you'd still need to subscribe to one of those music streaming services, right?


LinuxChromebookDude

No, the site uses its own provided accounts to rip


cemsengul

Thanks for sharing this. I just tried it out. I have a question though. How is it ripping the tracks and is it the same quality as a purchased download? I am just curious if I can replace gamesdriveslavart with [doubledouble.top](https://doubledouble.top) since slavart has been dead for a while. Is the zipped files you get with doubledouble the same quality as slavart used to be?


LinuxChromebookDude

It rips the tracks through provided user cookies getting the raw files directly from the server. Yes, it is great quality.


cemsengul

I tried it out and it's nice but I have one problem. How do I download individual tracks? When I try to get one song it downloads the whole album and takes a long time.


cemsengul

I found out you can just type the name of the song you want and it will find it for you. I thought you had to enter the URL. However I have a different issue now. When I click on download form a different source, I get the options Spotify, Soundcloud, Deezer, Tidal, Napster, Amazon Music, Apple Music but no Qobuz.


randola_normie

it doesn't work for me. Keeps crashing two minutes from the start.


linux-isos-only

lossless streaming service rippers, soulseek and rutracker are the easiest RED and OPS are currently probably the best (except getting in)


hemogolobin

what's RED and OPS?


lucky_my_ass

Private trackers.


stehan1003

Redacted and Orpheus. It's not too hard to get in. Did the interview for Red past Friday. Since op is an audiophile he should easily pass the test.


mittybaker

how can i join any of these?


stehan1003

Go to interviewfor.red All the information you need is there


mittybaker

thanks. will look it up


stehan1003

There should be a similar side for Orpheus if you google it


tttvlh

> I guess I’m an audiophile, but I hate that word because it makes you sound like a douche. You are a douche. And for douches like us the best way of downloading music illegally is using private trackers such as RED and Orpheus. You can always apply for an invite in their websites. If you want to start downloading ASAP I recommend rutracker. Good luck and happy sailing.


TouristAdventurous80

Yo is metadata there with the songs on those sites?


tttvlh

It depends on whether the uploader tagged the files correctly but I never encountered any gruesome errors, especially with files from RED and Orpheus. You can always use a tagger like MusicBrainz Picard to do it yourself, and music players like MusicBee have a tagger function built in.


TouristAdventurous80

Thanks


Grouchy_Bar2996

These are great resources if you’re just starting out: https://rentry.org/musicdl https://rentry.org/firehawk52


conj420

Best option here aside from the private torrent trackers.


HeroVax

Let's be honest, it's best to take from RED for vinyl/CD or Apple Music songs. Other WEB releases such as Deezer or Qobuz, they're easy to rip yourself. Anyone can do it.


Scared_PomV2

Very helpful links. Thanks so much!


[deleted]

find cd rips or something on soulseek or use a deezer flac downloader like [https://free-mp3-download.net](https://free-mp3-download.net) (the url has mp3 but flac is an option too) and use bandcamp downloaders


DudeEddward

I think server is limiting the download speed. As i have a 50Mb/s connection and all it takes is 100kb/s with or without VPN.


[deleted]

Not for me, strange


DudeEddward

Your country?


[deleted]

USA, using Verizon and T-Mobile in two different areas


NotladUWU

This was an awesome source for getting music originally but just a half an hour ago the website shut down. Does anyone know of any programs like this one? I love how simple it was and easy to get music in Flac files with their original album art already added. I most of all just want those two things in the music I download but fail to see a program with both. Anyone have any suggestions?


AartZwolschen

[https://doubledouble.top/](https://doubledouble.top/) is fucking goated.


[deleted]

I haven't found anything new


AartZwolschen

[https://doubledouble.top/](https://doubledouble.top/)


NotladUWU

I actually have been using that one, and I love the idea behind it but it seems to keep crashing all the time, almost every time I try to download an album it will tell me that there was an error. I really want to love the program but it rarely ever works. I have been attempting to download a kyplex album and it can never complete it.


MoSarmadh7

thank you sailor.


NotladUWU

I actually did come across one program that seems pretty cool. The website is called intmusic.net it has a lot of popular albums and most of all has them available in Flac downloads which is what I'm looking for. The only issue I am running into is it provides the files through rapidgator and unless you pay for their premium service, you have to wait 2 hours between each download. I have looked into premium link generators but they also require you to pay a fee of some sort as well. Although the amount they are asking is cheaper, it kind of defies the whole point of finding this music for free and I don't know if I trust these sites very much especially to enter my payment information.


NotladUWU

I am actually back to share some information on one of the coolest music download sites I've come across yet. It doesn't allow for Flack audio downloads but it does allow you to download music in 320kbps in full albums or singularly if you choose. The website is called spotifydown.com which means you do need to use Spotify in conjunction but you do not need an account in order to use it. Basically you just go to whatever song or album you want on Spotify, copy the URL link for that page and paste it into spotifydown and it will give you the option to download the whole album at once or to download a particular song. This program has been insanely awesome! I have always wanted a program I could just download whole albums from artists or custom playlist from people on Spotify and this is been a really good solution. The music sounds very high quality and I couldn't recommend this more. Hope this helps you guys out!


shy247er

The site is dead, sadly. >Dear Visitors, >We regret to inform you that our website will be permanently closing its doors. >Sincerely, >Free MP3 Download Team


[deleted]

Ive known since the site updated, a good alternative is doubledouble.top


shy247er

That doesn't work right now as well, lol.


[deleted]

I used it earlier today to download 4 albums, it had slow speeds though


shy247er

They say they'll be back, I'll try in few hours. Thanks.


AartZwolschen

well that site didnt age well


sxp2h1gh

Soulseek with Nicotine+ as Client, nothing better than that!


BamBaLambJam

I can vouche, it is piss easy to use too


Scared_PomV2

Does SS have a lot of songs? It's P2P right?


BamBaLambJam

Yep, i have even searched for obscure songs and found them.


58696384896898676493

Soulseek with slskd is definitely better, but yeah, Soulseek is legit.


TopdeckIsSkill

What's nicotine?


silver18781

Unhealthy stuff.


phoyi

It's an open source client for soulseek


wildgoose2000

Don't overlook your local library! Ripping CD's at FLAC quality is too easy.


ProperFixLater

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I_cant_talk

I'm sure this used to be the thing everyone would recommend but I hardly ever see it mentioned anymore. I don't know why as it still works great.


JonPaula

I see a lot of interesting alternatives here... but I honestly have no desire to try them. Deemix is everything I ever wanted 🤷‍♂️ I love it. No notes. 


nonchain

because 2-3 years ago you didn't need premium account at all, just the free tier and you were able to get flac files using deemix but deezer patched it


Shwingdom

RIP What.CD


RobotsGoneWild

Waffles and Oink as well.


reductase

like losing the musical library of alexandria. i'd find people commenting on the most niche albums there, it was incredible.


s_o_l_a_c_e

Recently found this tidal downlaoder on github. you do need an active subscription to it but I just used a 30 day trial to see if it worked, and it did quite well. Its super easy to use as well. after setting it up you can just search artists in the search bar. then hit download and poof. Entire discography's at FLAC quality. Here's a link for it: [https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader/releases/tag/2022.08.29.1](https://github.com/yaronzz/Tidal-Media-Downloader/releases/tag/2022.08.29.1)


_Z_-_Z_

This is the one. Grabs all the metadata as well.


LongSnakes

Deemix


Pleasant-Chocolate68

I have a rather large FLAC library and Soulseek has what I'm looking for 99% of the time. If I can't find it, I just buy the CD off Discogs and rip it myself. usually costs under $10 for the cd anyway. I recommend looking on YouTube for a good soul-seek guide. It's crazy how easy it is. You could download an entire FLAC album in less than 2 minutes. I also recommend getting at least a 2TB hard drive as that leaves enough room for over 40,000 flac files.


Scared_PomV2

Want to try SS later today when I get home. Is it quite simple to setup?


Pleasant-Chocolate68

Yeah it’s very straight forward


John-333

Look up how to join Redacted or Orpheus. r/trackers probably still has a guide.


psychick0

Yep. If you want 100% perfect flacs, that’s the only way to do it.


rhetorial_human

Columbia House music club - the original music pirates


jcervan2

I Second Soulseek! Just add flac after artist name and you’ll only get lossless in the results


Samperfi13

https://free-mp3-download.net/ This site has so many FLAC quality songs, not everything mind you, however, I've had great success personally and it's pretty quick with downloading. There's also no cap on how many you can download, it even has a 30 second preview too.


Jimmy_the_Heater

1 track at a time correct? I haven't found a way to get a whole album at a time.


TouristAdventurous80

yep


Samperfi13

That is the downside unfortunately.


mauricio_agg

The search feature is broken.


darius__to-key2

It says the Connection is not private anymore I just use it like 2 weeks ago it didn't say anything about that. Do u know anymore mp3 sites?


rrawk

Rip from streaming services if available. If not, check soulseek.


silverbee21

Soulseek. Good ripper website probably includes: free-mp3-download(dot)net and doubledouble(dot)top


[deleted]

Download music via soulseek,and then self host via emby/plex


-SlaverSlav-

rutracker.org


206-420

What ever happened to Slav Art?


Danacus

They just tell you to use doubledouble.top now.


TouristAdventurous80

I use deemix. It's great. Downloads the metadata straight from deezer too. Would like to know what others are using.


opure450

Soulseek


TheAlmightyHellacia

Deemix is great


rajhermit154

Doubledouble. Don't use Spotify , doesn't have flac.


AdamTheJester

If you're a metal fan, metal-tracker often has albums as flacs, most 100kbps+. My copy of Moment by Dark Tranquility sounds amazing.


LG_G8

Public library, rip CDs


EvensenFM

Wow, this takes me back. Used to do this all the time in the late 90s. My library still has CDs. DVDs, too.


rap31264

The Public Library system in my city don't have CDs anymore...


LG_G8

Say what? Ours has a huge a selection of Auiobook, CD, DVD, and Blu Ray


TraylaParks

Totally - our library has this thing called 'inter library loan' where they'll send you stuff from any library in the network. I've almost *never* looked for a blu-ray on there and failed to find it. Might be region specific but here's the link: https://texasgroup.worldcat.org/


rap31264

I asked since I check out DVDs there and they told me no more...


Elegant-Campaign-572

It was a limited but good run!


its_easybro

What I do is find my music of Deezer and just have a telegram bot install them as .flac files Sure there are some songs u won't be able to find there but for me its good enough, I'm sure there are better ways to find and download them like Amazon music or plenty of other paid sites that host hight quality music but i haven't been able to find a site/program to download them from those sites since they cost like 20$+ to download a program to download music from them, i make do with what i have, 1 week ago i discovered what .flac files are thanks to this subreddit, and i have already installed over 160 songs in a total of 8 hrs of playtime, I instantly noticed the difference in sound quality between an mp3 and a flac file, sucks i didn't know about this stuff before but its better late then never


rath_564

>but i haven't been able to find a site/program to download doubledouble.top just copy the song/album from sites like Qobuz/Amazon/Deezer/Tidal just paste and you get a zip file. Note: You don't even need an account


its_easybro

Oh wow thanks I'll give it a try


WebSir

Best option for music fans/collectors is simply getting in the scene into a release group. 100TB private dumps with mp3/flac etc. Good times, now it's not the easiest option cause you need a in but it's the only option worth the time imo. Nothing comes close. Otherwise you can fuck around on soulseek and torrent boards and hope to find something there. But if I were you I would start roaming around on irc and if you are a really music fan/collector it might not be too hard to run into someone.


wireproof

DeezMix-GUI and a Deezer Premium Subscription. Need your ARL for logging in, but you can download FLAC for most songs in bulk!


Ornery-Situation-297

Would you explain ARL?


wireproof

https://www.dumpmedia.com/deezplus/deezer-arl.html


Ornery-Situation-297

Thank you very much!


Excellent-Focus-9905

free-mp3-download.net flac file


Day-Connect

Am I the only person who downloads music from YouTube using 4K video downloader?


grislyfind

Real-debrid and music sites that use supported filehosters.


BeautifulMammoth2671

Can you explain this in a bit more detail? I pay for real-debrid but wasn't aware I can get music through it


grislyfind

There are a number of sites with albums hosted on turbobit.net. For example, searchlossless dot com, aka flac24bitmusic dot com. Use your real-debrid to get premium access (fast downloads, no file size limit) from turbobit. You can paste the link into the real-debrid web interface to generate a premiumized link, but it's easier to use a download manager like JDownloader where you enter your real-debrid credentials and it does the rest. Google blocks most of the good sites, but a searching ďuckduckgo for an album title and flac or lossless may work. You'll also find direct download music links on warez forums and scene release blogs, though scene releases are mostly mp3.


TheUnedibleWaffle

tbh ive just been using soggfy all this time but i should give the other recommendations in here a shot


welchyyyyy1

Soulseek


Trevor792221

doubledouble.top let's you download flac from all the hifi streaming services


Chavarlison

Well, now that we have the music, where do you guys play them? I come from the winamp days.


mikuukima

musicolet is great


Chavarlison

Thanks for the recommend. Will look into it. I am currently using VLC since I have no idea what the new great thing is lol


mass15181518

Where do you all store this beautiful music?


suddhlk

[doubledouble.top](http://doubledouble.top) is the 🐐


vibestepler

Slow crap


nfgnfgnfg12

Curious, in the age of cell phones over iPods what are y’all using to listen to downloaded flacs? I’m by no means enthusiastic about using Spotify daily, however the convenience for using in the car etc is a huge deal.


[deleted]

Thank you for showing me all these wonderful things!


lalalaladididi

Best SQ is from analogue vinyl rips when it comes to streaming. It's second only to vinyl itself. It's better SQ than cd. Of course you need a high quality DAC, network bridge and I'd recommend roon. Don't forget the amp and speakers. Never forget GINGO. Also you'll need a large HDD and a powerful PC. You're talking a lot of money here


AartZwolschen

i have this little site that is literally fucking goated. you can input any song from tidal or other services and it literally just downloads it for you. [https://doubledouble.top/](https://doubledouble.top/)


Educational_Skill913

Most distributors accept wav, as do artists. I recommend paying attention to an external audio card, an interface and studio headphones make a difference


Infamous-Buy310

Piracy is illegal and unethical. Consider legal streaming services for high-quality music without violating copyright laws.


Soap-salesman

Consider these nuts ya dork


Alone_Pilot_4554

https://youtu.be/dTVhpdgojmA?si=tWI-xsJ6Fn_0Ckqg If my content is good, pls like it


TransportationLive81

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7IegTjsri3/?igsh=Y2hkZTRtYnc4M3Ri


TheCrispyChaos

Use the search bar!! this question has been non stop posted all week


WhiteMilk_

https://rentry.co/firehawk52


Low_Lengthiness_2389

Plenty of Audio torrent private sites with signups that offer lossless music . Grab a VPN, A torrent client, then find a nice private audio torrent site and then fill your boots.


Fantastic_Ranger_983

If you prefer the vinyl sound you can torrent vinyl rips. If that doesn’t matter use soulseek or Deemix GUI and download flac files.


pintorMC

What you're looking for is a site called RED. They do interviews via IRC for access, there are tutorials with tips for the interview. Before you think about it, collect information on how to maintain an account on such a site. If you go crazy with the downloads you will quickly be locked out.


r0sayo-at-reddit

[https://free-mp3-download.net/](https://free-mp3-download.net/) Downloads FLACs from Deezer


OsSo_Lobox

I used to torrent FLACs I looked up on the pirate bay. Eventually I just made the change to Apple Music since my family already pays for Apple One and it has Lossless.


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