I would like to move away from using spotify for music. Are there any torrenting sites where I can torrent music with high quality audio (~320kbps) tagged properly?

  • HouseWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    532·
    11 hours ago

    Soulseek is I2P not Torrenting, but I’ve found it to be the best place to find music by a long shot.

    Edit: It’s actually P2P not I2P

    • kinship@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      I use soulseek but still have no idea how to find quality sources. I just filter my search with .flac and scan the users’s folder structure (the more organized the better odds at being a good rip?). Am I doing it wrong?

    • sobchak@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Nicotine+ is an open source client for the Soulseek network. Soulseek/Nicotine+ does not use i2p or do any type of anonymization; it’ uses direct connections. Guessing you meant “p2p.” The network has a lot of music I can’t find through torrents, and I can almost always find the music I’m looking for as FLAC files.

    • mistermodal@lemmy.mlEnglish
      291·
      1 day ago

      Agreed but it is not open source, it depends on a central server, and personally enriches a man named Nil who went to Tel Aviv university. I would prefer a music tracker.

      Plus, Soulseek has a lot of quirks that make it less reliable for slow downloads. It’s not a “fire and forget” solution to acquiring files in the same way a magnet link with at least one seeder lurking around is. Soulseek will not just start again when they come back, it has other rate limits that can be jumped with their “donations”

      • PortNull@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        Picard is great. I find that beets is more accurate in some cases. Yymv so worth giving them both a try. Picard is a lot easier to use and doesn’t maintain it’s own library index which has its pros and cons.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      23 hours ago

      Yes, this. Torrenting music is not necessary. Slsk is a better option 99% of the time. Most of the tags are the automatic ones applied by the streaming service it was ripped from or MusicBrainz. But everyone seems to expect different things from tagging, so if you want every performer tagged and like every genre you’re never gonna find that.