I think if you’re going to the trouble to amass a music library, you might as well use lidarr so you can be specific about the quality/releases you’re pulling in. I’ve used soulseek a few times over the years and there’s a lot of junk/low quality files in there. Even just inconsistently named or tagged. It’s not the end of the world but if you’re going to implement a system, might as well do it right.
Where Nicotine/Soulseek excel is finding rare stuff that’s usually not distributed via torrent, similar to @Meuzzin@lemmy.world 's comment. Not only that, but friend lists, PMs, as well as browsing music shares from users that have similar interests and advanced filtering for format, bitrate, etc.
A lot of my music collection was never even released on tape, much less CD or streaming, and dealing with Discogs and waiting for sellers to get in stock what you’re looking for is a hassle. If your tastes veer toward the more mainstream and official digital releases are available, then torrents may be better for you. For myself and others like me, the choice is pretty clear though.
For sure - if there’s no good quality or official copy of what you’re after, it makes sense that you’d take what you can get. Out of curiosity, what are you into?
The biggest pain point that I have with Lidarr is that there is no integrated way to split flac/cue albums that are very prevalent. I really need the tracks split so they can be played via plexamp. If anyone has any suggestions to automate this relatively well, I would appreciate it.
Was using rarbg (rip) and rutracker. I’m not on any music private tracker since I didn’t want to deal with chasing ratio. I know RED is an option to get into but I wasn’t sure if it’s worth it since I thought the more common standard was to have FLAC with cue so I expected that to be the norm on PTs. What do you recommend?
I use OPS and there is definitely a bit of ratio chasing to start with. The tradeoff is the near-guarantee of quality and consistency. You can also load a whole bunch of public trackers into something like prowlarr and set quality filters in lidarr and it should give each available torrent a score and only download those that meet your conditions.
I think if you’re going to the trouble to amass a music library, you might as well use lidarr so you can be specific about the quality/releases you’re pulling in. I’ve used soulseek a few times over the years and there’s a lot of junk/low quality files in there. Even just inconsistently named or tagged. It’s not the end of the world but if you’re going to implement a system, might as well do it right.
Where Nicotine/Soulseek excel is finding rare stuff that’s usually not distributed via torrent, similar to @Meuzzin@lemmy.world 's comment. Not only that, but friend lists, PMs, as well as browsing music shares from users that have similar interests and advanced filtering for format, bitrate, etc.
A lot of my music collection was never even released on tape, much less CD or streaming, and dealing with Discogs and waiting for sellers to get in stock what you’re looking for is a hassle. If your tastes veer toward the more mainstream and official digital releases are available, then torrents may be better for you. For myself and others like me, the choice is pretty clear though.
For sure - if there’s no good quality or official copy of what you’re after, it makes sense that you’d take what you can get. Out of curiosity, what are you into?
The biggest pain point that I have with Lidarr is that there is no integrated way to split flac/cue albums that are very prevalent. I really need the tracks split so they can be played via plexamp. If anyone has any suggestions to automate this relatively well, I would appreciate it.
I’m using lidarr and yet to find flac albums that aren’t already split. Everything plays on Plexamp for me without issue. What sources are you using?
Was using rarbg (rip) and rutracker. I’m not on any music private tracker since I didn’t want to deal with chasing ratio. I know RED is an option to get into but I wasn’t sure if it’s worth it since I thought the more common standard was to have FLAC with cue so I expected that to be the norm on PTs. What do you recommend?
I use OPS and there is definitely a bit of ratio chasing to start with. The tradeoff is the near-guarantee of quality and consistency. You can also load a whole bunch of public trackers into something like prowlarr and set quality filters in lidarr and it should give each available torrent a score and only download those that meet your conditions.