- Lemmy

jacques malchance

soulseek or nicotine if you are on Linux. Bandcamp.

@onlooker

Bandcamp is awesome. It’s mostly not free, sure, but it’s one of the very few stores that offer DRM-free downloads of music in multiple formats.

@cronjob

youtube-dl works with Bandcamp assuming the sample tracks are all public. The quality depends on what the artist uploads for the sample tracks. This means sometimes you get FLAC.

@onlooker

youtube-dl works with Bandcamp?! That’s amazing, I did not know that! Thanks for the tip!

not actually a cat

youtube-dl is one of my favourite tools. it works on so many different websites.

@byebyeprivacy

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@ksynwa

rutracker.org is a good tracker that is open to public. you can find high quality mp3s and many times even flacs.

not actually a cat

you can download any song (320 kbps mp3, FLAC) from Deezer for free. I use deemix for this.

@partion

redacted.ch is the best place for music on the internet currently, period. Not that hard to get too, you just have to read up a little bit and pass the interview.

@folkstorm

Do I need to get an invite? do not see any registration option.

@partion

You need to pass the interview. Instructions are here: https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html.

@ksynwa

man i failed their interview thrice:

first time i didn’t read their prep stuff properly.
second time i was sleepy after an all-nighter and answered some questions wrong.
third time i got every answer right but i was paranoid so i went to the prep website to confirm what i had written but they know my IP address so I got booted.

still feel sad about it sometimes when I can’t find some music.

@unperson

still feel sad about it sometimes when I can’t find some music.

Did you look in soulseek?

@ksynwa

yeah i use that. but sometimes there is some stuff i can’t find on it, especially if i am looking for flacs. but i mainly encode flacs to opus so i don’t mind high quality mp3s either.

@schwartz

I’ve been downloading mp3s from YouTube using youtube-DL. Works a treat

@SirLotsaLocks

Yeah I’ve been doing that for a couple years, at this point it’d take so long to switch to a higher quality option that I just won’t.

@byebyeprivacy

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art

Setup a free Deezer account and install Deemix. It’s a commandline application but it works great.

deemix -b flac https://www.deezer.com/en/album/11244086

The application is constantly updated and I’ve been using it for a while flawlessly.

not actually a cat

fyi, it doesn’t have to only be used via the command line. you can use deemix-pyweb to launch a deemix server, or deemixgui for an Electron “GUI” wrapper if you’d prefer that.

art

I might check that out. I just assumed that link was to the defunct GUI app.

@byebyeprivacy

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@PureTryOut

You might want to consider buying songs and albums from a DRM free place. Think of e.g. Bandcamp, and if you’re in the Benelux or France qobuz.com

@cronjob

While I agree, this is /c/piracy.

@PureTryOut

Ah, I missed that fact. Just saw the post on the frontpage and didn’t check the community

trash

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Piracy