Hi! I wanted to start to hoard my favorite tracks in the best possible quality. A lot of stuff is available through Deezer or Tidal i know, but what sources are you guys using when FLACs for particular albums or songs cannot be found on Deezer or Tidal? I wanted to get the Rock n Roll Train song from ACDC in FLAC, but Tidal doesn’t have it in FLAC.

Are there any good Public/Private trackers for Music?

Cheers.

    • @Obi@sopuli.xyz
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      51 year ago

      I didn’t know about it until a few days ago somehow (I’m kinda getting back into sailing at the moment after a long break), and I can confirm it’s great and easy to get into. Has loads of flac too even if I prefer to stick to 320kbps MP3.

  • @Sentinian
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    201 year ago

    Soulseek and then set the search filter to only .flac

    • godless
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      71 year ago

      Yep, that’s my go-to as well. Their own search it shit though, but site:rutracker.ru on google works great.

    • @obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      31 year ago

      One thing I like about rutracker, is that the sources are apparently checked. Whereas sources from Soulseek for example, could be Youtube rips that are “upscaled” to flac.

    • @azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      51 year ago

      Orpheus is good. I used to have an account but it got disabled because I wasnt using it as much as I thought I would. Great tracker. They do a lot to make sure you can keep your ratio positive.

      • @onescomplement@lemm.ee
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        31 year ago

        Too add on to this, many private trackers will not disable your account for inactivity if you reach a certain user class or make a one time donation (including OPS).

        Plus reaching out to the staff on IRC is a good way to have an account re-enabled if it does get disabled.

    • XYZinferno
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      81 year ago

      free-mp3 is the one I use myself

      The link may sound shady af, but it hasn’t given me any problems

      Snappy interface, quick downloads, definitely gets a recommendation from me

    • Artemis Colour
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      11 year ago

      Wow, the first source is awesome! Didn’t know about it before, but now I will actively use it!

  • @ashok36@lemmy.world
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    121 year ago

    A $15 deezer subscription will last you a month and you can download as much flac quality tracks as you want with deezloader or deemix. They don’t have everything but they have a lot.

    • @DeJaVu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 year ago

      Getting a tidal trial and using tidal downloader would be better imo. In my experience you can get multiple trials even with the same CC when using different email address, have done it 4+ times with the same CC.

  • Briongloid
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    81 year ago

    Deemix with a free trial of Deezer, I’ve downloaded 2,000 albums this week.

      • Briongloid
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        11 year ago

        Depends if I’m just getting big batches, but I think once per month for each trial is okay.

      • Briongloid
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        1 year ago

        I was replacing a specific library, from FLAC down to 320 for more seamless remote streaming.

        Deemix has good folder sorting and naming in the settings.

        • @QuikxSpec@lemmy.world
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          31 year ago

          That’s cool. Just interested…2000 albums, that’s a nice collection I’m sure! Was expecting some obscure oversized collection of Mongolian throat metal lol

      • @sixpercent@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        You may need a premium account for FLAC. But from what I can tell by reading the code in the repo, it does infact download in lossless FLAC format.

        Otherwise it looks like you can download the free-tier quality by choosing that in the settings.

  • LeafyPasserine
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    81 year ago

    Soulseek via Nicotine+, you can filter for file type and bitrate as well as avoid those assholes who lock all their files for trading.

  • gingerplease
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    81 year ago

    There is a really good torrent on TL that has just about every version of every song they played up until 2016. I’ll admit, it is a bit overwhelming and ~300GB in size. Look for:

    ACDC - Collection 1978-2016 [273 ALBUMS] FLAC

  • @MrPlow@lemmy.world
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    31 year ago
    • soulseek
    • rutracker
    • Usenet
    • deezloader or tidal-dl
    • hd24net (you’ll need a mega account)

    R/Rip requests used to be a good source before it got shut down.

  • @code@lemmy.mayes.io
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    21 year ago

    Has the deezer docker webgui stopped working for others? Ive heard cli still works but cant find any guides. I dont use the bots as i usually grab the discog for an artist