Found an old iPod classic
Need to put tunes on it
Haven’t pirated in years
I still have qbittorrent but I need advice on where to go for the music bc TPB is no good apparently.
Please help me hexbear :help
Download Soulseek instead, it's the same old P2P client from back in the day, hasn't changed a bit.
Can confirm Soulseek is great, even for moderately obscure Classical stuff, as long as you're not getting into really obscure stuff like Settima Caccini or something.
Yep! Think of it as people sharing their computer's Downloads folder.
Fire up the program, click search, and type in an album, artist, or some title you want. It'll spit back all the people sharing that music, and you can just download the folders right from them.
I just mention it cause it seems easier/more direct for your purposes here than having to find a torrent site you like, finding one with active seeders, etc.
That sounds extremely clutch. Probably going to head down this road. :took-restraint: thanks comrade
ytdl with --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 can download a video, multiple videos, a playlist, or an entire channel while converting the video to mp3. It's meant for yt but works for some other sites sometimes.
It’s meant for yt but works for some other sites sometimes.
youtube-dl supports a ton of sites: https://ytb-dl.github.io/ytb-dl/supportedsites.html
I've been a pretty prolific BitTorrent users for a long time and lately I've been using Soulseek more frequently. Ever since What.cd went down I just haven't been into the effort required to maintain good standing and usability on torrent sites. Soulseek is easy.
I've found my own music on Soulseek and always message the sharers to tell them thanks
That's awesome. I've uploaded my own stuff to torrent sites before. It's always kind of exciting when somebody downloads it, whether they listen or not.
Just pull it off YouTube Downloader.
Also, there are little USB dongles that you can plug into any computer to make it a wifi Hotspot you can use. No one working in a care facility would ever care to check if you got it working.
Rutracker has plenty of music and rare stuff, just need to create an account and use Google translate
I've found really rare stuff on there like Super Audio CD rips, vinyl masters for music that got killed by the loudness wars and original CD rips. Should be more than fine for just getting music
You don't even need the account if you use a direct link to the Google interface, e.g.:
https://rutracker dot org/forum/search_cse.php?q=rick+astleyEdit: The one caveat is that sometimes the search results aren't the most current, because it's based on when the site was last crawled. You can still browse stuff without an account if you have a direct link to the appropriate subforum, though, e.g.:
https://rutracker dot org/forum/index.php?c=8
Ain't no issues with TPB I'm aware of. Been using the original .org domain for years without issues.
I heard it was boinked. I’ll check it out bc I needed some videos too.
I'd treat any games/software with suspicion, but music is fairly benign.
You probably don’t want to use BitTorrent for music.
What are you looking for?
I should have been more clear: are you looking for anything not on spotify or youtube?
Nah p much all of it should be on Spotify/YouTube, they just can’t have internet. Curious to know what routes you take tho!!
You should use the youtube downloader or soulseek. Just bear in mind that you’re gonna have to stay up on using the downloader from command line and soulseek is the same as it ever was.
BitTorrent is good for music but there’s a set of expectations around it and oddly once you get into real crazy person territory it falls short. So do all the other download options though.
If you've already got qbittorrent, just install the search plugin and for any sort of popular music you should be able to find public torrents no problem. You can find the install tutorial here: https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/Unofficial-search-plugins Use a VPN if possible. Don't seed afterwards if you're in the developed world.
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You can even feed it a link to a playlist, or a whole channel, instead of an individual video and it will download every entry automatically. It isn't even limited to youtube. It'll do bandcamp for sure, probably more.
You can use youtube-dl to download youtube playlists as MP3s. Lots of bands just have entire albums up on there. Top answer here kinda tells you how to do it: https://askubuntu.com/questions/178481/how-to-download-an-mp3-track-from-a-youtube-video
I'm pretty positive youtube-dl can handle a playlist URL in place of video URL
I use www.1337x.to and www.limetorrents.lol to search for torrents, but like movies, popular music will have plenty of seeders, but obscure stuff have very few, if any :(
You can also try Nuclear Music Player , which allows for direct download from streaming sites. Dunno how it compares quality wise to proper filesharing, but it might be easier to find what you want.
Interesting…have you used it successfully before? Seems almost too good to be true
Yep. It works fine. The music is downloaded as a *.webm, so you'll need to convert it to an *.mp3 for use on most music players.
