So I've been getting back into torrenting because I'm fed up with the inability to actually own the music I pay for. I used to torrent a lot back in the day, mostly music with a bit of anime and obscure/foreign movies and TV shows here and there, but that was a long time ago. I had been going back to the most famous of all coastal bodies of water where buccaneers reside, but I just tried too go there only to find it's currently not working. I know from lurking here that 1337x and rargb are no longer safe and LT doesn't have much to offer. All I want is music, but it seems most places are geared towards TV and movies. Where does an audiophile turn to in times like these?
Soulseek is the way to go for music, way quicker and easier to find shit than torrents
Ok, I gave in and while it's a little confusing, I already have one of the albums I was looking for and it's flac. Thanks for twisting my arm!
If what you're looking for it's not a common find or just very rare, you can put it on your wishlist searches and you may eventually get a hit. You don't need to leave the app open all the time (although that'd be ideal), you can just leave it on your wishlist and it'll be searched automatically everytime you open it.
Wow. I've struggled using the "traditional" method and this is so much better. Thanks!
Absolutely. Soulseek really is incomparable. And it has the added advantage of being a throwback to the days of p2p sharing through dedicated clients.
Seems yes and a long time ago. I’m using it and I find watever I search for in flac . I use Nicotine +
Ok, I gave in and while it's a little confusing, I already have one of the albums I was looking for and it's flac. Thanks for twisting my arm!
Yeah, I already use a torrent client, and I don't want to download another program that requires a login. I just want a place to find magnet links for torrents. Plus I can't even see what Soulseek has available without downloading it.
Soulseek is peer to peer - what’s available is dependent on which users are online and what they are sharing. If you’re not interested in another program with a login then I guess it’s not for you - might be good for someone else reading this though.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but it's relatively easy to own music you pay for. I mostly use Amazon (from which you can buy and download mp3s), but 7digital offers FLAC encoded music, and I'm not sure they evem.offer streaming - it's buy-and-download.
There are many reasons to pirate, but I don't think not being able to actually buy music is one of them. What music are you not able to find buy-and-download options for?
For me I'm just trying to find information on how to safely download games and figure out what is and isn't a virus and how to avoid getting hit with scary letters from my ISP. I know for the latter I can use Mullvad or something, but I don't know what kind of antivirus to use. Apparently a lot of them see a crack and go off about that rather than checking further to see if it's actually malicious. This mainly applies to newer games that run with exe files or other executables.
I've also been trying to find good sites that have games for retro systems like the NES, Genesis, and DS (yes, I'm counting the DS as retro for the purpose of this post) that aren't just easy to find in any No-Intro, Redump, or MAME database. You can find No-Intro stuff pretty much anywhere, at least for most of the sets. Same with Redump to a lesser extent. MAME/MESS is a bit harder, but not impossible. But trying to find anything that isn't in those is incredibly difficult. FC Gallery is alright for NES/Famicom stuff, though other than that, I've got nothing.
Ive seen posts how 1337 is not safe, but I use it with no problem. You have to be carefull with all public torrents and you should be fine. All public torrents are the same imo, you should be careful with any online source anyway. Its always better to join private tracker and even better private tracker dedicated to music. Alternatively you can pay for usenet. Cant recommend any usenet, but I think torrentleech is nice general purpose tracker. Redacted for music, but that one is probably hard to join.
Anyway check lidarr, its awesome downloader for music. Its open source and you can use it with any torrent or usenet provider. Its not good like sonarr and radarr imo, but stil next level experience. Servarr ftw
It depends what kind of music you're into. There is Rawbawx if you're into rock metal and hardcore.
inability to actually own the music I pay for
Do people still pay for music? How and, more importantly, why?
Ever heard of Spotify? Pandora? iHeartRadio? There are also tons of audiophiles that buy vinyl, CDs, etc. The streaming services are about "convenience". But it's not very convenient when those services don't offer everything that should be available, the quality is shit, and they can pull things from being available at any time. The physical forms are about actually owning what you pay for as well as quality. Even the best rips aren't 100%; there may be a missing track, cut too early, corruption of the file(s), etc.
So yeah, people still pay for music. It's not porn.
Ever heard of Spotify?
Yes I have Spotify. I don't pay for it though. I don't see why I would.
audiophiles that buy vinyl, CDs, etc.
Of course but that's besides the point, because OP was talking about paying for music without actually owning it.
My go-tos:
slavart (divolt)
rutracker and orpheus.network (through lidarr+prowlarr)
Soulseek (nicotine+)
