i recently canceled my spotify subscription, so i'm looking to download whole albums and if possible download whole discography easily instead of individual songs

Edit: thank you all comrades for the recomendations!

  • VHS [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Soulseek is far better than torrenting for music.

  • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Rutracker dot org has a massive selection of albums in flac quality. Many artists have whole discography uploaded. Use tools like cuetools to convert single album flac to individual tracks and/or to convert to mp3’s or other preferred format (I like aac).

  • Panzerpenguin@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    In addition to the other mentions here I can also recommended looking into Deemix. This pulls flac or mp3 from deezer. It is able to do whole albums or discography also. You'd need a deezer subscription but you can find arl for a subscription if you look around.

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    I installed spicetify for spotify on desktop, it can skip and disable all ads along with other cool useful extensions like making anonymous radios, removing the podcasts, or changing the terrible default skin.

    • olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      i tried 1337, is sure is easy to find discography of english singing groups like queen, but for example tim maia, a brazilian artist barely has anything

      • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        It did. But it existed so long it's like a ghost that will be haunting thoughts and answers for a long time. Even dead it looms large in what it was.

    • Hazel@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      wooooow that is amazing. It has everything deezer has. It is just a deezer frontend without the auth. Because this is what their api returns :)

      {
            "id": 1978666637,
            "readable": true,
            "title": "Death - Pierce Me",
            "title_short": "Death - Pierce Me",
            "title_version": "",
            "link": "https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/track\/1978666637",
            "duration": 630,
            "rank": 206210,
            "explicit_lyrics": false,
            "explicit_content_lyrics": 0,
            "explicit_content_cover": 2,
            "preview": "https:\/\/cdns-preview-1.dzcdn.net\/stream\/c-1ae087ff663137e420ac5dcdd7a7d2eb-2.mp3",
            "md5_image": "3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4",
            "artist": {
                "id": 85385202,
                "name": "Silencer",
                "link": "https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/artist\/85385202",
                "picture": "https:\/\/api.deezer.com\/artist\/85385202\/image",
                "picture_small": "https:\/\/e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net\/images\/artist\/3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4\/56x56-000000-80-0-0.jpg",
                "picture_medium": "https:\/\/e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net\/images\/artist\/3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4\/250x250-000000-80-0-0.jpg",
                "picture_big": "https:\/\/e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net\/images\/artist\/3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4\/500x500-000000-80-0-0.jpg",
                "picture_xl": "https:\/\/e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net\/images\/artist\/3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4\/1000x1000-000000-80-0-0.jpg",
                "tracklist": "https:\/\/api.deezer.com\/artist\/85385202\/top?limit=50",
                "type": "artist"
            },
            "album": {
                "id": 368818447,
                "title": "Death, Pierce Me",
                "cover": "https:\/\/api.deezer.com\/album\/368818447\/image",
                "cover_small": "https:\/\/e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net\/images\/cover\/3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4\/56x56-000000-80-0-0.jpg",
                "cover_medium": "https:\/\/e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net\/images\/cover\/3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4\/250x250-000000-80-0-0.jpg",
                "cover_big": "https:\/\/e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net\/images\/cover\/3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4\/500x500-000000-80-0-0.jpg",
                "cover_xl": "https:\/\/e-cdns-images.dzcdn.net\/images\/cover\/3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4\/1000x1000-000000-80-0-0.jpg",
                "md5_image": "3ac725b6bb2a52ab2c6b47467c6d54a4",
                "tracklist": "https:\/\/api.deezer.com\/album\/368818447\/tracks",
                "type": "album"
            },
            "type": "track"
        },

      they use recaptcha. I cant include them in my donwloader :(

  • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Do you use Android OS?

    If you do, it's very very easy to download an .apk for app called "xmanager" which automates the download and install process (and updating) of Spotify. Just make a dummy second Spotify account (you could use your main one, but, you know...) and after you install and login you have Spotify premium with all the benefits still. You can find Pandora cracked .apks too.

    I'll give the weirdos on reddit credit for their piracy lists though. Here's a big ol fat list.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/audio/

    Finding decent torrents for music is one of the more challenging ones now days. It used to not be the case, but since like google music, spotify, etc. the torrent scene, especially for obscure music, got shittier. On public trackers anyway. In my experience. Anyway, there's certainly some shit on that list that fills your need.