Use Soulseek (you don't have to use their app, there are alternatives like Nicotine+). Free yourself from a reliance on streaming platforms.
As soon as you said "Lidarr," you had my undivided attention. I'm definitely giving this a try
Make sure you're on the "develop" branch of Lidarr, as the stable one doesn't have the plugins feature. If you're using Docker, use the "develop" tag instead of "latest" (lscr.io/linuxserver/lidarr:develop).
lidarr is still not working anywhere near as good. musicbrainz is a trash metadata provider.
Musicbrainz is fine; it's just Lidarr's usage of it that's a problem. Lidarr uses its own mirror of Musicbrainz, plus its own custom search code, and it's not as reliable.
Other apps that use Musicbrainz data, like Beets and Picard, don't have the same issues that Lidarr has.
I just stick with https://github.com/V1ck3s/octo-fiesta and grab everything directly from qobuz
I clicked on new to see what it had and saw the new album by a popular American rapper. I hit the download button, and inside of 30 seconds, it gave me a handful of FLAC files in a ZIP folder. Fed them to fre:ac, the metadata is good; however, it had the ARTIST tag copied to the ALBUMARTIST tag, which made the output a little messy (I have it output to ALBUMARTIST(YEAR) ALBUM), but I was able to expand all the folders, dump the m4a files I made into mp3tag, and straighten them up. Album cover was embedded and 1280x1280. No ads in the comments or even the filename of the zip file.
Bookmarked.
Oh, I also searched for an obscure(ish) Japanese band I like. It had most of their stuff. Not all, and not my favourite song by them, but it had a lot of stuff.
FYI to others, if you see the [HD] tag on something, I'm thinking that means they have it in FLAC, as opposed to MP3 or AAC/M4A. Though unless you have really good ears and/or an expensive hi-fi system, I doubt most of you can tell my m4a output from the flac input. If you can, I hope you have enough hard drives to support your collection. I don't need FLAC, but I'll use it to get the best possible sound at roughly a quarter to half the filesize (I use aac low complexity at the highest bitrate fre:ac supports).
It's even open-source! Nice site.
it had the ARTIST tag copied to the ALBUMARTIST tag
This isn't wrong though - it's a proper use of both tags. I think most of my music has both tags populated.
That site is pulling from Tidal, which is why the tags are good. All the legit streaming sites have well-tagged files.
No, those two tags are not the same. ARTIST is everyone performing on the track. ALBUMARTIST is who the album is credited to. So for example Santana's Supernatural, from the 1990s. The song "Smooth" that everyone knows. ARTIST would be something like Santana / Rob Thomas, or Santana feat. Rob Thomas, whereas ALBUMARTIST would be Santana.
Let me put it another way — do you want five copies of an album because four songs have collaborations? So one album is all the solo stuff, one album has one song with one collaboration, and so on... or do you want one copy of the album with all the songs on it as they appear on the album itself?
Sorry, I didn't mean to say they're the same. I meant to say that if all songs on an album are by one artist, the Artist and Album Artist will be identical. This is the case the majority of the time.
The major exceptions are collaborations (like you said), and compilations (which have "Various Artists" as the Album Artist)
Yes. The search results and music files are coming directly from Tidal, using someone else's account. If you look in the network tab in the browser's dev tools, you'll see requests to Tidal.
Interesting design, since it's trivial for Tidal to block something like this - they can see that the requests are coming from that site. I'm surprised they haven't blocked it.
If you see requests to tidal in your browser - they're not going there from the server, are they :)
Usenet. Plenty of music in lossless (FLAC) format. Use NZBGeek and DrunkenSlug as indexers. Sabnzbd to download. Lidarr and Prowlarr to automate everything. Add an artist, click to download an album, and it'll search for the album, download the NZB file, send it to Sabnzbd to download, then tag and organize the files once it's done downloading.
For music I'd just get a block account: https://www.reddit.com/.... Essentially, you pay for some amount of data (can usually get 1TB for US$5-15), and they usually don't have an expiry date, so it could last you for years. Some providers have monthly plans with unlimited data, but a block account will end up way cheaper if you just want music.
For rarer music, Soulseek is very good. It's a peer-to-peer service from the KaZaA and Napster era, but somehow it's survived until now. Since it's peer to peer, downloads are quite a bit slower (you're relying on the upload speed of individual users - each download comes from only one user) but it's a great community.
It's also supported by Prowlarr if you want to automate downloads using Lidarr.
Having said that, note that many uploads on rutracker are raw CD dumps (ISO file, plus a CUE file specifying when the tracks start and end) which Lidarr doesn't support directly, so you'll have to manually convert to FLAC and split it yourself. Once you do that, you can manually import the files into Lidarr and it'll tag and arrange the files for you.
Soulseek and lucida.to are the best of the best
Definitely don't have a downloads folder full of rips rn! (Also, don't forget to support ur fav artists on Bandcamp btw :3)
No shot someone's tryna DDOS the site rn 💀 It's so childish
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It uses the soulseek servers. Can run your own instance in a docker container. I listen to metal daily and you can find anything from other soulseek users.
relatively niche old death metal
I have no idea how much it should be "relatively niche" and "old" but here's a few sources i'm using myself for such type of content:
Most of them require a sign-up
yt-dlp already supports downloading playlists. If it doesn't work for a specific site, you might as well write it in python and contribute it to yt-dlp directly, that way everyone else can benefit as well.
Mind you, yt-dlp has a strict policy against cracking DRM, so I have my doubts as to if it will work with Tidal in the first place.
yt-dlp has a strict policy against cracking DRM
This is how it stays legal in the USA. Bypassing DRM is a DMCA violation (section 1201), but just downloading content is totally legal.
Its predecessor, youtube-dl, was subject to DMCA takedowns from the RIAA, and they had to get the EFF to help. yt-dlp doesn't want to experience the same issues.
I've had about half my music on an SD card for the last 10 years but now I've finally canceled my streaming subscriptions and am comitting to having everything on there, are there any good front end apps for that? Rn I use poweramp but it's playlist making options are awful.
Also sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, if so please just point me to the right place
thanks for using Leebra!
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