Hi all,
I pirate plenty of games and films, but I haven’t pirated music in years. Recently, I’ve been using FOSS streaming alternatives that hook into Spotify or YouTube to avoid ads.
However, my Android is currently out of service (waiting on a new screen), so I’m using an old Nokia Lumia 1020. In 2025, it’s practically a dumb phone, so I need MP3s, WAVs, or FLAC files to have some sound in my life. I’m struggling to find music—my taste is eclectic and niche, and I’m also lazy. Are there any active communities in 2025 that focus on music piracy with curated playlists?
I’m specifically looking for:
- Folk-punk
- Post-punk
- British indie
- Swing
Any advice is welcome!-------
I always go back to just torrents.
Public torrents suck for music these days. Little available and a lot that is there is FLAC only, no mp3-320
Then let’s start creating more again. And seed.
Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore
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Or listen to OK Computer for the billionth time because it’s perfect.
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I get at least 1/3rd of my MP3s the super old fashioned way; by renting CDs from the library and ripping them lol. It does help that I live in a big city with an interconnected library system. Or you could try archive.org.
Oh fuck I didn’t actually answer your question! Sorry!
You want the two major private trackers for music. They both have active communities and all kinds of groupings of releases.
I just use RED. The user collages are pretty nice to find new albums.
Wait, FOSS alternatives that hook? Are they in Fdroid?
RiMusic is one I know of
Bloodywood
But that’s none of those genres…
I would like their stuff so much more if the nu-metal parts went away.
I am unsure what makes something “Swing”, but I absolutely adore The Roar of '74 by Buddy Rich. I discovered it via my dumb rule of “See vinyl record with car on it, buy vinyl record with car on it”
I don’t care much for most Metal. either.
I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)
eu dot qobuz dot squid dot wtf
Returns 502 for me :/
Weird, try same with na dot instead of eu dot
I got address not found
Oops, I meant us dot not na dot
Oh thank you man working now
You have to have the cookie for squid dot wtf first. Go there.
Rutracker,bandcamp, yt-dlp with extract to mp3 :)
I still use soulseek. Works great. No I haven’t tried anything else for 15 years.
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I like Nicotine for Soulseek, but it’s been some time since I got on there, like pre-pandemmy
Idk about curated playlists but I use soulseek to share files with my friends.
I like the same genres, I can recommend you some albums I’ve been liking if you want
