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Noob question: where can I download FLACs/music? (kbin.earth)

submitted 1 day ago by BerenstainsMonster@kbin.earth to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've been building up my digital music library again after giving music streaming the boot. I was going to attempt to digitize my CD and vinyl collection, but I frankly don't have the time for all that. So I thought I might turn to file-sharing and download digital versions of my physical collection. I prefer FLAC or WAV if the former isn't available. Can you recommend good places to get started?

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[–] Noggog@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use Deezer. You pay for it per month like Spotify, but they have API to just download the songs straight up. I think the open source UI I've been using for that is on the rocks a bit, but do far still been working for me

https://www.reddit.com/r/deemix/comments/zlswiz/last_update_is_now_out/

[–] BerenstainsMonster@kbin.earth 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This doesn't sound like what I'm asking for. I'm not interested in paying Deezer for music I already own.

[–] Noggog@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sure sure! Just a fallback to consider if you have trouble locating elsewhere, as I did. Spotify rippers were noticably bad quality, and torrents for music were very scarce compared to other media types. But maybe I missed something or there's better options now. Dropping $10 for a month to mass download everything at crisp quality isn't too bad an option, imo.

[–] BerenstainsMonster@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

I appreciate it. I always thought Deezer was just a streaming platform like Spotify.

Also, dang, surprised so many downvotes for my original comment lol.

[–] butter@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, I'm considering paying for Deezer to move back to this.

You can automate downloads with Lidarr. I'm set up to download every song by every artist that Last.FM recommends.

Currently, I'm using Soularr, but it's really slow and not always FLAC and not always full albums and the metadata is not always perfect.

[–] Noggog@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, nice. I gotta do the reverse and check out Soularr a bit. I imagine my Deezer setup will eventually implode, so I'll need a fallback haha

[–] butter@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

At the very least, be sure to put your current library out on soulseek.