Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

You have two problems, curation and piracy.

Piracy is easy, get into a few good private trackers or download from YouTube or use soulseek (carefully!).

Curation is harder and if you don’t want to do it yourself you have to make friends with people who are into the same music as you or use the tools of feed based services like Spotify to dump into your piracy rube-Goldberg contraption.

It’s worth not doing the latter because you will end up failing the Dow Jones and the Industrials test if you just stick to only what the machine gives you because it’s what you like.

Go make friends with people and enjoy music, a collaborative hallucination unique to humanity, with them.

A hundred times soulseek, all the music nerds are there!

I use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF

If you haven't already done it, Pat (the Bunny) put all his stuff on archive and he's far from the only one.

doubledouble dot top

cobalt dot tools

lucida dot to

I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)

If you're downloading music honestly there's no better alternative than soulseek.

Although I'd get the app nicotine+ it's a graphical client of slsk with a much better UI and more features..

Slskd

When you are lazy, and your tastes are niche - you just stop listening to music.

I still use soulseek. Works great. No I haven’t tried anything else for 15 years.

Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore

I always go back to just torrents.

Soul seek, although a lot of folk punk bands have their shit for free on bandcamp, all of Pat The Bunny’s stuff at least I’m sure

Try RuTracker.

eu dot qobuz dot squid dot wtf

If you're not opposed to doing it yourself, you can sign up for a free trial to Tidal and rip it.

https://github.com/exislow/tidal-dl-ng

Rutracker,bandcamp, yt-dlp with extract to mp3 :)

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

Wait, FOSS alternatives that hook? Are they in Fdroid?

Bloodywood

A nice torrent is "Rolling Stones top 500 Albums of All Time".

Not very eclectic but there's a lot of gold there.