Moved to Tidal. Reviews from some tech-site said "It's like Spotify 10 years ago." as if that's a bad thing.
Loving the FLAC quality and non-enshittification.
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
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Oh my god did you guys just steal my music?! You each owe me $0.003 !!!
Well, at least the datahoarders can preserve some things when it all goes to shit...
90% of Spotify is trash. Much like Audible, it's just choking on AI generated content and similar worthless vanity projects
Did not see this coming when I built my 40TB NAS
Get to acquiring Seagate external HDDs and shucking them for your own 3.5" drive bays before the data centers get them
The 20TB drives I was looking at in July are up 40% :/
Pc guys haven’t had a break in like 7 years. One component or another is the hottest item for one scam or another.
Sadly my wallet is on time out
That’s disgusting. Where would you find such torrents?
The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there's people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they're succeeding.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
None of these are audio torrents.
That's not released yet.
The album art torrent is a goldmine. Such a pain in the ass sometimes to find high quality album covers.
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It would be awesome if we had an app that allowed to stream directly from such torrents, and had a user-made recommendation system to replace the discovery algorithm :D
Stremio + Torrentio does this for TV but I haven't found an equivalent for music. Hoping to be proven wrong 🤞
Something as easy as stremio but for music. Connect to listenbrainz instead of trakt. Then only serve from the spotify collection because of their extensive metadata. With multi device sign in and syncing like stremio. Then a Kodi add on for the libreelec people.
i need a subscribe button for this
Whoever knows the answer, or when one is developed, someone please ping us all in this thread? thanks mate
Datahoarders are going to go WILD over this
data hoarders already have everything in here and far more, and the web release versions are a lower priority. thinking of red.sh here
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Let's put it all on a Funkwhale server.
Sure, you set it up.
Dang. You called me out on my bullshit.
Anna's the GOAT
Sounds more like the pirate queen.
Wasn’t all of this shit already available as torrents?
You could hand pluck grains of rice out of a field or just steal a 25lb bag.
Which would you prefer?
In case of this, definitely the grains.
Most of this rice is not worth stealing :D
When the 25lb bag is mostly weavels?
You of all people should know how to spell that word correctly.
deleting my account
No.
Not everything got torrented after music streamers came into prominence. (Though chances are pretty good you could rip an MP3 off Youtube for whatever you're looking for.)
Ripping Mp3s off YouTube Music Videos is without a doubt the worst method of piracy I've ever heard of.
But you have heard of it
Beat me to it, ya scalliwag.
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As far as I’ve read, the database is largely low bitrate files, and some AI. The value here is metadata and preservation of “rare” music.
Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, it’s roughly quality of 192kbps MP3. Only the ”popularity=0” stuff (so stuff with so few listens that Spotify does not keep record of) were re-encoded to 75kbps Opus, which as a modern codec is much better than it sounds like but of course re-encode is not great for already lossless stuff.
For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossless music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.
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All tracks within the top 99.6% of listens are supposed to be high quality
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