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 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.
A hundred times soulseek, all the music nerds are there!
Since it’s p2p do I need to use a VPN to not get with a dmca letter?
As long as you don’t share anything you should be okay! It’s not very ethical tough… But you can share your files list with users you trust (for example people you have already downloaded from).
At any rate i never heard of anyone getting in trouble for using soulseek.
Nicotine+ for a better interface of Soulseek
I’m more of a slskd kind of guy, even if the webapp is pretty terrible
I just use RED. The user collages are pretty nice to find new albums.
I subscribe to Deezer but use Deemix to download the FLAC files without DRM for my personal library. If the music you want is on Deezer, then you can download it.
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I use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF
Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time
If you haven’t already done it, Pat (the Bunny) put all his stuff on archive and he’s far from the only one.
I like Nicotine for Soulseek, but it’s been some time since I got on there, like pre-pandemmy
Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore
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
Slskd
Yes, or nicotine +
Or Seeker (f-droid) on Android
I couldn’t find that one in search.
Oh, sorry. I forgot you’ll have to add the IzzyOnDroid repo first
Edit: assuming you’re fine with this
DISCLAIMER: As stated above, all .apk files are directly taken from the repositories of their resp. developers. They are provided under FOSS licenses, without any warranty, though we’ve taken some additional measures to provide our repository with additional transparency and safety checks (see the Security section below).
You can get Seeker directly from its github if that’s all you want.
Edit2: there’s an app for automating updates for apps installed directly but I can’t remember the name.
Edit3: Seeker is also on the play store. 🤷♂️
The app for updating is obtainium. Highly recommend it.
That’s it! Thank you.
Blessings to you, friend!
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Or listen to OK Computer for the billionth time because it’s perfect.
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I still use soulseek. Works great. No I haven’t tried anything else for 15 years.
Try RuTracker.
