I would like to move away from using spotify for music. Are there any torrenting sites where I can torrent music with high quality audio (~320kbps) tagged properly?

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[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 55 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Soulseek is I2P not Torrenting, but I've found it to be the best place to find music by a long shot.

Edit: It's actually P2P not I2P

[–] SirIglooi@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Totally agree here. For tagging I also reccomend musicbrainz picard

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

Picard is great. I find that beets is more accurate in some cases. Yymv so worth giving them both a try. Picard is a lot easier to use and doesn't maintain it's own library index which has its pros and cons.

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

I can recommend Beets for tagging, with the Lyrics plugin. Perfect for my Navidrome server and synced lyrics work perfectly on Symfonium

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Soulseek is the opposite of "tagged consistently".

[–] kinship@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

I use soulseek but still have no idea how to find quality sources. I just filter my search with .flac and scan the users's folder structure (the more organized the better odds at being a good rip?). Am I doing it wrong?

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, this. Torrenting music is not necessary. Slsk is a better option 99% of the time. Most of the tags are the automatic ones applied by the streaming service it was ripped from or MusicBrainz. But everyone seems to expect different things from tagging, so if you want every performer tagged and like every genre you're never gonna find that.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nicotine+ is an open source client for the Soulseek network. Soulseek/Nicotine+ does not use i2p or do any type of anonymization; it' uses direct connections. Guessing you meant "p2p." The network has a lot of music I can't find through torrents, and I can almost always find the music I'm looking for as FLAC files.

[–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah I meant P2P my bad.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

I use Soulseek along with a little command line tool to download all the music for my radio show. It's an absolute joy to use.