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 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.
I use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF
Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time
I just use RED. The user collages are pretty nice to find new albums.
Oh fuck I didn’t actually answer your question! Sorry!
You want the two major private trackers for music. They both have active communities and all kinds of groupings of releases.
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Or listen to OK Computer for the billionth time because it’s perfect.
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.
I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)
Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore
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
Try RuTracker.
I still use soulseek. Works great. No I haven’t tried anything else for 15 years.
If you’re not opposed to doing it yourself, you can sign up for a free trial to Tidal and rip it.
A nice torrent is “Rolling Stones top 500 Albums of All Time”.
Not very eclectic but there’s a lot of gold there.
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
I always go back to just torrents.
Public torrents suck for music these days. Little available and a lot that is there is FLAC only, no mp3-320
