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.
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 use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF
Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time
A hundred times soulseek, all the music nerds are there!
Nicotine+ for a better interface of Soulseek
I’m more of a slskd kind of guy, even if the webapp is pretty terrible
If you haven’t already done it, Pat (the Bunny) put all his stuff on archive and he’s far from the only one.
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Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore
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…
eu dot qobuz dot squid dot wtf
Returns 502 for me :/
Rutracker,bandcamp, yt-dlp with extract to mp3 :)
Wait, FOSS alternatives that hook? Are they in Fdroid?
RiMusic is one I know of
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
If you’re not opposed to doing it yourself, you can sign up for a free trial to Tidal and rip it.
Bloodywood
But that’s none of those genres…
I would like their stuff so much more if the nu-metal parts went away.
I am unsure what makes something “Swing”, but I absolutely adore The Roar of '74 by Buddy Rich. I discovered it via my dumb rule of “See vinyl record with car on it, buy vinyl record with car on it”
