So I’ve been getting back into torrenting because I’m fed up with the inability to actually own the music I pay for. I used to torrent a lot back in the day, mostly music with a bit of anime and obscure/foreign movies and TV shows here and there, but that was a long time ago. I had been going back to the most famous of all coastal bodies of water where buccaneers reside, but I just tried too go there only to find it’s currently not working. I know from lurking here that 1337x and rargb are no longer safe and LT doesn’t have much to offer. All I want is music, but it seems most places are geared towards TV and movies. Where does an audiophile turn to in times like these?

  • HumanPerson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    If you want to own the music and support the artist you can buy drm free albums on bandcamp. I know this is the piracy community but they do give you drm free flac and mp3. Beyond that, I use i2p so the only advice I can give is try i2p but there isn’t a whole lot there.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    1·
    11 months ago

    Just wanted to say that I love the apt use of “finding one’s sea legs” in this context. The pun didn’t go unnoticed.

    • TurtlePower@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      0·
      11 months ago

      Ok, I gave in and while it’s a little confusing, I already have one of the albums I was looking for and it’s flac. Thanks for twisting my arm!

      • sanguinet@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        If what you’re looking for it’s not a common find or just very rare, you can put it on your wishlist searches and you may eventually get a hit. You don’t need to leave the app open all the time (although that’d be ideal), you can just leave it on your wishlist and it’ll be searched automatically everytime you open it.

  • alexthelion335@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Download the old rargb database, it obviously isn’t being actively updated, but has most of what I watch in movies and tv. I don’t know about music, but I found this website not too long ago. I used the spotify downloader since I have a lot of playlists on there, and I was surprised how well it worked.

  • mrjfilippo@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    My go-tos:

    slavart (divolt)

    rutracker and orpheus.network (through lidarr+prowlarr)

    Soulseek (nicotine+)