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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago (2 children)

Totally agree here. For tagging I also reccomend musicbrainz picard

[–] portnull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

Soulseek is the opposite of "tagged consistently".

[–] kinship@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

Yeah I meant P2P my bad.

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 1 month 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.