Seriously I've been too scared to ask
Yikes that's a major issue that I coincidentally bypassed by not using Lidarr for the past few months myself.
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Start out simple and stick with a basic BitTorrent client. Figure out where you want to download from and get a torrent client configured. I use an ISP that frowns upon piracy so here's a quick overview:
- Look for public torrent sites. I'm out of this game so I don't have any suggestions.
- Research private torrent trackers. I don't think I can provide any help with this, but there are other corners of Lemmy who can.
- Find a VPN. Everyone has thoughts on this and Proton VPN is the one I'm currently using.
- Pick a torrent client. I'd recommend qBittorrent myself.
- Configure your VPN to include your BT traffic.
If/when you want to try Lidarr, you'll be much better off knowing the basics of BitTorrent because *arr software is confusing in its own regard. Lidarr is just a tool to organize your music library folders and also automatically queue downloads. It is not a requirement to enjoy downloading music.
Usenet and soulseek are other alternatives.
You'll have to be more specific. :) I think it works well for organizing a music library unless there are issues with this feature that I'm unaware of. Using it to queue downloads was painful for me, so I resort to less automated ways to acquire music files.
Simply put, the *arr software concept works well for downloading movies and TV shows (Radarr and Sonarr). Music just seems to be a little more difficult and I have lots of issues with Lidarr finding music out on Usenet and trackers. I hope that's user error on my part.
That explains a lot about why I like this place
As it should be :)
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Today is Bandcamp Friday: All revenue goes directly to artists (until 12 a.m. PST)
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Oh no, not bitter beer face!
Go a step further and use something like Deemix to grab FLAC files from their servers
I'm a fat American, I can confirm all my strength is in my legs
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I had an account day 1 when Spotify launched in my country. It was such a big deal to me, a person who spent their teens and 20s hoarding music. One service and it was most of the music I wanted. I could sideload my own music and shuffle it all together.
I miss that little app store on the desktop client. You could join shared radio stations and vote on the next track while people wrote to each other in a chat.