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!-------
Slskd
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I still use soulseek. Works great. No I haven’t tried anything else for 15 years.
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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
Try RuTracker.
I use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF
Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time
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.
If you haven’t already done it, Pat (the Bunny) put all his stuff on archive and he’s far from the only one.
I always go back to just torrents.
I just use RED. The user collages are pretty nice to find new albums.
Rutracker,bandcamp, yt-dlp with extract to mp3 :)
Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore
Wait, FOSS alternatives that hook? Are they in Fdroid?
RiMusic is one I know of
I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)
