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Most of the discussion and sources of content talk about movies and series.

I've been recently looking for psy and techno music, finding FLAC or WAV with active seeders feels like striking gold. It's definitely been a while since I've looked for active torrent sites and it feels more barren than ever.

Edit: Thank you all for all that valuable information. The reddit group really wasn't this helpful and valued making fun over adding real use able knowledge.

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[–] chuuqovn@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have people download my files on soulseek/nicotine+ daily. Plus anyone that would pirate music probably already know how to rip it straight from streaming services.

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[–] wick@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Locating, storing, labelling, and potentially hosting pirated music is just not something people wanna do. Plus music streaming isn't a fragmented mess like video streaming is atm. I never stopped pirating tv and movies except for a brief window of time when Netflix was king, but music so easy and complete on every platform it isn't worth it.

[–] zerocool@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Since Apple Music / Spotify I don’t find it necessary. Far more likely to pirate TV / movies because they’re spread out across so many different services and require so many different subscriptions.

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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

RIP what.cd

[–] TornadoValley@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As the normies went to streaming it became more gatekept and toxic. I’m mainly familiar with the attitude of trades only or straight up selling tracks (eg groupbuys with kids paying thousands of dollars for some shitty Kanye mumble demo). The game didn’t used to be like that. The days of the blogs with mega/rapid share links are long gone

I mean you got all the stream rippers eg SlavArt which is super nice. Soulseek is still alright but getting taken over by traders. RED/OPS around but you can’t just waltz in and I’d argue they don’t compare to what.cd or even OinK. RuTracker still got stuff going on

But when you’re after actual rare stuff that you can’t just buy or stream it can be real tough nowadays. Scene archives can be nice but very hard to get access and it’s mostly mp3s.

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[–] vibe@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

quite a bunch of services that can pull high quality music directly from streaming sites. straight up lossless stuff as well

[–] Polydextrous@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is that so?

…gif any names of these services? Just so I can avoid them, of course!

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[–] AVeryCleverName@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

I still use soulseek, been using it for nearly 20 years at this point

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