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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!-------

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I just use RED. The user collages are pretty nice to find new albums.

[–] SlartyBartFast 1 points 1 day ago

I like Nicotine for Soulseek, but it's been some time since I got on there, like pre-pandemmy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

A hundred times soulseek, all the music nerds are there!

[–] Stez827 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since it's p2p do I need to use a VPN to not get with a dmca letter?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

As long as you don't share anything you should be okay! It's not very ethical tough... But you can share your files list with users you trust (for example people you have already downloaded from).

At any rate i never heard of anyone getting in trouble for using soulseek.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nicotine+ for a better interface of Soulseek

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I'm more of a slskd kind of guy, even if the webapp is pretty terrible

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] can 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or Seeker (f-droid) on Android

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I couldn't find that one in search.

[–] can 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Oh, sorry. I forgot you'll have to add the IzzyOnDroid repo first

Edit: assuming you're fine with this

DISCLAIMER: As stated above, all .apk files are directly taken from the repositories of their resp. developers. They are provided under FOSS licenses, without any warranty, though we've taken some additional measures to provide our repository with additional transparency and safety checks (see the Security section below).

You can get Seeker directly from its github if that's all you want.

Edit2: there's an app for automating updates for apps installed directly but I can't remember the name.

Edit3: Seeker is also on the play store. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The app for updating is obtainium. Highly recommend it.

[–] can 1 points 2 days ago

That's it! Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Blessings to you, friend!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

doubledouble dot top

cobalt dot tools

lucida dot to

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

If you haven't already done it, Pat (the Bunny) put all his stuff on archive and he's far from the only one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I still use soulseek. Works great. No I haven’t tried anything else for 15 years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Try RuTracker.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always go back to just torrents.

[–] freebee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Public torrents suck for music these days. Little available and a lot that is there is FLAC only, no mp3-320

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Then let's start creating more again. And seed.

[–] jws_shadotak 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you're not opposed to doing it yourself, you can sign up for a free trial to Tidal and rip it.

https://github.com/exislow/tidal-dl-ng

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Rutracker,bandcamp, yt-dlp with extract to mp3 :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

eu dot qobuz dot squid dot wtf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weird, try same with na dot instead of eu dot

[–] Stez827 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oops, I meant us dot not na dot

[–] Stez827 1 points 17 hours ago

Oh thank you man working now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, FOSS alternatives that hook? Are they in Fdroid?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

RiMusic is one I know of

[–] jwiggler 2 points 3 days ago

Idk about curated playlists but I use soulseek to share files with my friends.

I like the same genres, I can recommend you some albums I've been liking if you want

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

But that's none of those genres...

I would like their stuff so much more if the nu-metal parts went away.

I am unsure what makes something "Swing", but I absolutely adore The Roar of '74 by Buddy Rich. I discovered it via my dumb rule of "See vinyl record with car on it, buy vinyl record with car on it"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I don't care much for most Metal. either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

A nice torrent is "Rolling Stones top 500 Albums of All Time".

Not very eclectic but there's a lot of gold there.