Been using SoulSeek around 10 years. I’ve never had trouble finding what I’m looking for, a lot of it very obscure. Previous to the interwebs, I always had to special order CDs from England…
I’m not sure to get this. Is the point of the article to install Nicotine+ into docker just to download music on a server? That seems overkill, I would rather use Nicotine+ on my laptop, then rsync my Music directory to the server. That way I have backups, and I’m not limited to music coming from Soulseek. Bandcamp catalog is surprisingly complete, since a few years (relatively to 5-10 years ago, where it feels you were going to Bandcamp to listen to “Bandcamp artists”, like Jamendo), you can download drm-free tracks and it allows to support artists you like. And of course, you can also download music from youtube with yt-dlp, provided you spend some time to tag it if you care about that.
My reasoning is provided in the last paragraph.
I know. That’s why I say rsync would do just as well with 1% of the complexity of the setup.
You don’t seem to understand my reasoning, but that’s ok.
i’m getting kazaa flashbacks
I miss kazaa .still have the first thousand songs I downloaded with it… Id tags are terrible but I love to listen to them
I think if you’re going to the trouble to amass a music library, you might as well use lidarr so you can be specific about the quality/releases you’re pulling in. I’ve used soulseek a few times over the years and there’s a lot of junk/low quality files in there. Even just inconsistently named or tagged. It’s not the end of the world but if you’re going to implement a system, might as well do it right.
The biggest pain point that I have with Lidarr is that there is no integrated way to split flac/cue albums that are very prevalent. I really need the tracks split so they can be played via plexamp. If anyone has any suggestions to automate this relatively well, I would appreciate it.
I’m using lidarr and yet to find flac albums that aren’t already split. Everything plays on Plexamp for me without issue. What sources are you using?
Where Nicotine/Soulseek excel is finding rare stuff that’s usually not distributed via torrent, similar to @Meuzzin@lemmy.world 's comment. Not only that, but friend lists, PMs, as well as browsing music shares from users that have similar interests and advanced filtering for format, bitrate, etc.
A lot of my music collection was never even released on tape, much less CD or streaming, and dealing with Discogs and waiting for sellers to get in stock what you’re looking for is a hassle. If your tastes veer toward the more mainstream and official digital releases are available, then torrents may be better for you. For myself and others like me, the choice is pretty clear though.
For sure - if there’s no good quality or official copy of what you’re after, it makes sense that you’d take what you can get. Out of curiosity, what are you into?
