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Sources for FLAC Music

Hi! I wanted to start to hoard my favorite tracks in the best possible quality. A lot of stuff is available through Deezer or Tidal i know, but what sources are you guys using when FLACs for particular albums or songs cannot be found on Deezer or Tidal? I wanted to get the Rock n Roll Train song from ACDC in FLAC, but Tidal doesn't have it in FLAC.

Are there any good Public/Private trackers for Music?

Cheers.

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I would use Soulseek for that
- I didn't know about it until a few days ago somehow (I'm kinda getting back into sailing at the moment after a long break), and I can confirm it's great and easy to get into. Has loads of flac too even if I prefer to stick to 320kbps MP3.
  
  I barely use it atm, because of telegram deezer bot solutions. But if you're looking for specific things you can't find on the other platforms it's quite nice.
- I 2nd this
Soulseek and then set the search filter to only .flac
rutracker maybe
- Yep, that's my go-to as well. Their own search it shit though, but site:rutracker.ru on google works great.
- I'm fucked up, I read it as nutcracker for a sec
- One thing I like about rutracker, is that the sources are apparently checked. Whereas sources from Soulseek for example, could be Youtube rips that are "upscaled" to flac.
Redacted and Orpheus are good private general music trackers with loads of FLACs. Join by interview or getting an invite.

https://interviewfor.red/

https://interview.orpheus.network/
- Orpheus is good. I used to have an account but it got disabled because I wasnt using it as much as I thought I would. Great tracker. They do a lot to make sure you can keep your ratio positive.
  
  Too add on to this, many private trackers will not disable your account for inactivity if you reach a certain user class or make a one time donation (including OPS).
  
  Plus reaching out to the staff on IRC is a good way to have an account re-enabled if it does get disabled.
I use this for offline FLAC copies which uses Deezer I believe.

https://free-mp3-download.net

&

https://slavart.gamesdrive.net

I use Apple Music for streaming ALAC.
- free-mp3 is the one I use myself
  
  The link may sound shady af, but it hasn't given me any problems
  
  Snappy interface, quick downloads, definitely gets a recommendation from me
  
  I use it too. So far, it's working great for me.
- another vouch for free-mp3
  
  been using it for 1-2 years now
  
  Yeah man, I'm glad to see it's been up for so long, I've been using it for two years myself ever since the pandemic and Deezmix started rolling around and then they required ARLs and this was about the time I heard about this site. Great uptime too!
- Wow, the first source is awesome! Didn't know about it before, but now I will actively use it!
Nicotine+ (Soulseek)
If you're looking for rock/metal then en.metal-tracker.com usually has lots of flac rips.
- Metal tracker is the best around. Now if only I could get a signup confirmation email to go through.
A $15 deezer subscription will last you a month and you can download as much flac quality tracks as you want with deezloader or deemix. They don't have everything but they have a lot.
- Getting a tidal trial and using tidal downloader would be better imo. In my experience you can get multiple trials even with the same CC when using different email address, have done it 4+ times with the same CC.
There is a really good torrent on TL that has just about every version of every song they played up until 2016. I’ll admit, it is a bit overwhelming and ~300GB in size. Look for:

ACDC - Collection 1978-2016 [273 ALBUMS] FLAC
- Yeah that's quite big. I'll look into it, hopefully it's freeleech.
Soulseek via Nicotine+, you can filter for file type and bitrate as well as avoid those assholes who lock all their files for trading.
- This! I'm rebuilding my collection right now so its great to just copy whole chunks of other people's libraries.
- Seems like this question gets asked every week, and every time this is my answer.
Deemix with a free trial of Deezer, I've downloaded 2,000 albums this week.
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  Depends if I'm just getting big batches, but I think once per month for each trial is okay.
- Are you just mass downloading and sorting later? Or actually archiving the lot
  
  I was replacing a specific library, from FLAC down to 320 for more seamless remote streaming.
  
  Deemix has good folder sorting and naming in the settings.
Search: "tidal-dl GitHub".

I think they have a Spotify version linked as well.
- That may save to the FLAC format but is it going to be actual FLAC quality?
  
  You may need a premium account for FLAC. But from what I can tell by reading the code in the repo, it does infact download in lossless FLAC format.
  
  Otherwise it looks like you can download the free-tier quality by choosing that in the settings.
Rutracker maybe 🤔
soulseek

rutracker

Usenet

deezloader or tidal-dl

hd24net (you'll need a mega account)

R/Rip requests used to be a good source before it got shut down.
Has the deezer docker webgui stopped working for others? Ive heard cli still works but cant find any guides. I dont use the bots as i usually grab the discog for an artist
- Still working fine for me, it'll be a sad day when it goes
- I meant deemix
surprised no mention of yt-dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp - has support for (currently supported: best (default), aac, alac, flac, m4a, mp3, opus, vorbis, wav
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  ah yea its not true lossless, but optimized upscale or the sort - but better than some ripping options out there

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