I know this is kind of baby pirate knowledge but ive always just used a downloader for my streaming service. I have since moved to Linux entirely (massive win BTW, patting myself on the back for that) but there is no Linux-compatible downloader for my specific service. At least not one with the bulk functionality I would like. Any downloaders for Tidal or other sources of high-quality audio, likely to have some relatively niche old death metal? I’m a nerd about the quality.
edit: Just looked at the megathread and there seems to be some tools compatible with Tidal. Regardless, are there any applications that are alternatives? I’d like to see ALL of my options <3
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fmhy.net for all your sailing needs.
I use tidal-dl-ng, simple python gui app you can compile yourself or even just run in the debugger.
Soulseek and lucida.to are the best of the best
Wait! lucida is still alive?
Definitely don’t have a downloads folder full of rips rn! (Also, don’t forget to support ur fav artists on Bandcamp btw :3)
Use Soulseek (you don’t have to use their app, there are alternatives like Nicotine+). Free yourself from a reliance on streaming platforms.
If you have a home server, slskd is very good. Modern web UI and there’s plugins to integrate it into Lidarr (Tubifarry)
lidarr is still not working anywhere near as good. musicbrainz is a trash metadata provider.
Musicbrainz is fine; it’s just Lidarr’s usage of it that’s a problem. Lidarr uses its own mirror of Musicbrainz, plus its own custom search code, and it’s not as reliable.
Other apps that use Musicbrainz data, like Beets and Picard, don’t have the same issues that Lidarr has.
I just stick with https://github.com/V1ck3s/octo-fiesta and grab everything directly from qobuz
wowwwwww!! fucking amazing
If you’re fine pulling with legit services then https://monochrome.tf/ is probably the easiest to use (or their backend service if you want to automate it).
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They shutdown
Monochrome? It still works.
I clicked on new to see what it had and saw the new album by a popular American rapper. I hit the download button, and inside of 30 seconds, it gave me a handful of FLAC files in a ZIP folder. Fed them to fre:ac, the metadata is good; however, it had the ARTIST tag copied to the ALBUMARTIST tag, which made the output a little messy (I have it output to ALBUMARTIST(YEAR) ALBUM), but I was able to expand all the folders, dump the m4a files I made into mp3tag, and straighten them up. Album cover was embedded and 1280x1280. No ads in the comments or even the filename of the zip file.
Bookmarked.
Oh, I also searched for an obscure(ish) Japanese band I like. It had most of their stuff. Not all, and not my favourite song by them, but it had a lot of stuff.
FYI to others, if you see the [HD] tag on something, I’m thinking that means they have it in FLAC, as opposed to MP3 or AAC/M4A. Though unless you have really good ears and/or an expensive hi-fi system, I doubt most of you can tell my m4a output from the flac input. If you can, I hope you have enough hard drives to support your collection. I don’t need FLAC, but I’ll use it to get the best possible sound at roughly a quarter to half the filesize (I use aac low complexity at the highest bitrate fre:ac supports).
It’s even open-source! Nice site.
it had the ARTIST tag copied to the ALBUMARTIST tag
This isn’t wrong though - it’s a proper use of both tags. I think most of my music has both tags populated.
That site is pulling from Tidal, which is why the tags are good. All the legit streaming sites have well-tagged files.
