Where to find FLAC music?

What are the best places to dl FLAC music?

31 comments

https://lucida.to/

40
- underrated comment
  
  5
- Perfect. Thank you.
  
  4
rutracker always has legit flac rips, some on soulseek can be fake

17
- And when a source isn't clear, they mark the post as #doubtful.
  
  It is where I get my music too. They even have tons of Vinyl or SACD rips, among other hi-res formats, if you're into that.
  
  6
Soulseek

14
- Use Nicotine+ on desktop and Seeker on Android.
  
  9
  
  There is also a docker version https://github.com/slskd/slskd
  
  10
  
  Sweet! I didn't know about Seeker!
  
  3
deezer arls and qobuz access tokens from https://rentry.org/firehawk52 to dowload with https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

10
Doubledoubletop

10
- They are rebranding to a new website it is faster imo I don't like how when u unzip the files there is no parent folder however you have to make that.
  
  Edit: New site https://lucida.to/
  
  3
  
  There's discord groups but they're hard to find because of snitches. I got in early so I have some access now but it's hard for newcomers
  
  1
Apart from lucida I use these,

yams

squid

7
deemix

6
FNP, TL, ST are good. Any general purpose PT is nice since you're probably never getting into RED or OPS anyways haha. Like me :(

5
- Can you expand the acronyms?
  
  5
  
  Private trackers. I think common ones. If you search them with "tracker" you'll probably find them.
  
  2
- Isn't OPS relatively easy to interview in to?
  
  2
  
  I don't know about OPS but Redacted wasn't hard to interview into.
  
  3
  
  OPS is pretty easy to get into. The wait times for interviews can be long, but much much better than RED. The actual interview is pretty easy too imo. Just make sure to read through the interview prep.
  
  1
Another way that needs a credit card:

Make a disposable e-mail, sign up for a month trial for Qobuz or Tidal and use a program like StreamRip to just download high-quality music straight from the platform.

When the trial ends, just make a new e-mail and repeat.

Someone mentioned Lucida here, which is more straightforward, but I found it slow and often failing. Once you're signed up, downloading is easy and it's the easiest way to get more obscure stuff in high quality.

3
Just use SoulSeekQt and filter for .flac, if the song you're looking for was ever released on flac it'll be there

3
They’re on CDs, you just need some gumption

3
- This. Physical media is awesome to own, and ripping extremely high-quality copies is actually pretty easy, just time-consuming.
  
  I recommend EAC (Exact Audio Copy). It's free and there are some awesome guides online for setting it to get the best quality for your rips.
  
  5
SLSK, private trackers, public trackers, random websites, open directories, ripping your own CDs.

3
Is there any site that gives you all the different music services URLs, like a searcher that makes it easier?

1
- The best way for me that I found is using Soulseek, sadly it's proprietary but it's really nice as a lot of people share on it
  
  1

You've viewed 31 comments.