Question: Downloading music in 2025?

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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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Slskd

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Yes, or nicotine +

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Or Seeker (f-droid) on Android

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I couldn't find that one in search.

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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. 🤷‍♂️

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The app for updating is obtainium.
Highly recommend it.

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That's it! Thank you.

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Blessings to you, friend!

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

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Nicotine+ for a better interface of Soulseek

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

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

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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.

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doubledouble dot top

cobalt dot tools

lucida dot to

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

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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

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I use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF

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

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When you are lazy, and your tastes are niche - you just stop listening to music.

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Or listen to OK Computer for the billionth time because it's perfect.

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Yes, this too! Which I do, do. I miss new music, but I don't miss the bullshit.

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

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I always go back to just torrents.

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

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

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I subscribe to Deezer but use Deemix to download the FLAC files without DRM for my personal library. If the music you want is on Deezer, then you can download it.

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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

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

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

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

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

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Bloodywood

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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"

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

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

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RiMusic is one I know of

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eu dot qobuz dot squid dot wtf

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Returns 502 for me :/

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Weird, try same with na dot instead of eu dot

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I got address not found

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Oops, I meant us dot not na dot

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Oh thank you man working now

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I get at least 1/3rd of my MP3s the super old fashioned way; by renting CDs from the library and ripping them lol. It does help that I live in a big city with an interconnected library system. Or you could try archive.org.

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

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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

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

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

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