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!-------

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
    10·
    11 days ago

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

  • DeathCubeK [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    If you’re downloading music honestly there’s no better alternative than soulseek.

    Although I’d get the app nicotine+ it’s a graphical client of slsk with a much better UI and more features…

  • stupid_asshole69 [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    You have two problems, curation and piracy.

    Piracy is easy, get into a few good private trackers or download from YouTube or use soulseek (carefully!).

    Curation is harder and if you don’t want to do it yourself you have to make friends with people who are into the same music as you or use the tools of feed based services like Spotify to dump into your piracy rube-Goldberg contraption.

    It’s worth not doing the latter because you will end up failing the Dow Jones and the Industrials test if you just stick to only what the machine gives you because it’s what you like.

    Go make friends with people and enjoy music, a collaborative hallucination unique to humanity, with them.

  • RunicSword@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    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.

  • sp451@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    11 days ago

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