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!-------
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.
I use Chosic to find music and then download with SquidWTF
Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time
A hundred times soulseek, all the music nerds are there!
Nicotine+ for a better interface of Soulseek
I’m more of a slskd kind of guy, even if the webapp is pretty terrible
If you haven’t already done it, Pat (the Bunny) put all his stuff on archive and he’s far from the only one.
doubledouble dot top
cobalt dot tools
lucida dot to
I just download mp3 files from youtube using yt-dlp (laptop) or newpipe (android)
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…
Slskd
Yes, or nicotine +
Or Seeker (f-droid) on Android
I couldn’t find that one in search.
Oh, sorry. I forgot you’ll have to add the IzzyOnDroid repo first
Edit: assuming you’re fine with this
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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. 🤷♂️
Blessings to you, friend!
The app for updating is obtainium. Highly recommend it.
That’s it! Thank you.
When you are lazy, and your tastes are niche - you just stop listening to music.
Or listen to OK Computer for the billionth time because it’s perfect.
Yes, this too! Which I do, do. I miss new music, but I don’t miss the bullshit.
I still use soulseek. Works great. No I haven’t tried anything else for 15 years.
Qobuz and OrpheusDL. I used to use Deezer and deemix but it’s hardly possible to find working accounts anymore
I always go back to just torrents.
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
Try RuTracker.
eu dot qobuz dot squid dot wtf
