May I interest you in SoulSeek? Best way to get those sweet, pure FLAC files (or high quality MP3s).
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2022
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How does SoulSeek compare to torrents? From my quick search, it seems that SoulSeek is proprietary software, correct?
Better, in my opinion. Torrenting is annoying when it comes to music, I find. Soulseek is so easy in terms of searching for individual songs, albums, etc. and specifying things like bitrate and so on. It's proprietary but I've yet to see an open-source equivalent that comes even remotely close to it.
Nicotine+ is a free and open source alternative to the official client.
Lol this is going to sound ridiculous but as someone who is trying to quit smoking and constantly failing, I know for a fact that using a program called Nicotine would 100% water the seeds of addiction in my brain.
Never smoked but I despite the name and consider it a deal breaker
It is a weird choice of name, isn't it?!
so tempting to release a product called ‘nicotine’ and wait for the patches. then i would have a reason to only apply one patch a day. otherwise, i’m going against medical advise.
A quick look at tosdr and exodus privacy and .. I guess if you create a separate account for youtube music and maybe use it only on the web browser. Tidal has more trackers than YT music
Ah, that's a shame. Thanks!
The best solution regarding privacy would be to own the hi-fi files directly and then stream them to your devices using software you self host like jellyfin or something.