Struggling to find a lot of music with Lidarr (New/Recent/Modern). Have a few general public/private trackers set up but still not getting many hits. From what I gather Usenet isn’t much better. And I’m not really confident in transcoding, bit rates, etc… to attempt an interview.
Basically what are my options? Is there something I’m missing or is music just getting harder to find?
I use free-mp3-download.net but that’s probably not what you are looking for. You need to search up every song manually.
As far as I know, the source is Deezer, so almost all FLACs are legitimate. Almost.
This has been my only solution. I did find out if you do artist name and album name it returns all songs in album so that helped. Still really tedious compared to getting a torrent.
The only saving grace is guaranteed source quality, a lot of the “lossless” stuff floating around torrents are converted lossy
I tried getting music through usenet and ended up just caving and joining my friends Spotify family plan because it was such a pain. I still have lidarr synced with Spotify so as I find new music it tracks it and tries to pull it but most fails
Algorithm, pragmatism and easy of use. The time I would have to dedicate to it is worth more than what a family Spotify account costs me
RED or OPS are the two best options in my opinion, and they both have interview processes.
Side note: Soulseek is good, but I’ve found that a lot of the FLACs on it are transcoded.
Try SoulSeek
Any way to connect this to Lidarr? I’d prefer to avoid manually searching for everything. 😅
Based off this incomplete thread official integration is desired but not yet complete. Sorry didn’t look into that first.
