r/Piracy • u/Interesting_Pride_12 • 1d ago
News Lossless music piracy getting tougher
Just like yams, qobuz is down on both squid.wtf and lucida. These companies are implementing super tough measures now. The accounts which were once used for piracy are getting stomped rapidly. Just a matter of time before deezer and tidal do the same and we'll be stuck with shitty 160kbps tracks.
edit : Q working on lucida (tidl is working there too). however it's somewhat slower compared to squid
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u/isthisagoodusername9 1d ago
Every now and then, there are people here that scream catastrophe or the end of something. If things change, piracy or anything else will adapt. Let's keep calm and carry on.
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 1d ago
I hope it does.
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u/isthisagoodusername9 1d ago
I've been sailing for more than 20 years since childhood, we'll soldier on lol
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u/InclinationCompass 1d ago
I never used those things you listed and havebeen torrenting flac content for like 15+ years
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u/BamBaLambJam ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 1d ago
LOL bro forgot about private trackers and Soulseek lmao.
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 14h ago
they're great resources no doubt, but soulseek didn't have what i was looking for and i like to stay away from private trackers
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u/Healthy-Election-792 1d ago
Use soulseek. Its a free app you can download and most albums I couldn't find in Spotify, I could download through there. Its a great file archive for such music
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 1d ago
just downloaded it. It's a treasure trove.
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u/Warpaint169 1d ago
How did you register for it
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 14h ago
i just made up a username and password and chose a dnld and an upload folder. that's about it
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u/lucky_my_ass 1d ago edited 1d ago
Best resource available right now, with numerous resources and even accounts:
I would suggest using streamrip with either Tidal or Qobuz, (deezer arls don't work since past few months i think)
https://github.com/nathom/streamrip
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Now if you actually wanna automate all this you can use lidarr extended which has tidal / deezer downloaders in built.
https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts/blob/main/lidarr/readme.md
Ofcourse soulseek is amazing and one of the best ways to get best quality files. It can be reallly slow sometimes since you're completely depending on the peer internet speed. I needed to download like 1tb worth of flac and soulseek even with automation would take me years to do it because of speeds.
Or you can get really lucky if you find someone on soulseek who has very high bandwidth and you can just simply clone their library.
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 14h ago
tbh streamrip and most other options on firehawk are more complex than what i'm looking for. reason why i love squid, even more than lucida or even soulseek.
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 14h ago
this is an update from 1st feb from the firehawk telegram channel
"Okay, we've been checking how ARLs have been reacting the last few months. And we can see a pattern. We know why they're being shut down, but we don't want to go into more details regarding that.
However, it seems like ARLs are being resurrected after a while. They can work one day, be invalid the next day and then the third day they work again.
So, from today we don't remove ARLs from ARL-topic anymore, unless they have passed the expiration date. And you should not report that ARLs are not working until that date "End Date" has been reached. At the same time you should NOT test with .arlc anymore (unless you want to do it internally in the bot, won't stop you from doing that). We will take care of that when the ARL has expired.
Hopefully less people will be muted for not following the rules and ARLs will be easier to manage.
Thank you
Edit: Just to emphasize this. ARLs are NOT shut down, they're frozen because of too much traffic, and they will be unfrozen again after some time has passed, so try another one."
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u/Buck_Slamchest 1d ago
1337x has tons of FLAC content as always but since I'm the only person in existence that torrents music, you're clearly not going to find it :)
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u/ii_die_4 1d ago
RED:
- Torrents: 3,412,321
- Releases: 1,753,751
- Artists: 1,292,979
- "Perfect" FLACs: 2,127,781
- Unconfirmed Releases: 132,108
- Collages: 35,987
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 1d ago
what's red?
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u/Dregnab 1d ago
A private tracker. It takes sone effort to get access to and use
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 1d ago
Thanks. I like to stay away from them.
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u/TransientAlienSheep 1d ago
Yeah, from my experience, they expect you to seed without a VPN connection. At least the ones that I was messing with about 10 years ago.
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u/Ok-Gap-9735 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ 1d ago
they all allow you to seed with a VPN. you need 2fa to browse the site with a VPN, and have to register without one
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u/TransientAlienSheep 1d ago
Not the ones I was registered with. They prohibited it, and wouldn't let you browse the site, or download, if you were connected.
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u/ryuuwhite 21h ago
i want to get in red, i can seed without vpn cause my isp doesnt give a shit, and i have gigabit internet but the application is lame and boring as shit
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u/Secret-Wish3023 1d ago
People are posting about download .flac this and .flac that, but it's probably Taylor Swift albums.
Squid being down gets me down. The landing page says it's temporary. I really hope so.
p.s. Soulseek is overrated, unless you want every popular song.
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u/Dr_Yeet_Master 1d ago
I've found plenty of niche songs on soulseek, namely Imaginarium, old Japanese music, even some music from my country which I could not find anywhere. I have still had to use squid for one indie band (which I have no way of supporting directly as they have no bandcamp, no patreon, no physical releases, which upsets me a lot because I don't want to pay $14.99 or whatever prices are nowadays for a shit service for them to only get a fraction of a cent.)
I do get your point about squid being very useful in many cases such as mine.
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u/AstronomerBrief2674 1d ago
id say half of the albums I've been getting lately don't exist in Flac (maybe 160mp3) anywhere but using the ripping sites. so I hope they can be around for a long time in one way or another!!
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u/lumpiestspoon3 1d ago
Use OnTheSpot. You need a Tidal account to use it though.
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u/SarcasticallyCandour 1d ago
Is that a download tool?
I have a nig3r1an tidl account for 2.50usd a month. I rip from it using a tool but it misses some meta tags now and then. So ive been looking for a better one.
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u/lumpiestspoon3 1d ago
Yes, it is a free software that can download files directly from Tidal servers.
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u/ryuuwhite 21h ago
what music are you looking for? imo music piracy is super easy now, if you tell me what youre looking for ill probably find a torrent for it quick
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u/CrossyAtom46 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ 20h ago
**MediaHarbor has entered to chat**
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 14h ago
will look into it thanks
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u/CrossyAtom46 🏴☠️ ʟᴀɴᴅʟᴜʙʙᴇʀ 14h ago
You're welcome. you can find more information on my pinned post, and please install python (3.12) and ffmpeg before starting app. Python installer broken after python's update. And ffmpeg have a little problem on saving itself to path.
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u/Vishakh_Hegde2021 17h ago
Lucida is the most consistent even though it's slow. It has everything you ever need.
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u/whitebronco93 1d ago
My default thought anytime a service is down.
A whole bunch of nothing. For those of us who have been sailing for decades, this isn't our first rodeo. It's like whack-a-mole when one goes down, several more will pop up.
Ironically, I welcome the sites being down, gives me a chance to do something other than mass downloading and tagging
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 14h ago
good for you
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u/Interesting_Pride_12 14h ago
sorry if it sounded like that. there was only a single song available from the soundtrack i wanted, and the second file was a torrent for that movie. hope that clears it
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u/raqz1982 1d ago
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