What public indexers do people advise for audio?
I am using Lidarr, so the pool of options is somewhat limited. Naturally it would be preferable to have access to one or two private trackers, such as Redacted or Orpheus, but life is what it is (invites are understandably hard to come by).
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Honestly I gotta second SLSK here. More specifically nicotine+ since it’s better. That and yt-dlp works on bandcamp and youtube music (if this whole youtube bullshit hasn’t fucked it up, I haven’t checked but I also haven’t noticed the outcry I’d expect.)
It’s not torrenting but for music it’s better. Protip, slap just over 1k files in your “shares” folder to evade the autoban jerks.
I’ve shared my entire library, which is reasonably sizeable, whether it contains what people want is another thing…
Have followed your advice and installed Nicotine+
What is shared is less important than “whatever it is” just being shared. The bans are usually automated plugins that check your files when you dl from the user and if it returns
Soulseek!! It’s awesome
Soulseek is cool but I’ve found a lot of the flacs on it to just be transcoded. (You can check with spectral analysis, frequencies dont extend all the way to 22 kHz)
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Thanks for this - I was completely unaware of Soalseek.
I now have it installed, with the necessary port forwarding in place, seems relatively straightforward to use. Unfortunately the (perhaps obscure) artists I’m looking for are not well serviced, but I presume it’s a case of checking back from time to time.
(note this is different from the other rutracker so make sure it’s .org) is a Russian tracker with a lot. From what I’ve seen, most of their flac is from Quboz but I mostly go for popular stuff so idk about about more niche music.
Honestly, even though it’s a pain, it might be worth it to just bite the bullet and try for the Redacted interview. I’ve been thinking of this for myself.
such as Redacted or Orpheus, but life is what it is (invites are understandably hard to come by).
RED has an interview to get an invite, it’s free.
