Nice try, Sony.

I misread the title and thought you were asking for the best music for piracy. I was gonna suggest Alestorm.

Checked pinned megathread?

Deemix - Downloads from Deezer in 320 kbps mp3 or FLAC. You need to have premium account for high quality downloads or find something called ARL cookies for login on the web. Looks like original download source is down, but there are checksums so just hunt down a mirror that matches them

Soulseek - P2P sharing specifically for music

The best piracy for music is digital piracy. Literal ship-based piracy is very inefficient when it comes to acquiring tunes.

For rock/metal: https://en.metal-tracker.com

The best piracy is the kind with a sword in your hand and a parrot on your shoulder.

https://rentry.org/firehawk52 This is really good for downloading lossless music

Soulseek

Soulseek using Nicotine+ is the best solution I found so far, if you are happy with worse quality you can alos get it from Youtube but on Soulseek you often find flac and mp3 to choose from, just make sure to redistribute a little too! ;)

I like muffon for streaming. I select vk as my source which has all the weeb/jp/doujin music that I like. I also very often use youtube music (with revanced to give ad-free listening). There's really not a lot of good options out there for music if you listen to anything other than the most mainstream stuff.

Deemix to DL all your music. And media servers like JellyFin/Emby/Plex to host the data. That's the only way to get the best Music Exp.

The "best", in my opinion, would be a private music tracker.

Download mp3 or flac from artists you like. Install jellyfin or plex on an old PC, laptop, or raspberry pi and store the music there. Install finamp or plexamp on your phone. And you got your own personal spotify that you can access from anywhere

There's an app on the playstore called "datmusic". It's $6 or so and rips music from Deezer @ 320kbps to full on lossless FLAC. No subscription is needed unless you want to download an entire playlist.

It feels and looks like Spotify to me, just without the subscription part.

I have found myself using this more often than Spotify. https://github.com/yne/dzr

Its not actually pirating, but vimusic is free youtube music with no adds and it doesnt need account. Its amazing if you need it on phone only

I just google “[name of song] free download” which works about 59% of the time

There's so many telegram communities providing flacs from deezer, tidal and qobuz. Search for @flacrequestgroup for example.

It depends what you want. If you aren't very picky about quality and just want files locally it's relatively easy to find tools. If you want FLAC files, streaming, or some sort of algorithm it gets a bit more complicated.

Had this same questions couple months ago and the best option I found was soulseeker.

But gonna check out this telegram group too

Soulseek, and the android app - Seeker

My two main sources are Soulseek and newalbumreleases dot net

Seal is a very good app to download audio from YouTube, you can get it on f-droid or GitHub

Just here to salute the ongoing work of Shabinder od Soundbound after Spotiflyer went down.

Although sadly that's been fluctuating at the best of times.

several people have mentioned soulseek and I agree but nicotine+ is better than the official soulseekQt client

I currently use myfreemp3juices.cc

If you have Android, Murglar is pretty good for downloading files, playlists, albums, etc from Deezer or SoundCloud

Download your own MP3a or Flac and host it in your NAS wirh zerotier or tailscale.

Blackhole ,y music