I’ve been building up my digital music library again after giving music streaming the boot. I was going to attempt to digitize my CD and vinyl collection, but I frankly don’t have the time for all that. So I thought I might turn to file-sharing and download digital versions of my physical collection. I prefer FLAC or WAV if the former isn’t available. Can you recommend good places to get started?

  • BerenstainsMonsterOP
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    02 months ago

    This doesn’t sound like what I’m asking for. I’m not interested in paying Deezer for music I already own.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 months ago

      Sure sure! Just a fallback to consider if you have trouble locating elsewhere, as I did. Spotify rippers were noticably bad quality, and torrents for music were very scarce compared to other media types. But maybe I missed something or there’s better options now. Dropping $10 for a month to mass download everything at crisp quality isn’t too bad an option, imo.

      • BerenstainsMonsterOP
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        22 months ago

        I appreciate it. I always thought Deezer was just a streaming platform like Spotify.

        Also, dang, surprised so many downvotes for my original comment lol.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 months ago

      Not gonna lie, I’m considering paying for Deezer to move back to this.

      You can automate downloads with Lidarr. I’m set up to download every song by every artist that Last.FM recommends.

      Currently, I’m using Soularr, but it’s really slow and not always FLAC and not always full albums and the metadata is not always perfect.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        Ah, nice. I gotta do the reverse and check out Soularr a bit. I imagine my Deezer setup will eventually implode, so I’ll need a fallback haha