In the pre-streaming days I used to have a large collection of ripped and downloaded music. However as my taste in music is extremely wide and it became easier and more fun to use hacked streaming services (i.e. Youtube Music Vanced) to play music especially on the go, I decided to let my music collection go years ago. Plus… it was a big mess due to undiagnosed ADHD so let’s be honest it wasn’t a huge loss.
Now with the streaming ecosystem degrading and me now capable of keeping my things in order, I find myself wanting to start rebuilding a local music collection for the coming post-streaming era.
Wondering if there are any places I could find huge collection torrents that could be pared down to what I want, rather than spending my life downloading single albums or discographies? I’m ideally talking torrents that would be like 20GB of funk, but not just a shitload of tracks in a root directory with no tagging.
One of my favourite things about streaming services is getting to hear tracks or artists I haven’t even thought of in ages, and it’s hard to build a collection when you can’t think of exactly what to put in it!
Not only it exists, but it is the best option alongside downloaders that use streaming services like Deezer. Maybe there are private trackers for music, but I have never found torrents to be great for music, never knew about what.cd before it went down.
Finding someone in Soulseek with good internet speed and music you like and downloading parent folder might be the best option in your case.
Another great source as some have mention is just random blogs, there are quite a lot such blogs on blogspot.com for example. Have occasionally found great stuff there