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!
For software I would recommend a combination of
- musicbee for library and music management and sync playlists over wifi locally
- maybe combine with mp3tag if you don’t like the built in tagger in musicbee. Only reason for me to use mp3tag is to include the style tag from Discogs into the genre field. Not possible with musicbee. If this is not in your interest musicbee’s tagger is amazing.
- there are two private trackers focusing on music only. Insane collections. One is very hard to get into. The other is way easier.
- rutracker is also a great source for music
