How to Download Music in 2024

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  1. scguy83

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    I'm curious, what do people use to download music these days? I am from the napster and limewire days. :rofl: I have a spotify account and I've seen DJ applications that say you can mix music from spotify, but how do you download the music from spotify to your computer? I've also seen on the sister site that there are several applications that give you the ability to download music from live streaming services, but which ones the best and easiest to use?
     
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    try audacity
     
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    do not download anything illegally, but just in case, here's the information you're looking for: for high-res people tend to use mainly torrent sites and for lower resolution you can go with specific apps for both Mac and windows that let you log in with your spotify, Deezer, etc account and download it straight from there.
     
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    I can't believe that there are no longer apps to search and download music. I found websites but it's like B rated artists no ones ever heard of.
     
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    Soulseek is your friend. You can find almost anything.
     
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    Thanks everyone I appreciate it, this is freaking awesome!
     
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    I just use youtube. Little finger joint grease on the mouse to extract audio from video. I found all the music I've ever looked for on youtube.
     
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    If you are looking for torrents:
    go to duckduckgo search engine
    search for the artist and add the word torrent
     
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    Thanks, I've been on rutracker but I don't think we can mention that here. I already got one strike for mentioning a warez site lol, I hope to not get another.
     
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    Thanks for this, I saw the thread but I thought it was outdated, I was unaware it's up to date. It had mentions of github programs and open source. I'm not sure how to really compile them, same reason I've yet to get to try Nebula because I don't really understand Pyton. I dabbled years ago in visual basic making simple programs, but this was 20 years ago. I have no clue how to do anything with C++, I messed with Borland years ago but these days I couldn't tell you anything about it.
     
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    Telegram bot. Downloads in flac and mp3.
     
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    what is that?
     
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    p2p sites, there are so many...

    blogs, there are so few, but I like to dig

    about Soulseek, is there a "right" version ?
    in early 2000's was 1.63c (?) i think
    I was a professional DJ at that time and I can remember different versions has access to different data
     
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    Soulseek is freaking dope!
     
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    Nah. Taking about warez is fine here. Its when you request and/or link to a download or warez site that it is not, which is what you did that resulted in warnings issued :winker:
     
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    Steps to find the song you are looking for (1990 edition):
    1. Buy a record tape cassete with radio
    2. Tune the dial to the FM radio station of your preference
    3. Insert a tape cassete with brakets on to be able to record
    4. Wait for the song you like to be on air, after comercials, jingles and voice over
    5. Press record button
    6. Share :grooves:
     
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    Use the Spotify Downloader: https://spotdownloader.com
     
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