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I need some help with pirate links for music. (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A couple of days ago my external hard drive just died and there is no way to fix it. The only good thing about it is that nothing of importance was lost, except for my music library, but the bad news is that the cost of data recovery is too high for me so my only option is to re-build a new music library all over again. It has been a long time since I had to hunt for music files, so my old links are dead, except for one or two for anime that I rely on, so I need new ones. Most of the music that I lost are from movies, tv shows, anime, and video game soundtracks, so anything that you can help/recommend to look around would help me. Any recommendations are much obliged.

EDIT: Some good news. I found an old hard drive with a copy of my old music library from... 2017. Holy shit, eight years old?! Anyway, this saves me a lot of time. I am calculating I have technically recovered 70% of my library (I am guessing).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Soulseek should be your first port of call. It's a modern P2P client (think DC++) which has an incredible amount of music (as well as other things!) shared. One neat thing is that you can browse users' collections, so if you search for an album or song and find it, there's a good chance that user might have a lot more music you're interested (including stuff you didn't even know you wanted). Every now and then you'll come across locked shares where people are looking to trade, but that's pretty unusual (I've only come across it when looking for relatively rare or obscure releases).

For anime stuff specifically, try Nyaa.si. There's a bunch of clones, so make sure you go to the .si one specifically. It's a public tracker, so your mileage may vary with how well-seeded things are, but large collections and recent releases tend to be okay. You may see links to blogs where an uploader has direct downloads for things, which can be super helpful if the torrent is dead.

(also, I should have led with this, but: sorry your hard drive died, that fuckin' blows. Best of luck in rebuilding your library, and hope you can find some new favorites in the process)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Soulseek

Thanks, I will check it.

I know about Nyaa.si. but it helps to ask around for alternative sites.

sorry your hard drive died, that fuckin' blows.

yeah, it sucks. but I luckily found an old external hard drive with and old copy of my library, so it is not a great loss.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A great FOSS Soulseek client better(in my totally correct opinion) than the official one is {Nicotine+|Desktop Client}, another is {slskd|Web Client} that i had running to share my library until i blew it up and still have not fixed. worked great until. well. me.

After coming close to losing my music library once (and other less important slop), if you don't have anything external to back it up to, you could use Syncthing to share it to someone else that has some free disk space. And if you don't want to share your tunes, you can encrypt it :)

sorry for your lost data :( i hope that you can rebuild your music library without to much hassle stalin-heart