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Whats a good place these days to download/find niche music like this days? I loved what.cd before it shut down

airstrike 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/@HDMixtapesChannel https://www.youtube.com/@HDMixtapesChannel
Spastche 1y ago
for old electronic music - Youtube, honestly. the algorithm is pretty good for finding old electronic music. like if youtube recommends me some random old 7 minute song with nothing but a picture of a record, there's a good chance I'm gonna like it at this point. I'm on some of the oink/what successors and honestly, it's so hard to build ratio that it makes me not really like them at all.
- aspenmayer 1y ago
  > I'm on some of the oink/what successors and honestly, it's so hard to build ratio that it makes me not really like them at all. You might have some success remaking rips others have made using the same settings for the rips and encodes, and then letting your torrent client recheck the existing torrent against your version of the files. I’ve also had success contacting filesharing-friendly artists and getting new and unreleased albums and tracks and building ratio more directly that way.
  - aspenmayer 1y ago
    Another option is to source the same files from a private torrent from a public one by the same uploaded/release group, and then recheck and upload the same blocks to the private tracker as a completed or nearly completed download, without it affecting your quota much if at all, with all uploads benefitting your own ratio. Many private trackers also have a higher ratio multiplier for dead or nearly dead torrents to promote seeding of those torrents specifically. I’ve also seen quota-free days and torrents that can be downloaded without a quota impact, uploads of which will help your quota get back in the black.
- andoando 1y ago
  From what I see from redacted, there's a 0% ratio requirement up to 20GB every week.
Klaster_1 1y ago
Rutracker has been mostly good for my tastes.
haunter 1y ago
Electronic music is anything but niche anyways, rutracker or many of the other private trackers If you want to discover electronic subgenres then I'd recommend to listen the weekly Essential Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/Category:Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/Category:Essential_Mix If you want some personal recommendation my current top 5 (changes all the time) Daft Punk (1997) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/1997-03-02_-_Daft_Punk_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/1997-03-02_-_Daft_Punk_-_Essential... Justice (2007) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2007-06-10_-_Justice_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2007-06-10_-_Justice_-_Essential_M... Sharam (2009) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2009-08-29_-_Sharam_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2009-08-29_-_Sharam_-_Essential_Mi... Skrillex (2013) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2013-06-15_-_Skrillex_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2013-06-15_-_Skrillex_-_Essential_... Ben Böhmer (2021) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2021-10-09_-_Ben_B%C3%B6hmer_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2021-10-09_-_Ben_B%C3%B6hmer_-_Ess...
- dvno42 1y ago
  Essential Mix opened my early 2000s teenage world to so much more electronic music. Good memories of downloading sets via Napster and manually recording on to cassettes to listen to in my '95 Saturn. What a weird statement.
- andoando 1y ago
  Thanks, mixesdb looks neat. >Electronic music is anything but niche Electronic music is a huge genre. There's a ton of popular artists but there's also so much great stuff you'll never hear at concerts/festivals.
  - wbronitsky 1y ago
    I would say it heavily depends on what converts and festivals you’re going to. I just went to Making Time in Philadelphia where Fourtet was the headliner and by far the biggest name. Everyone else would be what you would consider “underground” or niche. My favorite DJ, Donato Dozzy, played an incredible set.
mattkevan 1y ago
Bandcamp is your friend here. It’s got an almost infinite selection of the tiniest of micro-genres. Vaportrap? Yes. Blackgaze? Absolutely. Barber beats? Why not. My process is to find or invent a ludicrous sounding genre name, search for it, click on any promising-looking covers and then if I like the music I’ll look through their label, any hashtags and the profiles of people who purchased it to see what else I can find. Discovered a vast amount of excellent or at least interesting music this way.
neckro23 1y ago
Soulseek is still around (somehow) and thriving. Of course on there, discovery is more or less "check out the library of this person who had something you were looking for".
- arximboldi 1y ago
  Came here to mention this. I'm shocked when people use YouTube to rip stuff. Soulseek is a remnant of the web 1.0 era and Napster times. It feels my heart with joy that it still exists. Also people that use it are mostly djs and have great collections that is a joy to explore, it's like being invited into someone's house, not being fed by a heartless algorithm. Plus the 1on1 model works great these days for music since internet is so fast, and it's a security against the lawyer mafia letters that you can get in Germany for using torrents. I also spend like 300 to 500 EUR a year on Bandcamp so I don't feel bad about this. Plus a lot of stuff there is just hard to find elsewhere. In times where we keep losing agency through cloud-enshitification, AI-inscrutability and technofeudalism, Soulseek and its community brings me hope.

https://www.youtube.com/@HDMixtapesChannel https://www.youtube.com/@HDMixtapesChannel

for old electronic music - Youtube, honestly. the algorithm is pretty good for finding old electronic music. like if youtube recommends me some random old 7 minute song with nothing but a picture of a record, there's a good chance I'm gonna like it at this point. I'm on some of the oink/what successors and honestly, it's so hard to build ratio that it makes me not really like them at all.

aspenmayer 1y ago
> I'm on some of the oink/what successors and honestly, it's so hard to build ratio that it makes me not really like them at all. You might have some success remaking rips others have made using the same settings for the rips and encodes, and then letting your torrent client recheck the existing torrent against your version of the files. I’ve also had success contacting filesharing-friendly artists and getting new and unreleased albums and tracks and building ratio more directly that way.
- aspenmayer 1y ago
  Another option is to source the same files from a private torrent from a public one by the same uploaded/release group, and then recheck and upload the same blocks to the private tracker as a completed or nearly completed download, without it affecting your quota much if at all, with all uploads benefitting your own ratio. Many private trackers also have a higher ratio multiplier for dead or nearly dead torrents to promote seeding of those torrents specifically. I’ve also seen quota-free days and torrents that can be downloaded without a quota impact, uploads of which will help your quota get back in the black.
andoando 1y ago
From what I see from redacted, there's a 0% ratio requirement up to 20GB every week.

Klaster_1 1y ago

Rutracker has been mostly good for my tastes.

haunter 1y ago

Electronic music is anything but niche anyways, rutracker or many of the other private trackers If you want to discover electronic subgenres then I'd recommend to listen the weekly Essential Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/Category:Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/Category:Essential_Mix If you want some personal recommendation my current top 5 (changes all the time) Daft Punk (1997) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/1997-03-02_-_Daft_Punk_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/1997-03-02_-_Daft_Punk_-_Essential... Justice (2007) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2007-06-10_-_Justice_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2007-06-10_-_Justice_-_Essential_M... Sharam (2009) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2009-08-29_-_Sharam_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2009-08-29_-_Sharam_-_Essential_Mi... Skrillex (2013) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2013-06-15_-_Skrillex_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2013-06-15_-_Skrillex_-_Essential_... Ben Böhmer (2021) https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2021-10-09_-_Ben_B%C3%B6hmer_-_Essential_Mix https://www.mixesdb.com/w/2021-10-09_-_Ben_B%C3%B6hmer_-_Ess...

dvno42 1y ago
Essential Mix opened my early 2000s teenage world to so much more electronic music. Good memories of downloading sets via Napster and manually recording on to cassettes to listen to in my '95 Saturn. What a weird statement.
andoando 1y ago
Thanks, mixesdb looks neat. >Electronic music is anything but niche Electronic music is a huge genre. There's a ton of popular artists but there's also so much great stuff you'll never hear at concerts/festivals.
- wbronitsky 1y ago
  I would say it heavily depends on what converts and festivals you’re going to. I just went to Making Time in Philadelphia where Fourtet was the headliner and by far the biggest name. Everyone else would be what you would consider “underground” or niche. My favorite DJ, Donato Dozzy, played an incredible set.

mattkevan 1y ago

Bandcamp is your friend here. It’s got an almost infinite selection of the tiniest of micro-genres. Vaportrap? Yes. Blackgaze? Absolutely. Barber beats? Why not. My process is to find or invent a ludicrous sounding genre name, search for it, click on any promising-looking covers and then if I like the music I’ll look through their label, any hashtags and the profiles of people who purchased it to see what else I can find. Discovered a vast amount of excellent or at least interesting music this way.

neckro23 1y ago

Soulseek is still around (somehow) and thriving. Of course on there, discovery is more or less "check out the library of this person who had something you were looking for".

arximboldi 1y ago
Came here to mention this. I'm shocked when people use YouTube to rip stuff. Soulseek is a remnant of the web 1.0 era and Napster times. It feels my heart with joy that it still exists. Also people that use it are mostly djs and have great collections that is a joy to explore, it's like being invited into someone's house, not being fed by a heartless algorithm. Plus the 1on1 model works great these days for music since internet is so fast, and it's a security against the lawyer mafia letters that you can get in Germany for using torrents. I also spend like 300 to 500 EUR a year on Bandcamp so I don't feel bad about this. Plus a lot of stuff there is just hard to find elsewhere. In times where we keep losing agency through cloud-enshitification, AI-inscrutability and technofeudalism, Soulseek and its community brings me hope.