Hi! I wanted to start to hoard my favorite tracks in the best possible quality. A lot of stuff is available through Deezer or Tidal i know, but what sources are you guys using when FLACs for particular albums or songs cannot be found on Deezer or Tidal? I wanted to get the Rock n Roll Train song from ACDC in FLAC, but Tidal doesn’t have it in FLAC.

Are there any good Public/Private trackers for Music?

Cheers.

    • firethunder7@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      yt-dlp downloads music from youtube which is encoded in either opus or aac. Yt dlp doesn’t actually download flacs,mp3… but convert the music from youtube into the desired format.

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        1 year ago

        ah yea its not true lossless, but optimized upscale or the sort - but better than some ripping options out there

        • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.de
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          no it’s not an upscale or anything like that, you’re just making the file bigger but the audio bits/samples are 100% identical to the already damaged source file from youtube.

          it’s like converting a JPEG back into RAW, you can technically do it, but it’s not gaining anything.