Soulseek is good. It's a peer-to-peer sharing service, so you can just choose who to download from rather than waiting in a queue. You can find things in FLAC if you want it, or in various lossy qualities.
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Until you hit a wall looking for some indie stuff and the only guy you find asks you for money lol.
But besides a couple of those, soulseek's great, and usually people there try to go for quality, or at the very least will have the right metadata. If not, there's a couple deezer downloaders on github that work really good, and an older one hosted in the internet archive I believe.
Find the albums you want to download on Tidal, copy the album URL, and paste it here: https://doubledouble.top/
You'll get the correct metadata, including lyrics!
But sure, there are drawbacks. Not that many people can download music at once, so you get this:
Don't worry, it's usually not stuck, but that number just won't update.
Alternatively, look at Soulseek. A P2P music sharing platform.
For both cases, I recommend checking the files with Spek. It's possible someone even took a 160kbps MP3 and converted it to 24-bit 192kHz FLAC.
You'll need to find how the spectrum looks for different lossy codecs at different bitrates to approximately see what you're looking for (specific cut-off frequencies and shelving). And sometimes it may be confusing due to how the songs are mastered.
You decide if you care. Probably not since you were ripping songs from YouTube.
Doubledouble is down for a few days now without update on the telegram channel tho
edit: nvm is back up
Lol nobody knows the deezload2bot on telegram. You can paste spotify playlist links and download a zip or all songs in mp3
I use Soulseek then Picard. It seems to work well enough. I’m just starting to use filters like minimum bitrate or files in a folder, if you want to make sure you’re getting the whole album.
Check lidarr
This has been my go to combined with a Usenet subscription.
Deemix and search for an ARL and you can download easily
YTDLnis
SpotDL is pretty good, takes Spotify playlists/links and downloads from YouTube music including metadata.
onthespot works well