>>68 soulseek

just tape record your fav radio station

>>197 literal fag way of doing things. When the superior way to do the exact same thing is right there: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

>>68 Soulseek works wonders

soulseek. but use a third party client they're a lot better. i use nicotine+. if its for a dj set and you need to make sure you're getting a high quality rip: go to soulseek settings and set the minimum bitrate to like 320k or something. you might need to lower this if you're trying to find something that was only released on casette. go on https://www.discogs.com/ find the album's catalog id(s) for the pressings you want (cd are best) search them on soulseek instead of the album name if you get spam add the band/album name if you get no results try altering the spacing, removing spaces, or a different catalog id download it in lossless, highest bitrate possible ideally this way you know exactly which pressing you're getting. a lot of albums have been remastered or slightly altered with reissues a zillion times. then finally listen to the music and make sure you didnt get a mislabeled file if you can't find the album by catalog id and have to deal with mystery meat downloads, download every copy and listen to them and try to find one that isn't a loudness war era shitty repress if you can.

also looking at the file in audacity really quick is a good way to tell if the pressing you downloaded is a shitty blasted out butthole loudness war era one, and finding which is the best. you can just download 1 or 2 tracks from everyone sharing the file and compare them in audacity to find the best one if you're dealing with mystery meat rips (often the case with obscure stuff) also search at different times of day if you can't find what you want. & make sure you have ports forwarded and your library shared or some people won't let you dl their shit. t. autistic about my music.

1 more pro gamer tip if someone has good well categorized rips with catalog ids and the kind of music you're looking for, right click user and look at their library manually if they let you. sometimes search sucks and their shares won't show when you try searching for them but you can find stuff that way.