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Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack
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this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025
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Is there a "torrenting for absolute tech illiterate morons" guide out there?
Start out simple and stick with a basic BitTorrent client. Figure out where you want to download from and get a torrent client configured. I use an ISP that frowns upon piracy so here's a quick overview:
If/when you want to try Lidarr, you'll be much better off knowing the basics of BitTorrent because *arr software is confusing in its own regard. Lidarr is just a tool to organize your music library folders and also automatically queue downloads. It is not a requirement to enjoy downloading music.
Usenet and soulseek are other alternatives.
VPNs are only needed in some countries (e.g. France). They're not needed in every country (i.e. Italy doesn't give a fuck about piracy, unless it's football matches).
i personally use a provider for that. i just download torrents to their cloud and get it at maximum speed from there. so I don't have to worry about p2p risks or being online a lot. I'm with premiumize, but there are others I guess.
The problem is those companies (premiumize, debrid, whatever) are entities that make profits from filesharing and give nothing back to artists. That's not morally defensible.
Filesharing itself is perfectly morally defensible, and in fact sharing culture is good for society (including artists).
So while they might be convenient, they also shouldn't exist in the first place. Parasitic companies shouldn't be rewarded for their patristic behaviour.
you are not wrong, but this also applies to VPN services. (their defense is as good as the sharehosters are useful for downloading Linux ISOs) and without using any of those proxy services, the lawyers get rich on my money, not the artists either
VPNs would still be in business if illegal filesharing didn't exist. I don't think you could say the same for sharehosters.
true. because they scam people into thinking they would add privacy.