I want to pirate high bit-rate music (>=256 kbps) but I’m unable to find a source. ThePirateBay and 4kVideoDownloader won’t work. YT Vanced doesn’t go higher than 128 kbps.
Just use Soulseek.
IMO the best way to do it is to acquire lossless (e.g. FLAC) and compress it yourself, if you want to. I use the MPEG4/AAC Low Complexity filter in fre:ac at 192kbps. Makes .m4a files about 10MB each. They sound great. AAC is supposed to be about twice as efficient as MP3 (and a looser license) but the files I make are about the size of MP3 320k files. Which tells me they’re about twice as good.
Apple gets associated with M4A/AAC a lot, but that’s just because they use it. I do use Apple hardware, but the same hardware runs MP3 without issue. The only issue I had with AAC was getting the old Winamp (2.x) to play it, back when we used Windows. But even then I found an input plugin and from there it was smooth sailing. It’s basically superior to MP3 in every way. (But for free licensing I think Ogg Vorbis will be a better fit.) (I also stream it via my Plex server, so if a device can’t play M4A — rare — Plex will transcode it.)
Anyway, I use Nyaa for a source (nyaa.si) but that is primarily Japanese/Asian media. That’s mostly what I listen to though. I do like some western rock from the 80s and 90s, but as the west stopped pushing rock music, I went where it was being pushed, which was Japan (and a lot of those guys sing in English, like ONE OK ROCK and Survive Said the Prophet — though, to be fair, 1OR is basically an American band now; while the guys were born/raised in Japan, they’ve lived in Los Angeles for years now, are signed to Fueled by Ramen, and they want to be more like Paramore and Fall Out Boy, which is fine, but it feels a bit disingenuous calling them Japanese rock in 2025).
This one worked. I also listen Japanese. Thanks!
What about Nicotine+? Works great, its a client for soulseek. The quality is much higher most of the time.
Check rutracker hi res music
It’s in Russian. Search results in English won’t show up.
Nonsense, everything is labelled with its original title there. If you’re looking for Russian music there you’ll probably have to use the Russian band name, but otherwise not.
I just use Firefox’s auto-translate feature. You might need to make an account for search to work
Just create account there with translator and search for section hi res on main page
proper nouns will
Does it work for Android? What’s the procedure for downloading a song (say, despacito)?
It’s a desktop client for soulseek: https://github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicotine-plus
Install, login/register, share your data then search. Filter the results by file format, sort by download speed etc. Soulseek is a very old file sharing platform, work the same way since 2001. A lot of peers don’t allow downloading from them if you don’t share anything.
For Android I found SeekerAndroid, never used it.
Seeker is very nice I use it
for Android there is a client named seeker. you need to create an account (mainly just a username and password) after that its pretty much setup. You can search for the song that you want, download it and if possible also seed/share it with other people :)
try dab.yeet.su
Thanks!
