wiki/docs/reference/music-sources/index.md

Music Sources

Public Trackers

Name	Content	Comment
RuTracker	Russian, Western, Asian	A fair share of range rips with low log scores. The site is entirely in Russian. Need to create an account.
Nyaa	Japanese, Korean, Asian	A lot of WEB releases and CD releases without logs.

Private Trackers

Name	Content	Entering	Ratio	Comment
Orpheus (OPS)	Less broad, Little Asian	Interview, Invite	Medium	Has a request thread for RED. Very strict.
Redacted (RED)	More broad	Interview, Invite	Hard	Has request threads for Qobuz, Deezer and TIDAL. Lots of 100% logs. Very strict.
AnimeBytes (AB)	Japanese	Invite, RED	Easy	Quite a bit of 60% logs. Scans are not allowed. Has global freeleech. Difficult to get into.
JPopSuki (JPS)	East Asian, Southeast Asian	Invite	Very Easy	Some torrents not seeded. Very relaxed, friendly.
SugoiMusic (SM)	East Asian, Southeast Asian	Invite, JPS	Quite Easy	Made as a replacement for JPS.
GazelleGames (GGn)	VGM OST, some doujin	Invite, RED	Hard for Music	Decent amount of 100% logs. Has global freeleech.
U2	Anime	Invite	Easy for Music	Quite a bit of exclusives and 60% logs. Has global freeleech.

Peer to Peer

Name	Content	Comment
Soulseek (SLSK)	Relatively Broad	Some users have their shares locked and are only willing to trade for something valuable, although sometimes just asking works too. Need to be sharing something to not get blocked by other users.
DC++	Random, Scene	Hard to get into rooms that matter, need to be sharing a certain amount of specific content.

Direct Download

Name	Content	Comment
SquidBoard (Squid)	Japanese, Little western	Need to create an account.
ASTOST	soundtracks, Some classical	All self-rips are automatically exclusive. The site is entirely in Chinese. Lots of 60% logs.
TSDM	Japanese, Chinese	All self-rips are automatically exclusive. The site is entirely in Chinese. Lots of 60% logs.
Internet Archive	Random, Mostly older

Scene

To check if something has a scene release search on of the following indexers: predb.ovh, predb.me or srrdb.org. After verifying the existence of the release search for it on Google or ask friends with scene access. Scene releases can sometimes also be found on peer to peer platforms and direct download sites among other places.

Most scene rips do not have logs, use an unpleasant naming scheme and follow outdated guidelines.

Streaming

See Reference➜Streaming Services.

Stores

See Reference➜Digital Stores.

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