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I think if you're going to the trouble to amass a music library, you might as well use lidarr so you can be specific about the quality/releases you're pulling in. I've used soulseek a few times over the years and there's a lot of junk/low quality files in there. Even just inconsistently named or tagged. It's not the end of the world but if you're going to implement a system, might as well do it right.
Where Nicotine/Soulseek excel is finding rare stuff that's usually not distributed via torrent, similar to @Meuzzin@lemmy.world 's comment. Not only that, but friend lists, PMs, as well as browsing music shares from users that have similar interests and advanced filtering for format, bitrate, etc.
A lot of my music collection was never even released on tape, much less CD or streaming, and dealing with Discogs and waiting for sellers to get in stock what you're looking for is a hassle. If your tastes veer toward the more mainstream and official digital releases are available, then torrents may be better for you. For myself and others like me, the choice is pretty clear though.
For sure - if there's no good quality or official copy of what you're after, it makes sense that you'd take what you can get. Out of curiosity, what are you into?