I exclusively grab FLAC. Never 24 bit. I downloaded a few to test and couldn’t hear a difference. There are plenty of people who care about mp3 though.

If that lemmy user was found out to have invited someone they didn’t know, from a random website like lemme, then they would be banned and everyone they’ve ever invited would as well.

Other than being invited by someone who is already on the site and you know personally the standard way is to do the interview process. The interview is mostly questions about music quality and music files and serve to make sure that you can read and apply that knowledge so that they don’t have to moderate as much if you try to upload shitty rips of music on the site.

I agree. But, I believe it’s more for ban avoidance and invite sellers than anything.

Make sure your users can read and actually internalize it. Should help with moderation lol

I’ve been on red for over 7 years now. It’s one of the best resources for music on the internet. Calling members “nobodies” for defending a community we care about is pretty lame.

I understand being skeptical about requiring the use of home internet to connect to the site. But, it’s kind of a requirement to keep people from avoiding bans, using accounts with stolen credentials, or selling invites (big problem).

People selling invites and ban avoidance is why they do this. I was sketched out when I first had to do this like 7 years ago and I can tell you I don’t regret it for a minute. RED has an invites forum that will get you invites to some of the best trackers out there.

In my experience, almost all of the private trackers worth joining require you to connect to the site with your home IP. But, you can use your torrent client through a VPN. So the other users don’t see your home address.

I understand the caution. But, if it scares you away from joining you will be missing out.

Not the really good ones tbh though. Show me a music tracker without this rule with even 1/3 of its content.

It’s gone… lol

The whole point of using a seedbox is so that you don’t have to use a VPN (well, and speed). You probably shouldn’t use a seedbox with public trackers though. Some seedboxes will drop you from their service if they get a copyright request.

I click install. No setup really

Ah, I had the numbers backwards. Is L1 heavily in-use?

Plex for games. That’s how I’m reading this. The advantage to me being that when I have a LAN party I can say “Grab Quake 3 from this URL” instead of “grab Quake 3 from this network folder”. Not a huge thing. But it might help not over sharing.

Does that work with private trackers?

Does this work with the latest widevine decryption? 3 I think?

I would bet that the people who are saying that it’s faster are probably not downloading from private trackers to a seedbox. I have heavily used private trackers and Usenet. Using both methods, the limitation is the speed of the hard drive on my seedbox. I could upgrade to a solid state drive but I prioritize storage space over speed. I can already grab pretty much every thing I want in a matter of seconds.

As for retention, torrenting beats out hands down. 5000 days is a big retention for usenet. I’m on several trackers with hundreds of torrents that have active seeders that were uploaded over 10 years ago… If you’re using public trackers, then Usenet wins.

In my opinion the benefit to Usenet is not having to seed. I have a killer ratio on every private tracker I use. But sometimes I want to download something and I want to delete it right after. The real GOAT is to use them simultaneously. Pay for a couple of cheap Usenet providers (on different backbones) and get an affordable seedbox and put both torrent trackers and Usenet providers in Sonarr and Radar and you’re gonna have a good time.

If you don’t want to pay for a seedbox, Usenet is better since torrenting is slower through a VPN. You don’t need a VPN on Usenet because, the servers you download from are the same that you gave your credit card info from.

For preservation, go with a redump pack. They aim to make a collection of “perfect checksums” of every game. Badically, multiple people will rip the same game and they post a “hash” of their file and the perfect rip is the one that matches each other. They do not share the actual files, but you can get the a pack from archive.org of iso files that match the hash database of redump. This should give you the best collection.

Have a good guide on this? I am very interested…

Sure, the magic of torrents is that it’s hard to truly take down. If 100 people are seeding something, good luck getting them all to stop. The next best option is to stop sites from hosting the torrent files that help you connect with seeders. But, now we have DHT that is like torrent sites automatically being peer to peer. Shits unstoppable.

But, ftp has great benefits as well for sure. Not to downplay that.