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I remember learning about this album because it was the request with the highest bounty on What.CD: https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/5abmpz/martin_shk

I remember learning about this album because it was the request with the highest bounty on What.CD: https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/5abmpz/martin_shkreli_begs_for_whatcd_invite_in_twitter/d9f8luo/ https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/5abmpz/martin_shk... R.I.P. What.CD. :'(

isoprophlex 5y ago
FWIW... It still is the album with the highest bounty on redacted
- shiado 5y ago
  I gave up on private trackers after what.cd died. Has redacted surpassed what.cd?
  - CiceroCiceronis 5y ago
    Sadly not, although it’s doing as well as could be expected given the reduced interest in torrents that streaming has brought. There will always be certain things like rare scene rips that are unlikely to ever be resurrected.
  - JoshGlazebrook 5y ago
    Same, for music at least. Spotify/Apple Music provides anything I could want. But my tastes were never niche to begin with.
Y_Y 5y ago
I miss What and Oink. I didn't even bother finding out what the next incarnation was and trying to get an invite, I just gave up and got Spotify. There's still tons of good music that I only ever found on those trackers. The quality of recommendations was also peerless. Have any of the successors rebuilt that?
- ggrelet 5y ago
  There’s RED: https://interviewfor.red/ https://interviewfor.red/
  - ValentineC 5y ago
    Also Orpheus, which IMO has a better usage/retention policy, awarding bonus points (which can be used to purchase freeleech tokens) for one's seeding torrents: https://interview.orpheus.network/ https://interview.orpheus.network/
  - pixxel 5y ago
    My gosh. I've just been reading the interview requirements. I need to study spectral analysis, amongst other things. Then sit through a "1-2 hour" interview. To take the interview I MUST be on my home network, I must have my VPN etc. disabled. I must use a laptop/PC, not a mobile device. Can't use CLI for IRC. Other requirements as well. I've never seen anything like this. I understand that raising the bar to entry is good for a community. What ever happened to having a seedbox and provable good ratios elsewhere. Is the community/content exceptional?
    - Y_Y 5y ago
      I had a similar reaction. Even though I have some familiarity with the required topics I really didn't like the look of the interview. It seems like getting invited skips all that, but I don't know anyone in that world any more. To be fair there must be a barrier to entry, and having it very high should be good for community quality. Might be easier to try to find an acquaintance with invites though.
      - pixxel 5y ago
        >Might be easier to try to find an acquaintance with invites though I wish that was the case; we all moved on to streaming services. Now though I want to return and backup everything I've paid for over the decades, as well as hunt down some rarities.
    - 5y ago

isoprophlex 5y ago

FWIW... It still is the album with the highest bounty on redacted

shiado 5y ago
I gave up on private trackers after what.cd died. Has redacted surpassed what.cd?
- CiceroCiceronis 5y ago
  Sadly not, although it’s doing as well as could be expected given the reduced interest in torrents that streaming has brought. There will always be certain things like rare scene rips that are unlikely to ever be resurrected.
- JoshGlazebrook 5y ago
  Same, for music at least. Spotify/Apple Music provides anything I could want. But my tastes were never niche to begin with.

Y_Y 5y ago

I miss What and Oink. I didn't even bother finding out what the next incarnation was and trying to get an invite, I just gave up and got Spotify. There's still tons of good music that I only ever found on those trackers. The quality of recommendations was also peerless. Have any of the successors rebuilt that?

ggrelet 5y ago
There’s RED: https://interviewfor.red/ https://interviewfor.red/
- ValentineC 5y ago
  Also Orpheus, which IMO has a better usage/retention policy, awarding bonus points (which can be used to purchase freeleech tokens) for one's seeding torrents: https://interview.orpheus.network/ https://interview.orpheus.network/
- pixxel 5y ago
  My gosh. I've just been reading the interview requirements. I need to study spectral analysis, amongst other things. Then sit through a "1-2 hour" interview. To take the interview I MUST be on my home network, I must have my VPN etc. disabled. I must use a laptop/PC, not a mobile device. Can't use CLI for IRC. Other requirements as well. I've never seen anything like this. I understand that raising the bar to entry is good for a community. What ever happened to having a seedbox and provable good ratios elsewhere. Is the community/content exceptional?
  - Y_Y 5y ago
    I had a similar reaction. Even though I have some familiarity with the required topics I really didn't like the look of the interview. It seems like getting invited skips all that, but I don't know anyone in that world any more. To be fair there must be a barrier to entry, and having it very high should be good for community quality. Might be easier to try to find an acquaintance with invites though.
    - pixxel 5y ago
      >Might be easier to try to find an acquaintance with invites though I wish that was the case; we all moved on to streaming services. Now though I want to return and backup everything I've paid for over the decades, as well as hunt down some rarities.
  - 5y ago