Hello, recently I’ve been on the hunt for a private music tracker to populate my Lidarr Instance, I’ve found REDacted and Orpheus quite appealing, but they’re “hard” to get into and are mostly for audiophiles.
I’m not an audiophile (more like a brokeyphile) and I don’t want to wait 3-5 weeks on something I’ll be just seeding instead of being active, do y’all have any recommendations? All I can offer is seeding 24/7 and a few proofs that I have good ratios
I’ve found REDacted and Orpheus quite appealing, but they’re “hard” to get into
You just have to interview for either/both of them, they’re not really that hard to get into. Certainly easier to get into vs any of the big movie/tv trackers, none of those have interview to join.
That said if you are already established at other big private trackers then often you may be able to just join via the tracker’s internal forums, tracker recruiters are often found there.
Discussed in the earlier post https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35846542
Given streaming is so ubiquitous, private music trackers have a hard time having a big enough library to meet all of a users needs.
OPS is great but even they don’t have all the tracks I search for. RED is better since there’s more incentive to upload and more users.
Lucida and other DDL sites listed on fmhy are likely your best bet, aside from maybe rutracker.
I just wanted to be a “good Samaritan” and help other users get the music instead of just downloading it once from a random DDL website that will probably be taken down in 3 years.
I technically wouldn’t get in trouble by using a public tracker like RuTracker, but considering how laws are quickly changing in Brazil i think it would be best to thread carefully…
Might I suggest a hybrid approach? Pull from a DDL, verify quality, fix metadata, and then put your whole library up on a searchable DC like Soulseek or a DC++ group(are those even still around anymore?) Torrents if you want to make the effort of compiling the torrents.
I looked at Soulseek and it appeared like a mess of disorganized libraries, random compilations, and I couldn’t even find some major bands or albums on it. But I suppose that’s to be expected.
OPS is probably the one you want. RED has more selection but also a very difficult economy. OPS still has a great library and the economy is far more manageable. Of course you will still need to build up a ratio if you’re planning to download a lot
You might want to get on a general tracker like TorrentLeech that has 0day scene releases. But you won’t find as good retention on older releases. It works as a nice supplement to a more selective tracker.
I’ve had to put up a lot of obscure music from local bands to keep my ratio on redacted. As someone who has been torrenting for decades, it’s not an easy site.
It’s a great site. So if you can get in, do so. But I wouldn’t use it to fill lidarr, it will kill your ratio and get you banned. It supplements my Usenet for bands that I REALLY want to have now.
The freeleech token distributions are the way to go. I think most RED users got over a hundred for the new year, which was in no way related to its downtime and new domain. :p
Anyway, freeleeching and permaseeding the content you know you already like is the way build ratio, then you can start downloading against your buffer. Takes a while. Truthfully, in the era of cheap(er) streaming and TIDAL downloaders, music piracy sites are becoming more and more obsolete.
I mentioned the RED downtime, which was really prolonged late last year. I was surprised at how little chaos that downtime created—if that had happened ten years ago users would have gone crazy. It’s the case now, though, that music streaming is simply so accessible and relatively inexpensive that having your main music tracker down for months isn’t really detrimental to your everyday access to music.
When I say I’ll use Lidarr I don’t mean like I’ll download it and then delete it a few months later, I normally perma-seed, I just wanted to have a reason to use Lidarr since I’ve set it up lol
Usenet tends to be expensive and quite a shot in the dark especially in Brazil, so I’ll be sticking to Private Trackers for now.
Even perma seeding, redacted is hard. There really aren’t enough seeders to make it worthwhile. You basically need to do what you can to get free leech tokens and then use them wisely.
Lidarr can tank your ratio quick and the time it takes to upload the same amount can be months. Soulseek is another option to help build out your library. But I don’t know if it can be combined with lidarr.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great site and I love it. I just don’t think it’s a good fit for lidarr.
Yeah, Lidarr and Red are not a great fit… Too many options and unless you wrote super complex filters you’d wind up with the weirdest version of each album.
It took a bit to get established there, but with the tokens they’ve been more freely giving lately it’s not too bad. There’s also a point when you are perma seeding that it starts to coast along and just take care of itself… I now see more seeding after I download something ironically.
Seeding is a fickle beast there, but I’m glad to have em.
I’ve been using Nicotine+ for SoulSeek and I’ve been able to find just about everything I’ve been looking for.
It has a “Wish List” feature that I’ve used a couple of times.
getting into redacted isn’t that difficult, but you might be waiting for a few days trying to get an interview. and it’s very difficult to keep a ratio there, because they don’t have a bonus point system. it’s a very nice library of music that is meant for nobody.
Soulseek+lidarr+tidal is how I get everything.
Tidal will give you a 2 month trial for $2 and then there is tidal-dl along with the lidarr extended scripts.
Same, dude. I posted this exact thing recently. https://sh.itjust.works/post/31305538 I’m interested to see if you get a more helpful answer.
I use lidarr with the open trackers that come with prowlarr…for known artists is great but for Brazilian music I usually use soulseek with a nicotine + container…It depends on your music taste. More pop stuff you can find with lidarr…I had difficult to find some Brazilian singers (MPB and bossa Nova) …that’s why I tried soulseek…Now I mostly use it for everything though
