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shit thread

It always has been.

Where is the old thread?

>36
Sup Forums cracked the shits

Is there a ptg irc?

no, spaghetti and his buttbuddy closed it down like the pussies they are cause 312c btfo'd them

Sarek lives forever in our hearts.

path to japanese and korean kino?

sirs how is apollo

when is this stupid circlejerk general gonna die

best tracker for

its good. hope the BP helps with long term retention

It won't. The biggest issue is the pump and dumps that happened during the free leech that lasted forever. I get a request a day for a re-seed.

make sure to claim your advent calendar prize on thc!

it probably will

t. insane pooploop spammer

hello

I mean you can hope and dream... but the APL user base comes off as new to trackers, especially private trackers, general security, and anything that takes any technical ability.

See their whining about using bitcoin as an example of "how hard" it is to go to an exchange and buy fucking coins as an example of security and technical inability.

good day sir

Samefriend.

Asking again

How do I get into HDBits without selling my soul or uploading like 500 torrents (wtf how do people even manage this?)

CAUGHT

You git gud

>wtf how do people even manage this

do not underestimate people that do not have a life

>tfw NEETs get tops spots on PTs
comfy

>without selling my soul

>neet
>not on any cabal trackers other than red

better.php senpai

>tfw too many nazis on ptp

>user was warned for this post

Amosquu is a faggot

They beg for money every month and keep coming back with the "We can't keep financially supporting this website by ourselves" threat. I'd be surprised if it's still around 3 months from now. If staff knew what was right they'd just have a sitewide freeleech for a few days then shut the whole place down

What do you think of Awesome HD?

Third best.

mfw they don't get enough donations for next month

Is IPT just a whatever tracker? Is it useful to get?

it's useful as a backup of a backup when all else fails

>hope the BP helps with long term retention
>they have seen a decrease of torrents in the past days
I see

why so aggressive?

It’s upsetting to see a half ass noneffort fragment music fans

Is it really worth uploading 320 and V0 when you upload a FLAC? Feels like a waste of time and storage space to me. A few people will download if the torrent is popular, but they should just stop being stupid and download the FLAC.

How stupid is it to torrent on an old smartphone? Public trackers, public wifi

Never been in /ptg/, how curry am I?

you get bonus points for uploading those

if you truly want buffer, just rent a seedbox for a month. Only UL what you want others to listen to

y are you here

I browse Sup Forums and come across the thread on a regular basis, thought I'd have a look

is Sup Forums any good or still just infested with phone talk?

>no HDBits

Only on APL and WFM, which are both basically on their death beds. Although they do count as 3 uploads over 1, which is good, but I'm ripping hundreds of CD's so upload count isn't much more than a dick measuring contest to me.

I'm moving low demand (read: 0 leeches since upload) files over to a local seedbox setup to make more room for high demand content on my seedbox.

They're comfy, for the most part
Staff are awesome
Internals are regularly better than HDB internals
Will hold your hand while you learn to encode
Site development isn't super fast due to there only being 1 dev (many features get postponed)
Movie selection is lacking
They don't trump so you end up with a heap of shitty releases per torrent, Deadpool for example has AHD and HDB internals but still has all the shitty Chinese/scene/shit groups
Buffer is noticeably harder than PTP
Tv selection is pretty bad and they don't group it, which is annoying
If you care about quality I'd say they're worth joining

Aint it for torrentmasters on PTP? Has it gone for torrentkings?(

whats the most curry tracker?
whats the least?

Hon3y
Whichever tracker blocks the most middle eastern countries

I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney [1993]
by Ben Affleck

ptp user recs are such shit

>download several movies from a private tracker with vpn
>nothing happened
>download a movie from piratebay with vpn
>get a letter
>download a bunch of movies from private tracker with vpn
>get a bunch of letters
>i got a trojan from piratebay that must have sniffed my ip
this is some tough shit

Thanks

...

global freeleech when he hits 10,000 comments

what?

It means you're not on PTP

but i am

Zitto animale

how hard is it to survive on REDACTED without a seedbox

It's fine. Upload some shit-tier bandcamp electronic albums if you get real low. But the difficulty is really overblown by some people so long as you're not downloading 10 gigs of music a day

Start off getting stuff you like, but not too much to keep your ratio in the safe zone
then rip some cd's, wait for tokens, transcode some stuff people forgot to transcode and never stop seeding

>no AB
Very.

but I have AB

BTN is currently the curry litmus. Sorry, bud.

generally, not too hard. and if you have access to a library and/or another music tracker, it's easy. there's a solid chance the staff will give out some more tokens around christmas/new years, so thi is a decent time to sign up. i would expect not to see a ton more tokens for a while after jan 1 though. general consensus is they've given out too many tokens lately and there aren't any major site events/holidays slated for the first half of 2018.

>BP helps with long term retention
[spoiler]it won't[/spoiler]
BPs will make an already easy as fuck tracker even easier. Prepare for a shitstorm of re-seed requests.

we'll see

How do I get into u2? I'm at least PU on most trackers, the good ones at least.

PU isn't good enough

It's not bad, you can survive on tokens and spam bandcamp garbage for upload if you need to. Also if you have a decent seedbase you get steady upload. It's worth renting a seedbox for a month though because you can be /setforlife/ for under $10 without wasting hours uploading shit that no one wants anyway.

All the users who got in thru open sign-up and were there for the extended freeleech, never have to seed anything ever again because they have huge buffers. Bonus points are only useful for the new users who are the seeding slaves for everyone else.

come scusa

thanks for the present today btn!

Sounds like RED.

sounds like both to be fair

>red: 3k users had 48 hours of freeleech
>apl: 25k users had 3 weeks of freeleech
>Sounds like RED
>Sound
>like
>RED
nope, try again

It's back!
>inb4 10gb upload

how do you get into any tracker at all without having to upload all that shit? it's wack

There's already a dozen or so members that got into PTP through RED/GGn with over 500 uploads
Step your game up

The advent was exciting years ago because new users could get a nice boost of BPs/Upload and climb userclasses more quickly. But since the site's been mostly full for ages, there are few new users, so it's a bit meh.

you're on more and better trackers than /ptg/ regulars. do yourself a favor and don't post here

I still long for a gold star

Honest question /ptg/
What should I grab?

1. FLAC or 24 bit FLAC?
2. WEB or VINYL or CD?
3. Original or REMASTERED?
4. V0 or 320 CBR?

get the original and remastered and compare the mixes

It all depends
i generally avoid CD because of the loudness war

If I get on an anime tracker, it it good for my reputation to release someone else's batch with the english audio track removed? I do it on my own downloads anyway to reduce the size, and since it's such a repetitive process, I feel like it would save others who also care more about filesize than english dub audio a lot of trouble.

FLAC / CD / Original generally, but a good bet is to just whatever has the most snatches
Don't bother with remasters unless the original had a lot of issues, and Vinyl is almost never worth getting because for whatever reason, even the people who've spend thousands of dollars on equipment can't get the hiss and crackle out of the tracks. That being said there's a few albums that I prefer on vinyl simply because that was how I first heard them

I don't think many people would be happy with you if you go around editing other peoples releases

That's a shame, I know I'd be happy if someone was doing that. I'd be very clear that I didn't make it.

Yeah, I definitely see where you're coming from and I somewhat agree - it's simply the act of editing someone else's release
Perhaps you could get into encoding?

I just don't see any point when there's a perfectly good encode out there that can be trimmed down.

>How do I get into HDBits without selling my soul or uploading like 500 torrents (wtf how do people even manage this?)

It's not worth it in the end. As when you get into HDB, you are already on PTP, AHD, BTN which will make it useless. You epeen will get bigger, that's it.

Regardless:
>Join HDB #help, tell them you know how to rip from AMAZON and NETFLIX
>Become an encoder on trackers like AHD
>Become staff on some tracker
>Make friends who has invites, show them you are in need
>Know any HDB staffer personally
>Contribute heavily on trackers where niggas like NotTheGrinch can notice your work and eventually you will asked to join

This will get you in, choose anyone and work towards it. When you get in, be ready to say "not worth it" as that is usual reaction of new members. Don't get discouraged though, HDB alone is quite good but if you have other trackers similar in nature then it's not worth it.