Issou
11-17-2016, 09:03 PM
https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/5dguyw/according_to_a_french_news_site_12_whatcd_servers/

What do you think about it ? It is horrible because there were a lot of obscure or independents stuff which were there on what.cd

For VGM i already got most of the things that i wanted, so its fine for that (there are also Vegeta collection)

ManRay
11-17-2016, 09:06 PM
Whoopsie Daisy.

TheSkeletonMan939
11-17-2016, 09:11 PM
That's the way the cookie crumbles.

James (The Disney Guy)
11-17-2016, 09:16 PM
Is That The One You Have To Pass A Test To Enter?.....

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-17-2016, 09:17 PM
If this is what I think it is (because the Reddit link leads to nothing), it's not a big deal. Nothing new, it's happened before.

PonyoBellanote
11-17-2016, 09:19 PM
Well, shit. That was my place to go for music. It was good. Another good place for full blu rays that I frequented this year also was deleted.

Fuck I hope this is not the end!

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-17-2016, 09:20 PM
It isn't! I'd not worry about it.

I've known what was going on for like, a day or two now. From curiosity that all my torrents showed red.

PonyoBellanote
11-17-2016, 09:24 PM
I'm not worried. I just say it would be a nice big fuckery if the end of What.CD was true XD

Leon Scott Kennedy
11-17-2016, 09:33 PM
Who cares, even if it's not true now, it will happen sooner or later. Never needed it, personally, get to buy most stuff I want, luckily.

James (The Disney Guy)
11-17-2016, 09:35 PM
^ :laugh: I Love You Leon Straight and Trueful. :)

ManRay
11-17-2016, 09:44 PM

ssri
11-17-2016, 10:00 PM
Rumors from other trackers state that WCD OPs pressed the self-destruct button and wiped all of the data. Sad day indeed if all of this is true.

EDIT: Well, shit...


Issou
11-17-2016, 10:17 PM


Rest in peace, sweet prince.

PonyoBellanote
11-17-2016, 10:30 PM


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RIP.. What a bad luck I've had with trackers this year, lmao. First, BluTorrents, where I used to get wonderful full blu-rays closed, and now the legendary What.CD where the best music in lossless came from, it's now dead.. 2 or 3 months after I joined... lmao, at least I could grab a few things.

I don't think I've ever gonna come across other trackers that I could join that could fill the hole Blu-Torrents and What.CD left for me, if I do, then lucky me, but I doubt it! Maybe some people want to make a new What.CD.

Leon Scott Kennedy
11-17-2016, 10:31 PM
Another one down, such is life.

James (The Disney Guy)
11-17-2016, 10:36 PM
^ :laugh:

Issou
11-17-2016, 10:43 PM


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RIP.. What a bad luck I've had with trackers this year, lmao. First, BluTorrents, where I used to get wonderful full blu-rays closed, and now the legendary What.CD where the best music in lossless came from, it's now dead.. 2 or 3 months after I joined... lmao, at least I could grab a few things.

I don't think I've ever gonna come across other trackers that I could join that could fill the hole Blu-Torrents and What.CD left for me, if I do, then lucky me, but I doubt it! Maybe some people want to make a new What.CD.


Rutracker, Soulseek and your coin purse/bank account are probably enough to have almost everything which What.CD had. Lossless isn't that a big deal since there a negligable (i think ?) difference between it and Lossy

Full Bluray are useless imo, so this isn't probably a big deal (unless you make them remux in .mkv) since there are many other trackers which have cool remux/full bluray database

Honestly What.CD was annoying for me. Seriously, how could i even have a decent ratio on it if i can't even rent a Seedbox, have a good internet connection and HDD space ? :)

PonyoBellanote
11-17-2016, 10:58 PM
Uh.. What.CD was one of the biggest music torrent trackers right there. Lmao just because you guys have money to spend whatever shit you want does not mean you have to act like it's no big loss.

And you don't have to shit on my preferences, be it full blu ray or lossless. Dicks.

PIKACHU POKEMON
11-17-2016, 11:20 PM
Sorry, user Vegeta. :(

Momonoki
11-17-2016, 11:24 PM
I bet it was Skhreli's doing

PonyoBellanote
11-17-2016, 11:25 PM
CURSE YOU, EVIL MASTERMIND SKRELLI!

James (The Disney Guy)
11-17-2016, 11:25 PM
Lossless isn't that a big deal

:D

PonyoBellanote
11-17-2016, 11:35 PM
Ah, yes, let's be dicks and shit in people's preferences.

James (The Disney Guy)
11-17-2016, 11:37 PM
Hardly, I Just Agree To "His" Preference. Not Shitting Your One.

TheSkeletonMan939
11-17-2016, 11:40 PM
Wow, WhatCD is gone. I guess that means we have to move on with our lives, huh?

James (The Disney Guy)
11-17-2016, 11:41 PM
:laugh:

PonyoBellanote
11-17-2016, 11:45 PM
NO! IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT! FFSHRINE IS NEXT!

OH LO AND BEHOLD! WHERE WILL I GET MY FREE MUSIC NEXT?

James (The Disney Guy)
11-17-2016, 11:46 PM
^can we put him out in the yard a while?

Leon Scott Kennedy
11-17-2016, 11:47 PM
Uh.. What.CD was one of the biggest music torrent trackers right there. Lmao just because you guys have money to spend whatever shit you want does not mean you have to act like it's no big loss.

And you don't have to shit on my preferences, be it full blu ray or lossless. Dicks.
Why not, huh? :D In case you haven't figured it out, yet, that's how things are bound to go whenever piracy is involved (sooner or later the Shrine will *puff* out of existence, too).
No fun, no fun at all. I miss the old "shoot the shit" crew. :(

TheSkeletonMan939
11-17-2016, 11:48 PM
Rumor is that the times are already nigh for both FFShrine's and Sheeto's demises, and that the FBI is investigating both sites.

Momonoki
11-17-2016, 11:49 PM
And yet piracy will go on.

ManRay
11-17-2016, 11:52 PM
Acting high and mighty is nice and all, ;-)
but that Board has been around for 10 Years
and the Gendarmerie made a pretty aggresive Move here.

After Kickasstorrents and now What.CD i am a bit concerned
for the Future...

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-17-2016, 11:59 PM
So I suppose that I was oblivious to think that What.CD would not be going anytime soon due to the fact it was a private torrent site. I feel that it was private for a reason. But I guess that piracy will always be uprooted at some point, no matter the circumstances.

And how so very unfortunate that I just got started the roundabout there a week and a half ago. God forbid that it's true, but it's probably reality.

And yet some-fucking-how ThePirateBay still stands. :whatever:

PonyoBellanote
11-17-2016, 11:59 PM
THE END IS NEIGH!

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-18-2016, 12:00 AM
I'm starting to think putting him out in the yard isn't such a bad idea :laugh:

James (The Disney Guy)
11-18-2016, 12:01 AM
I'm starting to think putting him out in the yard isn't such a bad idea :laugh:

IKR!?

little_pixel
11-18-2016, 12:01 AM
THE END IS NEIGH!
Is this one of these mass suicide threads ?

Zeratul13
11-18-2016, 12:04 AM
There other sites coming. Always more. like extra bigger after kick down.

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-18-2016, 12:06 AM
:( I shouldn't have been as reluctant as I was to grab the rest of the couple albums I wanted. But I've also been quite busy the past 2 or 3 days.

I blame the leaves.

TheSkeletonMan939
11-18-2016, 12:06 AM
Is this one of these mass suicide threads ?

That would be the "Heaven's Gate Enthusiasts" thread.

little_pixel
11-18-2016, 12:07 AM
There other sites coming. Always more. like extra bigger after kick down.
There is almost no doubt about that. It will take many years, 'though :( I guess it is time to listen to music.

Leon Scott Kennedy
11-18-2016, 12:10 AM
We lost a haven for elitists which kind of took the joy out of sharing, for some (speaking as an ex-What.CD member), some will probably try to get a bunch of users together with a new place, only to fall soon after.

DAKoftheOTA
11-18-2016, 12:36 AM
Boo fuckin hoo

Momonoki
11-18-2016, 12:45 AM
I always pause my torrents before I shut my computer off for the night. I just decided to try and resume all 2440 what.cd torrents to see what would happen.

Had this for about 10 minutes :laugh:


little_pixel
11-18-2016, 12:47 AM
And now the Internet is down !
Run for your lives !

Oh wait...

HunterTech
11-18-2016, 12:49 AM
Another one down. Another yet to go.

In all seriousness, I'm surprised to have seen a website go down this quickly. It might not be new for anyone else, but it sure is to me.

A real shame, but never one to bring a life down. Besides, I feel happy with what I have, and anything I missed will be found elsewhere eventually. Plus, if one cares so much, there might be a follow up site, considering W.CD was one to another place that got shut down (Oink).

In the end though, we just move on.

Momonoki
11-18-2016, 12:51 AM
What.cd started the same day OiNK got taken down. Maybe there is hope yet :laugh:

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 12:54 AM
Contrary to what people believe here, What.CD was the biggest music torrent tracker in the internet. Surely not important for the soundtracks, but for music per se.

Leon Scott Kennedy
11-18-2016, 01:15 AM
What.CD is gone!
And not a single fuck was given that day.
Seriously, it's a setback, neither the first, nor the last. Pirates do find ways to get what they want, without mourning too much and when they don't, well, some of them do the mature thing and accept they're even less likely to get what they want, so they move on.

Ṿ�γαgεr
11-18-2016, 01:16 AM
What is What.CD?

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 01:16 AM
What.CD is gone!
And not a single fuck was given that day.
Seriously, it's a setback, neither the first, nor the last.

Doesn't make it any less important, you arrogant twat.

Leon Scott Kennedy
11-18-2016, 01:19 AM
Doesn't make it any less important, you arrogant twat.
Blow me, mutt. Learn to have fun, brat.

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 01:21 AM
Blow me, mutt. Learn to have fun, brat.

Learn to not be a dick who does not give a fuck about something because it doesn't affects him. :laugh:

HunterTech
11-18-2016, 01:23 AM
Besides, the replacement should be up eventually. They are always dedicated to the point W.CD was even up the day Oink got shut. What it will be is the real question.

Leon Scott Kennedy
11-18-2016, 01:23 AM
Learn to not be a dick who does not give a fuck about something because it doesn't affects him. :laugh:
Learn to not be a dick just because someone doesn't care about the stuff YOU care about, too, what do you say? ;)

TheSkeletonMan939
11-18-2016, 01:26 AM
What is What.CD?

It's where hipsters wasted time making sure their ratios were equalized instead of enjoying music.


Learn to not be a dick just because someone doesn't care about the stuff YOU care about, too, what do you say? ;)

Uh-oh, LSK, you've activated Ponyo's explosive mode. Expect him to scream at you now.

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 01:28 AM
Besides, the replacement should be up eventually. They are always dedicated to the point W.CD was even up the day Oink got shut. What it will be is the real question.

A replacement may come one day.. we don't know when, it may come, or it may not, and if it ever does.. I don't think it'll be either as good, or as safe.

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Uh-oh, LSK, you've activated Ponyo's explosive mode. Expect him to scream at you now.

https://media.giphy.com/media/oaPcDncoLfgjK/giphy.gif

HunterTech
11-18-2016, 01:30 AM
I now wonder if this was the sacrifice needed to save my Dad. If so, it's a damn good trade off! :laugh:

Leon Scott Kennedy
11-18-2016, 01:30 AM
Uh-oh, LSK, you've activated Ponyo's explosive mode. Expect him to scream at you now.
Oh, it will be something new for me, I'm rather used to getting screamed at, under more pleasant circumstances, I guess, still... :laugh:

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 01:31 AM
Oh, it will be something new for me, I'm rather used to getting screamed at, under more pleasant circumstances, I guess, still... :laugh:

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/8d/8d9dc6b7c569cebfb392e919ca37504284d507b18e26c3139b dbd11128180e08.jpg

https://media.giphy.com/media/XreQmk7ETCak0/giphy.gif

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-18-2016, 01:42 AM
Piracy and law that eradicate such acts will always prevail. It's a never ending cycle. What goes up, must come down, and so on and so forth. Thus, even though I'm really sad that at least for the time being I'll not be able to grab those couple albums that are not really available anywhere else in good quality, or even in general, my unsettling is eased by the fact that there'll likely be a replacement in the next week or two, perhaps even immediately. So lest we fret, and just move on for now.

Momonoki
11-18-2016, 01:43 AM
It is ILLEGAL.... after all. So you can't really complain..

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-18-2016, 01:44 AM
Your signature is beautiful.

But regarding What.CD, this came as sort of a shock to me. In consideration of how difficult it was to gain access, to me that was a kind of a precautionary measure to keep the site's contents organized, rules enforced, and to lessen the likelihood of an event such as this one. I just didn't expect this at all. But oh well.

Momonoki
11-18-2016, 01:45 AM
You're signature is beautiful.

Thanks. It reflects my personality.

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 01:47 AM
Sure, the world doesn't end and we can't complain, but it was a big tracker site, so it wasn't expected to be shut down this sudden and surprisingly, however, hey, ThePirateBay, Kaz.. the two biggest places in the world to get torrents.. were locked down (now I can't find torrents as easily) so I supose this had to be expected. However, some countries do believe that private tracker sharing is alright, as long as you aren't benefiting off it.

Momonoki
11-18-2016, 01:50 AM
It was a bit creepy, I was sitting in my algorithms and programming lecture. We were discussing measurements of complexity and how long it takes to run with Big O notation. My prof said something like "No running algorithm lasts forever, even if it is infinite, one day somebody will pull the plug and it will go "poof" out of existence". 5 mins later I checked my phone to see the news that What had been destroyed. Creepy coincidence?

TheSkeletonMan939
11-18-2016, 01:53 AM
But regarding What.CD, this came as sort of a shock to me. In consideration of how difficult it was to gain access, to me that was a kind of a precautionary measure to keep the site's contents organized, rules enforced, and to lessen the likelihood of an event such as this one. I just didn't expect this at all. But oh well.

"difficult"



Man, all you had to know was what sample rate and bitrate was, and how to produce a .log file. And also convince them that you weren't a leech. And you don't need to be a fuckin' audio nerd to know that it's a pirate den anyway.

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Creepy coincidence?

No, it means that no one cares that you're a 'deep thinker'.

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 01:54 AM
Hey, I could survive there. I think that pretty much says it all.

ssri
11-18-2016, 02:00 AM
Another one down. Another yet to go.

In all seriousness, I'm surprised to have seen a website go down this quickly. It might not be new for anyone else, but it sure is to me.Well, it looks like WCD's staff had a plan if shit hit the fan and they managed to execute it as quickly and orderly as they could've when the authorities were bearing down at them. I've only been there for a year and saw ~800GB of buffer go up in smoke today. Then again, not for once did I ever think the site was going to last forever. It was too large to escape the eyes of the powers that be and it was going down a la OiNK sooner or later. Sadly, it came sooner rather than later. Anyways, life moves on. As others noted, IMHO WCD was the beesknees for everything except OSTs (asian and vg) and Classical Music.

Momonoki
11-18-2016, 02:00 AM
Hey, I could survive there. I think that pretty much says it all.

Well, if you've proven anything it's that you can hold a ratio, effectively telling those who doutbed your abilities "I told you so", so.. props to you.

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 02:02 AM
Well, if you've proven anything it's that you can hold a ratio, effectively telling those who doutbed your abilities "I told you so", so.. props to you.

Well, I'll be honest here - I've just been lucky that I had things on my own to rip, and things from other places to upload. Because in seeding related matters, I got no shit, except from my uploads sometime. But if something I've proven is that I'm able to seed for a long time, as I was seeding all my uploads for months. :laugh: I also uploaded more than downloaded, as much as I truly wanted to get a lot. But I got enough before it went down. But yeah, I mantained a decent ratio.

11 GB of download, 28 GB of upload. And I could've had less of download if I had kept myself down. XD

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-18-2016, 02:08 AM
"difficult"



Man, all you had to know was what sample rate and bitrate was, and how to produce a .log file. And also convince them that you weren't a leech. And you don't need to be a fuckin' audio nerd to know that it's a pirate den anyway.

Generally difficult. Why do you think it's usually regarded like "oh dude that place is exclusive"? Clearly enough have tried but failed to get in.

Killgrave
11-18-2016, 02:08 AM
What is What.CD?

Internet + Google + Question = Answer.

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 02:10 AM
Generally difficult. Why do you think it's usually regarded like "oh dude that place is exclusive"? Clearly enough have tried but failed to get in.

I failed the interview the first time.. If it hadn't been by a very generous person..

It's strongly difficult to mantain a good ratio unless you upload things that weren't there, and people download, have a seedbox, or grab ALL the freeleech and seed eternally.

TheSkeletonMan939
11-18-2016, 02:12 AM
Can you remember the specific questions that were asked?
I probably wouldn't have passed since I think logs and cue files and whatever are for losers who are more OCD than music enthusiasts.

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-18-2016, 02:13 AM
I got a load of shit and my ratio never took a hit, until I fucked up on some request fills. Maintaining a ratio is not difficult by any measure. I uploaded a total of five albums, two or three of which were first-time uploads. That's all you really need to do.

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 02:15 AM
Can you remember the specific questions that were asked?
I probably wouldn't have passed since I think logs and cue files and whatever are for losers who are more OCD than music enthusiasts.

Not too hard questions, but I've never been that MUCH of an audiophile, so.. questions like, order from lossless to lossy, etc, tell us what is a transcode, what is okay in What.CD.. it wasn't too hard if you studied the prep.

ssri
11-18-2016, 02:15 AM
I failed the interview the first time.. If it hadn't been by a very generous person..

It's strongly difficult to mantain a good ratio unless you upload things that weren't there, and people download, have a seedbox, or grab ALL the freeleech and seed eternally.Not really, it was more like a game of "D\L all of the freeleech torrents as fast as they're announced," as the past birthday week showed. Even if you don't have a seedbox, jumping on freeleeches early and often will guarantee you a pretty healthy buffer. The problem was jumping on them early enough and finding enough spare disk space to store them.

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 02:19 AM
Not really, it was more like a game of "D\L all of the freeleech torrents as fast as they're announced," as the past birthday week showed. Even if you don't have a seedbox, jumping on freeleeches early and often will guarantee you a pretty healthy buffer. The problem was jumping on them early enough and finding enough spare disk space to store them.

That is too much of a bother, not onlyf or the space to store them, but because some even use authomatized bots that do it quicker than you. And seedboxes.

Momonoki
11-18-2016, 02:23 AM
Well, at least Alpharatio is still around.

PonyoBellanote
11-18-2016, 02:24 AM
Well, at least Alpharatio is still around.

One day that'll close, too

Momonoki
11-18-2016, 02:25 AM
It is inevitable.

ssri
11-18-2016, 02:29 AM
That is too much of a bother, not onlyf or the space to store them, but because some even use authomatized bots that do it quicker than you. And seedboxes.WCD staff banned automated snatching of FL torrents several months back. I don't remember if that ban extended to regular uploads. Like I said, if you got in early enough, you'll be able to get something decent if you grabbed every FL torrent (like I explained several pages ago). With respect to the birthday FL event last week, you won't get 100's of GB in upload buffer as one would from a seedbox, but you would've received a healthy amount regardless of seedboxes.

2egg48
11-18-2016, 03:08 AM
You just need(ed) to fill requests. BTW, what is alpharatio? Never heard of it.

Also, waffles will be back soon, so I imagine they will get most of the people, if this is going on ... Or were they down because of the same operation? If so, then maybe they won't go back up.
Remember, a lot of admins of other sites were listed as VIP on what, so now all that information is in the hands of ... : (

HunterTech
11-18-2016, 04:09 AM
It's bad enough this place had to shut down, but after I decided to buy something to fill a request? Ugh. I'm really making my parents proud here.

TheSkeletonMan939
11-18-2016, 04:11 AM
It's bad enough this place had to shut down, but after I decided to buy something to fill a request? Ugh. I'm really making my parents proud here.

http://66.media.tumblr.com/919e2c53ea3fbfd5541293d3c50a2e23/tumblr_n7u4kqHnpI1s4rha3o2_500.gif

HunterTech
11-18-2016, 04:14 AM
I'm thankful it was just $10.50. Doesn't excuse the previous $13 used though.

tehƧP@ƦKly�ANK� -Ⅲ�
11-18-2016, 04:21 AM
Ce la vie.

I ran out of things to download from there a long time ago.

bluemonkey13
11-18-2016, 05:00 AM
I didn't care for the community at What, but the fact remains that you could find things there that simply couldn't be gotten anywhere else, for purchase or otherwise. I remember coming across a kick-ass free jazz album from a local band from the early 70s that had an original pressing of 30-something and has never had any other release. You can't find it listed on Amazon or even Worldcat, but sure enough, What had it. That's where the real loss is here.

ROKUSHO
11-18-2016, 06:02 AM
and now nobody cant stop anyone from posting shit like that here.
so... why isnt shit like that being posted here?

ssri
11-18-2016, 06:14 AM
and now nobody cant stop anyone from posting shit like that here.
so... why isnt shit like that being posted here?It is all about eyeballs. Over at what.cd, there were ~150,000 users at its peak, many of whom were music junkies and visited the site regularly with millions of torrents posted, a great of deal of them alive too. Furthermore, the site provided an incentive for people to post what they had or fill requests. Not all of them heard of FFShrine or would bother to sign up given their preferences. Furthermore, searching through request and download sections here is rather unwieldy compared to what. Hell, it is easier to find something specific on a Russian site (rutracker) than here. Then again, FFShrine isn't supposed to be used as a music repository, nor it should be.

pisspoop
11-18-2016, 07:16 AM
How to search ffshrine on google.com, type

site:forums.ffshrine.org "album name in quotes"

some would think that people were uploading from here to whatcd all the time, but actually this wasnt the case, the majority of albums found here were never distributed there
i believe it would be a much greater loss, to the video game and anime community (and to me personally) if this website were shut down
I try to grab everything I can from here, but it's a slow process

tehƧP@ƦKly�ANK� -Ⅲ�
11-18-2016, 08:59 AM
Just removed all the freeleech crap on my seedbox.

Over 150GB worth of crap.

Even though there's rules, most of the old torrents had the laziest uploaders.
So many folders overlap each other and get real screwey with the seedbox.
Folders and filenames would sometimes cause the seedbox to crash because of all the overlap and conflict.
Man, they were way too collective over the different versions out there for a CD.
Often there would be two releases that are virtually the same.

Glad that mess is over with.
Now to actually go into the seedbox and check for leftover crap that didn't get cleaned properly due to scewed up torrents.

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-18-2016, 10:06 AM
What the hell is Alpharatio? It's a similar site, I presume? Is it connected to What.CD in some way? I ask because the front/login page looks as What.CD's did; the exact same.

Issou
11-18-2016, 10:14 AM
What the hell is Alpharatio? It's a similar site, I presume? Is it connected to What.CD in some way? I ask because the front/login page looks as What.CD's did; the exact same.

It is a private tracker for general stuff and 0 day one, so its not really connected to What.CD . Signup were open 2 months ago

Front/Login page are the same because the website use the same source code as What, which is 'Gazelle'

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-18-2016, 10:19 AM
Ah.

little_pixel
11-18-2016, 10:26 PM
IMHO WCD was the beesknees for everything except OSTs (asian and vg) and Classical Music.
Well, I don't know. The best tracker I know for Japanese music (preferably lossless) is jpopsuki, and it was missing many albums that were on what.cd (or only had lossy, not lossless). As for soundtracks (of all kind), the only other private tracker I know is LZTR, and 'though it does have a lot of content, it was no match compared to What.cd. If you have recommandations, please, I'm all ears !

This very forum has tons of contents (some hard to find anywhere else, if available at all) and some very active and dedicated uploaders, unfortunately it's generally unconvenient to search for and links never stays online for very long due to takedowns.
Is there such a thing as a nice, indexed Japanese music (especially older or indie Japanese music, not mainstream jpop) thread on these forums, something similar to the huge video games music thread ? I would dig it :)


Man, they were way too collective over the different versions out there for a CD.
Often there would be two releases that are virtually the same.
What.cd had detailed rules describing what makes releases different or redundant (duplicate => deleted). I agree it can be "too many" for some albums, but generally having all releases it is quite the opposite, a nice thing. It is what archival is about, to give an example, it is the same kind of work video games "preservation" groups do by archiving every known version (that's why MAME has tons of bootlegs and clones listed). Music stores generally suck in that regard.

tehƧP@ƦKly�ANK� -Ⅲ�
11-18-2016, 10:30 PM
After removing the torrents that I actually grabbed that wasn't intended for freeleech...

I cleared up another 100GB.

It feels so good to be so clean and tidy.

They were only organized in recent years.
Much older torrents were pure crap for organization.
It was like they just cross-seeded from TPB or something else just as public.

little_pixel
11-18-2016, 10:38 PM
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FL torrents were subject to the same rules than other torrents, that's one of the reasons when a torrent was marked as freeleech (or neutral leech), every defect was easily spotted by some member (because so many people downloaded it due to being freeleech) and torrent was replaced by a better one, usually quick.

True, very old torrents had a much higher chance to have lower quality standards (and breaking one or several rules in place), but rules allowed to replace them with better ones. Which usually happened at one point.

tehƧP@ƦKly�ANK� -Ⅲ�
11-18-2016, 11:00 PM
Their folder structure was shit.
So much overlap.

A lot of the older torrents that were picked for freeleech went unchanged.

Just because they can be trumped for a fixed re-up, doesn't mean they have been.
Otherwise I wouldn't have said anything at all.

Small MP3 torrents went unnoticed.
I wasn't going to be arsed to nitpick all the torrents.

I just know which ones crashed my seedbox several dozen times just trying to add them.

At one point, I had to create new folders just for each version.
I can't depend on the users to create unique folder structures.

PonyoBellanote
11-20-2016, 10:27 PM

James (The Disney Guy)
11-20-2016, 11:20 PM
Lol, Right at The End "Donate"

Typical.

TheSkeletonMan939
11-20-2016, 11:26 PM
They aren't donations to what.CD, but to other groups that they think are important. Like the WayBack Machine.

HunterTech
11-20-2016, 11:30 PM
Lol, Right at The End "Donate"

Typical.

LOL. You failed to pay attention to what's actually being donated to.

Cynical.

James (The Disney Guy)
11-20-2016, 11:31 PM
Whatever!

Lockdown
11-20-2016, 11:32 PM
RIP

PonyoBellanote
11-20-2016, 11:32 PM
They are telling the longtime supporters and donators of What.CD to now make that effort in donating for some other important internet causes. Lmao. Not for themselves.

HunterTech
11-20-2016, 11:57 PM
Whatever!

For a guy that hates rudeness of people, he sure does crap on certain things that have care put to them.

Since you never cared for W.CD, why even bother to comment? Just leave it be.

James (The Disney Guy)
11-20-2016, 11:59 PM
Gladly.

Besides, GD Sucks Of Late Anyway.

TheSkeletonMan939
11-21-2016, 12:22 AM
What must be done to Make GD Great Again?

James (The Disney Guy)
11-21-2016, 12:22 AM
Whatever, I Have No Interest Anymore, TBH.

PonyoBellanote
11-21-2016, 12:23 AM
#MakeGDGreatAgain

James (The Disney Guy)
11-21-2016, 12:25 AM
It Will Never Be Great Again.

1. We Have Lost To Many Great Members and People Who Chatted.

2. All Convos Are The Same Now.

Momonoki
11-21-2016, 12:27 AM
What must be done to Make GD Great Again?


CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-21-2016, 12:36 AM
It's up to us as to whether General Discussion is great or not, everybody. Entirely up to us.

Any one of us can start a new conversation right now, if we wanted to, but obviously we've recently been choosing not to.

And all of us are still here, as far as I'm certain.

We make up the atmosphere. We can make General Discussion better than great again.

pisspoop
11-25-2016, 11:28 PM
There are three successors so far.

http://nostream.co, http://passtheheadphones.me, http://xanax.rip

I'm on all three of them. xanax looks the most promising, I will start uploading some albums there. It is also open registration right now unlike the others.

ManRay
11-25-2016, 11:46 PM
Registered so i can say i was a Member from the Start,
if anyone else feels inclined hurry up, Open Signups close once
they've reached 20.000 Members, should be ~15.000 at the Moment.

HunterTech
11-26-2016, 12:26 AM
I should mention there's also http://shellife.eu/, which is more aimed for non-mainstream music. It should still have open sign ups at the moment, so get on it while you can.

ManRay
11-26-2016, 12:30 AM
I should mention there's also http://shellife.eu/, which is more aimed for non-mainstream music. It should still have open sign ups at the moment, so get on it while you can.


Signup failed!
Invite not found. Please retry signup or request a new one

HunterTech
11-26-2016, 12:35 AM
Huh. I didn't realize it was closed now. You're going to have to go on irc to request an invite or something, since I don't have one at the moment.

ManRay
11-26-2016, 01:03 AM
Huh. I didn't realize it was closed now. You're going to have to go on irc to request an invite or something, since I don't have one at the moment.

It's all good, if i really need an Invite i'll get one eventually. ;)

I am not the impatient Type...

PonyoBellanote
11-26-2016, 01:07 AM
Neither of those are trustworthy and seem a bit sketchy for now.

HunterTech
11-26-2016, 01:28 AM
Just wait a year and see if any of those have grown and are still standing. Too early to tell and many shenanigans have occurred already.

PonyoBellanote
11-26-2016, 01:37 AM
I already know it's gonna be hard or near impossible for me to get in any tracker anyway. :laugh:

HunterTech
11-26-2016, 01:43 AM
I already know it's gonna be hard or near impossible for me to get in any tracker anyway. :laugh:

Not when I'm still here. ;)

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-26-2016, 08:19 AM
I signed up at XANAX hours ago. The other two showed only the login option as available, so I'm guessing by that time it was too late.

HunterTech
11-26-2016, 09:05 AM
I signed up at XANAX hours ago. The other two showed only the login option as available, so I'm guessing by that time it was too late.

The other two were never up for open registration. If only you stayed on Discord...

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-26-2016, 09:14 AM
Well dammit if I had the time of day.

The thought did occur to me to join that chat once more, as the same with the one on Soulseek, but I've been fuckin' busy most of this recent time.

HunterTech
11-26-2016, 09:18 AM
Well dammit if I had the time of day.

The thought did occur to me to join that chat once more, as the same with the one on Soulseek, but I've been fuckin' busy most of this recent time.

You're so out of it that you probably don't know we moved to a new one.

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-26-2016, 09:20 AM
Yep. That sounds about right. Responsibilities and some other obligations of mine clearly don't resonate with this situation. And in some other cases working on one or two of my tracks. Sometimes I just forget about these things.

HunterTech
11-26-2016, 09:24 AM
Yep. That sounds about right. Responsibilities and some other obligations of mine clearly don't resonate with this situation. And in some other cases working on one or two of my tracks. Sometimes I just forget about these things.

My easy waste of time allows me to be pretty involved, despite still not doing much. I perhaps care too much, but I certainly try to help.

CLONEMASTER 6.53
11-26-2016, 09:28 AM
Yeah, and sometimes I can too. Sometimes I have nothing else to do, so I'm on top of this site like firemen to a fire, and probably anything else that may be going on. I'm sure you know how active of a user I can be. If I was within my usual circulation of activity? I would've known about this. I enjoy staying entirely updated when I'm able.

AberZombi&Flesh
11-26-2016, 05:17 PM
What exactly is (or was) what cd? I've never heard of this site, nor have I ever come across(ed) it in searches, etc.

Momonoki
11-26-2016, 08:00 PM
What exactly is (or was) what cd? I've never heard of this site, nor have I ever come across(ed) it in searches, etc.

The largest private torrent tracker specializing in lossless with over 2,000,000 unique releases. Successor to OiNK.

Also, nostream.co imploded.

---------- Post added at 11:00 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:59 AM ----------

Example of an album release:


DAKoftheOTA
11-26-2016, 09:28 PM
Great album^

skeletonmage
11-28-2016, 06:37 AM
Also, nostream.co imploded.

Hahaha, horribly so, yes. Everybody's been saying it from the start, and now it actually happened (so soon).

pisspoop
12-02-2016, 12:58 AM
Everyone got 5 invites on apollo.rip so it should be easier to find invites there now. (I already used mine up sorry.)

Autique
12-08-2016, 11:02 AM
Ah - I'm so conflicted. On the one hand I want to be able to search to see if the music I want is there, but most of the music I listen to, I can already find in mainstream trackers or streaming services. But then there's always a handful that I can't find on any public tracker or search. Do these trackers have a minimum amount you have to download and upload or something?

little_pixel
12-08-2016, 08:47 PM
The first 5GB are "free".
After that, you can still get away with downloading up to 15GB more (so, up to 20GB total, with no one downloading from you at all) as long as you are seeding your snatches enough.