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

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[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] halfpipe@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] LustyWizard1304@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

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.