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evobatman posted:I have never understood private trackers. What exactly do you get there that you do not get on general open sites? I can see a use case for extremely niche and/or highly curated content, but for general TV shows and movies why bother? I used to use a pro audio tracker that was amazing. It had all possible VST instruments and tons and tons of even obscure sample libraries. I haven't had the need for general private trackers either. If it's popular, it can be found anywhere, if it's obscure it won't be in a general private tracker either.
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evobatman posted:I have never understood private trackers. What exactly do you get there that you do not get on general open sites? I can see a use case for extremely niche and/or highly curated content, but for general TV shows and movies why bother? in my experience much much much lower risk of riaa / other bad actors in the seeders and otherwise a lower chance of getting ""caught""
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Nov 29, 2021 11:45
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Also better curation, seeding and communities.
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Nov 29, 2021 11:48
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It's not gonna be fifteen MIDI files and a huge shir WAV instead of the album in nice MP3s? Then why even torrent it!?!
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Nov 29, 2021 12:19
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evobatman posted:I have never understood private trackers. What exactly do you get there that you do not get on general open sites? I can see a use case for extremely niche and/or highly curated content, but for general TV shows and movies why bother? More content. There are private trackers that have everything down to local TV shows - because people upload everything they can just to get their ratio up. Sweevo has a new favorite as of 12:54 on Nov 29, 2021 |
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Nov 29, 2021 12:42
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Sweevo posted:More content. There are private trackers that have everything down to local TV shows - because people upload everything they can just to get their ratio up. Movies: The same. Rare releases, full BD rips, etc
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Nov 29, 2021 12:48
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WITCHCRAFT posted:Circa 2005-2010, my 2.1 computer speakers would constantly pick up this interference when there was an incoming call on anyone's cellphone in the house. It would also sometimes pick up radio transmissions that would play through the speakers. They were at a fixed volume, the volume knob had no effect. You can come talk shortwave radio with goons right this minute, friend! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2827275
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Nov 29, 2021 13:53
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Code Jockey posted:in my experience much much much lower risk of riaa / other bad actors in the seeders and otherwise a lower chance of getting ""caught"" This. My VPN subscription lapsed 8 months ago and I never bothered renewing it. Since I was largely torrenting cult movies from a private tracker (and on the rare occasion I used a public tracker for a blockbuster removed the torrent immediately on completion), I never had a smidge of trouble. Yet the moment I torrented something from rarbg and the ratio went over 1.5, bam, DMCA hit. I just hope the five major media companies never find out Soulseek exists Jim Silly-Balls posted:You can come talk shortwave radio with goons right this minute, friend! ahaha holy poo poo this thread still exists! I remember subscribing to it and its predecessor for a bit, back when I thought "slinky antenna" literally meant using a slinky for an antenna. Silent Key was a fantastic podcast if you want to experience the melancholy weirdness of radio hams without screwing around with a radio Rev. Bleech_ has a new favorite as of 13:55 on Nov 29, 2021 |
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Nov 29, 2021 13:53
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I just hope the five major media companies never find out Soulseek exists Oh boy Soulseek seeders are literally worse than private trackers now. You gotta have something to trade to get certain stuff and WILL get banned from major hoarders if you don't have a share folder. They have bots running and everything. But yeah I am AMAZED that place hasn't been taken down or changed in format in the last 10+ years.
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Nov 29, 2021 14:02
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mp3s are for chumps all i need is my trusty roland boombox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk1BIyCgRAA
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Nov 29, 2021 14:16
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I got hit by a copyright troll on a public tracker several years ago. Also this happened while I was still living at home so I had to explain to my mom that the email our ISP passed along to her wasn’t really a big deal. I’ve stayed away from public trackers since then.
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Nov 29, 2021 15:08
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I got a copyright troll letter once, I think it was for like episode E01S07 of Ash vs Evil Dead. Nothing else, just that single mid-season episode that they were convinced I had downloaded. So I politely replied to them that I had no recollection of downloading said episode, that I had no intention of assisting them in their investigation and that I considered my involvement in the matter closed. They sent me back a "threatening" form letter that they were aware of nefarious online guides on how to answer their letters and strongly cautioning against following such guides, otherwise they would be very disappointed and so on. Never heard a peep from them since.
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Nov 29, 2021 15:20
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Charter just passed along the threatening email and that was the end of it. I think it’s been 8 years now.
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Nov 29, 2021 15:26
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I got a nasty email from Time Warner for Dunkirk years ago (still haven't watched it). This most recent one from Suddenlink though, there was no email or anything, they just turned my internet off. I had to spend an hour telling some poor dingus in Bangalore "no, my home network and router are fine as everything can see everything else, and the fact that you're showing a signal from my modem should tell you the problem is somewhere else" before he would tell me about it. I never thought I'd say this, but I miss Time-Warner/Spectrum. I could go to an office and do poo poo to my account, but changing anything with Suddenlink means having to call and get transferred through half a dozen overseas call centers, all of whom hard-lock if you deviate from the flowchart in front of them
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Nov 29, 2021 15:37
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Nov 29, 2021 22:41
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Canada's great, every so often I'll get an email from my ISP saying "we got a letter from Time Warner asking to unmask your IP but don't worry we don't actually have to do that".
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Nov 30, 2021 00:30
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I'm amazed media companies still haven't figured out how Usenet works. Sometimes things well get taken down off indexers, but nothing gets down about the actual files on the provider's severs ever.
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Nov 30, 2021 02:27
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rndmnmbr posted:Re: streamchat: puny mortal it took me 6 months to sort through, delete unwanted stuff, and complete missing albums/songs for my music library when moving to a new backup hard drive. I only got to the letter F. Then my old backup hard drive died and I frantically skipped through things, keeping stuff I would rather delete and not updating/completing stuff that was poor quality or missing files. Backing up the only copies that I had from my desktop's hard drive. I got to the letter O. Then my son plugged a USB C cord into the desktop and "plugged" the other end into the surge bar. Fried everything to poo poo. Now I have to pore over my ancient 2005-2015 era last.fm scrobbles to try and to figure out what I lost but can't instantly remember for artists from O to Z. There is this compilation album of Mongolian throat singing that I can't remember the name of but it had some really good renditions of folk songs that can be found performed by other artists (but not as good) and I can't remember what the album was called or any of the contributing artists. I also lost some Sahel Sounds stuff that had cell phone music/ringtones circa 2010 that is not readily available anywhere by hook or by crook as far as I can tell. If I sit down at my computer in my free time and I don't play a video game these days, it's 100% spent scouring soulseek (yes it still exists) to try and repair my burned library of alexandria. For musical groups that currently exist or recently existed, you can often find them on soundcloud or bandcamp and legally download an album for free. The real weird poo poo that is out of print and/or never released on your side of the planet is bitch to hunt down. I lost a bunch of pre-1975/Khmer Rouge Cambodian music rips that I probably can't find again unless I learn the Khmer script or something. poo poo sucks. Make redundant backups for everything, because sometimes lightning does strike twice. Also I feel like this post is prime material to end up in the PHIZ scoff thread. If I end up there, hi guys does the dude that lives on a boat still post he seems like quite the rascal
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Nov 30, 2021 07:03
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WITCHCRAFT posted:stuff *pats 4tb backup drive, unplugged in drawer across room* Lesson learned. But when it came down to it, I could struggle and fight to duplicate my entire music library... or I could spend my time on stuff I actually, y'know, listened to. The digital hoarding instinct is just exactly that, hoarding. I don't need a compilation of native Hawaiian songs I was briefly into for three weeks, twelve years ago, and have never listened to since - other than to say I have it. No thanks, other people can build collections future digital museums can salivate over. Let me live my life unburdened by sheer stuff.
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I can't even imagine spending time sorting terabytes of MP3 rips from years back because I know I would never listen to even a fraction of that stuff. From time to time I look at my shoebox of hard drives full of completely legal copies of software from 2005 to 2009 and all the embarassing anime I was into in high school and I wish it wasn't such a bother to erase it all so I could throw them away. Same with all the MP3 files I meticulously sorted into libraries before I just gave up and got Spotify like a normal person. It's just so much superfluous digital junk we hoard around us and pretend to imbue with meaning.
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Nov 30, 2021 12:40
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Why would you not listen to it? Do you have poo poo taste in music? (You might think it more proper to ask did you have poo poo taste in music, but let's face it it's not something that can be cured with age. If what you listened to a long time ago seems poo poo now, what you're listening to now is also poo poo, even though you might not realize it until more time has passed.)
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why would you not listen to it? Do you have poo poo taste in music? (You might think it more proper to ask did you have poo poo taste in music, but let's face it it's not something that can be cured with age. If what you listened to a long time ago seems poo poo now, what you're listening to now is also poo poo, even though you might not realize it until more time has passed.) GoonSays.txt
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why would you not listen to it? Do you have poo poo taste in music? (You might think it more proper to ask did you have poo poo taste in music, but let's face it it's not something that can be cured with age. If what you listened to a long time ago seems poo poo now, what you're listening to now is also poo poo, even though you might not realize it until more time has passed.) What if, and hear me out here, some music we listen to ages well and some doesn’t?
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Nov 30, 2021 13:57
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I'll just slide in here and highly recommend MusicBrainz Picard for all your tagging and sorting needs. It makes it almost effortless to tag and sort music, gently caress ever doing that manually ever again.
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Nov 30, 2021 15:19
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Why would you not listen to it? Do you have poo poo taste in music? (You might think it more proper to ask did you have poo poo taste in music, but let's face it it's not something that can be cured with age. If what you listened to a long time ago seems poo poo now, what you're listening to now is also poo poo, even though you might not realize it until more time has passed.) I meant I have Spotify now and don't need those files anymore since most of that stuff is on some streaming service already, but, hey, you do you
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My ancient and huge mp3 collection is backed up on like 4 diff drives and one of those is not in my home. Losing it would suck a lot I have a LOT of rare stuff. 
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Picked up a VHS/DVD combo from the thrift store and for some reason the biggest nostalgia pang came from seeing this:
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Desert Bus posted:My ancient and huge mp3 collection is backed up on like 4 diff drives and one of those is not in my home. Losing it would suck a lot I have a LOT of rare stuff. I have my archive drive they live on, an external drive they're backed up to, a Linux fileserver they're backed up to, and 7 BD-Rs they're burned to thus far. Photos (mine and all members of my family that I can back up on a regular basis) live on the archive drive, the external backup, the Linux box, BD-Rs, Google Photos for some of them, and a second external hard drive that lives in a fireproof safe. What I have of my dad's scanned negatives from 1968-2001 has another backup on a 128gb thumb drive in the same safe. Yeah I'm a titch paranoid.
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KozmoNaut posted:I'll just slide in here and highly recommend MusicBrainz Picard for all your tagging and sorting needs. Here is where I find out I have been doing it so long that there is an automated system for it too
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I suppose my objection is that I stopped equating "rare" with "good" or "worth keeping" years ago. Maybe it's a rare live album ripped by one single person and only available by trade because, and get this, it's not that good or notable to begin with.
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otoh, I have 40tb free, and i pay the same amount of electricity if the storage is used or not. gimmie.
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insta posted:otoh, I have 40tb free, and i pay the same amount of electricity if the storage is used or not. gimmie. Thats the spirit!
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Pulled apart the keyboard on the Plus/4 and cleaned all the contacts in it with some contact cleaner and lube. It is now working perfectly, no need to press down hard on the keys for it to register a keystroke. The disassembling process was made annoying by old adhesive cushion rubber strips hiding the shift lock key mechanism that requires desoldering and one of the screws.
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rndmnmbr posted:*pats 4tb backup drive, unplugged in drawer across room* Lesson learned. The thing that took me longest was going through my giant pile of poo poo to get rid of stuff I won't listen to anymore, and migrate the keepers to new storage. Sifting through it manually got me back into stuff that I hadn't listened to in a long while and still enjoy. And then since I haven't listened to that artist in years, might as well see if they released new stuff and download that and put it into the "to listen" pile. I deleted probably half or more of the stuff I got through. Like you said, sometimes it's just some weird poo poo that caught your fancy for a bit but when you listen to it now... no thanks. That one goes in the trash. barbecue at the folks posted:I meant I have Spotify now and don't need those files anymore since most of that stuff is on some streaming service already, but, hey, you do you If it works for you, streaming music is the most convenient way. My other half has a subscription and they can listen to all the music they want, whenever they want, wherever they want, on any device, with no ads. That's livin' in the future! That's good poo poo! I used spotify for a while and finding out the song/album/artist you want is not on there happens pretty rarely even if you are a music weird. The thing that made me go back to local storage was when an album would be available, I would add it to my library or playlist, then later when I wanted to listen to it again the license lapsed or something and it was no longer available. You can still see it in your playlist, but it's greyed out and you can't listen to it. It rubs me the wrong way badly enough that I will go back to hoarding my poo poo by hand, even if it takes me so much more time. I like my music enough to waste all that time on it.
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WITCHCRAFT posted:poo poo sucks. Make redundant backups for everything, because sometimes lightning does strike twice. Around 2000 I lost maybe a hundred megabytes of crappy Napster music and a week's worth of work to a corrupted partition table and I was like never again. So glad hard drives are so big, and so small. The interim years of CD and DVD backups were unbelievably dumb, and I'm glad I never had more than 2 DVDs worth of personal data until the last 10 years or so. Even now I'd guess that my backup set is much smaller than most of the music junkies on here, everything digital that I care about still fits on a 4TB drive with room to spare. Dr. Quarex posted:I have been slowly turning my entire Demoscene collection into .MP3s for about 20 years and manually tagging them since unsurprisingly "uncopyrighted music written by random kids in Finland in 1991 and with no standardized recording playback standards" is never going to be auto-taggable. I find it a little irritating that there isn't a way I can just download the most-loved 30 gigabytes or so from modarchive.org or whatever. That music's been around long enough, surely there's a curated collection for the curious dabbler. edit: wait a second, they have a torrent thing, and the archive from 2007 back is about 30GB. Welp, here we go doctorfrog has a new favorite as of 07:12 on Dec 4, 2021 |
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doctorfrog posted:I find it a little irritating that there isn't a way I can just download the most-loved 30 gigabytes or so from modarchive.org or whatever. That music's been around long enough, surely there's a curated collection for the curious dabbler. *thinking back to fitting like 20 of my songs on a floppy disk*
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WITCHCRAFT posted:
You have to switch on the “greying out”. By default, the music just vanishes without trace. Drove me crazy until I figured that out. Now I have all the grey tracks in one playlist which I occasionally check to see if anything has lit up. Stuff doesn’t go grey nearly as often as it used to, but I know one day Spotify is going to have a massive row with one of the big labels and 40% of my music will go AWOL.
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Dr. Quarex posted:!!! drat, is that in a common format or the original files? I almost do not believe there are 30 gigabytes total of Demoscene tracks in their original formats so I assume it has to be the former but still https://modarchive.org/index.php?faq-torrents-current original files. And that's just a small cobbled together archive of stuff. The next "addendum" torrents are much, much bigger, but their tracker keeps going down so I can't see how much. 30 GB is enough for me for now though.
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