VIPMusic may be shutting down?

[Bo0ddha]

So the owner of VIP is MIA and they might be shutting down. Going to remake on a new server? Where is everyone going to go for music now?

[th0r]

OiNK?

[Defy]

I've got my electronic music more than covered... and I use SoulSeek for pretty much every else. I can get it for free and don't have to worry about the Nazi Pig. :fist:

[0Ri0N]

another nice alternative: softmp3

[Bo0ddha]

OiNK?

I wish. No account and can never find an invite =/ Will check out softmp3 I guess.

[th0r]

Ask your A-L buddies, I received a revolt invite from them once. Give them a chance.

[ashcroftg]

Yeah agree

[Grind$oFine]

I love the Nazi Pig<3
I do I do I dooo.
OiNK has been so good to me.

[ADELA]

vip has been on the decline for a while now. i spoke once to an admin there for a while and he told me that they were having a issue with there coder and ask me if i knew how to code. dead giveaway to a trackers closing.

[PirateEagle]

STmusic is good + it is open signup so there is a altenative for ViPMUSIC :)

[Bo0ddha]

Hows pedros?

[PirateEagle]

Hows pedros?
i heard that is a good tracker they mostly have in flac format but it is hard to get an invitation in there

[Koeckebacker]

Hows pedros?
i heard that is a good tracker they mostly have in flac format but it is hard to get an invitation in there
The tracker is decent.
The staff is.. well.. :fist: not so decent, imo.

[th0r]

dead giveaway to a trackers closing.

I hope this doesn't happen, VIPmusic is an awesome tracker.

[kaffeine]

I hope this doesn't happen, VIPmusic is an awesome tracker.
+1. love it and don't want to see it go away :(

[Grind$oFine]

I'd say softmp3 and STMusic are a lot like VIPMusic,
even SCC gets a lot of the same stuff,
I mean they're all pretty much scene 0day music releases, aren't they?

[th0r]

Essentially yes, but VIPmusic has some huge (0day) discographies and music DVD-Rs.

[Bo0ddha]

Love the discographies at VIPMusic.

[ADELA]

http://tracker.vipmusic.org/pic/new.png 2007-09-27 - Developer MIA - Comments (http://tracker.vipmusic.org/forums_viewtopic.php?topicid=1565)
Due to the fact that one of our developers has gone missing (we fear the worst), VIPmusic might suspend its operations.


The situation:
nuerher is the admin we are talking about. Last year he had an incident with some armenian gang and was sent to a hospital. Luckily he recovered.
For now, it's not typical for him to be missing from site issues for so long so we can only assume that something bad happened again.
He is the one who has complete access to the server based on certain IP range therefore other admins can't do much about it. We can pay bills but it wouldn't make sense to do so because we don't have root access (even if the site is running very smoothly - 13:23:29 up 110 days, 7:29, 0 users, load average: 0.49, 0.64, 0.63). Although paying bills might be a possibility.
Any suggestions are welcome.

im sure there will be alot of people using up there buffers. i know i am!

hopefull the admin isnt sleeping with the fishes

[JazzyJeff]

OiNK?

I wish. No account and can never find an invite =/ Will check out softmp3 I guess.

If you want oink invite, pm your email!

[zxcv]

The problem it's that and seems like nobody have a way to be in touch with admin and the worst thing it's that he is the man who pay bills every month and they have to pay next bill in a week or something.

Umm Vipmusic has a great design, great uploads (sometimes), good speed, varity... a great tracker in my opinion so it would be a big lost.

But hopefully I preffer other trackers.

[DTD8]

hopefully he makes a return soon hate to see the site go down

[Ivanov]

another nice alternative: softmp3
softmp3 completely cover my music needs.
VIPMusic has so many releases of artists that I never heard :blink:

[GoLDeN]

shit i just signed in

[smirnoff]

I love the Nazi Pig<3
I do I do I dooo.
OiNK has been so good to me.
why Nazi?