What.cd account disabled

[ukgenius]

Hi I was kindly invited to What.cd by a member of this forum. I received the invite earlier today. I then activated the account. A few hours later I tried to log into the account but I couldn't and was given this message

"Your account has been disabled.
This is either due to inactivity or rule violation."

I doubt it is due to inactivity as i had only been a member for a few hours and I did not do anything at all in the account: did not download anything or upload anything or do anything in the forum. Nothing. I can't work out what happened. Is there anything I can do?

[NPAX1]

You could try going to their irc network.

[ukgenius]

OK thanks for the advice. How do I do that?

[NPAX1]

use an irc client, i.e. mirc if you're on windows, or xchat if linux or w/e.

you'll have to connect to irc.what.cd and join the channel #what.cd-disabled

[ukgenius]

Thanks. I have never used IRC before and have downloaded both XChat and mirc. I can't understand how to use them so could you explain it to me please?

Ok I worked it out. The invite was given as part of a giveaway. Is that breaking any of the what.cd rules?

[killercam101]

find out if the person who invited you is also banned if so..there's no chance of getting your account back

[robotpirate]

Ok I worked it out. The invite was given as part of a giveaway. Is that breaking any of the what.cd rules?

yep.

[kareemamir]

make sure you now about music transcoding. what.cd like their users to upload music, and not just leech!

[ukgenius]

I spoke to Stewy on their IRC and he seemed reasonable and gave me my account back but disabled my invites, just like the person who gave me the invite

Well I don't know what transcoding means. I will upload music though, I will just find out about it when it comes to uploading the music.

[NPAX1]

In a most basic definition, transcoding is encoding one music format to another. For example, encoding a OGG file to an MP3. However, some transcodes are not allowed. For example, encoding a MP3 file (lossy codec) to a FLAC (loseless codec) is not allowed.

Basically what you want to do is watch what you upload. There are some tools out there to verify if a given file is a transcode or not. If you're on What.Cd they have helpful guides that will go further into detail than I ever could :P

[ukgenius]

Thanks for the explanation NPAX1. When I upload some of my music there I intend to upload each cd in several formats: probably FLAC, 320 kbp/s, v1 and v2. That way more people are likely to download it:)

[1000possibleclaws]

jheavy upload in v0 if you want snatches

[ukgenius]

Oh yeah I meant to include that

[robotpirate]

check the tutorial forum section for more on transcoding and other stuff.

search before upping so you won't up a dupe.

and as for v0, v0's usually get the most snatches, but v2, 320 also get snatches. don't bother upping v1s.

[ukgenius]

Yep I will definitely look at the turorials part. And I think it is worth uploading FLAC music as well as although it will not get nearly as many snatches, when it does get snatched I will be able to upload about 4 times as much!

[TP635]

jheavey;
Lucky you. i never get my account back. The invite tree that I was part of got the boot because of a giveaway.

[Shoveler]

It sounds like you got some resolution....congrats.

I have had trouble getting support there in the past. I have lost significant upload (i.e., my torrent client tells me that I uploaded several GB more than is registering on What), but I was not able to get any response from the mods or admins at all. I suppose that they are used to scammers, but my issue was very real.

[fatcat69]

/me thinks close topic?