Only need one music site. Which one?

[megabyteme]

MBM, I'd suggest you join what.cd.
It has way more torrents that waffles and has a better community and staff who go out of their way to help people.
Its layout, rules (after the proposed revision of ratio rules)and presence of unique content.. will certainly make it the most user friendly music site on the interwebz.
lmk if ya want more info and would like to check it out.

Thanks for your help, NOObzOr! I found those stats (from your second ponst very interesting). I received another what.cd offer from another friend, so I will be checking that one out soon.

Since I made the waffles request through the rep, I will be able to take a peek at that site, as well.

It seems there is no perfect answer. Luckily I have a lot of generous, good, and helpful friends around me.

Thanks and Happy New Years, guys!

[redMonster]

What.cd has changed their ratio rules (I'm not sure as I was a member before the switch) but from what I hear as long as you leave your torrents seeding you can dl w.e you want.

The new ratio rules are just plans right now. They haven't been implemented yet.

@OP, Though it depends on the type of music you are looking for, but as Funkin mentioned earlier, music sites like what.cd and waffles.fm are quite tough to maintain ratio at. You need to devote time to be able to download from there without worrying about ratios and such. Demonoid used to be quite good at classical music from what I have read many times, though I am not sure what the position is, after they came back from downtime.

[Benjamin]

MBM, I'd suggest you join what.cd.
It has way more torrents that waffles and has a better community and staff who go out of their way to help people.
Its layout, rules (after the proposed revision of ratio rules)and presence of unique content.. will certainly make it the most user friendly music site on the interwebz.
lmk if ya want more info and would like to check it out.

The what.cd tracker is definitely superior to waffles, but you are delusional if you think what.cd has a better staff.

[IdolEyes787]

just bypass torrents and search for rapidshare/megaupload links

I suggest the same. MGM, What and Waffles are too much of a hassle because of the difficulty of raising your ratio. Especially starting out from 0.

I would first start with the warez forums(Avaxhome, Funkysouls, and Warez-BB are three of the best for music). You of course need a premium RS account. But they're cheap. And best of all, no seeding back. Then for trackers, you can just use torrents.ru and Demonoid. And...you can even use Soulseek. A very underrated and very under appreciated way of getting music.

If for some reason these methods don't suit you after using them for a while, then try What/Waffles. Unless you're uploading your own music or comics on these two trackers, it's kind of pain to maintain a good ratio.

MBM, I'd suggest you join what.cd.
It has way more torrents that waffles and has a better community and staff who go out of their way to help people.
Its layout, rules (after the proposed revision of ratio rules)and presence of unique content.. will certainly make it the most user friendly music site on the interwebz.
lmk if ya want more info and would like to check it out.

Thanks for your help, NOObzOr! I found those stats (from your second ponst very interesting). I received another what.cd offer from another friend, so I will be checking that one out soon.

Since I made the waffles request through the rep, I will be able to take a peek at that site, as well.

It seems there is no perfect answer. Luckily I have a lot of generous, good, and helpful friends around me.

Thanks and Happy New Years, guys!

For someone who's not even sure about being on a music site you seem to be putting a lot on your plate.

Unless you plan to upload or make torrenting more of a job than it already is , then either do what was wisely suggested by people far more experienced than yourself when it comes to music trackers or stick with one and don't fall into the trap of stretching yourself any thinner than you already have .

Btw Waffles may not have everything listed that What does but I'm fairly certain if you don't see something and make a request ........

[The_Martinator]

IdolEyes has a point. However, What.cd has staff picks atm and if you DL a couple of those (like I suggested here already Sam Cooke FTW) and seed them for whole days, you're likely tobuild a nice buffer (especially if you have a good connection).

Also, I don't know what kind of music the wife likes. If it's all new stuff, then a music tracker is not necessary, IMO.

[megabyteme]

I have not signed up to either yet. Is really that hard to seed back. Don't the normal "tricks" work for building a ratio?

Actually, I will start with What and not register for Waffles until I have gotten the hang of it...

A case in point why I should have at least one dedicated music tracker- my wife asked for a 6 month old cuntry CD last night and I went through all of my trackers to find it. The only place that still had it alive was RevTT. I would like my wife to have greater access to music. I know she enjoys it, but does not listen to it at home- probably because some of it annoys me.

[brightsid]

It's not that hard at least What where I invited a rl friend 2 weeks ago. He hust uses his home line and had no problem at all although he is new in torrents. A lot of staff picks and other FL torrents he managed to have a 15GB buffer in 2 weeks. The problem is that now I have to teach him how to rip his own cd and upload torrents but that's offtopic

So I don't think that you'll have any kind of problem MBM. Stay away from Rosseta Stone pack at least at the beginning. If you need anything just let me know

[The_Martinator]

Lol. 6 year old music prolly won't be on most 0day trackers. You could also try to request it on FSC, though.

Seeding might prove to be a task. I'll just say this: I had a 25 gigs buffer at What (seedbox built). Since then I DLed 6-7 gigs and now it's down to 20 gigs. I still seed everything I have ever DLed from there. Also as you know I'm on quite a few trackers so my downloading spreads out.

Again, IDK how much music you'll be downloading. If it's an album per month or two, you should still be OK, imo. Really depends on the popularity of the albums, though...

[megabyteme]

Thanks, brightsid. That's reassuring. I've got the technical know-how already, if that is one of the requirements. Change that to, I thought I had the technical know-how. Music seems to be pretty serious stuff. And, a 15GB buffer is A LOT of music for me.

I'm looking forward to trying What (and perhaps Waffles later) since I have heard about them so many times, but never considered joining. New stuff is ALWAYS cool...

Edit- Thanks, martin. We posted at the same time.

Edit2- took my first look at What... Quite impressive! Wow, in fact...

[Benjamin]

It's not hard to seed at all man, what.cd lets you download 5gb of music without worrying about your ratio, after that you'll have to keep up a .15 ratio up to 10gb ... it's really not that bad. Find a site that tells you when new albums are going to release, I use hitsdailydouble.com, jump on those new releases and you'll gain some upload even on a slow connection.