Only need one music site. Which one?

[megabyteme]

Thanks, Benjamin. None of my accounts (anywhere) have less than 1:1. If I need to figure out some "tricks' then I will. My wife will certainly love What! She keeps CD lists in her head and approaches me with them when I seem amicable to grabbing stuff for her...

I notice they start us out with 500MB also.

[The_Martinator]

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.

Forgot about that.

[Hoosierdaddy]

Well, I can't comment on What.CD as I was perma banned from there even though I did absolutely NOTHING...literally. I downloaded a couple of things, tried my best to maintain a good ratio (it was MUCH more difficult then) and got kicked. Go figure. Never been on Waffles as I've never been invited.

However, there is one site I can heartily recommend.

torrents.ru

Tons of music. All genres. MP3 and Lossless. Ratio easy to maintain.

The downside?

1. It's a Russian site, so the language barrier means little to no community interaction.

2. You'll have a hard time restraining yourself from serial downloading cuz there's so much great music to choose from. :-)

[anon]

The downside?

1. It's a Russian site, so the language barrier means little to no community interaction.

2. You'll have a hard time restraining yourself from serial downloading cuz there's so much great music to choose from. :-)

3. You can only register from 8 to 10am Moscow time.

[megabyteme]

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread. I now have access to more music than I EVER thought would be available. I joined both What and Waffles. I even donated to both of them this morning. If I remember correctly, I won't get pruned (on at least one of them) for doing so. Anyway, they impressed me with their sheer enormity. Not unlike some blind dates I had...*rimshot*

I seed all the time and know how to control myself with torrents. Seeding seems a bit easier than on bitme(tv) and I still managed to build a comfortable buffer on those.

Thanks again! I may have to become a music fan now.

[Swift]

use beatport and limewire

[1000possibleclaws]

Just use Soulseek. What and waffles are unnecessary and gonna be more work than they are worth, unless you are an audiophile. Torrents are not the answer for everything..

If you want to seed tons of small files for months than it is your answer.

[OlegL]

I now have access to more music than I EVER thought would be available. I joined both What and Waffles.

People say that both what and waffles are still inferior to oink.cd - R.I.P. I was never a member of oink myself. But I am sure those were golden times.

[Rart]

One thing I had tried that seemed to work decently, that wasn't too slow -

Look at the top 10 torrents by activity leaderboard on what.

Choose a couple at random, than partially seed one mp3 in the album.

Do this once every couple of days (so the daily leader boards have a chance to change), until you have built up a decent amount of torrents, and pretty much just wait and seed.

I think the most important thing on music sites like this is, rather than trying to get a couple popular torrents to buffer with, the files you're seeding really need to be spread out. To get any decent amount of upload, you really need to have dozens of torrents, at the least, seeding at once for when someone decides to randomly snatch an album. And then you play the waiting game...

In a week or two I managed to get around a ~9GB buffer on my account, more than plenty considering I DL music once in a blue moon. Hope this helps.

Then again, as many others said, if you really aren't willing to jump through so many hoops just to maintain a ratio (and I most certainly have second thoughts as to whether this effort was really worth it), you may just be better off with RS, SlSk, torrents.ru, Demonoid, etc.

[cinephilia]

Just use Soulseek.

best advice so far in this thread. slsk has tons of music and rare stuff and you don't have to seed back or maintain any ratio.

@megabyteme: let's be honest, i really don't get your approach... you're not that much into music and your wife has only "standard" music tastes and needs, so why on earth would you register on both waffles and what.cd?