What? Waffles? The BitTorrent thread

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

I've also gotten
The beetles - help, abbey road, white album, let it be, magical mystery tour, sgt peppers, revolver, rubber soul(thought i had everything on my ipod but i guess not)
Bad religion - true north
Soundgarden - king animal
Swans - the seer
Trampled by turtles - stars and satellites
Yo la tengo - prisoners of love
Divine fits - a thing called devine fits
Japandroids - celebration rock
Imagine dragons - night visions
Jim James - regions of light and sound
Nine inch nails - broken, the fragile, downward spiral, pretty hate machine
Cloud cult - feel good ghosts
Cloud cult - light chases

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Still have 11 tokens to use, damn it can be hard to come up with 80 or so albums to download in a month

[psychobain]

nin - with teeth

[lowlight79]

Guys, I got like 60 tokens, please tell me some shit I should download.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Guys, I got like 60 tokens, please tell me some shit I should download.

Have you already gotten most of the stuff mentioned in here?

[Simple Torture]

Guys, I got like 60 tokens, please tell me some shit I should download.

Have you ever heard of Jason Molina?

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Guys, I got like 60 tokens, please tell me some shit I should download.

Have you ever heard of Jason Molina?

I have been wondering about him also, haven't gotten anything yet. What is he like?

[Norah]

Isn't he a catcher?

[Simple Torture]

There's a two-page Molina thread on the second page of Other Bands. If you want to use 5 or 6 tokens, try:

Jason Molina - Pyramid Electric Co.
Songs: Ohia - Didn't It Rain
Songs: Ohia - The Lioness
Magnolia Electric Co. (listed as a Songs: Ohia album)
Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails

[conoalias]

Still have 11 tokens to use, damn it can be hard to come up with 80 or so albums to download in a month

I have the opposite problem.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Still have 11 tokens to use, damn it can be hard to come up with 80 or so albums to download in a month

I have the opposite problem.

So its easy for you to download 80 a month do you end up with ratio issues?

And speaking of ratio, i looked at my invite tree the other day(its only 1 person currently) and noticed that they probably aren't far from getting into ratio trouble, I've sent them a message to tell them how to fix it, and it looks like they aren't doing it, so Im wondering if its something i can get kicked off for if they get kicked for ratio issues?

[lowlight79]

Guys, I got like 60 tokens, please tell me some shit I should download.

Have you already gotten most of the stuff mentioned in here?

Yes, I had 122 tokens, I need to get rid of the rest.

[conoalias]

Still have 11 tokens to use, damn it can be hard to come up with 80 or so albums to download in a month

I have the opposite problem.

So its easy for you to download 80 a month do you end up with ratio issues?

And speaking of ratio, i looked at my invite tree the other day(its only 1 person currently) and noticed that they probably aren't far from getting into ratio trouble, I've sent them a message to tell them how to fix it, and it looks like they aren't doing it, so Im wondering if its something i can get kicked off for if they get kicked for ratio issues?

I don't really download from What.cd anymore. It's not a ratio issue as it is high enough, it's just that I feel bad deleting stuff that have few seeders so I end up with a ton of useless shit on my computer and space is becoming a problem. So I mostly get my music from blogs these days, it's rare that I can't find what I want.

And I don't think you can get in trouble if your invitees are disabled due to low ratio, there's nothing about this in the rules at least. It's only if they cheat or sell invites that they could be banned and you as well. Almost all of those I invited have been disabled and I never had any issue with it.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Still have 11 tokens to use, damn it can be hard to come up with 80 or so albums to download in a month

I have the opposite problem.

So its easy for you to download 80 a month do you end up with ratio issues?

And speaking of ratio, i looked at my invite tree the other day(its only 1 person currently) and noticed that they probably aren't far from getting into ratio trouble, I've sent them a message to tell them how to fix it, and it looks like they aren't doing it, so Im wondering if its something i can get kicked off for if they get kicked for ratio issues?

I don't really download from What.cd anymore. It's not a ratio issue as it is high enough, it's just that I feel bad deleting stuff that have few seeders so I end up with a ton of useless shit on my computer and space is becoming a problem. So I mostly get my music from blogs these days, it's rare that I can't find what I want.

And I don't think you can get in trouble if your invitees are disabled due to low ratio, there's nothing about this in the rules at least. It's only if they cheat or sell invites that they could be banned and you as well. Almost all of those I invited have been disabled and I never had any issue with it.

Thanks Cono, that makes me feel a bit better, i don't even think they are taking advantage of the freeleach like i told them to, so Im sure somewhere in the next year or so they will get kicked off, but ill quit looking at their stuff and worrying

[southp]

As a newbie to What, can someone explain why no one is leeching my torrents even though I keep them open forever?
Basically I see Peers but they don't download from me... I don't have this problem on any other trackers (public or private).
Any solution to this?

[conoalias]

As a newbie to What, can someone explain why no one is leeching my torrents even though I keep them open forever?
Basically I see Peers but they don't download from me... I don't have this problem on any other trackers (public or private).
Any solution to this?

Are you connectable?
https://ssl.what.cd/wiki.php?action=article&id=108

[Simple Torture]

As a newbie to What, can someone explain why no one is leeching my torrents even though I keep them open forever?
Basically I see Peers but they don't download from me... I don't have this problem on any other trackers (public or private).
Any solution to this?

By just looking at what you've snatched, I think the answer is simply that there are too many seeders in the swarm. Much more than on most ratio-less trackers, you're gonna have tons of users on What using seedboxes that get upload speeds that are much faster than what people can get in their homes, and those people are going to gobble up most of the upload. I have one of the fastest residential services around, but still, if I'm on a torrent that has 223 or 468 seeders (like some you have) that isn't either freeleech or a new release (meaning it'd have dozens of snatches a day), I would expect it to take months of constant seeding to read a 1.00 ratio. So yeah, tl;dr version: with so many seeders, it's hard to get lots of upload credit for stuff you've downloaded.

The absolute best way to gain upload on What is to upload your own torrents. Unless it's a WEB release, that means you'll get 1.00 every time, no matter what (and usually much higher unless it's a very popular release). Search requests to see if anything you have is there, but also go to better.php and see if there's anything you have that could fill in some gaps. Also, since you're a vinyl guy, you may want to look into doing 24bit lossless rips.

Oh, and also, as cono says, make sure you're connectable.

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

As a newbie to What, can someone explain why no one is leeching my torrents even though I keep them open forever?
Basically I see Peers but they don't download from me... I don't have this problem on any other trackers (public or private).
Any solution to this?

By just looking at what you've snatched, I think the answer is simply that there are too many seeders in the swarm. Much more than on most ratio-less trackers, you're gonna have tons of users on What using seedboxes that get upload speeds that are much faster than what people can get in their homes, and those people are going to gobble up most of the upload. I have one of the fastest residential services around, but still, if I'm on a torrent that has 223 or 468 seeders (like some you have) that isn't either freeleech or a new release (meaning it'd have dozens of snatches a day), I would expect it to take months of constant seeding to read a 1.00 ratio. So yeah, tl;dr version: with so many seeders, it's hard to get lots of upload credit for stuff you've downloaded.

The absolute best way to gain upload on What is to upload your own torrents. Unless it's a WEB release, that means you'll get 1.00 every time, no matter what (and usually much higher unless it's a very popular release). Search requests to see if anything you have is there, but also go to better.php and see if there's anything you have that could fill in some gaps. Also, since you're a vinyl guy, you may want to look into doing 24bit lossless rips.

Oh, and also, as cono says, make sure you're connectable.

ive never uploaded anything myself because it seems like everything i have is already on there, but ive got about a .84 ratio with 50 gigs downloaded, and usually i will just go through downloading sprees and then try to keep the computer up for a week or 2 at a time to try and get my ratio back, but then Freeleach is always my friend, either to get me stuff that isnt gonna be in much demand so i dont kill my ratio with something that wont build it back up, or like now im getting a lot of newer stuff and just adding to what i have available to seed. its slow going on What, but you will eventually build it up, and with mine, lots of times i dont ever see anything actually being uploaded from my available stuff, but my upload numbers still go up.

[washing machine]

I think I'd drive myself crazy with improper seeding paranoia and technical ineptitude if I ever signed up for a torrent site.

[super nintendo chalmers]

As a newbie to What, can someone explain why no one is leeching my torrents even though I keep them open forever?
Basically I see Peers but they don't download from me... I don't have this problem on any other trackers (public or private).
Any solution to this?

By just looking at what you've snatched, I think the answer is simply that there are too many seeders in the swarm. Much more than on most ratio-less trackers, you're gonna have tons of users on What using seedboxes that get upload speeds that are much faster than what people can get in their homes, and those people are going to gobble up most of the upload. I have one of the fastest residential services around, but still, if I'm on a torrent that has 223 or 468 seeders (like some you have) that isn't either freeleech or a new release (meaning it'd have dozens of snatches a day), I would expect it to take months of constant seeding to read a 1.00 ratio. So yeah, tl;dr version: with so many seeders, it's hard to get lots of upload credit for stuff you've downloaded.

The absolute best way to gain upload on What is to upload your own torrents. Unless it's a WEB release, that means you'll get 1.00 every time, no matter what (and usually much higher unless it's a very popular release). Search requests to see if anything you have is there, but also go to better.php and see if there's anything you have that could fill in some gaps. Also, since you're a vinyl guy, you may want to look into doing 24bit lossless rips.

Oh, and also, as cono says, make sure you're connectable.

How do you make sure you are connectable?