Red Mosquito

I know guys, im just kidding.

Though i just haven't had a desire to torrent music anymore since I have gotten on the stream train. Music I listen to at home is generally records, and the rest is while driving/at work/exercising so i can't tell the difference at 320 anyway.

ridleybradout wrote:The saddest thing is what.cd was the only dependable source for literally thousands of out-of-print albums, compilations, cd singles etc., not to mention 'the' place for sharing vinyl rips and unknown artists' own music.

What was the source of most tracks from the Sleater-Kinney B-Sides & Rarities compilation I made, among others.

Hopefully the whack-a-mole principle will apply here

Sorry for bottom paging bro.

Also, I was terrible at keeping my ratios up

Strat wrote:

ridleybradout wrote:The saddest thing is what.cd was the only dependable source for literally thousands of out-of-print albums, compilations, cd singles etc., not to mention 'the' place for sharing vinyl rips and unknown artists' own music.

What was the source of most tracks from the Sleater-Kinney B-Sides & Rarities compilation I made, among others.

Hopefully the whack-a-mole principle will apply here

Sorry for bottom paging bro.

Also, I was terrible at keeping my ratios up

I had something like a 1.5TB cushion that I never used.

Simple Torture wrote:

Strat wrote:

ridleybradout wrote:The saddest thing is what.cd was the only dependable source for literally thousands of out-of-print albums, compilations, cd singles etc., not to mention 'the' place for sharing vinyl rips and unknown artists' own music.

What was the source of most tracks from the Sleater-Kinney B-Sides & Rarities compilation I made, among others.

Hopefully the whack-a-mole principle will apply here

Sorry for bottom paging bro.

Also, I was terrible at keeping my ratios up

I had something like a 1.5TB cushion that I never used.

Woah. I had a 1.5GB cushion which I was well chuffed with.

Thanks for top-paging me Strat - what a thoughful gentleman

I'm sure there will be a few other trackers that pop up soon, and I'm on enough non-music trackers to get into them. But it's going to take like a year for a new site to rise above the crop and then yeeeeeeeears for one to get up to even a small fraction of What's complexity and breadth. People are like, "Well, What came up 4 days after Oink went down!" That was still in the early, early days of private trackers, though, and I feel like it's going to take forever to bring the best What users back into the fold at a new site.

Pay for music you losers. You are part of the problem and partially to blame for Trump being elected

Spoiler: show

Fuck you chud

Meh, streaming sites are robbing musicians too.

Thats some pretty backasswards thinking.

Im just messing though

As ridley pointed out, there was tons of long out-of-print stuff available in FLAC on What that isn't available to buy anywhere, even if you wanted to.

Huge swathes of recorded music history isn't available on streaming services. I can't see myself ever going down that road.

I absolutely see the beauty of stealing/torrenting. I get it, guys.

I know. I understand the complaint. And I don't try to bullshit around the issue and lie to myself. I steal music, I've just made peace with it.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I know. I understand the complaint. And I don't try to bullshit around the issue and lie to myself. I steal music, I've just made peace with it.

I paid for a digital paper subscription for my hometown MPLS

Strat wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I know. I understand the complaint. And I don't try to bullshit around the issue and lie to myself. I steal music, I've just made peace with it.

I paid for a digital paper subscription for my hometown MPLS

I'm proud of you. I really am.

I also pay for music all the time too.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Strat wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I know. I understand the complaint. And I don't try to bullshit around the issue and lie to myself. I steal music, I've just made peace with it.

I paid for a digital paper subscription for my hometown MPLS

I'm proud of you. I really am.

I also pay for music all the time too.

is it strange that i felt a huge sense of guilt after the election? Whatever.


back to the topic at hand, i could never figure out how to keep my ratio up. And once my classic IPOD was stolen i lost all interest in it. I can't put all the music i want to have on my phone so streaming is really tickling my fancy lately. 99% of the time It has everything I want. Also, i have figured out how to input music from my hard drive (that isn't on spotify) onto Spotify playlists . Which has been a game changer. I had a bunch of neil, prince, live pearl jam, etc. that i could play through spotify

Strat wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Strat wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I know. I understand the complaint. And I don't try to bullshit around the issue and lie to myself. I steal music, I've just made peace with it.

I paid for a digital paper subscription for my hometown MPLS

I'm proud of you. I really am.

I also pay for music all the time too.

is it strange that i felt a huge sense of guilt after the election? Whatever.


back to the topic at hand, i could never figure out how to keep my ratio up. And once my classic IPOD was stolen i lost all interest in it. I can't put all the music i want to have on my phone so streaming is really tickling my fancy lately. 99% of the time It has everything I want. Also, i have figured out how to input music from my hard drive (that isn't on spotify) onto Spotify playlists . Which has been a game changer. I had a bunch of neil, prince, live pearl jam, etc. that i could play through spotify

For the longest time I could upload and get a good ration on waffles but not on what. It turned out I was using a version of UTorrent that wasn't on what's approved client list. Once I upgraded to the correct version everything worked fine.

It's a downer, Gonna do a J.

But, something will pop up, it always does.

Kevin Davis wrote:I have 1,538 CD's

Up to 1,546 now

Yeah, the saddest part about this is the loss of the single best and most complete music library on the planet. I said before (to much scoffing) that I would have gladly paid $50 a month for my What.cd subscription, and that stands. I've recently been noticing time and again how shitty most music streams sound, and that just sucks balls.

And I'm onboard with this too:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I know. I understand the complaint. And I don't try to bullshit around the issue and lie to myself. I steal music, I've just made peace with it.

I'm gonna join Lowlight on this one I think.

What was such a part of my "Sit down in front of my computer and waste time" routine that I've already clicked it like 15 times last night and this morning.

Simple Torture wrote:What was such a part of my "Sit down in front of my computer and waste time" routine that I've already clicked it like 15 times last night and this morning.

Me too, soo depressing...