EPTanyone knows how to easily get an account?
or can anyone send me an invite (are they allowing invites right now?)
WHAT.CD ? musical torrents
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intrudor
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anyone knows how to easily get an account? or can anyone send me an invite (are they allowing invites right now?) | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
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FragKrag
United States11567 Posts
If you don't want to make the effort to get in, then I guess they don't want you there :p CSheep is wrong! They just updated their ratio system, and it isn't as hard to maintain a surviving ratio as people make it out to be. I'm sitting at .23 while my required ratio is 0.19. It's not hard to keep an account alive, but to become a power user or something there is definitely effort required. | ||
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intrudor
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FragKrag
United States11567 Posts
That's what is good about what.cd | ||
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intrudor
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FragKrag
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21247 Posts
On January 04 2010 13:47 FragKrag wrote: They have just about every release possible Not really. Woefully incomplete classical music ;\ | ||
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FragKrag
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beefhamburger
United States3962 Posts
As far as I know, there aren't any invites that get you in instantaneously. Seeding is amazing and I would be surprised if you could not find what you are looking for. And if by some chance you can't, you can always request and sometimes/usually someone will be able to upload it. In short, it is well worth it if you can get in but don't just be a leecher. Actively seed 24/7 (which isn't very difficult) and you should be fine. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21247 Posts
On January 04 2010 13:54 FragKrag wrote: CSheep go milk a lztr invite off a friend or something I had lztr, and found it also to be sadly lacking. Apparently they consider film music to be classical >_> Then my account got disabled from inactivity. Rage lol. I'll see if I can get reactivated at some point. I just use like...random sites + DC for classical now. I mean, what.cd is still good, and it has the added bonus of being a private site so you probably won't get RIAA owned for anything. It's just really hard to get in + kind of a pain to maintain a ratio on a site where almost no one downloads. | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
On January 04 2010 13:51 FragKrag wrote: no Thanks  | ||
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Spinfusor
Australia410 Posts
On January 04 2010 14:02 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I just use like...random sites + DC for classical now. I mean, what.cd is still good, and it has the added bonus of being a private site so you probably won't get RIAA owned for anything. It's just really hard to get in + kind of a pain to maintain a ratio on a site where almost no one downloads. Can't you get plenty of pirate classical in China? Last time I went to Shanghai I bought home some 300+ CD's/DVD's. Lots of OOP stuff too. | ||
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RebirthOfLeGenD
USA5860 Posts
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h8m
United States12 Posts
In relation to your blog post, I don't think you will get in judging by what you said about the interview. Even if you were to miraculously get in, I don't really think you would be a good user. What is not for everyone, and that's putting it lightly. | ||
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esla_sol
United States756 Posts
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
edit: Wow, I googled it. What an elitist thing to do, but I guess they justify it for the sake of quality and the survival of the community. | ||
CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11601 Posts
I would fail instantly if I had to know all of that. | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On January 04 2010 14:50 CaucasianAsian wrote: http://www.whatinterviewprep.com/howtojoin.html I would fail instantly if I had to know all of that. And it's completely Bureaucratic as people like me can get in solely by being invited. While, people with no connections have to go through all that trouble. | ||
micronesia
United States24796 Posts
People complain too much. | ||
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FragKrag
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micronesia
United States24796 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:06 FragKrag wrote: not everybody has fios How hard is it to upload music files? They are small compared to movies. Do you seriously download hundreds of gigs of music? Oh wait I forgot people are picky and need flacs with petabit quality. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11567 Posts
you got the wrong guy here micronesia. Uploading at 30 kb/s is a sad thing I only DL v0/v2 :D | ||
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CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11601 Posts
also how do you find music that's not already on WHAT? I'm not bout to go to BestBuy to purchase a CD to rip it on upload it. | ||
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
On January 04 2010 13:44 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: You'll just die if you get in anyways, since getting a decent upload on what.cd is ridiculously difficult considering how all they do on there is hoard uploads and no one ever DL's anything for fear of their ratio taking a hit lol. My account: Joined: 1 year, 2 months ago Last Seen: 3 mins ago Uploaded: 71.77 GB Downloaded: 42.46 GB Ratio: 1.69 Required ratio: 0.28 you're wrong. | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:17 zulu_nation8 wrote: need to jump on the freeleeches this is important On January 04 2010 15:02 micronesia wrote: Ratio: 42.70 People complain too much. How much have you exactly downloaded and uploaded? I'm a bit curious you can maintain a ratio that high. I am assuming you downloaded very little? :o and @OP: I can send you an invite soon, I get one once a month but I've used mine all up ^_^;; | ||
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Katkishka
United States659 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:14 CaucasianAsian wrote: what the hell are you downloading? I need a better ratio also how do you find music that's not already on WHAT? I'm not bout to go to BestBuy to purchase a CD to rip it on upload it. My only source of upload has been from my obscure album collection. I searched through my mommy's entire music collection (200+ albums easily) and couldn't find 1 thing that wasn't uploaded already. I've had no trouble uploading most of my album collection, but part of the reason for that is most of them are either; A) not available for download anywhere B) incredibly hard to find so you can download them I only upload music that I own anyway, for quality assurance. ^_^ So I guess you're mostly outta luck. + Show Spoiler + This is prolly against the rules, but since I barely use what.cd I can rip some albums that I haven't uploaded yet in flac and send them to you so you may upload them yourself if you want  | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:17 Amnesia wrote: this is important How much have you exactly downloaded and uploaded? I'm a bit curious you can maintain a ratio that high. I am assuming you downloaded very little? :o and @OP: I can send you an invite soon, I get one once a month but I've used mine all up ^_^;; How Soon ?  in related news, i just failed the 2nd part of the interview (but that allowed me to research all questions) so in 48 hours (they put a delay) i'll be able to go through the first 2 parts. How many parts is there in total? | ||
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
I don't know about the interview process, someone I know invited me. | ||
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Katkishka
United States659 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:27 intrudor wrote: How Soon ? in related news, i just failed the 2nd part of the interview (but that allowed me to research all questions) so in 48 hours (they put a delay) i'll be able to go through the first 2 parts. How many parts is there in total? I forget how many parts there are, but just a little heads-up; if you get an interviewer they'll probably ask you different questions. If you're not confident about completing it, try dodging until the one that first interviewed you is active and see if you can get another one with him/her | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21247 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:16 Amnesia wrote: My account: Joined: 1 year, 2 months ago Last Seen: 3 mins ago Uploaded: 71.77 GB Downloaded: 42.46 GB Ratio: 1.69 Required ratio: 0.28 you're wrong. Obviously it's an exaggeration, but the people I described do constitute a decent portion of the site. On January 04 2010 14:14 Spinfusor wrote: Can't you get plenty of pirate classical in China? Last time I went to Shanghai I bought home some 300+ CD's/DVD's. Lots of OOP stuff too. I don't actually live in China right now. I tried uploading classical torrents to what.cd before, they just got deleted for inactivity since it seems no one on what.cd really cares lol ;O | ||
intrigue
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~_~
Canada239 Posts
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Katkishka
United States659 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:41 ~_~ wrote: what is the appeal of a site like this over using google to search for mediafire/megaupload files Quality. Rare albums that are difficult to find. And plenty more I'm sure. But those are just my top 2. Plus I enjoy sharing my own music with others. Getting a simple 'thank you' is so satisfying. xD | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:44 Sunny Afternoon wrote: Quality. Rare albums that are difficult to find. And plenty more I'm sure. But those are just my top 2. Plus I enjoy sharing my own music with others. Getting a simple 'thank you' is so satisfying. xD Basically that's the only pros compared to a traditional rapidshare/megaupload community or even public trackers. I really wouldn't say there was anything else. What.CD is great at finding rare or obscure stuff. Take this for an example, I wanted to download some albums from an Argentinian band called Miranda! I checked isohunt.com and thepiratebay to no avail. I popped in that name on what.cd and got a hit for an album and downloaded it. As said What.CD allows you to choose quality ranging from FLAC to MP3(192 or 320) and other types of quality that I can't explain, because I don't know what they are. Random question. I usually download MP3-320. Should I go for FLAC or is there hardly a difference? | ||
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Amnesia
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:56 Amnesia wrote: Only go for FLAC if you can afford the ratio. The files are a lot bigger but the difference in quality is huge. It really depends how good your sound system is though. Yeah, I guess. I've heard the difference is minimal unless you're running a top notch sound system, which I'm not. Also, I feel that FLAC files are way to huge. | ||
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Katkishka
United States659 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:53 Mickey wrote: Basically that's the only pros compared to a traditional rapidshare/megaupload community or even public trackers. I really wouldn't say there was anything else. What.CD is great at finding rare or obscure stuff. Take this for an example, I wanted to download some albums from an Argentinian band called Miranda! I checked isohunt.com and thepiratebay to no avail. I popped in that name on what.cd and got a hit for an album and downloaded it. As said What.CD allows you to choose quality ranging from FLAC to MP3(192 or 320) and other types of quality that I can't explain, because I don't know what they are. Random question. I usually download MP3-320. Should I go for FLAC or is there hardly a difference? There is really no difference to be honest unless you're a perfectionist. Most music starts sounding like a lossless rip, assuming it wasn't transcoded from a lossy format, at 192 kb/s with LAME 90% of what.cd users use LAME so v0 is usually just fine for most music. Plus since it's vbr the size will generally be smaller than cbr, without loss of sound quality unless you have superhuman ears. Plus, as mentioned before this post, sound systems play a big role. If you use speakers of any kind I wouldn't recommend flac tbh. High quality headphones on the other hand might show some difference, but it would be pretty minor between 320 and flac. | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On January 04 2010 17:00 Sunny Afternoon wrote: There is really no difference to be honest unless you're a perfectionist. Most music starts sounding like a lossless rip, assuming it wasn't transcoded from a lossy format, at 192 kb/s with LAME 90% of what.cd users use LAME so v0 is usually just fine for most music. Plus since it's vbr the size will generally be smaller than cbr, without loss of sound quality unless you have superhuman ears. Plus, as mentioned before this post, sound systems play a big role. If you use speakers of any kind I wouldn't recommend flac tbh. High quality headphones on the other hand might show some difference, but it would be pretty minor between 320 and flac. Thanks. | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
i try my best to seed on waffles but nobody ever downloads my lame jazz albums | ||
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HeyitsClay
Canada336 Posts
And if u cant get ur ratio up just download EVERY free leach there is if u have the harddrive space it will really add up and grow ur ratio if ur lazy to upload anything or have nothing to upload | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
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skronch
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category
United States85 Posts
i've been a waffles user for over a year, and pretty happy with it. i have some extra invites, but it might be a few weeks before i can send them. | ||
IntoTheWow
is awesome32281 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:53 Mickey wrote: Basically that's the only pros compared to a traditional rapidshare/megaupload community or even public trackers. I really wouldn't say there was anything else. What.CD is great at finding rare or obscure stuff. Take this for an example, I wanted to download some albums from an Argentinian band called Miranda! I checked isohunt.com and thepiratebay to no avail. I popped in that name on what.cd and got a hit for an album and downloaded it. As said What.CD allows you to choose quality ranging from FLAC to MP3(192 or 320) and other types of quality that I can't explain, because I don't know what they are. Random question. I usually download MP3-320. Should I go for FLAC or is there hardly a difference? lol Miranda hahahah | ||
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TheosEx
United States894 Posts
I've always wanted an account in these communities, but after reading the posts in this thread, I'm satisfied with Demonoid. I don't even know why I wanted to use anything but Demonoid. It's pretty easy to find any somewhat popular albums on there, and in plenty of different qualities. And it's not so Nazi-ish with its rules. | ||
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Spinfusor
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
one thing that requires clarification here is how are they able to provide such ridiculous content while putting mad restrictions on who can be a part of the community?! Logic tells me that more users ==> more uploads ==> more seeding ==> more content ^.^ | ||
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HwangjaeTerran
Finland5967 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:44 Sunny Afternoon wrote: Plus I enjoy sharing my own music with others. Getting a simple 'thank you' is so satisfying. xD Pirated music is your music now? Cool | ||
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TheosEx
United States894 Posts
For example, I'm sure PirateBay has more content than Demonoid. But I don't want to sift through 100's of pages worth of useless, seedless torrents with incorrect names, passwords, etc. | ||
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
On January 04 2010 20:53 HwangjaeTerran wrote: Pirated music is your music now? Cool What.the fuck | ||
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Shauni
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On January 04 2010 20:53 HwangjaeTerran wrote: Pirated music is your music now? Cool I think he meant uploading his own cds | ||
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kfour
United States106 Posts
I buy the FLAC so I can transcode to v0 and upload that as well. If I feel I can get more out of it I'll transcode a V2 and 320 as well. People complaining about ratio just don't get it. I buy music that isn't on the site, I give back to the community. In return, the community gives back, with great rips, multiple formats and a large userbase on which I can get new music suggestions. I get to spend money supporting my favorite artists and discover new music and genres. What.cd is fantastic and I hope for the site that it continues to draw quality users who give back to the community. It's what makes what so fantastic! | ||
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Foucault
Sweden2826 Posts
Except for the super-hard ratio aspect, it's a kick ass site. You can basically find ANYTHING here in any genre. | ||
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Durak
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Chef
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On January 04 2010 16:56 Amnesia wrote: Only go for FLAC if you can afford the ratio. The files are a lot bigger but the difference in quality is huge. It really depends how good your sound system is though. The only purpose of FLAC is to give the user a choice of what they want to encode to. Which is actually really important IMO, because it's not inconceivable that there will be better, more efficient formats in the future. | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
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Katkishka
United States659 Posts
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I said that I only upload albums I own. On January 05 2010 03:17 Chef wrote: The only purpose of FLAC is to give the user a choice of what they want to encode to. Which is actually really important IMO, because it's not inconceivable that there will be better, more efficient formats in the future. You know, I never thought about that. Kinda wish I didn't just encode my entire flac collection into v0 last week now, re-ripping all those albums is going to suck. | ||
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AraqirG
United States266 Posts
On January 05 2010 02:52 Durak wrote: I miss Oink... RIP and best of luck to Alan Ellis. There are a ton of very good private trackers out there with a wide variety of content from video games to HD movies to music. If you are willing to put in effort to be a contributing member of their communities, I definitely recommend looking into it. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21247 Posts
On January 04 2010 22:39 kfour wrote: People complaining about ratio just don't get it. I buy music that isn't on the site, I give back to the community. In return, the community gives back, with great rips, multiple formats and a large userbase on which I can get new music suggestions. I get to spend money supporting my favorite artists and discover new music and genres. Been there, done that, not everyone's interested in the same type of music -> my torrents get deleted for inactivity. Oh well ;O | ||
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intrudor
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Spike
United States1392 Posts
Didn't even know there was one; I just got an invite. | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
i was kinda expecting more music from them in my fave genre 'zouk' T_T anyhow..i guess their content is still stratospheric... | ||
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CCGaunt
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