It’s peer-to-peer like torrents, but on its own network. Use can share anything but it’s primarily used for music. You set a folder to share from and if someone looks up a file you have, they can download it from you.

If you can’t find them on Telegram, there isn’t much else. If you already are in the private tracker scene you can try to get into Materize but invites may be tricky grab.

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AllDebrid or Premiumize are both popular alternatives. AD is considerably cheaper, even with Premiumize’s Black Friday sale in right now. However, Premiumize allows multiple connections, so if you can split the cost with someone, it becomes the cheaper option.

Pretty much every software crack says ‘Block this application in your firewall’. I guarantee most people don’t. Following these instructions would have prevented this entirely.

You are looking for the arr scripts (formally arr-extended). https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts/blob/main/lidarr/readme.md

No, but it is in the megathread both here and on Reddit. It’s practically the largest video game soundtrack website/forum that exists right now with the exception of maybe Soulseek.

Is it really underground if you can just go to the website and sign up?

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Back in 2019 some releases installed directly from IGG-GAMES contained crypto miners. They also added their own DRM to releases. Since then I have stayed away and never looked back.

Best of luck with your endless tech support anytime something doesn’t work.

hallowed is the internal release group at MTV. Their aim is to produce highly streamable (think Plex/Jellyfin) but still high quality encodes. They also always include English subs and dual audio for foreign films. The quality of their releases are good but very few as they only started releasing under that name about 5 months ago.

However, if you are gunning for highest possible quality/bitrate (and file size) you can get, go with releases by CtrlHD, MainFrame or W4NK3R.

Windows - JDownloader

Android - Unchained

Tixati isn’t whitelisted on pretty much any private tracker because of how easy it makes spoofing other clients.

FraMeSTor is the internal group at BHD. EPSiLON was previously releasing on PHD but left a couple years ago. They release to TL but are not nearly as active as they once were.

I prioritize FraMeSTor, and they have more releases post-2020.

My Prowler stats over the last 90 days are ~1600 usenet grabs vs ~40 torrents. Definitely worth it not have to seed and constant gigabit speed.

Yeah, that basically it. If you download the torrent, your ip is visible, they don’t care if you upload or download. As far as they’re concerned, if your IP is there, they’ll snatch it and send you a letter.

It’s not possible to ‘not upload’. While you are downloading, you are simultaneously uploading. If a rightsholder or copyright troll is monitoring a torrent, they don’t care home much you have downloaded or uploaded. If you’re in the swarm, that’s good enough.

No one will give you one. Music trackers are more difficult than average to get into and harder than most to maintain ratio. I wouldn’t risk my account on it.

You can give this script a go though to download from Dezeer or Tidal from Lidarr