Interested in this topic, as having difficulty locating certain scene releases lately. Outside of public torrents (through the arrs), my usual fallback of xdcc and usenet trials for older stuff is failing me atm.
Now I’m wondering is it worth the extra effort and upkeep once again? Had TL back in '09 but let it get inactive, and darn missed the recent open signups fml.
I would suggest it, you can find scene stuff on trackers like TorrentSeeds which is pretty easy to join. TL is also a good general tracker, I also use it for some content.
Part of iS and have been there for a few years. I’d say the community, and how fast we get content. But truly the community is great and it’s the first place I interacted past just downloading stuff
I’d say I’m about 85% private, 15% public. I’m not in any of the top-tier trackers so there are times when I’m looking for something obscure and won’t find it on my few PTs, so off to the publics I go. Last night I found a DVDRip of an 80s show on TPB that I liked better (slightly better color quality) than the single WEBDL on TL. That doesn’t happen often, but it happens.
My favorite tracker is CRT. Cozy, and I love older media.
I have most of my bases covered with mid-tier private trackers. For books/audiobooks I use MAM, movies BLU, Shows MTV, and RED for music. I still subscribe to Spotify though so only go to RED for the rare artist (my music taste isn’t super esoteric) that doesn’t have their music on Spotify
Managed to get an invite to a decent private tracker with a great selection. Ever since the downfall of RARBG I’ve basically been 90% private for most of my stuff. I relied very heavily on it. Like someone else said, public occasionally has things the private ones don’t. Private trackers may integrate public items into their communities.
It’s pretty common actually for private to integrate public content, anime especially since most encoders post to Nyaa.
For missing content I see a lot of people make requests and that usually gets filled pretty quickly. Nevertheless there will always be that one-off release that doesn’t exist private, and vice versa where it doesn’t exist publicly.
I don’t use torrents that often. Just on occasions. I can’t find hardly any private torrents that will let me in. So I typically use real Debrid or a VPN with public torrents
In the process of setting up a media server using Unraid instead of just a HDD in my main PC. Seems like seeding regularly may become more viable - is the trick to just stay hooked up to a VPN continuously?
I’d suggest trying usenet first. I found it far more friendly.
Sign up for frugal usenet. Sonarr, radarr, prowlarr, nzbget. Use trash-guides.info to do your set up correctly. No VPN needed since it’s over ssl. It’s cheaper than a VPN. And if you’re torrenting I’d still use a VPN, despite what that other guy says.
I joined PHD but couldn’t get my ratio up since there is no one downloading. Like, literally no one in anything besides brand new shit.
I use private trackers for downloading content I want to keep local backups of but I also subscribe to a Plex share, hard to beat their on demand content library!
I use both, the private tracker is used mainly for latin Spanish media I gave it the highest priority with Radarr and Sonarr, but sometimes they’d pick something from public trackers too.
I have only been use public (for about 20 years), but I have been curious about private trackers for a while. I have a good grasp of the concept, seeding requirements, etc. What would be one or two recommended private trackers to start with? (for TV, movie, music)
Red (music) and MAM (audiobooks) have open interviews and have good invite forums that can get you into other trackers. Both are best in class for their categories. Starting with RED truly is a trial by fire with the hardest ratio economy around but it is definitely the most rewarding. MAM is super friendly and easygoing but it can take a few jumps and some time to make it to the bigger trackers. Getting in a good general tracker like FileList, Torrentleech, or IPT really opens up the amount of content available to you starting out if you can find an invite, just know you generally can’t make it to other trackers from them. That being said general trackers own their own can be enough to satisfy many peoples needs. Good luck with your journey, I’d be happy to help if you have any more questions.
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