>tfw you fail the what.cd membership interview
where do I go from here guys?
>>65947736
try again you fucking idiot
>>65947736
How did you fail?
>>65947758
It's easier than you would think.
I greeted my interviewer by saying ''howdy'' and he immediately ended the proceedings :-;
>>65947914
Damn... I guess you should've been more professional. How hard would it be to maintain a good ratio once you get in? I'm into ''weird'' music myself (jazz, jazz fusion, prog) and private trackers like rutracker, kat, soulseek have never let me down. That being said, is there an advantage of going through all the trouble of getting into what.cd?
>>65948081
w e w
>>65948081
>I'm into ''weird'' music myself (jazz, jazz fusion, prog)
>>65948081
Its really nice, but as you can see from op
s experience they are pretentious as fuck.
I got my account revoked after they decided the forum i was invited to the site on ''should be on their list'' . They essentially found out i took an invite that was privately offered to me and revoked my membership .
The ''test'' is autistically too difficult for me to ''memorize''. Im not waiting 3 hours every day to be judged by some neckbeard whatcd fuck.
>>65948081
>I'm into "weird music" myself
>(jazz, jazz fusion, prog)
>>65948081
Boi
*loud negro hooting in the distance while trap rap SpongeBob remix is playing in the background*
>>65947914
What the fuck is his problem?
>>65948332
>>65948347
>>65948353
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>>65948389
Thanks for adding nothing of value to the conversation. What ''weird'' music are you guys into? Top 40?
>>65948081
This a new meme?
>>65948359
That's like the time I was trying to get on this private Gmod role playing server. I went over their list of rules beforehand and studied them. I thought I had it. I wait in "line" for 2 hours to get an interview.
I get on the mic in TeamSpeak with this baby. He starts asking me questions. I think I'm doing great. Then he asks me some shit that wasn't even on the rule sheet.
I get denied and told I can try back again in 2 weeks.
2 weeks.
I gotta wait and be judged by some lil nerd? I learned my lesson.
Fuck vidya
>>65948359
You have to wait for 3 hours to even get someone to interview you? Wow...
>>65948421
I'm trying to make a decision if it's worth it to take the time to get into what.cd considering my taste in music. I don't see what your point is.
>>65948425
>private Gmod role playing server
Anything gmod server that requires even a minute of effort is probably not worth it.
>>65948466
Yeah, for real. I was in a bad place at that time in my life.
Are there some music trackers that are similar to what.cd, but easier to get into? Does something like that even exist?
You'd think with an interview as autistic as what's, you'd expect them to be more lenient on their ratio.
>inb4 seedboxes
The second you pay money to pirate is the second piracy loses it's meaning. Just buy the album at that point.
>>65948500
>pay money to pirate
Why pay for internet access, a computer, and electricity? Why not just go to the store and steal the album?
>>65948516
Are you fucking retarded?
You pirate so you can get shit for free. Once you've reached the point where you are paying money so you get shit for free, then what's the point of even pirating? If you are going to pay money on a seedbox, why not just pay money for an actual copy of an album.
>>65948545
Because I can get an unlimited amount of albums for like $15 a month with my seedbox. Also the seedbox helps keep my ISP from snooping on my traffic, as well as keeping my home internet from getting super slow from torrent seeding.
>>65947736
>Tfw someone visited your bandcamp page from what.cd
>>65948428
it took like 6 hours waiting every day for a week to even get an answer as to why my account got revoked
>>65948758
Yeah, I'm definitely not going to do that.
>>65948758
>>65948780
Yeah. I don't give a shit how great of a selection what.cd has. My time is too valuable to be wasted waiting to maybe get an invite.
Why is soulseek bad?
I posted about this in a tangential thread a few days ago, but if I'm being honest, I'd say you're at least three years late on the WCD train, if not more. Basically, on private torrent sites like WCD, you need to maintain a certain ratio of uploaded data to downloaded data, which is done by "seeding", or leave the stuff you download in your torrent client, and also leave your torrent client running as long as possible, in hopes of others downloading from you, which the tracker gives you credit for. If you don't do this, you will never be able to download more than 500MB of music. And WCD is very strict about this: if you can't maintain "ratio" (upload divided by download) you will be limited from downloading, and eventually banned. If you're used to public trackers or DDL sites, where once you download you have no obligation to make the files available to others, WCD can be pretty harsh.
In the past, this burden was relieved by a periodic sidewide "freeleech," during which no matter how much you downloaded, no data counted against your ratio. However, any data you uploaded counted for your ratio -- and of course, everyone went crazy downloading, feeding back, giving each other plenty of ratio. I'm not entirely sure why, but in recent years (since 2013 or so) sitewide FL's have been much rarer. Basically, if you're just starting out on WCD today, it's much harder to get precious ratio without a dedicated server, or by filling other's requests for paywalled Bandcamp releases or ebooks (WCD also "hosts" ebooks), or possibly having a large collection of obscure music that you take the time to rip, or having access to quality copies of big albums (think TLOP or the new Avalanches) before they're publicly released. That's not to say it's impossible to get enough "buffer" (excess upload credit) to download as you wish, but it certainly takes more work than it used to.
tl;dr not worth it, sorry, at least there's soulseek/rutracker/the archive
>>65949072
>dedicated server
you can easily get good ratio with a 5€/$ month VPS seedbox with ruTorrent and autodl-irssi configured to instantly snatch new releases by popular artists.
>>65948826
I don't think it's bad, but you do have to provide some of your music for other people to download. Other than that, download speeds are not that great, but you can find all kinds of music.
>>65949072
How do you get music from the archive exactly? I'm not familiar with it.
>>65949291
Search the name of the album followed by "mega" and it should pop up with a link from a sharethread. Sometimes links die, sometimes they don't. It's kind of a crapshoot but I've been able to find everything I need in either the archive, ru.tracker, or a random blogspot page.
>>65948545
>>65948585
>$15 a month
Might as well subscribe to some streaming service at that point
>>65948081
>I'm into ''weird'' music myself (jazz, jazz fusion, prog)
I think I need to sit down
>>65948418
>Thanks for adding nothing of value to the conversation
when will this meme die
>>65949401
Not really. My seedbox can also get movies, TV shows, and software. It also has a built in Plex server, so I can stream my entire music library.
>>65949409
>>65949420
Thanks for adding nothing of value to the conversation again.
Guys, I am closing this thread now.
>>65949409
I know it's bait, but please enlighten us all. What do you listen to? Top 40 summer hits? I consider those genres of music ''weird'' to 90% of the population. I'm not saying I'm better than anyone for listening to those genres of music. I'm a musician and I've opened up my ears a bit to new sounds.
>>65947736
soulseek > wcd
>>65949521
You're not in public, you're on 4chan those genres are not by any means weird here and the way you said it seemed as if you wanted people to be impressed by your """"taste"""".
>>65949636
I've already explained that I do not consider myself better than anyone else for listening to the genres of music I listen to. Do you have any actual advice related to the thread?
The reason what.cd has gone to shit as of recent is because many people like OP have gotten in. That interviewer should have permabanned you.
>>65947736
Just get a fucking soulseek and download all the albums you'll ever need instantly in high quality without being a cuck who sits 8 hours for some clown to interview you or having to keep up a ratio.
>>65949865
Harsh, but true words.
Your rebuttal, OP? Have you any scathing remarks about the challengers strange genres?
>>65949941
This for real.
I was away from soulseek for a long time and started using it again and everyone here was all, "soulseek is bad and slow and hurrrrr".
I didn't know what they were talking about. Good to see people don't know what the fuck they're talking about.
>>65949401
Not him, but streaming services offer way lower quality overall. Netflix is probably 720p upscaled where private trackers offer the full bluray rips.
The same goes for music, higher quality in the end and a broader collection.
>>65947914
There is no way at all that's true.
>>65950195
Who the heck are you to suggest it's not true?
Were you there?
Heck off.
>>65947736
It's easy as fuck 2bh. How people fail is beyond me.
>>65950266
Dork.
>>65950343
Nerd.
>>65950266
srsly they even give you a cheat sheet if yr unclear about file types and shit
>>65950257
I'm always in #what.cd-invites
if you've never hopped on a dedicated seedbox with someone for a few months but you still whine about ratio regulations please just kill yourself
>>65949941
>in high quality
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>>65950962
it sure as hell is hard to filter, isnt it you cuck
are they doing interviews again?? every time I try to do one, no ones ever on
>>65950962
>not knowing how to use filters
wew
>>65951265
>>65951219
>not saving bandwidth by downloading mp3 and converting it to lossless later
>>65951250
If you're alone in the room, you're in the wrong room.
If you can enter #what.cd-invites, interviews are open.
>>65951512
cool, I'll be doing one today
I've been thinking about joining what so I can get lossless files - how is slsk's flax collection?
are they doing interviews tomorrow also?
>be shy, dorky, polite kid
>take interview when first started browsing /mu/, ~5 years ago
>really nervous, studied really hard but still messed some small things up
>the interviewer was really kind and forgiving, it wasn't at all like the horror stories
>have used what heavily, still elite with ratio of ~5
>best goddamn website i've ever used
You can squeak by with RU and SLSK and what have you but it's really not hard to maintain a ratio on what, no seedbox needed. Amass a collection of what torrents (usually through staff picks, freeleeches and smaller events, your own d/ls) and it'll start to snowball.
With what, you get the best consistency (file quality, tagging) vs. other services, access to whatever audio quality you want, and you get the privilege of being able to say "if a song or album exists on the internet, it will be on what and I can obtain it easily." It's a nice feeling to be that guy who can hook his friends up with all the obscure shit that they were never able to find, and make mix CDs as gifts better than anyone else.
What makes you work for the privilege through ratio (which in turn fosters a community). RU and SLSK make you work by forcing you to look elsewhere 10-20% of the time, and have you feeling unsatisfied another good 30-50% of the time. I used both in lieu of what.
>>65950962
I've been using soulseek for an year and I can count on my hands the number of times I didn't find an album in 320kbps retard (and even then, I found it elsewhere)
Not my fault you're too dumb and don't know how to scroll down or filter
>>65948444
>do you love super super HQ music?
>are you going to spend a lot of time weekly uploading HQ music?
>do you love looking down on people?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, congrats, you're a winner!
Don't do it, imo. >>65948466
thought about getting a what.cd membership before I realized piracy is free for a reason and if I google things right I can find what I'm looking for.
>>65951861
interviews are open 24/7
>>65952077
I know right look at this glorious 320kbps
>he used the word retard
>>65952127
Time, money, sanity, pride. All four can be used as resources to preserve the others.
I'm sorry to see that you hardly value your time and sanity. People don't realize that being overly frugal and spending as much effort as possible to achieve an inconsequential endgoal is flat out harmful.
>>65952152
how to know if it's real 320 or fake 320 (if there's anyway without this spectogram shit or w/e it is)
>>65952191
good point. spending money to save time is very worth it
>>65952210
>spend more than $20 on headphones
that's basically it
>>65952191
>wasting my time and sanity
>paying for internet piracy
>>65952152
>not downloading flacs and converting them to 320
ISHYGDDT
it's pretty rare something isnt available in flac but is in 320
>>65952241
ok you're making those transcodes yourself now
outside of stuff like >>65952152 for mostly obscure albums I've never gotten transcodes like the ones in your pic
>>65952256
It's actually far more common for something to be in 320 but not in FLAC. But of course I actually have a music taste that isn't composed entirely of /mu/core interspersed with sub-/mu/core.
>>65947736
sent :^)
>>65952253
>wasting your time and sanity
>spending hours checking various sources, dealing with subpar d/l speeds, verifying and manually doing QA on your downloads because you're spinning the roulette wheel on every album, conceding that there are some things you just won't ever be able to download, having a mismatched and shambled music library because you've given up trying to get it to any sort of decent standards
>because maintaining a ratio is just too gosh darn hard
>>65952269
Now why would I make these myself? I have nothing to gain by this. I use soulseek regularly as well as having a what.cd account and a rutracker account and a waffles account.
>>65952321
fug, i am considering joining what.cd now. recently i've been getting shit downloads from soulseek
>tfw on both waffles and what and have been ever since oink shat itself
get on my level
>>65952623
How does it feel like being a slave just to torrent?
>anons make fun of trips routinely
>but have no friends to invite them to what.cd
>mfw my tripbros invited me ~5 yrs ago and i havent let them down yet
>>65952700
>college student calls the soldier a slave
>>65952556
Well don't worry there's a thing called the /mu/ archive and a place called google where you can everything on SLSK and what.cd except for free and no need to upload shit for others. I stopped using SLSK years ago and what.cd isn't even worth it if you have to maintain a ratio. Not only that but the download speeds on SLSK were always abysmal for me.
>>65953168
>hates the very thing that allows what.cd to have such an extensive library
no seed = no torrent, remember this, boy
>>65953259
Please do not call me that.
Thank you.
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>>65949409
autism strikes back
>>65950962
>le flac meme XD
>>65947914
lol fucking liar
>>65952336
>this is the 320kbps people claim from slsk
>>65950257
He's an interviewer, he interviewed me
>>65950821
you were my interviewer lmao. fun fact (this was a long time ago, their account got disabled for inactivity) i took the interview for my boyfriend on Skype via screenshare
Where do you live? I'll give you an invite for a blow-job.
mfw ive had 3 different whatcd accounts and all of them got deleted due to inactivity
its not that great desu
>>65953350
Ah sorry pal, meant no offense.
