Can someone explain to me why you use private trackers? Is it because of the possibility to request older stuff etc? Would love to know the advantages compared to torrentgalaxy for example
They are available at public trackers too. The only stuff that isn't there in public is the more obscure stuff, but you can try 4chan's torrents board to search for it.
I tried out my first private tracker with SceneTime.
Literally no benefit over a public tracker that I can see.
Selection is smaller, all torrents have a max of 30 seeders that I have seen. Most have 2-3.
Impossible to get a good ratio without seeding an unwanted popular torrent because niche content will have like 3 downloads per year.
Tons of abandoned torrents or torrents with 1 seeder
Almost 0 content older than 10 years unless it is very popular
Maybe I am not integrated enough with the community, and my stupid ISP has extreme asymmetrical speeds that max my upload at 30Mbps, but I mostly still use a public tracker where when I seed, people will actually leech.
I THINK the idea is you don't need a VPN with a private tracker. Other then that, the selection is usually better, and the seeders have faster uploads.
Faster and more reliable seeders, better opsec, better uploads (due to stricter rules), wider variety of content, and better community features. There's more but that's what immediately comes to mind for me.
@MoshBit Sure. Filelist is a (mostly) Romanian private tracker (the website is available in English as well, though). It is also kinda hugely popular here (pretty much the most popular Romanian torrent website altogether). A couple of days ago, the admin announced that due to personal issues and being unable to find a replacement, the website would shut down. Now a solution was found.
Why not just use one of those free trial months from any of the music streaming platforms and rip it yourself. There's plenty of free audio software or there and you just have to set it to record the audio going through the sound card.
You'll have to manually start/stop each song recording and sit through each whole song while it records. But that shouldn't be much of a chore for an album you've been looking for for years.