• beveradb@sh.itjust.works
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        20 hours ago

        Yeah but there’s a lot of downsides to that tbh, certainly if you want to use any decent private trackers I wouldn’t recommend it.

        Many of the torrent clients easily available in the play store are spammy/ad-filled or blocked by private trackers, and you’re never gonna seed anything meaningfully from your phone due to it going to sleep and using 4G etc. so if you’re trying to build up a ratio you’re gonna struggle.

        For anyone who wants to be able to access all of the music in the world, in high quality (not just whatever popular releases end up on public trackers), I would say it’s very much worth it to use a cheap seedbox - seeding 24/7 from a fast connection makes it much easier to build up a ratio and if you just seed everything indefinitely, before you know it you’ll have a huge buffer and be able to download whatever you want without thinking.

        For example the private tracker I use for most of my music (RED) has everything ever released by the obscure band mentioned by OP (“Splashdown”) whereas you probably can’t find much of that on public trackers.