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.
If you need to set up a seedbox and shit, might as well pay for streaming because that’s more convenient. I thought you could still get music off public trackers like when I still pirated it. I got all my Eminem albums off thepiratebay lmao
I do sometimes use a private tracker for movies and shows, as those aren’t nearly as readily available as music (where you can usually get everything off one service), but for that I use my desktop which runs 24/7 and usually only get Freeleech torrents and let them seed for a few months (or over a year in some cases). I see little value in building ratio by autograbbing torrents nobody wants, that everyone’s only downloading to seed and build ratio.
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.
If you need to set up a seedbox and shit, might as well pay for streaming because that’s more convenient. I thought you could still get music off public trackers like when I still pirated it. I got all my Eminem albums off thepiratebay lmao
I do sometimes use a private tracker for movies and shows, as those aren’t nearly as readily available as music (where you can usually get everything off one service), but for that I use my desktop which runs 24/7 and usually only get Freeleech torrents and let them seed for a few months (or over a year in some cases). I see little value in building ratio by autograbbing torrents nobody wants, that everyone’s only downloading to seed and build ratio.