RED Has Another Round of Freeleech Tokens
37 More Freeleech Tokens from the upload contest have been given out. Just a reminder.
Posted Jul 24, 2018, 3:36 AM UTC
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Gotta love r/trackers. If the people here aren't bitching about how hard it is to get ratio on RED then they're busy bitching about how they have too many tokens.
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Maybe, just maybe, there are different people complaining about different things.
Although I never understood why people complain about having too many tokens. If you don't want to use them, whatever that's your choice. But why is it a negative thing?
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I wouldn't go out of my way to complain about this, but I've noticed plenty of releases where smaller sizes like the v0 have very few (sometimes zero) snatches and seeders. I think that people having lots of tokens contributes to that, since the big FLAC copy won't hit your ratio and you might be able to squeeze a little more upload out of it, so you may as well get it as opposed to the v0 mp3.
There's also a theoretical point where everyone has so few things impacting their ratio that they rarely have to bother seeding to try and get more upload, and you probably don't want seeding to be 100% optional.
All that said, I don't think these are serious problems for RED right now, and there's also plenty of value in motivating people to download more stuff. I'm happy to have tokens. But tracker economies are complicated enough that I understand how opinions could differ on them.
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Really? It's been super easy to get ratio on red for me.. Maybe they're not using a seedbox?
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I'm actually surprised that the top voted comment wasn't "how dare they give us tokens and then not have 37 picks which we can use them on, to download stuff we'll never listen to in hopes that others will download them too and give us more ratio!!"
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Thanks for the heads up. Didn't notice them when I was browsing the site.
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anyone want to post their rec's here because I am open to any and all music. thanks for the heads up
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Kruder and Dorfmeister, K&D Sessions
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Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing.
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Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
DeepChord Presents Echospace - Liumin
2814 - Atarashii Hi no Tanjou (新しい日の誕生)
Portishead - Third
Some electronic/sample-heavy albums that came to mind
EDIT: Listed 2814 album twice
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The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
great choice. such a unique album. i've spent many night falling asleep while listening to it.
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Listening to it now, its making me feel some kinda way. Reminds me of Bioshock Infinite if you have ever played that game
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Ravedeath 1972 is objectively the best Tim Hecker album, so I’d say grab that one [Harmony in Ultraviolet is still in top 3 though] — other than that, a literally flawless list. Everybody, go get these.
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1 and 4 are the same.
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Fixed
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ANYTHING Deepchord.
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I mainly listen to electronic music (outside the mainstream - so no EDM here), here are a few of my favorites from this year. Can't really go wrong with any of them, imo.
Skee Mask - Compro (IDM/techno)
Khotin - Beautiful You (ambient/dub)
Project Pablo - Come to Canada You Will Like It (house)
Blawan - Wet Will Always Dry (techno)
Manmade DeeJay - Invitro EP (deep house)
DJ Healer - Nothing 2 Lose (ambient/deep house)
Prime Minister of Doom - Mudshadow Propaganda (techno)
Innerst Inne - Solen träffar topparna först (ambient/acid)
Barker - Debiasing (beatless techno)
upsammy - Another Place (electro)
Sit - Invisibility Chapter I & II (dub techno/minimal house)
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khotin makes such lovely music :)
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have you heard the new welcome to paradise comp? think it'd be right up your alley
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Compiled by Young Marco? Yeah absolutely, solid stuff though not as good as the one from last year imo
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truu, you heard Edward's new album?
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Thanks for this, I’mma check all these out!
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Mudshadow Propaganda is so fire. Was omw to recommend this lol
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What’s your favourite genres?
My absolute favourites are:
Tipper: Broken Soul Jamboree (Electronic)
Why?: Alopecia (Alternative, rap)
of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping (Indie)
Kishi Bashi: 151a (Indie)
UGK: Super Tight (Rap)
A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory (Rap)
cLOUDDEAD: The Peel Sessions (Rap, live)
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Bless up for Kishi Bashi. That dude is nuts live
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HE IS SO GOOD! He opened for of Montreal and I was so so so impressed. He is so very talented.
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The Dear Hunter - Act V The Dear Hunter - All Is As All Should Be
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Hot Mulligan - Pilot
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Nnamdi Ogbonnaya - Drool (2017)
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Kerri Chandler - Trionosphere
Hanna - Glamorous, Contemplating Jazz
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The Drones - I See Seaweed / Feelin Kinda Free
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace
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check out pretty lights
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Interested as well.
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Muse.
More recently.. Bishop Briggs
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Taylor Swift - Reputation
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September 1
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Any metal fans here? I'm into melodic death / doom / prog and some black metal, any recs ?
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Behold... The Arctopus
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一期一会 by 夢遊病者 [Sleepwalkers] — abstract and experimental black metal from Japan
Spectral Ecstasy by Black Magick SS — it’s a heavy psychedelic prog album with some black metal vocals, this might be right up your alley
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Can anyone recommend a punk band preferably with a female singer (but it's not necessary)? I don't want to waste my tokens this time.
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The Slits, Au pairs, and the raincoats? i guess they're probably considered "mainstream" though.
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Thanks! I downloaded an album from each one. Hopefully I like them
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Try Blatz.
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Thanks! They didn't have much of them, but I got what I could.
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Try Betontod (any album will do, they're very consistent).
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Not On Tour
Bad Cop Bad Cop
The Bombpops
Heartsounds
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Thanks! They don't have a lot by bad cop bad cop though.
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Some older stuff. Some of this does not qualify as punk, strictly speaking. But fuck labels! Example songs to check out linked.
female fronted: Patti Smith Tsunami Bomb The Distillers Bleached bambix Guano Apes
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I like the distillers. I'll also check all of the others out. Thanks for the link also.
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Recommend me some (oldschool) dnb albums please.
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Future Loop Foundation - Time and Bass
Grooverider - Mysteries of Funk
VA - Legally Stoned - A New High In Drum & Bass Volume Vol. 1
T-Power - The Self Evident Truth of an Intuitive Mind
Voyager - Future Retro
Klute - Casual Bodies
VA - Artcore
Omni Trio - The Deepest Cut
Omni Trio - The Haunted Science
Lemongrass - Drumatic Universe
Teebee - Blacksciencelabs
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welp...
last time i had 15 tokens left which i had no clue what to do with, the stuff that i did wanted wasn't on the site
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Nice :) Thank you AlmostHelpless ^_^.
I wish them RED Best of Luck :) New What.cd :).
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What is red?
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Where can I get invites?
Nevermind: https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html
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Not to complain about freeleech, but I feel like this is getting excessive. I doubt I'll even use any of these tokens.
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better.php
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In addition to this, the threads "we will download unsnatched FLACs" and "Request a transcode of a FLAC" in the forums are good too, if you want to help out. You can use the second one to build some buffer even. 37 transcoded flacs would likely net one over 3GB of upload, possibly more if you do both 320 and V0 and focus on releases from 2018.
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literally nothing i want to download unfortunately
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Pretty much every time RED gives tokens
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There is an interview that is fairly straightforward if you are interested.
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Straight forward yet time consuming. Pick a day or night where you have up to about 6 hours to monitor irc
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The majority of people spend much more time daily on the computer so i think its a very lazy excuse.
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The majority of people spend much more time daily on the computer
Are you making shit up? The majority of people? That's a lie. Stats don't back that up at all. Maybe your circle of friends does, but I know only a few people who spend more than 6 hours on a PC a day and it's because it's their line of work. I have a family of 6 and a full time job which has zero to do with computing, I spend 1-2 hours a day online at most. Feels good to not be part of your "majority" though.
Have you ever done the redacted interview?
The day I did, I took longer than 6 hours from IRC login to invite activation. The interview itself took over an hour of full time activity.
u/Boofster just needed to be aware how long the process can take.
Lazy excuse my arse.
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Yes please
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I think I had 37 unspent tokens from the last round of tokens. I thought for a second they decided to give me a second chance.
There's no update on the front page so it threw me off when I saw I had them all of a sudden.
(They added an update about an hour after you posted this, although I was also surprised to see them since I had none last night and hadn't revisited the front page.)