athos77

Is there some way we can DM across instances?

Are dht and pex enabled?

TV-Vault, but I have no idea how you’d get into it these days. Feel free to PM me what you’re looking for, though.

Lemmy.ml also has a datahoarders.

Seeds fall off quickly on public trackers and the people who do long-term seeding on publics tend to end up seeding larger libraries. So you’ll often be the one person in the world seeding a large number of torrents. Multiple leeches is only a theoretical help because when it finally seeds out, half the people quit immediately, some hang around to seed to the last leechers, and a couple hang around for a week or two before feeling they’ve done their due diligence and signing off. Things are quiet on that torrent for a month or so, and then a new leech shows up and the whole thing repeats again. It’s why I stopped seeding on publics: it’s extremely demoralizing to finally get copies of something out to the dozen or so people who have accumulated, only for every one of them to fuck off right after they finish.

If he’s the single seed left on a torrent, chances are he’s the last seed on a bunch of other torrents as well, and his bandwidth is being choked by everyone who wants his stuff.

The nice thing with MAM is that you can grab a torrent of groups of books, instead of downloading them individually.

getting in is not very easy

Dafuq? They run interviews twice a week, and the questions are dead easy.

many torrents are behind a VIP-wall

Which you just have to wait a few weeks to get past the account age restriction and hand over a few bonus points, which are trivial to get. Just bookmark anything you can’t get and have a little patience.

I’ll see if I can’t put together a small collection of things for you to grab.

Nah, both posts came through in public. I’ve applied for an aussie.zone account. It’s getting late here anyway, so I’ll head to bed soon and come back tomorrow to see if it’s approved.

If not (maybe your admin takes weekends off to enjoy the weather!) - I see that your account is five months old, maybe we could PM on reddit? We’ll sort it out tomorrow, anyway :)

Can you try DMing me? (Not sure if you can, kbin had some issues with it earlier.)

There are fan reconstructions of all the missing episodes, where they used the surviving audio recordings and laid in surviving video clips and John Cura’s telesnaps - various scene, set, and costume photos that were taken for continuity. Some reconstructions also use animations or small home-filmed segments.

Short answer: I’d probably start with TVC for video stuff and MAM for audio stuff. They definitely won’t get you all the way there, but they’d be a decent enough start for a collection and ratio isn’t hard on either one.

Longer answer: The main series itself and the theatrical movies shouldn’t be too hard, and even the main spinoffs (K9 and Company, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, even Class) shouldn’t be too bad. I think where you’re going to run into issues are things like the fan reconstructions of lost episodes, the various animated stories, short stuff like the Tardisodes, there’s the behind the scenes programmes (Doctor Who Confidential, Totally Doctor Who, Doctor Who Extra, etc), the Red Nose specials, etc.

Then you get into the other stuff - official BBC stuff but not-on-video, all the fan stuff made during the lost years that had official / semi-official / unofficial-but-winked-at licensing, etc: There have been official BBC audio plays and radio dramas. I think most of Big Finish audios have leaked, though collecting and keeping up with them would be a chore - it’s a pretty big collection, and they still make multiple stories every month. The ReelTime and BBV videos can probably be tracked down with a bit of effort (I do like the Myth Makers series). I don’t know if any of the theatrical productions have been professionally filmed, though there’s likely amateur video (but watching an audience video is often tedious and I’m not sure how much you want to get into this). Etc, etc.

If you want to get even further into things, there are novels and comics and annuals and all sorts of other stuff. I guess the question is, where do you want to start, and how far do you want to go?

Again, personally, I would start with TVC and MAM and see how far I wanted to go. I mean, the show has changed a lot over the years, some of it’s missing, it’s in various formats, stuff in different formats us considered canonical or non-canonical depending on the person. Even if you’re willing to sit through black-and-white video recordings from the William Hartnell years, do you want to sit through fan reconstructions of ten of the twelve episodes of “The Daleks’ Master Plan”? Do you want to read Lungbarrow in preparation for the TV movie? It’s a long, complex, and time-consuming continuity.

Do they forbid sharing the content, or do they forbid sharing the torrents? If it’s just the torrents, you can just create a public torrent with a different piece size and cross seed.

The newbie blues for each private tracker are a definite thing, but once you get past that it’s great. It also depends on which trackers you’re on: the general trackers tend to have similar content as publics, but it’s the specialty and niche trackers where privates really shine.

Have you tried freedb? It’s had the majority of albums I’ve needed to tag, even stuff like female blues artists of the 1920’s. I tagged and renamed the files on about 300 albums in a couple hours, so for me, yeah, it was a manual process but it was still quicker and easier than searching for and re-downloading a similar number of albums. But you do you - it’s your music!

You can use mp3tag to rename/title/number/tag/whatever, the stuff you’ve already downloaded.

Try this.

I don’t speak German and I don’t watch anime, so I’m probably not the best person to ask. Your best bet would probably be German tracker; if it doesn’t have the content, they can likely direct you to where it is.

The other option would be to join a tracker that specializes in movies, but they tend to be somewhat difficult to get into; I would be hopeful that German trackers are easier.

Which is why, in my other comment here, I said:

Do you need a private tracker? IMO, most people don’t. Most people are happy with what they have, or are happy with what they get from public trackers and other places. It’s really only if you’re finding yourself unhappy with public trackers - you’re not comfortable with the lack of privacy, for example, or you’re often looking content that you can’t find - that I would suggest looking into private trackers.

Sounds like you’re just not the intended target for private trackers, and that’s fine.