It’s about time we talked about a new private torrent tracker. The site that we are featuring today is pretty secretive in their ways. Elk (short for Electrobits) is a small private music torrent tracker that is almost always closed for signup. However, new users can now get invited in through the invite application form that is currently online. The site, although relatively new, seems to be looking to become a small but active community of music sharers; there seems to be no place for tracker collectors here as site staff is targeting to recruit only 1000 members in the initial phase. Although only about a month old, it already indexes more than 5000 torrents including lots of FLAC music under multiple genres.

According to official statistics, Elk launched back in January 2012 and already indexes 5700+ active torrents. The site has been closed for signups since day one and currently only has a small user base of around 150 members. A brief description about the site sent to us by its admins pretty much sums it all up:

We are a music tracker that is currently small in size and we are looking to grow. We currently have a user base of 150 and around 5700 torrents. With the addition of our auto-upload bot, uploading has never been more active.
We are focused on quality over quantity. As with most trackers we also offer a request section and we will do what we can to ensure that the requests that are made are fulfilled.
We are not a ratio free site, however due to the bonus system this is one of the easiest sites out there to maintain a good ratio on.

A screenshot of some of the music categories available on Electrobits can be seen below:

As mentioned earlier, the only way into Elk is via an invite. You can get invited in by tracker staff themselves if you successfully fill out the online invite applications form. The form itself is pretty simple and has only 5 questions. You do however have to post three links to profiles of private trackers you are already a member of.

Site Name: Electrobits (http://elektrobits.org)

Invite Applications URL: http://elektrobits.org/secret.php

Special thanks to Elk admins for the heads up.

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Specialized music video torrent trackers – we’ve seen quite a few of these launch over the years but very few succeeding in becoming well established BitTorrent sites. MusicEye is the latest tracker to cater to this niche and from what we’ve seen so far, it has the potential of becoming one of the rare successes in this category. ME is powered by Gazelle codebase and is the first ever music video tracker to launch without mandatory ratio requirements (in other words, ratio free). As you may have already guessed, the site tracks music videos, live performances, full concerts and related documentaries (both in standard and high definition). Registrations are currently open if you are planning to create an account – from what we hear from the admins open signups will only last till this Saturday (22nd).

Been in beta for over a month, MusicEye opened to the public just 5 days ago. Response it has received from the BitTorrent community so far has been great – there are already over 1400 members registered on site and this number is likely to increase since registrations are still open. MusicEyes uploaders too have done an excellent job in ramping up the sites content offering – it already indexes over 1100 active music video torrents.

Speaking of the torrent index, the site features music videos, live performances, full converts and music documentaries in HD and standard video formats. These are all well organized in the main index and search thanks to Gazelle. Notable features include Artist pages (somewhat similar to Series pages on BTN), collections, subscriptions, etc. A screenshot showing part of the main torrent index can be seen below:

As we mentioned earlier, open registrations would continue until Saturday the 22nd. To quote the official post on homepage:

Open registration will be closing Saturday. After we close registrations, invites will periodically be handed out at staff discretion, or through the points system.

If you are looking for a fast growing tracker for your music video needs, MusicEye is definitely worth a shot.

Site Name: MusicEye (http://musiceye.tv)

Signup URL: http://musiceye.tv/register.php

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We are back with two excellent online resources for music fans. Here are two specialized music torrent trackers that are currently open for signup; SatClubbing and Music-Torrents.Org. Some of our older readers may have heard of the former site since this is not the first time we’re featuring SC on this blog. Music-Torrents on the other hand is a promising new site that’s yet to ride the waves of publicity. Despite being overshadowed by giants such as What.CD and Waffles.Fm, both these trackers are doing pretty well in terms of adding new content. SatClubbing primarily caters to the Electronic music genre while Music-Torrents adds around 300 new torrents including scene releases, on a daily basis.

SatClubbing

SatClubbing is one of the veterans amongst smaller music communities and has been online for nearly four years (since 2007). Based on a customized TBDEV script, SC is known for its nice clean user interface and informative torrent index. The site currently tracks torrent packs, albums, singles, livesets of mostly Electronic, Techno, House and Trance music uploaded by both scene and P2P sources.

As of 9/5/2011, SC tracked around 17000 active torrents. A staggering 125000+ torrents have been uploaded to the tracker in total, since its inception. In case you want to become a member, signups will be open throughout the day on 9th May 2011.
Site Name: SatClubbing (http://satclubbing.info)
Signup URL: http://satclubbing.info/signup.php

Music-Torrents.Org

Music-Torrents is a relatively new private tracker compared to SatClubbing but its growth has been rapid. According to official statistics, the site adds around 300 new torrents on a daily basis. The total torrent count hovers somewhere around 24000 which is quite impressive. Unlike SatClubbing, MT does not limit itself to a single music genre. Instead, music related to 40+ different genres (mostly scene releases) are indexed.

Based on a xbtitFM codebase, Music-Torrents incorporates all the standard features of a private tracker including a bonus points system. If you are interested in joining, registrations are currently open.
Site Name: Music-Torrents (http://music-torrents.org)
Signup URL: http://music-torrents.org/index.php?page=signup

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The name vgmTorrents shouldn’t be too unfamiliar for our long time readers. We featured this unique private tracker for the first time in 2009 and it received very positive feedback from our readership back then. vgmTorrent was a BitTorrent tracker dedicated to indexing soundtracks from popular video games. It was indexing content related to a very specific niche and was the first of its kind. However, the site ran into troubled waters in 2010 and eventually shut down. Management problems were cited as the primary reason for this sudden closure. Good news is that vgmTorrents is now back online. Everything has been started again from scratch and the site has switched to a forum based style. All changes aside, vgmTorrents still remains to be a video game music tracker, indexing soundtracks, game rips, remix tracks and fan made music.

Although a lot has changed at vgmTorrents, it’s still run by the same owner as before. Here’s what Rosario (SysOp) had to say about the reboot:

As you have probably noticed, the tracker has just been restarted from scratch a few months ago mostly because of management problems. I also lacked experience with trackers a few years ago when I first created it. For this and a variety of other reasons I decided to wipe out everything and start again with stricter rules on contents and more organization in general. I want it to grow fast, and I'm uploading most stuff by myself and getting people to know about the tracker and join it.

In terms of statistics, the resurrected vgmT is still a very young torrent site. It currently only tracks around 75 torrents and has 185+ registered members. They’ve had almost zero publicity this time around and these stats will increase rapidly as news of their return spreads around the BT community.

Content is what makes vgmT such a unique private tracker. Instead of tracking movies, TV shows or other general stuff, vgmTorrents indexes official soundtracks (OST) from video games. It appears that they have now expanded to track remixed soundtracks, fan made music and even game rips. Screenshot below shows part of vgmTs torrent index:

Registrations for this tracker are currently open. If you are a video game music enthusiast or a collector, you might want to check it out. Of course, readers are more than welcome to share any game OSTs they own through this site.

Site Name: vgmTorrents (http://vgmtorrents.net)

Signup URL: http://vgmtorrents.net/index.php?app=core&module=global&section=register

P.S.- If you are the creative type, you can join vgmT’s logo design contest and stand a chance to win two original soundtracks CDs of your choice. It’s as simple as it sounds – design them a new site logo and the creator of the best submission wins.

Special thanks to Rosario "pt2ph8" for the heads up.

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In modern day and age, the moment you hear the words ‘music torrent tracker’, you automatically attribute them with illegal downloads which infringe copyright. While most of the torrent sites out there do enable sharing of copyrighted material, the BitTorrent technology can be put to legal uses as well. Panda.CD is a new private torrent tracker that demonstrates a legit use of BitTorrent – not only does the site encourage uploading legal music, but it also has a model where users can directly donate to artists as an appreciation of their work. Just like a regular music tracker, Panda.CD indexes MP3 and FLAC tracks of music related to a number of different genres. However, these files are either uploaded by artists themselves or are licensed under sharing friendly schemes such as Creative Commons. If you are interested in joining this unique tracker, signups are currently open.

Panda is a brand new torrent site and has only been online for a couple of days. It currently tracks around 160 torrents and has ~200 registered members. As mentioned earlier, PCD encourages artists to share their original music to be distributed over BitTorrent. The site has a unique ‘artist donations’ feature through which users can directly donate to artists as a reward for their efforts. More on how this feature works is quoted below:

Whenever you upload a torrent if you are the artist in question or you are an official representative, you have the option to enter your PayPal details and an (optional) donation target (which is total sum on donations that you would like to achieve). This will appear on the details page of the torrent, allowing other site members to donate directly to you for your torrents if they so wish.
Once a donation target has been reached on a torrent it will thereby be made freeleech for 1 week. Setting your donation info on your ‘edit’ page will also add a PayPal button to your profile. If you are the artist responsible for any of the torrents already uploaded here by another member please contact us to claim ownership and enable artist donations.
But of course, non-artist members can still upload freely available music. So don’t let that stop you.
We envision the site as being one where artists can come together to share their work, while members directly support the creation of new music.

Making an artist donation for a torrent you like is pretty easy – just click on the green star that appears next to the torrent name on main index. 

So, can only artists upload torrents to Panda.CD? Are only legal uploads allowed here? We contacted the site’s owner for further clarification:

Yeah only legal uploads are allowed. Any music can be uploaded as long as the licence permits it. So while this means that the site is more geared towards bands/artists releasing their own music, members could still potentially make their own rips of music that allows sharing (eg. existing creative commons music). Only the artist themselves, or an official representative may receive artist donations for a torrent.

It may be a new site but the concept behind Panda.CD is very interesting. If this kicks off, it could put to rest a lot of “BitTorrent is evil” myths out there. For those interested in joiing, signups are currently open.

Site Name: Panda.CD (http://panda.cd)

Signup URL: http://panda.cd/index.php?p=signup

Special thanks to Dave (PCD Owner) for the heads up.

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The past couple of months haven’t been particularly good ones for scene mp3 torrent trackers. We saw the demise of one of the largest torrent sites catering to this niche, VIPMusic, much to the disappointment of its loyal fan base. This was soon followed by extended downtime at MP3Scene, a private MP3 tracker that showed a lot of promise as a potential replacement to SceneSound. If you are a fan of scene released music albums, here’s some good news for a change; TuneSound is a brand new torrent site that aims to fill the gap left behind by the likes of VIPMusic, SceneSound and MP3Scene. It another site that’s based on the SoftMP3 source code. While TS has got off to a great start so far, it remains to be seen if this tracker can break the curse which seem to affect the SoftMP3 clones that launched in recent times. If you are interested in joining, signups are currently open.

Although it’s only been online for several days, TuneSound is off to a flying start. The site has already amassed over 550 torrents and managed to recruit 575+ members. These statistics are only poised to go up as news of the tracker spreads around the BitTorrent community. TS seems to have Swedish origins but thankfully for non Swedish members, the interface language supports 6 additional languages including English.

As we mentioned earlier, TuneSound is built on the same source as SoftMP3. It basically has the same look and feel of SoftMP3 and retains hallmark features such as the unique start page, separate browse pages each for new releases, archived releases, requests and lossless music, along with a few customizations here and there. As for the content, TS is a torrent tracker specializing in scene released MP3 music albums. Indexed music is organized into 40+ different genres including Rock, Pop, Indie, Punk, Jazz and more. In addition to MP3 files which form the majority of  torrent index, this site tracks some MDVDR and Lossless music files as well.

Registrations for TuneSound are currently open. Although there is no max user limit set currently, TS is expected to go invite only after the initial open registration period which may only last 1-2 weeks. If you love scene music, feel free to check this site out.

Site Name: TuneSound (http://tunesound.org)

Signup URL: http://tunesound.org/signup.php

News from other SoftMP3 based trackers:

• MP3Scene – MP3 Torrent Tracker Running On SoftMP3 Source
• SceneSound Tracker Now Open – MP3 & FLAC Music Album Torrents
• CareStreet – New scene MP3/Lossless tracker based on SoftMP3 source
• SoftMP3, SweDVDR and DarkSide trackers to shut down, TTi policy change

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Fond of Karaoke music? If so, this article might interest you. Today’s post is about two private torrent trackers that specializes in Karaoke music; Karaoke-World (KW) and Karaoke-Kingdom (KK). Although there are hundreds of generic music trackers out there, these two could probably be the only sites to focus solely on the Karaoke niche (which is a good thing). Karaoke World is the older tracker of the two and has been online for several months. It’s a pretty well established tracker with a decent user base and a good sized torrent index. Karaoke Kingdom on the other hand is a brand new site which just launched last week. Either way, these two sites are good resources if you are looking forward to download not only Karaoke music but Karaoke Apps and music videos too. Both sites are open for signup right now.

Karaoke-World

Karaoke World has been online for some time and was probably the first specialized karaoke tracker in the BitTorrent scene. It tracks all sorts of Karaoke music from over 50 different categories including collections, professional Karaoke, Music vids and some region specific releases. While the content is great, KW does not have the best looking user interface – Built on the TS Special Edition v.7.2 codebase, it uses high contrast color schemes and the UI looks a little cluttered in some places. The site has standard ratio rules and a bonus system is in place to reward members who actively seed and download. After suffering from an extended downtime recently, KW is back online with open registrations.
Site Name: Karaoke-World (http://karaoke-world.co.uk)
Signup URL: http://karaoke-world.co.uk/signup.php
Statistics: 2770+ users and ~3000 torrents

Karaoke-Kingdom

Karaoke Kingdom is the newest Karaoke tracker to have a public launch and it’s only a couple of days old. The site currently tracks around 115 torrents but expect this count to increase as the days progress. Just like Karaoke-World, KK tracks Karaoke music albums and collections spanning over 20 different categories. On the downside, this site too uses a high contrast color scheme that is not too easy on the eye (why they do this is beyond me). KK is built on the Torrentstrike codebase and comes with standard features you see on the average private tracker. Signups are currently open and Karaoke music fans might want to keep an eye on this one.
Site Name: Karaoke Kingdom (http://karaoke-kingdom.co.uk)
Signup URL: http://karaoke-kingdom.co.uk/signup.php
Stats: 115+ torrents

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Fans of Drum and Bass (DnB) music rejoice – GetTorrents (GT) is open for signup. This is one of those heavily underrated private trackers in the BitTorrent scene. For some reason, GT does not seem to get the attention and appreciation of music fans it rightfully deserves. Most people seem to consider this as yet another general tracker simply because of its name. Well, it’s certainly not a General/0day torrent site – GT specializes in music and is one of the best sources on the internet to find and download Drum and Bass albums and singles. It’s a veteran private tracker that’s been online for almost 4 years (since 2007) and by today has amassed a strong user base and a torrent index with thousands of music albums relating to a number of different music genres such as DnB, Dubstep, Electronic, House, Hip Hop, Jungle, Old School and more.

Despite the lack of a celebrity status in the BitTorrent scene, the past 4 years have been pretty good for GetTorrents. By today, it’s a decently sized private torrent tracker with over 11000 registered members and over 9500 active torrents. It doesn’t have the fancy features you’d see on a modern Gazelle based tracker but GT’s current codebase covers all the basics and will provide users with the regular features available on the average private torrent site.

The generic sounding name aside, GetTorrent is not a general torrent tracker. The site specializes in music, radio shows and DJ mixes. Bulk of the torrents are music albums which fall under the Drum and Bass genre. Apart from these, available torrent categories include Rave, Reggae, Techno, Trance, Dubstep, Electronic, House, Hip Hop, Jungle, Old School and Hardcore among others.  GT is home to both individual torrents as well as albums packs and discographies. Some of these collections can be seen in the screenshot below:

If you are interested in becoming a member of GetTorrents, this isn’t a particularly hard tracker to get into. While it remains invite only for the most part, there are timex the site is open to the public (such as right now). If you are a DnB music fan, this is definitely a site worth joining.

Site Name: GetTorrents (https://gettorrents.org)

Signup URL: https://gettorrents.org/signup.php

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When it comes to scene music torrent trackers, SoftMP3 was nothing short of a legend. Back in its day, the site was hugely popular in the BitTorrent community and had pretty high demand from music fans across the world. However, SoftMP3 voluntarily shut down citing safety reasons after the Pirate bay court verdict back in 2009. Source code of the site was released to the public and naturally, a flurry of replacements and clones followed the demise of this once great tracker. Unfortunately none of the new alternatives were as successful as SoftMP3 and most had shut down for good by 2011. Today’s article is about MP3Scene – the newest MP3 music torrent tracker to be running on SoftMP3 source. Despite the bad luck surrounding torrent sites based on this script, MP3Scene is off to a fine start and is adding new torrents at a rapid pace.

Within just a week into its public launch, MP3Scene’s statistics are looking pretty good. The site has so far managed to recruit over 1600 members through open registrations and this number is expected to increase as this tracker gains more exposure. Number of active torrents which was just around 100 a couple of days ago has increased rapidly to 2000, with over 1000 torrents being added in the last two days alone – if MP3Scene uploaders can keep this pace up in the long run, this tracker is definitely going to be a win. With the planned launch of autouploader bot (which according to the SysOP should arrive sometime this weekend), frequency and speed at which new torrents are added might even see further improvements. While the start has definitely been good for MP3Scene, let’s hope this tracker won’t suffer the same fate as previous SoftMP3 source based sites such as SceneSound or CareStreet.

As its name suggests, MP3Scene is a music torrent tracker specializing in scene released MP3 music albums. Indexed music is organized into 40+ different genres including Rock, Pop, Indie, Punk, Jazz and more. In addition to MP3 files which form the majority of  torrent index, this site tracks some MDVDR and Lossless music files as well. Just like SoftMP3, MP3Scene uses multiple torrent index pages as opposed to a single main index found on most other torrent sites. There are separate browse pages each for new releases, archived releases, requests and lossless music.

Being built on the same source base, ex members of SoftMP3, SceneSound or CareStreet trackers should feel right at home here. While there are minor changes made to the layout, favorite SoftMP3 features such as the archive section, lossless music section, customizable start page, easy to read FAQ and rules presentation, toplists and requests have all been retained.

Registrations for MP3Scene are currently open. It’s not known whether open signups would be closed anytime soon. Either way this looks like a promising new entrant to the MP3 trackers scene so go ahead and check it out.

Site Name: MP3Scene (http://mp3scene.org)

Signup URL: http://mp3scene.org/opensignup.php

Special thanks to Rytmus (SoftMP3 SysOp) and our reader BrandtOE for the heads up.

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Music torrent tracker scene is currently dominated by several monolithic torrent sites such as What.CD and Waffles.FM. These sites cover pretty much all music requirements of the average BitTorrent user and thus tend to overshadow other small scale music trackers. Despite this, there are quite a few lesser known specialized music trackers out there which index unique content and not just re-hashes of same old files found on every other music BitTorrent site. Lossless World is one such tracker which has it’s own rippers, uploaders and therefore a torrent index filled with exclusive releases. As you may have guessed from the name, the site tracks high quality lossless English music relating to multiple genres. Open signups are closed but invite applications and IRC interviews are open for those who are interested in getting in – that said, note that this is not the easiest private tracker to get into.

Launched a couple of months ago, Lossless World has so far taken a ‘quality over quantity’ approach towards building user base as well as adding new content. The site currently tracks around 2500 torrents and has an active user base of ~500 members. If I’m not mistaken, LW is yet to have an open signup – it’s unlikely this is ever going to happen judging by the current site policies regarding user recruitment.

For a smaller niche tracker such as LW, the strength lies in tracking unique and exclusive content and not in having a massive user base. Thankfully, this is where LW excels. There are a number of music rips on this tracker that you won’t find anywhere else. They seem to have some good internal sources and a great team of dedicated uploaders. As mentioned earlier, LW is a Lossless Music tracker. Allowed music formats are limited to FLAC,APE,TAK,WAVPACK & ALAC. Some of the music categories indexed can be seen in the screenshot below:

Quoted below are some of Lossless World upload rules – this should give you a pretty clear idea on what sort of content you can find on this tracker:

• No radio, television, web rips, or podcasts. The only exception to this is when the recording only exists in that version.
• We allow only FLAC,APE,TAK,WAVPACK & ALAC uploads for music
• CD-sourced material must not have any skips, pops, or clicks.
• All uploads must contain an info.txt file with information about album: tracklist, review(s), catalog number, and recording company. The minimum requirement is CD name, tracklist, label, and catalog number. No BBcode or HTML code
• All uploads must contain album cover art. It should be in the root of your upload and should be named as 'thumb', 'thumbnail', 'cover', 'folder', or 'front'. File extensions: 'jpg', 'png' and 'gif' are acceptable. Only Exception is if the upload is a unofficial recording (capped show, bootleg) and there has never been a physical disc release. Including images of the CD and or tray is also encouraged in the root folder. All other high-resolution pictures (booklet scans, front and back, inside and etc) should be included in a folder named 'Artwork', 'Covers' or 'Art'. If, and only then, your Upload contains high res (min 300 DPI and min front and back) artwork, tick the "artworkbox.

Currently, there are two ways to get into Lossless World – by submitting the online invite application on by taking the IRC interview. By looking at some of the questions in invite app it’s apparent that LW are looking for active members who have something to upload back to the site. If you are interested, check out the links below.

Site Name: Lossless World (https://losslessworld.info)

Online Invite Application URL: https://losslessworld.info/singapp.php

IRC Interview Channel: irc://irc.p2p-irc.net:6667/LW.interviews

Special thanks to LW Staff for the heads up.

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Regular readers of this blog should be familiar with the name CoExist (CE for short). CE is a ratio free private torrent tracker specializing in all kinds of English music. Just like most other private trackers, CE has been invite only from the start. Although there have been several invite giveaways on IRC, this has been one of those ‘shy’ trackers which didn’t prefer much publicity. Good news is that registrations have now been opened probably for the first time ever on CE and you can now create a new account without the need for an invite code and without having to go through an interview. Open signups come on the backdrop of CE v3 launch – v3 is a major site overhaul including migration to Gazelle RC2 codebase and addition of many new site features.

As some of you may remember, CE initially launched as a Gazelle based tracker. However, ongoing problems with the codebase prompted them to move to a TBDEV based implementation. This has again been changed in CE v3 – the site is back on Gazelle RC 2 and this time around the move seems to have gone smoothly. But CE v3 isn’t all about a source change – it involves a ton of new features and enhancements, some of which you can find listed below:

Added

• Last.FM info on your profile - includes your recently played tracks / Last.FM overview / Top 50 played artists.
• IRC Bot providing more integrated functions
• Announce Bot for IRC announcing both torrents and forum posts.
• Bonus Points - You get 1 point per hour per torrent.
• Un-Read forum post checker
• the video tag for posting youtube video's in your profile information / forums / torrent descriptions
• Shout Box with IRC integration

Changed

• The Studio is now Up Beat!
• Number of forums is now reduced to make it a little less spread out.

Planned

• Last.FM integration on artist pages
• Auto Tagging System
• Ability to search and download directly from IRC
• IRC idle bonus
• Advanced HnR system
• Light Theme
• CSS Template for user created theme's and a unoffical repo of style sheets.

Even with the move, CE remains to be a ratio free torrent site. Ratio system on this tracker is more or less replaced by the ‘Fame’ bonus system. There are multiple ways you can earn fame (seeding, idle bonus etc). Once you earn enough fame, you can exchange them for various goodies or gift points to other members. Note that being ratio free does not mean you can hit and run - keep everything you download seeded for at least 3 days (72 hours) within the first 5 days and you should be fine.

As you can see from the screenshot above, CE is an English music tracker. You can find music related to various genres and of varying quality (MP3, FLAC, etc). At the time this post was being written, it indexed over 1500 active torrents and had a user base of ~2800 members. These are just starting days for CE v3 and statistics would no doubt increase in the coming days.

Registrations for CE are currently open. According to staff, open signups would continue until they recruit 5000 members. That leaves around 2200 free slots remaining so get in while you can.

Site Name: CoExist (http://coexist.biz)

Signup URL: http://coexist.biz/register.php

Special thanks to CE staff for the heads up.

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Great news for music fans – TorrentTech is having a rare open sign up. TT is now 4 years old and they are finishing off birthday celebrations by opening doors to new members. Being one of the largest music torrent communities currently online, this is a must have site for music lovers looking to expand their digital collection. TorrentTech tracks a ton of torrents relating to multiple music genres including House, Techno, Trance, Pop, Hardcore and many more. Just like many other private communities, this site is usually invite only (invites are easily obtainable if you join their IRC). However, you will be able to create a free account without the need for an invite during the open registration period, which will last until Monday (22nd).

Quoted below is the official announcement regarding the latest round of open registrations:

to finish off our birthday celebration we'll be opening our doors to new members - from friday, noon (12h00) GMT+1 until monday, noon (12h00) GMT+1 we will have OPEN REGISTRATION.
help show off our great tT community by telling your friends and p2p homies; introduce them to our forums, our netlabel, and our radio... spread the word!
... and don't forget to keep seeding your downloads so our new friends can enjoy the terrific selection of available releases here at tT.
cheers to the next 4 years!

And now for some details about TorrentTech. By any standards, TT is a huge private tracker. At the time this post was being written, it had over 37000 active members and tracked over 66000 music torrents (pointing to over 590000 files). It may not be as large as What.CD (and there isn’t a music tracker on this planet that can rival What in terms of size so this may not be a fair comparison) but it’s still a decently sized tracker with a lot of content and members.

If you are used to standard tracker layouts such as those provided by TBDEV, Gazelle, etc, you may find TT’s interface to be unfamiliar. Built on a IP Board environment, this is one of those forum based trackers – it functions a lot like most DDL forums out there but with tracker features such as number of seeds, leechs, etc integrated into forum threads. Part of TT’s main torrent file index can be seen in the screenshot below:

As mentioned earlier registrations for TT are currently open. Open signups will continue for three days and will on Monday the 22nd. It’s not everyday this tracker opens its doors so get in while you can.

Site Name: TorrenTech (http://www.torrentech.org)

Registration URL: http://www.torrentech.org/index.php?act=Reg&CODE=00

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Up until now, musiCore was known amongst the file sharing community as a site which offered direct download links (DDL) to scene released music albums. However, thanks to the recent changes and new features implemented by musiCore staff, this impression will soon change. It’s no longer just a DDL forum – the site has morphed into a hybrid download engine which now offers three ways of leeching music; DDL, torrents and FTP links. For those of you who’ve never heard about musiCore, it auto uploads scene released music albums to file hosting services (and now to a torrent tracker & FTP) so that they may be downloaded by the general public. In fact, a recently pre’d SceneNotice (more info in previous article) identified this site as a ‘0sec HTTP Site Mirroring to Public’. For those of you are interested in joining, basic membership registrations are currently open.

Although musiCore is not as popular a source for music downloads as What.Cd or Waffles.Fm, it’s actually doing a great job in terms of adding new content. Around 350 new albums are uploaded by the service on a daily basis – that’s a lot of music and you don’t often see that much of new content on other similar DDL/torrent sites. And the fact that you now get to choose *how* you are going to download the files (DDL/Torrent or FTP) should make the service even more popular.

But are all these for free? Well, most of it is, but to access some features of the site, you need to get promoted to advanced members group or become a donor. Actually the user class system and membership requirements on musiCore can be a little confusing so we have presented it in a more simplified form below:

• musiCore is currently open for registration. Anyone who gets is through open regs will start as a ‘Basic Member’
• Basic members have full access to DDL links.
• Basic members do not have access to torrent downloads – However, they are allowed to upload (seed). Once you upload 1GB of data to musiCore’s tracker, you will get promoted to ‘Advanced Members’ group.
• ‘Advanced Members’ have full access to both DDL and Torrent downloads.
• Users invited  by existing musiCore members will automatically start out as ‘Advanced Members’.
• ‘Advanced Members’ will all be awarded one invite each month (if they don’t have any invites left).
• FTP access is for donors only. While ‘Advanced Members’ can log into the FTP server and view directories/files, only donors can actually download. To be honest, this part is basically a pay-to-leech operation.

musiCore offers two ways of browsing their massive index – a forum based system where music releases are organized into threads (http://musicore.net/forums/index.php) as well as using a searchable index (Log in and visit http://musicore.net/). In addition, a separate page where all DDL links (sorted by date) are added, is also available at http://musicore.net/ddl. At a glance, the forum system appears to be more user friendly – main index takes some getting used to but this too comes in very handy at times.

Screenshot above shows part of musiCore’s searchable index. Through the ‘Link Mode’ drop down, you can switch between modes of leeching. If you select ‘Default’ or ‘Filehoster’ options, you will be given DDL links on remote one click hosting services (click on a release name –> this will display a yellow colored box with a link –> click this and you will be directed to album download location). If you choose ‘Torrents’ from the drop down and click on an entry, the browser will immediately start to download the .torrent file (you may also start the torrent download by clicking on the number of seeds for a particular release). FTP links work pretty much the same way, provided that your user class has the necessary permissions. There are lots of additional features in this interface and we recommend you play with it and find out for yourself :p

As mentioned earlier, registrations for musiCore are currently open. Those who sign up through this method will start out as Basic Members.

Site Name: musiCore (http://musicore.net)

Registration URL: http://musicore.net/forums/index.php?app=core&module=global&section=register

Forum URL: http://musicore.net/forums/index.php

Tracker/DDL/FTP Searchable Index URL: Log in and visit http://musicore.net/

All In One DDL Releases Index URL: http://musicore.net/ddl/

For basic members – How to upload data to musiCore:

1. Download a music album to your hard disk from another source i.e. a torrent site or another DDL.
2. Locate the same album release on musiCore. Download the torrent.
3. Once you have the torrent loaded in your client, change its data directory so that it points to the location where you placed files you downloaded in step 1. Your torrent client will now re-check the data and start seeding the torrent (if files match).
4. You can seed several albums at the same time. Once you seed 1GB+ data to musiCore’s tracker, you will be promoted ‘Advanced Member’ user class.

If you liked musiCore you may also like:

• Direct Download Techno, DnB, Hardcore & Other Electronic Music Albums From Corebay
• MUSiK.AM – Direct Download MP3 Music Albums
• FLAC Share – Direct Download Lossless Music From RapidShare, MegaUpload & More
• TrancElite – Trance Music Direct Download Forum With Lossless & Lossy Files
• 0DayMusic – Direct Download Music Albums

Special thanks to Andrew Coder for the heads up.

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Over the past couple of months, several new music video trackers joined the BitTorrent scene. However, sites that initially looked promising such as MVidBitz and SilverSeed disappeared all too quickly, leaving only a handful well established sites (i.e. Music-Vids) to cater the needs of music video fans. SceneVids is a brand new private tracker that aims to fill this void – it’s a specialized music video torrent site which is only a week old.The site appears to index scene released music videos and non scene uploads are not allowed. SceneVids is probably ratio free – a ratio system exists but there was a news post on site which said ‘we don’t care' about ratio’ :/ For those of you interested in becoming members, signups are currently open. It might not be the most hyped hot new tracker on the block, but it definitely has the potential to succeed.

During the week or so it has been online, SceneVids has managed to add over 200 torrents to its index. Over 100 of these were added yesterday (17th) alone – if SceneVids could keep up this pace with new daily torrent additions, this tracker is definitely going to be a hit among the BitTorrent community. Sites statistics as of 18/9/2010 read 215 active torrents and 800+ users.

As far as the content goes, this tracker indexes music videos and music videos only. All of the indexed torrents are scene releases and as mentioned above non-scene uploads are not allowed. As you can see from the screenshot below, videos are organized into music genres for easy browsing:

Signups for SceneVids are currently open. It’s not known whether registrations would close after a certain number of users join the site or if doors would remain open forever. Either way, check it out if you are a music video fan.

Site Name: SceneVids (http://scenevids.info)

Signup URL: http://scenevids.info/signup.php

If you prefer Direct Download Link (DDL) forums over torrent trackers, you may also want to check out the sites below:

• MVHive Forum – Direct Download Hundreds Of Scene & Non Scene Music Videos
• MVDDL.Net – Another Music Video Direct Download Link Forum Now Open

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More updates from the BitTorrent scene – after the bitter shutdown of Elektronik a couple of days ago, this time we have a bit of good news. As you may know, torrent trackers automatically prune user accounts when they are not used for a certain amount of time (this time period is usually mentioned in the torrent site’s rules page). Pruned accounts are often not re-enabled unless the account owner gives a good reason – this has to be manually done through site staff. CoExist (CE), a ratio free private music tracker has taken a rather unusual decision to re-enable all accounts which were previously disabled for inactivity. If you joined CE sometime back and later abandoned it for some reason, now is a good time to revisit the site and have a look around. During the last couple of months CE has added many new features and almost doubled the size of their torrent index. If you are completely new to the site and want to sign up for an account, you can obtain an invite through their IRC invites channel as well.

Launched in February 2009, CE was off to somewhat of a rocky start – initially it was based on Gazelle codebase and there were numerous issues with this implementation. However, the site’s coders managed to turn things around (switching to TBDEV in the process) and today CE is a well customized private tracker with many additional features not usually found most other music torrent sites including the well detailed ‘fame’ bonus points system. Although the site has been closed for signup throughout it’s lifespan, it has a strong active community of 2000+ registered members. CE currently tracks 8200+ active torrents, up from 3700 back in last October. All of the torrents point to high quality English music, music videos and OST spanning across 40+ different music genres.

As we mentioned earlier, a good reason for you to revisit CE is the addition of new usability features. Following is a summary of new features added to site – and this only covers those introduced during the month of May.

• Further integration between CE Radio and tracker interface. This includes updated themes, ability to search the torrent index based on what’s playing on radio, last.fm search and more.
• Tweaks to the torrent browse page. This includes new category icons, cleaned up index structure with less clutter, color coded torrents and so on.
• New album reviews page - accessible from the little green icon in the upper right or from this link.
• New music news page – accessible from here.
• Artist Wiki – accessible from this location.

And let’s not forget the infamous bonus system over at CE. Ratio system on this tracker is more or less replaced by the ‘Fame’ bonus system. There are multiple ways you can earn fame (seeding, etc). Once you earn enough fame, you can exchange them for various goodies at CoExist Record Shop. CE Record Shop is far more advanced that the average bonus exchange present on most private trackers. Goodies found in the record shop are placed in four categories; Unlockables, Raids, Invites and Disk Space. Some of the stuff that can be unlocked include hidden torrents, invites and even seedbox slots.

If you signed up for a CE account earlier, you will now be able to use your old login to enter the site. If you were never a member of this site but want to find out more, a new invite can be obtained from their official invites channel.

Site Name (Login): CoExist (http://www.coexist.biz)

IRC Channel Details:

• Server: irc://irc.coexist.biz
• Channel: #ce.invites
• Direct Link: irc://irc.coexist.biz/ce.invites

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After an extended invite only period spanning across many months, Pianosheets (PS) have opened registrations to the public. PS is a very unique private tracker that indexes content not usually found on your average BitTorrent tracker. It tracks piano sheet music, tutorials, electronic books & books with audio plus other educational material that will probably be useful for all students of music. The site has been online for several years (see our previous post about PS made way back in 2008) and has a loyal user base making it one of the more active communities in the BitTorrent scene. It recently underwent a massive upgrade and is now powered by What.CD’s Gazelle codebase. If you are a musician or if you are a student currently learning/willing to learn music, chances are that you’ll find PianoSheets a pretty damn useful online resource.

Last time we featured this tracker it only had 1500 active torrents. This amount has now risen above 6700. User base has also been strengthened and there are now over 4500+ active members registered on PS. For a niche private tracker that has been invite only during most of its lifetime, these statics are pretty good.

Like in most private trackers focusing on a niche category, content is king on PianoSheets. This tracker has some unique torrents you might not find elsewhere – piano sheet music as well as various books, educational material on a number of other musical instruments such as drums, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, organ, woodwind, etc are available for download. Magazines, lyrics, full scores, theory books, etc may also be found. A screenshot capturing part of PianoSheet’s torrent index and some of its torrent tags can be seen below:

The ‘Collections’ section on PianoSheets makes it easier to discover related torrents. It’s a powerful usability feature that creates virtual torrent packs – something similar to ‘Collages’ found on most Gazelle based sites. This section is easily accessible from the top toolbar.

Signups for PianoSheets are currently open. This is the first open signup after several months so don’t hesitate to make full use of it. As said above musicians and music students should find this tracker useful.

Site Name: PianoSheerts (http://www.pianosheets.org)

Signup URL: http://www.pianosheets.org/register.php

If by the time you read this post signups have closed, an invite may be found on their official IRC invites channel

Server: irc.p2p-network.net

Channel: #ps-invites

Direct Link: irc://irc.p2p-network.net/ps-invites

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If you are looking for high quality music downloads, here’s a torrent tracker you’d be interested in. KillaWaves (better known as KWS) is a Gazelle based private BitTorrent tracker that specializes in Drum and Bass (DnB), Oldskool, Jungle, Ambient, Techno, Garage and Dubstep music. Launched just a few months ago, KWS is still a pretty young BitTorrent tracker – however it has already made a name for itself when it comes to high quality music album rips. It recently underwent a domain name change is now accessible from the URL http://killawaves.org. Ever since it’s launch, KWS has remained an invite only community and has never once opened its doors to the public – however, interested music fans can easily get free invites from the site’s official IRC channel.

KWS’s relatively silent entry into the BitTorrent scene several months ago hasn’t gone unnoticed by music fans. Although never opened for public signups, KWS has managed to recruit a user base strong enough to keep the torrents alive. Speaking of torrents, KWS is dead serious when it comes to audio quality and only only V0, 320 and FLAC formats are allowed on this tracker. Although they are selective of quality, the number of indexed torrents does not seem to be affected. As of 4/19/2010 KWS tracked over 3100 torrents spanning across 2400+ albums by ~1400 artists.

As mentioned above KWS primarily tracks music related to DNB, Jungle, Ambient, Downtempo, House/Techno, Break, Dubstep and Garage music. Available music releases include latest albums released in 2010 as well as popular hits released back in early 1990s. As we mentioned earlier, quality of music uploads is taken very seriously on KWS – site rules indicate “All torrents must be of a bit rate no less than the VBR preset, V0. Therefore, only V0, 320 and FLAC are allowed onto this tracker. When uploading FLAC, you can easily convert it to both 320 kbps and V0”. A screenshot of KWS interface which captures several releases and category icons can be seen below:

Note that KillaWaves makes extensive use of Gazelle’s Collages feature (which is renamed ‘Labels’ in this iteration). All new torrents are automatically added to a label and thus users are able to browse entire music collections released by a particular music label at any point of time.

KWS is closed for signups and would probably remain closed forever. Interested users can gain access to the tracker by going through the IRC interview. You will be asked a few questions about audio quality, general knowledge of BitTorrent, etc.

Server: irc.killawaves.org
Channel: #Invites
Direct Link: irc://irc.killawaves.org/Invites
Newbie to IRC? Never fear – it’s not remotely complicated as it sounds. Read this brief tutorial and you will be all set.

Note: Once on the channel, do as the topic says. There may be delays due to staff not being available on channel sometimes. This may be caused by various reasons such as time zone differences, etc so please be patient.

Special thanks to KWS staff for the support given.

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Several of our readers have asked us to post about a good private torrent tracker which has mixtapes so here it comes. MixFiend is one of the largest private communities when it comes to downloading Mixtape torrents. On this tracker, you can find music related to a number of different music genres such as Hip-Hop, RnB, Reggae, etc. Some of you may not have heard about MixFiend but it’s been online for several years – we even had an old review of this tracker, which was posted way back in 2008. If you are looking for a decent place to download mixtapes at reliable download speeds you should check this tracker out. Registrations are open so joining should not be a problem even if you are a newbie to private trackers.

For some of you, this will probably be the first time you hear about MixFiend. However, this is by no means a small site. It’s actually a huge private tracker which has over 185000 registered users and tracks over 21000 torrents. MxF has been online since 2006 and by 2010 it’s grown into a veteran tracker that’s over 3.5 years old.

Speaking of the content on MixFiend, it’s all about mixtapes. There’s as lot of music indexed here (both old and new) that belong to the following categories;  General, Dirty South, East Coast, West Coast, R&B, Acapellas, Blends, Dance Hall, Reggae, Reggaeton, Classic / Old Tapes, International, Instrumentals, Unsigned Hype, NEW Singles, Old Singles, Chopped & Screwed, Music Videos / Bonus DVDs, Diss Tracks and Live Footage. In addition to regular mixtapes, this tracker houses some great DJ collections, instrumentals and even some bonus DVDs and music videos.   

Above is a screenshot from MixFiend that shows part of its torrent index. It’s worth mentioning that with a user base close to 2k members, there’s very good activity as well as longer lifetime for indexed torrents. Apart from the torrents, MixFiend comes packed with almost all features found on a regular BitTorrent tracker including forums, search, support for multiple languages, requests and RSS feeds. The site is build on a custom tracker script and has a unique layout as well.

Registrations for MixFiend are currently open. In fact, they’ve always been open whenever we checked on this site so it’s safe to assume the doors might not close anytime soon. However it is still a private tracker and registration is required to view, download or upload torrents.

Site Name: MixFiend (http://mixfiend.com/)

Signup URL: http://mixfiend.com/account-signup.php

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Several months ago we talked about how BitTorrent trackers have embraced Twitter as an alternate communication medium. Lately, we’ve been seeing lots of trackers using Twitter not just for communication but for expansion and member recruitment as well. We saw TL giving away invite codes for their followers, TemplateP2P tweeting random invites, Jambands recruiting via Twitter DM and ScienceHD making invite apps public through the service (and the list goes on). SceneSound is the latest site to launch a Twitter based expansion phase and they plan to give away 100+ free invites to their followers between today (10th) and Friday (12th). If you still aren’t a member of this great scene MP3 music tracker, here’s another chance to become one.

Launched back in June 2009, SceneSound has come a long way in a pretty short time. After being online for less than a year’s SS’s torrent index now boasts a massive 22000+ torrents. Number of registered users has risen close to 7500 and this could have been a lot higher had the site opened signups more frequently. Either way there is plenty of activity and torrents here and the download speeds are pretty decent. Main index does not record pre times but from what we saw, they weren't bad at all.

If you still don’t know, SceneSound is a scene only MP3 tracker which tracks albums released by groups such as FNT, DOH, LzY, hM, H3X, SiRE, pLAN9 and many more. Apart from the 20000 odd albums which are in MP3 format, there is lossless section on site which tracks a few albums in FLAC format. All these releases are categorized in relation to over 40 different music genres.

Coming back to the invite give away, all you have to do in order to become eligible is to follow SceneSound on Twitter. SS staff will keep you up to date on the proceedings and instruct you how to obtain your invites – keep in mind all of this will be done via  Twitter. To become a follower of SceneSound, do the steps below:

1. If you don’t have a Twitter account, create one from here.
2. Log in to your Twitter account.
3. Follow http://twitter.com/scenesound on Twitter and watch for updates.

If you are looking for a scene only music tracker, you should seriously consider joining this site. Lots of releases, less crap and good activity. Currently. the entire archive section is on free leech – we do not know how long this will continue but use it wisely :p.

Site Name: SceneSound (http://scenesound.org)

Twitter URL:  http://twitter.com/scenesound

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