If you are a real music enthusiast then I’d recommend you to join Private Trackers for Music, REDacted (RED) and OrPheuS (OPS) are the two big ones. RED is pretty much the successor of What cd. You’d be able to find pretty much all the music you could ask for on RED/OPS and in the highest quality (FLAC). To join them, you’d have to attend their interview (text based) on their IRC. They’d ask you basic questions about music and bittorrent. You can find more information here - https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html

I’m just warning you, Do NOT, under any circumstance, visit their site while the interview is going on (i.e. while they’re asking you questions), they monitor all the traffic coming on that site and if you’re caught, you’d be banned from all the major private trackers forever. Don’t stress it, all the information they’re gonna ask is on the interview site, read it a couple of times and then queue for the interview, getting the interview is the hard part as the interviewers are voluntary members of RED so there are not many of them. Most of the interview happen on the weekends but you would need to queue in a few days ago to get a good position in the queue.

Their CEO’s comments last year still feel disgusting and I trust them as a company far less than I trust Mullvad as a result, but the service they offer is stellar regardless.

https://lemmy.today/comment/17273349

Nicotine+ for a better interface of Soulseek

Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time

Yes location and Upload Speed does come into play when a modern torrent client tries to pick which seeders to connect to. Users with very high upload speeds will obviously get more connections. This is why it’s super hard for users to get Upload on private trackers like RED where a lot of users use 10-20 Gbps seedboxes. Your average 500 mbps connections has no chance against it, you’d get around 1-5% upload of the size of that torrent if you’re lucky. There’s also a thing where Seedboxes would pick seedboxes that are in the same data centers, racks as them and would cross-seed/leech between themselves first.

Here - https://fmhy.net/videopiracyguide#download-subtitles