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OiNK Releasing Talent Enhances Other Trackers

Great BitTorrent releasers are a comparatively rare breed and until recently, a huge collection of them were safely locked inside a fenced Pink Palace. Now, thanks to the IFPI, trackers around the world and greater numbers of people than ever before are starting to benefit from an influx of talented OiNK refugees.

FlyingPig

OiNK was considered by many to be the finest BitTorrent music tracker the world has ever seen. Tracking only the finest recordings from virtually every musical genre, beautifully labeled and cataloged releases were its trademark, created by people who thrived under some of the harshest releasing rules the torrent community had ever seen. Nothing less than the highest quality was good enough for OiNK.

Then the IFPI huffed and puffed and blew down the little pigs home and they had ‘won’.

Not quite. Did the entire OiNK indexed music library disappear? Did the releasers all see the error of their ways and stop releasing there and then? Did all the ex-members give up sharing? No, of course not.

OiNK didn’t carry any content, its users did. Taking out the OiNK site didn’t remove a single song from any of OiNK’s users libraries and they are taking their collections with them as they migrate to other sites, ready to share another day.

TorrentFreak has been listening to some interesting comments from some specialist music trackers (such as those on this list) who are not only getting record numbers of signups in the last few days but are also delighted to welcome talented OiNK releasers who seem really keen to share.

One admin told us: “Since the shutdown of OiNK we’re getting a spike in new memberships, at least 6 times more. Normally some of these can be bad members who do not share or are making trouble in the forum but I am happy to say that many come from OiNK and they are behaving like gentlemen (and ladies!)”

He continued: “We have an uploader application form on our tracker and we ask a few questions to the guy, then we make a decision if he is reliable etc before we give him releasing rights. On a regular day that list has many applications from novices with no experience (which can be trouble!). Now we get many OiNK members asking to release in this one week. They have amazing collections and make a 100% perfect release each time. It’s a great boost for our community.”

TorrentFreak spoke with the admins of three genre-dedicated music trackers who all confirmed that they picked up lots of ex-OiNK members and offers to release this week. This could be the tip of a very, very large iceberg – OiNK covered just about every genre imaginable and all of those sharers were made homeless after the raid – many of them for up to 10 minutes – but immediately settled in elsewhere, ready to share again.

The Pink Palace may be closed, but the beats go on and on as some of the best sharers in the world spread their wings to trackers far and wide. Maybe pigs can fly after all.

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  • anon

    ive noticed it too. several of the music trackers im a part of have had non-scene releases increase like 100fold since OiNK was forced closed.

    Now instead on one place, the IFPI will have to get into multiple sites, all of which i know have shut their doors.

    x

  • Marty McFly

    Having been an Oink user for just about a year I’m finding it hard to get into trackers, and the private ones I do get into don’t allow non scene releases. Private trackers should open their doors for a week or two so us Oinkers can get in. As the article states if you were on Oink you had to know what you were doing with the strict rules. I myself was a power user meaning that I had a ratio of over 1.01 (1.36 at raid time) with around 70 gigs uploaded. I had invites, and everything. But now I can’t get into anything worth while. Not with any decent quality control that is. I just hope the pirate bay gets Boink up and going..if thats happening or not..and it’ll get off the ground. I’ve got 90 gigs of music just sitting waiting. I don’t mind public trackers, but I hate having to get my music from Demonoid and Soulseek..

    Oink was 100x better than any tracker that i’ve ever seen. people who disagree werent members.

  • kornflake

    yea i know a few sites have had to get more servers to help balance the load but it seems st music is realy good and even made a upload section for users and not just scene stuff

  • fdgsdf

    ofc, oink may be closed, but its users will never disapperar

  • anon

    yes, stm have definately done fantastically in this. aswell as libble.
    xx

  • Anonymous

    It would be really cool, if there was an application that would allow me to share my oink torrents I have downloaded on other trackers automatically, maybe even multiple times. OK, the metadata may be added later. But i think that’s not possible.

  • silenxxx

    kudos to OinKers!
    lets see what the IFPI is gonna do about that

  • Anonymous

    to bad.. the community become fragmented

  • Anonymous

    too bad.. the community become fragmented

  • tbh

    Idd that’s sad. OiNK was by far the best torrent site. Even the most expensive ‘legal download’ site, doesn’t even come close to the quality OiNK had.
    Rules were strict, but realistic and useful.

  • jome

    and don’t forget to mention the
    huge amount of software they had..

    also a big loss :(

  • Ed Pummelon

    That was a really nicely written article, one of the best I’ve read on here in a while. In fact, one of the best I’ve read on any BT blog in a while. Thanks :)

  • jack

    check out this site

    http://www.esooti.com

  • Missing Oink

    What all music unloaders should strive for are the same quality as was evident in Oink. Perhaps, with the passing of Oink, these qualities that made Oink so great will spread to other music sites.
    It certainly will be a good day when we stop seeing transcodes and bitrates below 192.

  • An0num0s

    [quote comment="198947"]ofc, oink may be closed, but its users will never disapperar[/quote]

    Give it some time… they will

  • Name

    So OiNK was lossless only? That’s new to me…

  • Ink

    “OiNK didn’t carry any content, its users did.”

    Exactly!

  • Menzo

    Problem is, since Oink was such a good sight, the majority of us good Oinkers never bothered searching or getting accounts on other trackers. Now that it’s down, there’s a whole bunch of us with HQ collections out there that can’t find a home *Sniff*.

    If only Oink re-instated the site’s memberlist and forums for us all to find a better migration route, or at least some damn invites so we don’t have to run around with the Non-Oink I-want-an-invite crowd.

  • GrX

    thinik i’ts stupid all these sites closing signups i mean just because it’s invite only means nothing as we seen with oink and a load of other private sites that got taken down over the years…

    end of the day if they want in they will get in and who’s saying they are not already in every single tracker that private as we speak? so all closing the doors is going to do is keep the massive power oink users out which is a win for the authorities and the powers that shut oink down.

    If a site is going to be busted and closed then i dont see the point of limiting the members sharing i’d rather go down with 189,000 members than 5,000 etc..

    there is 180,000 members and i bet 90% of them cannot get in anywhere else to share their oink content.

    these admins of these trackers are idiots lol all us oinkers left in the dark banging on the door to make their community fill up with proper content proper music and we cannot even get in touch with them to explain the error of their ways.

  • Menzo

    As far as I know, the only music tracker of sufficient reputation that has yet to close themselves up is STMusic. We might as well all move over there and help build it up since the other sites are all going dark. If they won’t take us Oink refugees in, we’ll just have to find a more open site (AKA STMusic).

  • troutmask

    there are several good site which are now receiving my and many other torrents…just go out and find them.
    An0num0s and his silly cronies are flat earthers. I bet he believes in Alien Abduction and that men never landed on the moon. The giant record industry is pretty much finished, their cocaine sniffing days on the backs of the talents they exploited are over and done. As a punk from the 70′s I saw the first real attempts to shake up this complacent industry and the development of great labels like Factory, it is only sad that Tony Wilson has died before seeing the fruits of his labours come to pass now the technology is back in the hands of the people.

  • GrX

    file sharing torrent sites and their admins have the whole thing wrong the idea is to all stand together and unite were all meant to be flooding the Internet 100x more with file sharing so we basically make it impossible for them to stop us and kill off file sharing but these people don’t seem to understand the concept.

    it’s like ants the more you stamp us out the more will come out the ground but this isn’t happening like it should!

    For instance when a site goes down like oink the database + source to the site should be made fully public that then means there could be 1000′s of replacement oinks which is going to be impossible for the assholes to keep killing 1 site of at a time.. look what happens the way it is? oink gone no replacements only invite closed stupid sites.

    the whole point is not for personal gain the whole point of releasing the code + db’s to everyone and anyone is to show them if they hit us once… we will hit back and make it 10000 times worse

    but as per usual people are totally self-ish if oinks gone now release the damn code + database to the world so we can make 1000′s of replacements

    use your brains because AT the moment they are WINING!!

    and before you reply back flaming me or saying shut up just think about if we all worked together not for personal gain but to make sure file sharing lives the way it was meant to be.

  • Menzo

    I had hoped sites like Pedro’s BT, Libble, TranceTraffic, or even e***o would open their doors after Oink went down. Normally I can understand them wanting to keep things private, but after the 23rd there are 180k+ Oinkers out there. We all individually have so much to contribute to their sites.

  • alex

    I just hope BOink is as strict with the upload rules as the old Oink was.

  • SoOTi

    BOink will be a public site, so expect loads of junk like on TPB…

    i think stmusic will be the next oink.. but time will tell

  • LuvPlugg

    [quote comment="199045"]I just hope BOink is as strict with the upload rules as the old Oink was.[/quote]

    BOiNK is going to be a public tracker. not sure how strict you can be on the public….

  • oink sucked

    once i found the good metal trackers i said FU to oinks nazi like quality restrictions and rules. not to mention the users at oink had no concept of what good metal was…

  • http://neuron2neuron.blogspot.com Ben Jones

    [quote comment="198936"]
    Now instead on one place, the IFPI will have to get into multiple sites, all of which i know have shut their doors.

    x[/quote]

    Unfortunatly, the sad fact is that they undoubtedly are already on those trackers. Despite what people may think, they are not idiots, and they employ people whose job is to get onto these trackers. The basic rule of thumb is, “if you’ve heard of those trackers, so have they. if you’ve gotten onto that tracker, so have they.” Put simply, “Anything you can do, they can do”

  • Piggybank

    Quality restrictions and rules are enforced to keep quality on thw wares, man!

    I simply loved oink, and I even found some good metal there.

    Now I am lookin’ for a new place to upload my cocaine.

  • http://neuron2neuron.blogspot.com Ben Jones

    [quote comment="199048"]BOink will be a public site, so expect loads of junk like on TPB…
    [/quote]
    As with most people, you seem to be confusing ‘public’ with ‘open’.

    EZTV is public, its not open.

  • Name

    As someone who has no inside knowledge about OiNK (I just happen to read this feed), I’m still not sure what the high quality of OiNK was everybody is talking about.

    If you say OiNK had strict rules then this means it was “lossless/secure rips” only? Right?

  • biggs

    how did oink start?
    did it start as a public site then turned into a private one?
    i really dont know im wondering how it started.

  • qeee1

    oink was originally open registration then it went invite only.

    And no, Oink wasn’t only lossless rips, also allowed mp3 of 192kbps or better.

  • blissed out

    @troutmask: right on, brother!

    ***
    Diversification of torrent sites is the best thing that could happen now.

  • Anonymous

    What about other Torrent news. Torrentfeak has becomes Oinks bitch.

  • Oink enuff

    Enough Oink news, who cares

  • Anonymous

    ^ what he said, plus no transcodes

  • Becky

    Never Forget Guys!

    http://www.cafepress.com/neverforgetoink

    - Becky

  • sjaak

    [quote comment="199073"]As someone who has no inside knowledge about OiNK (I just happen to read this feed), I’m still not sure what the high quality of OiNK was everybody is talking about.

    If you say OiNK had strict rules then this means it was “lossless/secure rips” only? Right?[/quote]
    It meant (among others):

    - Everything >192kb/s.
    - >50% FLAC or V0 mp3 rips.
    - Proper tags.
    - FAST downloads, >500kb/s on average.
    - No transcodes, different bitrates in 1 rip, RAR’d music etc.

    But most of all:
    -Literally all music you could think of. In 2 years using it, maybe once I searched for something and didn’t find anything. This really bugs me about all new trackers (STmusic etc.): it has nothing…really the amount of material available was incredible times 2. Also in the software, fonts etc. department.

  • troutmask

    for some reason this link
    http://oink.cd/
    posted in the story and in other posts still links to the hijacked page.
    whilst this one
    http://www.oink.cd/
    links to waffles
    any body else having this problem and perhaps an explaination?

  • troutmask

    “This really bugs me about all new trackers (STmusic etc.): it has nothing…really the amount of material available was incredible times 2. Also in the software, fonts etc. department.”
    The answer is to put everything from OiNK back up on STmusic and elsewhere. It can’t be there until you share.

  • troutmask

    [quote comment="199094"]Never Forget Guys!

    http://www.cafepress.com/neverforgetoink

    - Becky[/quote]
    unpaid advertising that I don’t think has anything to do with OiNK. There have been many message here about fund raising scams

  • Yantra

    I’ve been a part of OiNK for about 6months, mainly into ambient, psytrance and minimal.

    I just can’t get into any new trackers. They are just empty.

    Is there any rating or review of the good ones?

  • Anonymous

    try filemp3.org guys

  • Whoopdee

    whats the second best public and private music torrent tracker

  • Yatti

    Oink should live.. Down with spam!…

  • troutmask

    [quote comment="199118"]I’ve been a part of OiNK for about 6months, mainly into ambient, psytrance and minimal.

    I just can’t get into any new trackers. They are just empty.

    Is there any rating or review of the good ones?[/quote]
    so you used OiNK for 6 mths and you can’t find a tracker site? If you need to be told where we have all gone by now you aren’t looking that hard….or are you.
    I would suggest people at least don’t post urls directly her at least make the enemy work a bit to find us, after all they can use the google links from OiNK’s site or is that admitting that google are doing exactly the same thing as OiNK? Can we look forward to a carefully co ordinated media accompanied dawn raid on googles servers? Googles dad’s laptop being confiscated? Googles site being illegally hijacked by semi literate inadequate stazi who can’t even make a half decent web page?

  • Maultier

    I want to see the RIAA take down the ed2k network… *g*

  • spirits

    I can imagine the police’s sons and daughter blamed them for raiding Oink.

  • Anonymous

    I just want to say, as a former OiNK member, I see a lot of people going to Libble and Funkytorrents but I cant figure out why for the life of me when there are so many other options and these are the ones you are pushing mainly because of the guy who wrote the oink memorial page and his suggestions. I think that guy is a total fool just by the things he said. Who in their right minds would suggest that 180,000 members should join trackers that only hold 12,500 and 5,000 members and around 700 torrents on each of those sites??? yeah I realise the sites can grow but why would you consider waiting around for three years for the site to get up to standards and suffer with russian forums and slow downloads. I belong to Libble and FT and they both leave tons to be desired. I downloaded several torrents from FT douring free leech that just disapeared from the tracker completely douring the middle of my downloading. I wound up getting two of the downloads I started completed in that time out of 8 I am sorry but that is just shit. STM might be new but they have the resources and the staff to add lots of new torrents every day and they IMMEDIATELY changed their site to accomidate OiNKers by adding a top ten list and the ability to upload music by regular users. I havent seen any other trackers go so far out of their way to make its members happy. And with over 50,000 members, why would anyone waste their time anyplace else?

  • troutmask

    [quote comment="199036"]
    it’s like ants the more you stamp us out the more will come out the ground but this isn’t happening like it should!

    look what happens the way it is? oink gone no replacements only invite closed stupid sites.

    but as per usual people are totally self-ish if oinks gone now release the damn code + database to the world so we can make 1000′s of replacements

    and before you reply back flaming me or saying shut up just think about if we all worked together not for personal gain but to make sure file sharing lives the way it was meant to be.[/quote]
    I am not flaming, just concerned that this sounds like agent provocature stuff. Torrrentsites have opened the doors to OiNKers. If you want to shar you can. No need for OiNK to release anything, they didn’t have anything. OiNK or google both just point the way. You can find loads of places to get all the music that OiNK had links to…nearly every torrent that was listed on OiNK is back and by the end of this week everything that was there will be spread around and doubled. The music industry Stazi have really jumped right into the trap, they have blown it big time. Good bye to them. No let us see the artists thenselves start to control their own output. Factory record showed a buisnessmodel that worked in the 80′s, file sharing and distribution by the consumer is the buisness model for the 00′s. Radiohead have made a tiny step towards this, although they should have released all the music at full quality as a FLAC then I would have considered buying a Vinyl pressing or paying to see them..but it is a great step forward for a major band. Hopefully other big names with a genuine radical past like David Byrne, Bowie, Flaming Lips, Lambchop will also wake up.
    If you want to ell your music then cut out the middle man, the leeches entirely. Digital music will be free to distribute and share whatever you do know, the cat has long been out of the bag and you are never, ever going to stuff it back in again.
    Next we do for newspapers, TV stations, the movie industry and all the other sappers of the creative spirit.

  • Final

    No offense guys, but you people happy about this, are quite lame. People from oink (including myself) were greatful to be part of a community that built itself up and weren’t full of assholes + leechers.

    So, big release audio from mainly ex oinkers to you people is a “good thing”?
    God, I cannot WAIT to be back on oink v2, away from the noobs.

  • Anonymous

    stm for the win

    bring ur pink palace to connect to the music.

  • Kevin

    ST Music is still a long way off…

    A search for Radiohead gives me the new web album, The Bends, and OK Computer. That’s it. On Oink, a search for Radiohead gave you every album, every single, every EP, and every soundboard concert.

  • Anonymous

    kevin, i was a long time member of oink too. nothing else exists that even starts to compare to it. i mean, it was the one and only majestic pink palace.

    we just need to find focus somewhere and create something else great. but itll be a long process, its not going to just re appear. oink was growing and becoming better everyday. the addition of OiNKplus completely revolutionized oink within oink.

    we know nothing else compares. we just need to start fresh. sucks? yes… but we all want it right.

  • Anonymous

    @kevin

    well of course its nothing like OiNK,
    yet….

    but that will change..

    if we start uploading

  • Anonymous

    look, OiNK users around the globe are all looking for a place to share music. why not start our own private tracker? we can prove that we used to be OiNK members by forwarding the welcome email that OiNK sent us when we first joined, or if that doesn’t work, i’m sure we can find another way to prove that we used to be members.

    just in case though, every member should start out with an invite or two in order to build up the community numbers once more. it’s about time we start retaliating against this injustice and take matters into our own hands instead of relying on these primitive trackers.

    it’s starting to get pathetic, and everyday the painful loss of that massive library of music is cutting deeper.

  • %

    [quote]look, OiNK users around the globe are all looking for a place to share music. why not start our own private tracker?[/quote]

    I’m sure many would go along with that. It just needs a prominent member of the community (I know none since I was hardly a part of it; too hard to seed, thus can’t download much) to start it off because they would be well known.

  • LSD

    To all you idiots whining becuase you never bothered getting into other sites cuase u were an ‘oinker’, well thats what u get for sticking your head in the Sand moron :P

  • VINNIE_CHASE

    to #56 and #57

    im all for your idea. i heart oink very much and to bring back a private tracker with oink users makes sense, but i dont know if i have that welcome to oink email still saved. the number of people that will follow will surely take care of itself.

    and #58
    you are the reason why oink is private so your argument has no validity.

  • Anonymous

    themusik.org

  • Anonymous

    http://www.waffles.fm/toomuchpublicity.php

    OiNK users, rejoice!

    even if you don’t have the welcome to OiNK email still saved, all users will have many invites available, so contact the person that originally invited you and all will be swell.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="199186"]we can prove that we used to be OiNK members by forwarding the welcome email that OiNK sent us when we first joined, or if that doesn’t work, i’m sure we can find another way to prove that we used to be members.
    [/quote]

    thats what waffles.fm is doing..

  • Jake

    [quote comment="199057"]once i found the good metal trackers i said FU to oinks nazi like quality restrictions and rules. not to mention the users at oink had no concept of what good metal was…[/quote]

    You’re an idiot.

  • jason

    all you idiots circle jerking about stm…

    you can only upload in 4 formats:
    MP3 VBR V0 (alt-preset-extreme)
    MP3 VBR V2 (alt-preset-standard)
    MP3 CBR 320
    FLAC

    I got on there, downloaded one song off one album, and it was a pure transcode. It was garbage. And I couldn’t report it. STM DOESNT HAVE A REPORT BUTTON!

    STM is garbage. Pure garbage.

  • lordpaine

    [quote comment="199099"][quote comment="199094"]Never Forget Guys!

    http://www.cafepress.com/neverforgetoink

    - Becky[/quote]
    unpaid advertising that I don’t think has anything to do with OiNK. There have been many message here about fund raising scams[/quote]

    actually thats the official memorial t-shirst site that was set up by i believe 2 former oink moderators.

  • VINNIE_CHASE

    #64

    is waffles.fm legit?

  • biscobooka

    If you are looking for the new “OiNK” this is the closet you are going to get:

    http://waffles.fm/ waffles. noone knows what this is going to be but its the one everyone is the most excited for. It is claiming to be a replica of oink and nothing but ex oink users. Could and hopefully will be awesome.

    http://incegmbh.com/ – what.cd is the nicest looking and its only been up 2 days. It has 5 thousand members already and 7 thousand torrents..looks the most promising so far..because we have not seen anything else yet.

    http://stmusic.org/index.php – st music, has the most music and members that ive seen out of the rest

    boink.cd – pirate bays answer to oink, a public tracker version of oink…we’ll see..

    http://oink2.no-ip.org/ – oink 2, we’ll see…..

  • chuck

    [quote comment="199219"]#64

    is waffles.fm legit?[/quote]

    Seems legit. They are opening WITHOUT asking for donations upfront, nor are they advertising themselves overtly as Oink, unlike oinkcxla

  • b

    I wish there would be some good torrent news, unrelated to OiNK. This is getting depressing. Just because I’m hung up on that site, why does everyone else have to be, too? :(

  • Anonymous

    Scene/topsite acess and/or seedbox? email hilikus.waffles.fm@gmail.com with details on your situation!

    waffles.fm

    where oinkers go

  • eric

    well said sir.

  • Anonymous

    You make a strong point. Although the OiNK site was shutdown, its merits most notably the large collections and standards for quality will permeate the entire bittorrent community. Surely, it will take time – OiNK was not created in days.

  • Paine

    please buy my tshirts i need money for my drug addiction! i will sell out whole oink community for 15$

  • me

    [quote comment="199242"]Scene/topsite acess and/or seedbox? email hilikus.waffles.fm@gmail.com with details on your situation!

    waffles.fm

    where oinkers go[/quote]

    is this legit?

  • DeLEGiON

    [quote comment="199224"]If you are looking for the new “OiNK” this is the closet you are going to get:

    http://waffles.fm/ waffles. noone knows what this is going to be but its the one everyone is the most excited for. It is claiming to be a replica of oink and nothing but ex oink users. Could and hopefully will be awesome.

    http://incegmbh.com/ – what.cd is the nicest looking and its only been up 2 days. It has 5 thousand members already and 7 thousand torrents..looks the most promising so far..because we have not seen anything else yet.

    http://stmusic.org/index.php – st music, has the most music and members that ive seen out of the rest

    boink.cd – pirate bays answer to oink, a public tracker version of oink…we’ll see..

    http://oink2.no-ip.org/ – oink 2, we’ll see…..[/quote]
    or try severedbytes.net been down a month but they just returned

  • Zyr

    77: Seems so, if it is then it sounds awesome.

  • mateo

    how are oink users going to be able to get into waffles.fm

    Is there any way of sending our original Oink invite to the admins in order to get an invite.

    I just don’t see how it’s going to work otherwise.

  • Anonymous

    OK, I was a happy oink member. I have to say that site was amazing. Fast great variety of music and everything you wanted as software, videos, etc.

    Demonoid is junk compared to it. Now which site out there is going to take over oink and become the next super oink.
    Please tell me! :-(

  • Anonymous

    80 – read the freaking comments. its unknown at this time. theres a few candidates who are the top places of residence for those who called themselves oinkers at one time. but it stills going to take these sites a lot of time to match the superiority of oink.

  • Anonymous

    What is the best site for movies, i used torrentspy until they stopped??????????????? something you do not need to join! no signup.. i do not care for porn… just good movies, from dvd not cam…new to this need advice

  • lolguy

    someone told my the police took oink’s xbox. is that true?? also, they didn’t take his wii.

  • O O O

    @82 Google :-) !

  • aphexacid

    Former member of oink for a LONG time. I think i have chosen my new home for sharing my musics. FOR NOW. For quality, you need structure and order. anyone can get a new scene release. but how about if you’re looking for Kosmik Kommando Frequencies 2xCD in FLAC? well, that was the last torrent i uploaded at oink, and i intend to finish seeding. somewhere…

  • troutmask

    warning
    http://waffles.fm/
    seems like a scam to me, organised by
    http://www.mediadefender.com/
    I would suggest people wait until something is posted as a news story here with OiNK’s approval otherwise they may be passing on information to the Stazi.
    Forwarding welcome e mail is a really bad idea. As is following anything suggested by “anonymous” posters.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="199160"]semi literate inadequate stazi who can’t even make a half decent web page?[/quote]
    As opposed to semi-literate, inadequate troutmask who can’t even spell “stasi”?

  • troutmask

    [quote comment="199426"][quote comment="199160"]semi literate inadequate stazi who can’t even make a half decent web page?[/quote]
    As opposed to semi-literate, inadequate troutmask who can’t even spell “stasi”?[/quote]
    foolish boy…try to get the reference at least, perhaps you have little knowledge of history, but I met ‘em

  • troutmask

    oh an “Stasi” to its friends, “Stazi” to everybody else…so does that say something about Anonymous? You choose.

  • Anonymous

    waffles.fm is the place to go.

  • Anonymous

    88-where can i send my orignal invite from oink to get an invite from waffles.fm?

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="199213"]all you idiots circle jerking about stm…

    you can only upload in 4 formats:
    MP3 VBR V0 (alt-preset-extreme)
    MP3 VBR V2 (alt-preset-standard)
    MP3 CBR 320
    FLAC

    I got on there, downloaded one song off one album, and it was a pure transcode. It was garbage. And I couldn’t report it. STM DOESNT HAVE A REPORT BUTTON!

    STM is garbage. Pure garbage.[/quote]

    Wow man, ease up. STMusic was originally NOTHING but a tracker for 0 day scene releases prior to the raiding of Oink servers. When Oink got shut down, they graciously opened their doors to the homeless Oinkers, implemented user uploads, and have been working tirelessly to accomodate the needs of all these new members.

    They’ve done all this work in a matter of days with more to come in the future. For people such as yourself to come in and piss all over their hard work and hospitality is just downright rude. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Neither was Oink. And it’s going to take time for ANY tracker, even an officially run Oink2, to become anywhere near what the old Oink used to be.

    You have to realize that STM was not built for user uploads up until a few days ago, and as such it’s going to take time to propogate all the music we so enjoyed from Oink onto this tracker (or any other tracker for that matter). I think the staff have done a helluva job given the circumstances. If you don’t appreciate it, feel free to fuck off and run your own damned tracker.

  • troutmask

    Not all OiNKers think badly of STMusic, ignore the moans here and check out the forums on ST itself. You will see a lot of grateful OiNKers sharing their music and glad that STMusic has been so accommodating. The people complaining about not being able to find things are usually just leeches anyway or they would be sharing the stuff they got from OiNK in the first place then you would be able to find anything again..obvious really but not to some pea brains.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, I’m not saying all the ex-Oinkers on STM are like that. 99% of them seem genuinely nice and appreciative. It just ruffles my feathers a bit to see a community welcome people and a few act like unappreciative jerks about it during a huge transition period.

  • Anonymous

    [quote comment="199445"]88-where can i send my orignal invite from oink to get an invite from waffles.fm?[/quote]
    waffles@beau.ws

  • limmey

    Very hard to replace Oink….

    http://galacticcentral.org

  • suss

    [quote comment="199242"]Scene/topsite acess and/or seedbox? email hilikus.waffles.fm@gmail.com with details on your situation!

    waffles.fm

    where oinkers go[/quote]

    call me paranoid, but I’d be a bit careful of things like this,.. may as well send an email to dobmyselfin@imanoob.com while you’re at it.

  • tbh

    [quote comment="199207"]http://www.waffles.fm/toomuchpublicity.php

    OiNK users, rejoice!

    even if you don’t have the welcome to OiNK email still saved, all users will have many invites available, so contact the person that originally invited you and all will be swell.[/quote]

    This is what sounds most realistic so far, but is it in any way authorized by OiNK? :f

    And even if I’d find the invite mail, how can I prove I had a ratio of 3? o:

    Wish OiNK had a backup with all those info :/

  • troutmask

    DO NOT send your original invite to anybody. Sorry to shout, but this is a scam by MediaDefender and his partners in crime. Waffles.fm is not to be trusted. Wait until some news is put up rather than trusting these posters.

  • troutmask

    [quote comment="199445"]88-where can i send my orignal invite from oink to get an invite from waffles.fm?[/quote]
    why not end it here
    iamstazi@dickhead.com
    sure to be of use

    oh an orignal is original

  • apap

    #93 is correct, you just have to search a bit

  • Anonymous

    lol @ everyone talking about the quality of oink.

    a lot of stuff on oink was shit. bad tags, messed up file names, no .nfo, no .m3u or .pls

    ok so most of the time anything that wasn’t >192kbps got nuked but I would have liked it to be much more strict.

    Get yourself on a real scene distro source if you want good releases.

  • DeathWalker

    http://rockbox.psychocydd.co.uk/ for all you metal freaks out there that have no home ;)

  • xsaw

    please, somebody. help with invite on waffles.fm

  • Bob

    “Get yourself on a real scene distro source if you want good releases”

    Ever occur to you that many people don’t want the garbage that is put out today, that we may in fact want to download music that came out 5,10,20 years ago? Scene releases are great and all, but I liked oink because I could download things my parents listend to on 8 tracks

  • troutmask

    [quote comment="199535"]lol @ everyone talking about the quality of oink.

    a lot of stuff on oink was shit. bad tags, messed up file names, no .nfo, no .m3u or .pls

    ok so most of the time anything that wasn’t >192kbps got nuked but I would have liked it to be much more strict.

    Get yourself on a real scene distro source if you want good releases.[/quote]
    Obviously another stazi who never used OiNK. You ignorance of what OiNK was and will remain is so high you can only be another stooge of the mediadefender morons. Anonymous by name and Anonymous by nature. No matter what you do we have won. The industry fat cats better look for new jobs, sell the Porsche and get the bus.

  • Anonymous

    typo… that should be >=192 obviously and yes you’re right i was only on oink for over 2 years with plenty downloaded and seeded (PU pretty much the whole time but I never donated).

    i am not bad mouthing oink, it was one of the best trackers i have been on. but seriously anyone who thinks it was all quality is just fooling themselves and wanting to have a perfect memory to be nostalgic about. I wish oink had been more strict. It was often you would find torrents without even track numbers in their filenames.

    Now yes, compared to the crap on public trackers oink was miles ahead. In my mind its just sad that so many people haven’t experienced better and think that it was the end all be all. Take me back to the days of FXP and now we are talking nothing but quality.

  • Anonymous

    troutmask, are you saying the fact that waffles.fm asks for you to e-mail them proof of oink membership is reason enough to be suspicious of a setup / honeypot?

    also, why mediadefender? i’ve been searching around the net for about an hour now reading the chatter regarding waffles and haven’t found anything remotely close to your suspicion.

    i guess i’m just curious to know, is that all it is as of right now? suspicion? or do you have some sort of evidence proving this?

    i ask this in complete seriousness — i have also wondered about the legitimacy of waffles and definitely would like to know for sure.

  • lolguy

    seriously guys, the cops took oink’s xbox. wtf?

  • tbh

    [quote comment="199631"]
    It was often you would find torrents without even track numbers in their filenames.
    [/quote]

    I might have been lucky, but I never had that in 2-3years of actively using OiNK :/

  • troutmask

    [quote comment="199648"]troutmask, are you saying the fact that waffles.fm asks for you to e-mail them proof of oink membership is reason enough to be suspicious of a setup / honeypot?

    also, why mediadefender? i’ve been searching around the net for about an hour now reading the chatter regarding waffles and haven’t found anything remotely close to your suspicion.

    i guess i’m just curious to know, is that all it is as of right now? suspicion? or do you have some sort of evidence proving this?

    i ask this in complete seriousness — i have also wondered about the legitimacy of waffles and definitely would like to know for sure.[/quote]
    Only suspicion, no evidence. But the advise given by OiNK sysops was to avoid anything until an announcement was made here (see previous news). I don’t think an announcement would be made in BB, so I am waiting. If you check out mediadefender and the rest of that crowd setting up false site, false torrents is just what they are into. Be cautious and for the present put your torrents on reliable pre existing sites such as STMusic. If you check out the STMusic OiNK discussion in their forum you will find some details of where waffles.fm is being hosted. This
    “Ip address for the site comes back as being right outsite St. Catherines Canada, right across the river from Niagra. hmm seems a little fishy to me as well”

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    There is actually a small tracker that seem like a good place to share some music:

    http://www.musicbits.net/

    Not many people on it though

  • Honeyko

    I’m sorry, but the premise of the article’s title is busted: You’re not a “talented releaser” if your torrent cannot survive the death of ONE hosting site. You might be a “talented RIPPER”, but that’s another term.

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