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Libble.com took a big step forward and upgraded their noticeably dated tracker to Gazelle. This is something that they’ve been contemplating for a couple of months now, and most users have been supportive of the change. The main advantage of Gazelle is the improved sorting & tagging (with torrent groups and artist pages), as well as a massive performance increase. Perhaps this is something that will finally allow Libble to expand a little bit.

What.cd	Libble.com

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If you happen to be a diehard OiNKPlus fan, you’re probably already aware that one of their flagship features - the Last.fm media player - hasn’t worked for quite some time. The OiNKPlus coding team has worked tirelessly to correct the issue that pertains to the upgraded Last.fm structure, and it is now once again available in the newly-released OiNKPlus version 10. Other key upgrades include the addition of SSL to What.cd, and improved embedding into other supported BitTorrent sites.

For those of you who don’t know what it’s all about, OiNKPlus is a media enhancer and artist discovery add-on for Firefox, that works in collaboration with many music trackers (and other select BT sites). The added OiNKPlus info cleverly coalesces within the supported website for seamless integration on the .torrent download page - and it even works with The Pirate Bay and mininova. Below is a look at the before and after examples on What.cd and mininova.org:

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It’s been almost 7 months since OiNK suddenly vanished from the music scene, and the smoke is beginning to clear on who is the winner - music lovers! Waffles and What are the likely candidates to unofficially fill OiNK’s shoes, and both have aptly filled the vacant music niche. And then some. So how do these two stack up against each other? Is there a best music tracker? We put ‘em Tête-à-Tête to find out.

Other contenders like Libble and STMusic have equally found a growing share of the market among music enthusiasts, and should not be overlooked. They possess two things that What and Waffles don’t: First; they’re fairly easy to get into, and second; you’ll be able to maintain a good sharing ratio (and thus keep the account).

We’ve put together a collection of stats and criteria used to distinguish the various qualities of four major music trackers. UPDATE: All statistics were collected ‘live’ from each tracker on Sept 23, 2008.

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What.cd is one of the main music trackers (along with Waffles.fm) to come after the demise of OiNK.cd. With over 163,000 torrents (130K active) and 48,000+ members, there’s sure to be something for every music lover. What is visually appealing, the forums are active, and overall it’s a good community. Some consider it to be the same or even better than Waffles.

What.cd is quite relaxed on the minimum ratio requirement (0.4), and it’s not too difficult to find an invite to get into this great music tracker. They’ve recently upgraded the codebase (named "Gazelle") which implements a variety of revolutionary features; including increased speed, a wonderful ‘tagging system’ for music releases, and advanced browsing / searching functionality.

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After the demise of OiNK.cd, 180,000 music-lovers were saddened and left in turmoil - but not for very long. One thing’s certain: There are more choices for music than ever before - while some will attest that none come close to offering what OiNK did; others will say that the BitTorrent music scene is only now beginning to blossom. Numerous contenders that have risen out of the ashes, and two stand apart from the rest - What.cd and Waffles.fm. Both bring in huge traffic and have almost identical Alexa rankings (12,479 for Waffles and 12,660 for What.cd).

Whether Waffles is dubbed the new king of music is up for debate - BitTorrent users can’t seem to agree. Personally speaking, Waffles is by far the most aesthetically pleasing music tracker, and backs it up with an enormous selection & rich features. For those of you who’ve not seen inside Waffles.fm - let this be all the more reason to find an invitation. This is how music should be done!

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BT Music
DeepBassNine
DimeADozen
DnB Tracker
Elektronik
Exigo
FunkyTorrents
HHBase
IndieTorrents
iPWN Music
KrayTracker
Libble
Metal iPlay
My Bloody Twee
SatClubbing
SoundArea
ST Music
The Mixing Bowl
Traders Den
TranceBits
TranceBooster
TranceRoute
TranceTraffic
ViPv2
Waffles.fm
What.cd
ZombTracker
— Others —

Currently listing 65 music trackers.

If you’re still using Limewire to download music - the question is: WHY? BitTorrent was absolutely made for music. Releases are arranged by album - not by song title - and are always of superior bitrates and sound quality to those of their P2P counterparts. P2P networks such as Limewire’s Gnutella are easy targets of flooding and spoofing by anti-piracy groups, resulting in crippled search results and / or ‘fake’ files once downloaded. Not to mention those ‘botched home-job’ mp3 rips that quickly spread throughout users’ shared folders.

Public BitTorrent is not exempt from its share of problems, either. Anyone can arbitrarily upload a torrent that consists of badly done mp3’s, although most issues usually pertain to inferior sound quality due to ‘low bitrates’ (i.e. 128 kbit/s) commonly found in amateurish CD-rips.

Enter the private BitTorrent music tracker — the solution to ‘all things wrong with music and filesharing’! Fellow Audiophiles - here are some of the advantages of using a music-dedicated private tracker:

— FULL ALBUMS:With a private tracker, music is arranged by album, compilation and even by ‘discography’ that span across an artist’s entire musical career - all in one torrent. Music is very well-organized in easy-to-browse categories by musical genre, type,

— PRE-RELEASES:In the case of popular music, you’ll more than likely find an album far before its official store release-date. These "advance" and "promo" pirate releases come straight from the top of the music piracy pyramid.

— HQ AUDIO / LOSSLESS:Private sites offer a great selection of high-quality music; some of them only offer HQ audio and lossless music. You won’t find any 128 bitrates here!

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