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Anyone still using usenet? (lemmy.today)
submitted 2 days ago by Pat_Riot@lemmy.today to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Title says it. Is anyone still on the newsgroups? For reasons I need to amass a large collection of music in MP3 format, preferably full albums, and I'd like to do it somewhat quickly. Is there a better place to hunt before I buy news server access? I been on land for too many years.

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[–] 503@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I predominantly use Usenet for procuring all my media, except for

  1. Switch ROMs, which I rely on torrents via NSWTL. I have 4 indexers and all of them give me “missing parts” error when I try to download Switch ROMs.
  2. Music, which I rely on Telegram bots. I am in the process of migrating my streaming library to Navidrome and I haven’t found a better workflow than to send a playlist link to the bot, and downloading the music and then tagging it using Picard.
[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

could you share the telegram bot you use? used to use some but they got banned some time ago

[–] 503@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sure. It is called deezload2bot. Found it on fmhy.net.

Edited to remove direct link.

[–] retro@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The missing parts sounds like a provider issue, not an indexer one. Do you have a backup block on a different backbone?

[–] 503@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t have one yet, but I do plan to get one as I infrequently get those errors with movies too.

I am using NewsHosting as my primary/sole provider (the bundled Privado VPN is what I bound qBitTorrent with), which is on Omicron.

Will look for a fallback on a different backbone. Though any inputs on this will be appreciated. :-)

[–] retro@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

BlockNews or Usenet.farm seem like they could be good fits for your set up. Since you can already get what you want, it may be worth it to wait until Black Friday sales.