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Thinking of making one for funk and breakbeats, or funky-breakbeats.

(Yeh i know ive come up with a lot of projects i wanna do, but believe it or not im working on all of them)

Anyway i have no idea how these sites work and im not bothered to try and get into what.cd if im not even gonna download/upload.

Besides basic torrenting, i was wondering how these sites work and what sort of things i would need to set up?

Thanks

Well you need a tracker and an indexer. what.CD is releasing/has released (I'm not up to date with it) a new tracker script that is supposedly way faster and more streamlined than the one everyone else is using, something like that..

The indexer should be pretty easy, you're just making it so people can upload their torrents then you let people download them. Obviously there's slightly more to it than that, but really all it is from there is adding things like a file list, search functions, comment systems etc.

I'm not exactly sure how you'd go about running a tracker, so someone else will have to fill you in on that.

Aside from all the torrent related stuff you're going to need to get people interested, so you're going to have to offer something nobody else has, or do something someone else already does but better. I'm not sure how you're going to compete with what.CD and waffles.FM on the music side of things, their lists of torrents combined takes care of a lot of bands. Where would you get material that isn't already on those private trackers?

Thanks!



The reason im doing it is because bboys/bgirls are always trying to find breakbeats. Bboy.org had an "upload your beats" thread which had a bagillion uploaded songs but they banned download mp3s from attachments and every time someone uploads something even from another site it gets removed almost the next day, everyone has gotten really irritated by it (including me). Apart from that, the thread got so big it was almost impossible to find anything. Theres atleast 10 posts per day asking for songs, or "what is this song" and an equal amount of people making suggestions to what are "good" songs. Heaps of people also need mixes when they are preparing their own jams, and its much easier to download a pre-made one than make one themselves, and plus when DJ's do it they usually do a better job of it.

I haven't used waffles.fm or what.cd but im pretty sure their collection of funk and breakbeats wouldn't be as thorough and rare as mine

You'd be surprised, they have a heck of a lot of obscure stuff.


Ah I get it. Well if you've got the "market" all to yourself then it shouldn't be a problem getting a bunch of people to start posting stuff up.

If you're wanting more information on trackers and indexers and stuff like that I'd take a look at the wikipedia article on BitTorrent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)), it has a ton of information on it

Gazelle is the name of the what.cd site template. They don't use their own tracker, though.

Oh I thought it was a tracker they'd coded. It doesn't help that one of the first pages that comes up says it's a new "tracker script"

They are working on their own custom tracker, but that has yet to be released.