Once there was a utopia called OiNK’s Pink Palace, where people could come together and share music from all over the world at fast speeds and be happy together. Then the bad people came and took away the palace and all the people were lost. They needed their music at 192kbps and above but there were no places to go.
Then suddenly out of the ashes sprung What.cd, and the people rejoiced.

If you don’t understand any of that^ then you’re probably best suited to ignore this entry and go back to mininova, demonoid, the pirate bay or whatever torrent-gutter you crawled out of. The world of private trackers is only for the priveleged few, and you won’t get a free invite if you know nothing about transcoding, irc, bitrates and ratios.

What you’ll need to get an invite: An irc client, a good knowledge of torrent use and creation, a good understanding of music formats and bitrates, an understanding of torrent clients and ratio, and a good internet connection (or a friend who has one).

What to do:

1. Go to http://speedtest.net and do a speed test. Get the png url (it should look like http://speedtest.net/results/12345678.png or something like that) and copy it.

2. Connect to irc.what.cd and join the #what.cd-invites channel

3. type in ‘!queue http://speedtest.net/results/14235531.png’ – where the url is your speedtest result (or your friends). You’ll now be put in queue for an interview. During the interview process, someone will test your knowledge of bitrates and music formats and transcoding – so it pays to have a good understanding.

While you wait, it might be a good idea to check out http://whatintro.webs.com/index.html. It has all the information (and links to information) you will need, to pass with flying colours.

Once you pass (if you pass) the interviewer will ask for your email address (no hotmail accounts) and send you the invite. Happy times!

This entry is filed under Free Albums, music.