Hey gang, I am very new to usenet, I am still learning the basics so feel free to call me out

I have bought 2 indexers, nzbgeek and nzbnoob

I have bought 2 providers, torbox and thecubenet

Everything is set up with sabnzdb and prowlarr and lidarr and set max quality to 320 because I’m not an audiophile… but for the love of god I cannot download a single album. I keep getting errors that there are not enough blocks or download is incomplete or whatever.

I hate this. I am extremely disappointed. I have sinked so much time and money for this and this setup is somehow worse than yt-dlp. What the actual FUCK.

So now that the rant is over, am I doing this wrong? Is there an actual trick to get this working? Or is usenet just dead and I should cut my losses right now and move on?

Edit: Thanks for all the input. I changed the quality to allow FLAC and added a pp script to convert it down. It’s honestly not ideal but I guess it’s better than it not working

  • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
    7·
    4 days ago

    I’m using nzb.life as my indexer and newsdemon as my provider. I very rarely have issues. SABnzbd Reports 99% success rate.

    I’ve seen people recommend having a second backbone, even if it’s just for blocks rather than subscription, but I’ve never needed it.

    • assassassin@fedinsfw.appOPEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Are you using that for music? Most people here who are happy with the service seem to be using it just for movies

      • terraborra@lemmy.nzEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        Yup, music as well tv and movies. I do mostly get dance music though so maybe it’s not taken down as much as other genres.