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
In my experience, Usenet will have everything that’s being released now, and have it quick and easy, without depending on peers or seeding. It gets almost all of my automated download activity for new releases. But for anything old, it’s going to be spotty with ‘missing articles’. At that point I fall back to bittorrent and Soulseek.