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

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[–] 5 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I'd give soulseek a try for music.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 hours ago

    Between soulseek and streaming sites, I haven't even used torrents in over a decade.

    Usenet honestly just sounds like a waste of time to get set up and pay for. It might be different if you're mostly looking to archive stuff I guess.

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