Thread: PiAnet (non-tracker website) gives its users invites.

PiAnet (former magesy) decided for the first time (as far as I can remember) during its existence to give its users invites (1 per person).
And I believe its been alive for 3 years now (from October 15th 2008), not very long ago they updated the site to version 4.0, a new layout that looks many times better and more organized than before. For now there has not been any expire date set for the invites.

The site provides links to password protected archives on file hosting services. All the content is somehow related to music production: sample libraries, virtual instruments, presets, effects, magazines, tutorials etc.

Never heard of this before...seems to be a goldmine of sorts for audio enthusiasts haha. I'm keen to know more though, what exactly is this thing? I sort of understand it but it's still confusing. BTW! I know you had a thread a while back in the off-topic section and that you were looking for music comps to enter.
I have found possibly one of the best sites for those competitions. check this site if you haven't my friend.
~http://www.indabamusic.com/

Hey thanks, I'm definitely going to take a look at that site. And yeah, I'm still looking for competitions to enter, I decided to lock that thread as too few people bothered to read the first post and only replied according to the thread title :(

PiAnet isn't very useful alone, you should have an account at wupload.com, fileserve.com, filesonic.com or uploaded.to to get the most out of it, but you can download the files without paying for the service only then you must wait like 1 minute before you can start your download, and at least 15 minutes after completing the download before you can download again from the same site. Speeds don't get very high either. Since the files are are quite often uploaded to 3 or more sites you can download one part from one place and the second one from another so it won't take an eternity even if you're not paying (I'm not).

There are a couple of torrent sites that have the same kind of content as PiAnet, at least PAT and AN. Maybe the best thing about PiAnet in comparison to torrent sites is not having to worry about seeding back. I myself don't download that much from PiAnet (only small files that are not split across hundreds of rar-files). All the releases are uploaded with a picture and the site is very easy to browse, in fact I'm using the site mainly for that purpose. It gives you a good overview of what has been released and by reading the informative descriptions you get a better picture what the applications really are like. Now they have even started putting up links to video reviews and I really liked this improvement. If I find a release that looks promising, then I just copy the name and get it from a torrent site (given that it has been uploaded there too). They also use different icons for windows and mac releases so you can quickly see if it is going to work on your computer (most of them work on both mac and windows).

If you want me to, I can send you a link to the site and you can take a look at it, and if you really like it I could possibly invite you.