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Roll on 2025 - 01.01.25

Happy New Year!

May your musical discoveries this year be numerous and enjoyable. Here is the latest news.

Join our FLS and IN teams

If you are enjoying Orpheus and would like to help out a bit more, we need to boost our First Line support, and especially our interviewers. Both teams are crucial in helping the site to continue to grow and the Interview team is critically short-staffed. If you can set aside a hour or so with regularity each week, it would be gratefully received.

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Push Notifications

Thanks to the heroic efforts of  s****, the push notification infrastructure (the thing that sends you alerts to your phone) has been rebuilt pretty much from the ground up. Find out more about it in Wiki › Push notifications.

Some notification types have not yet been wired up to the new machinery yet, but the big ones are there. Let us know if you run into any issues.

If you dislike the pop-up notifications box, you can also set all notifications to display at the top of the screen.

Check it all out in your profile settings!

Request searches

With the combined efforts of c**** and m***, various bugs in requests search have been fixed, the user interface has been made smarter, and for the first time ever, the "Only specified" toggle works.

When checked, this toggle excludes requests that do not explicitly specify the desired property. For instance, choosing "CD" will exclude all other media, including the "Any" catch-all. Choosing "CD", "WEB" will return only the requests that explicitly request "CD" or "WEB" (hence a request asking for both "CD" and "WEB") will be returned.

When the toggle is left unchecked, all the requests specifying "Any" will be returned as well.

Minor updates

Add img proxy url to torrent endpoints has been implemented. The arguments as stated are persuasive and the change was literally two lines of code (one of which is a unit test).

Coming up

There are two changes coming up, to which we would like to draw your attention, both concerning security.

Announce URLs

The first change concerns the way you bittorrent client connects to the tracker. Currently, the tracker allows both plaintext (http) and encrypted (https) connections. On July 1st (2025-07-01), support for plaintext connections will be turned off. Any torrent that uses and http announce will error out at that point. There will be further announcements before this date to assist with the migration.

RSS Feeds

The second change will impact everyone using RSS feeds.

Why?

We recently upgraded the site, and migrated to PHP 8.4. One of the features that has been deprecated in this new version are MD5 and SHA1 digests (which are used in various places to authenticate secrets). We can change everything transparently so that people benefit from the greater security that SHA256 offers (which is what we will be changing to).

But not feeds. This is the only place that cannot be changed transparently. We will be reaching out to people who are using the current version to tell them to upgrade.

RSS links look like this:

feeds.php?feed=torrents_all&passkey=<passkey>&auth=<md5-signature> where the auth parameter is 32 hexadecimal characters (0-9 and a-f).

In the new version, the auth parameter is now comprised of alphanumerics and is 44 characters long. As an additional security improvement, auth is now unique per feed, rather than being shared.

The old feeds will continue to be honored until they are retired in six months time (July 1, the same date as above). Users must upgrade before then.

An important reminder, RSS links contain your torrent passkey! A passkey is as valuable as a password. Do not paste them anywhere public, especially in IRC or the forums if you require help.

A gift for the New Year

As a gesture of goodwill regarding the incident that affected many of you last year, we are forgiving 25 gigabytes of download data. That is, if your download statistic is greater than 25GiB, it will be adjusted downwards by that much. If you have less than 25GiB down, it will be become 0 (and your ratio becomes ∞ a.k.a infinity).

Enjoy!

With

Orpheus Staff

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AoTM: February Round 1 Winner & Round 2 Voting Open - 12.03.22

AoTM: February Round 1 Winner & Round 2 Voting Open

AoTM February Round 1 Voting has closed and we have a winner!

AoTM February Round 1 Winner: John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band

Congratulations to a*** for their winning pick. 20,000 Bonus Points have been added to your account.

This album will be Freeleech until the next round (FLAC only)

AoTM February Round 2 Voting

Voting is open for ten days and all nominations are Neutral Leech.

AoTM March Nominations are open.

News - 08.03.22

A short bulletin to fill you in with some details following the server move.

We switched on a new server a week ago and are now running on a very recent version of Mysql (8.0.26) and the latest version of PHP (8.1.3). There were a few rough spots where some incompatibilities arose but they were fixed as they were spotted.

From a technical point of view, this is very exciting, as the Percona distribution we now use is much more robust that the very old MariaDB version we were using, and the latest version of PHP tidies up a lot of the worst sins of old PHP. We will be continuing to improve our Gazelle fork with the new features that PHP 8 offers.

Nonetheless, the situation leaves much to be desired. You may have encountered difficulties over the past week when accessing the site. It looks like we rented a lemon. It has spontaneously rebooted three four times, with very few messages to explain what the problem is. The few messages that do get logged (and the fact that the kernel has no time to log anything) leads sheepish and I to conclude that there is a bad harware problem, probably in one of the CPU cores.

When the server reboots, it does not come back into service automatically, as one of us has to log into the server to decrypt the disk in order for the boot to continue. Which means the site can be unreachable for several hours until such time as an admin can log in. Still, we would rather have an encrypted disk and protect the data on it more than anything else.

We are in discussions with the host to and we will switch over to a new ssserver when we are able to. It could be a couple of weeks though. In the meantime, your patience is much appreciated.

Server maintenance - for real this time - 27.02.22

After running into some problems when we were trying to do the last planned maintenance three weeks ago, the new date is scheduled for today, starting around 20:00 UTC.

We are going to move to MySQL 8 and PHP 8.1 which turned up a number of broken assumptions in Gazelle that needed to be fixed in order to make the switch. Spine has been very busy since then fixing (hopefully) all of those. Thanks to everyone on our Beta Team who tested and reported bugs!

If everything goes well the maintenance will last about four hours but may take significantly longer. Don't be worried if the site will be offline for up to 48 hours.

Site and tracker will be offline. IRC will remain online but without hermes.

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AoTM: January Round 1 Winner & Round 2 Voting Open - 15.02.22

AoTM: January Round 1 Winner & Round 2 Voting Open

AoTM January Round 1 Voting has closed and we have a winner!

AoTM January Round 1 Winner: The Pastels - Sittin' Pretty

Congratulations to Mewbacca for their winning pick. 20,000 Bonus Points have been added to your account.

This album will be Freeleech until the next round (FLAC only)

AoTM January Round 2 Voting

Voting is open for nine days and all nominations are Neutral Leech.

AoTM February Nominations are open.