Rules & Help
General rules
Please read at least this page (it's just 5 minutes of reading). It covers most of important points. Read it again from time to time because its being updated regularly. Do not "double check" with admins what you about to read. If you read and understand it all, be happy and skip the double checking part. Please ask questions only if something is unclear. Let's respect each others time.
There are the main group and the chatroom. We don't talk much in the main group, for that we have the latter.
Looking for track ID? Ask in the chatroom. Want to chat? Please use the chatroom. And do not ask for the music in the chatroom.
Looking for a track? Search in the bot or roboard. Didn't find it? No problem – just ask in the main group.
Please keep in mind that the chatoom and the main group are quite asynchronous, so if you have a question regarding the group stuff - ask in the main one. Chatroom is really a dump for offtop talks, track IDs, mind farts, whatever is not relevant to the main group and the exchange process.
Music upload has to be performed via bot, but before uploading study this page first.
Please do not search using Telegram, do this only through the bot or roboard. Please upload music only through the bot, do not upload music in the chatroom.
Speak only English and only when it's needed. Use the chatroom if you feel chatty.
Be nice or go away!
Violation of general rules, gives member a penalty. Three penalties (green card, yellow card, red card) give member 1 month of "vacation".
Bunches of tracks
It is only allowed up to 10 tracks per bunch! The only exceptions are complete releases with more tracks or tracks of the same artist.
On exceeding random tracks upload limit member receives a penalty. Red card gives member 1 month of "vacation".
Quality of uploads
When someone uploads transcodes or irrelevant music (what's not related to minimal/deep), uploader suppose to label these files himself to avoid be fined (this is possible to do via roboard).
Do not label the tracks you've been told are masters as masters. Do this only when you 100% sure they are. If it turns out they are not — it's a penalty.
Here you can find the penalty scale.
Bad metadata of uploads
When someone uploads a track named "Unknown Artist - Unknown Title", or "01. Track 01.wav", or "666666_Oops_I_Did_It_Again.wav", it must be fixed within 10 minutes after the upload. Otherwise member gets a penalty. Red card gives member 1 month of "vacation".
Activity in big groups
Please note that members activity in big sharing groups is not welcome (it's totally fine if happening in smaller groups though). Activity means sharing or requesting music. When spotted, member gets a penalty. Red card gives member 1 month of "vacation".
Inactivity measures
Members, who's uploads made within last 30 days have 0 downloads are receive notification about the upcoming measures. If situation does not change within following 30 days member gets fine every next 3 days. Penalty scale could be found here.
That means, if you do not upload something within one month you will get a notification. If you upload something that won't be downloaded – you also get a notification.
Eventually inactive members reaching critical minimum balance (10 chatles) and have 30 days to fix this, otherwise expelled.
If you have no time for active participating, just leave the group. Whenever you need to get back, you can enter again through the interview process, but not earlier than 30 days since you left.
Announcing uploads
If member announced an upload of a certain release he has 1 hour to upload it until it might be uploaded by someone else. If someone else uploaded announced release earlier than 1 hour, he gets a penalty. Red card gives member 1 month of "vacation".
Private trade requests
Any call like "Contact me in private for a trade" or "Contact me in private to get a proper version of the track" is a penalty. This is an exchange platform. Please do not go around this. Please leave if you're not agree.
Support the group 🙏
Group is built on top of advanced system that performs diverse automatizations, like snippets and spectrograms generation, uploads analysis (deduplication, audio info extraction, etc). This system is constantly improving. It is running on the servers that aren't free.
Your support is highly appreciated! Support romi Even €1 matters!
Support does not give any perks.
roboard (rominimal dashboard)
Try out convenient dashboard for browsing uploads in desktop browser.
Download accounting
To be able to download – be sure you also shared something anybody could appreciate with a download.
1 download of your file gives you 1 chatle. 1 download by you today takes 0.93 chatles.
If you uploaded a track that haven't been downloaded by anybody, you get 0 chatles for it.
Your current balance is available in the Stats section of bot or in roboard.
In order to keep community members active, it is necessary to maintain a good balance of chatles. Members with less than 10 chatles on balance within 30 days are being expelled.
Happy hours
Sometimes Happy Hours are happening. It means that all requested tracks worth you less than usual - just 0.5 chatles.
Here's iCal feed for your calendar.
Also during Happy Hours, once approved, bad metadata fix brings you 0.33 chatles instead of 0.1.
Alternative ways of getting chatles
You can propose bad metadata fixes in order to earn some chatles. Please read this manual before proposing any changes. One successfully approved change gives you 0.1 chatles (effectively 10 successful changes give you possibility to download one file).
Penalty scale
The penalty amount depends on the current chatles amount.
Members whose balance is over 500 chatles got fined for 50 chatles. Members whose balance is over 100 chatles got fined for 10 chatles. Members whose balance is under 100 chatles got fined for 1 chatle.
Groups-satellites
Check the snippets group (contains cuts of all the uploads in this group). You'll love digging on-the-go!
Please do not upload transcodes! If you not sure whether your upload is a transcode, read this article and join this group.
Tutorial videos
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