Christmas Comes Early!

Early Christmas Presents

We, the staff, appreciate everything that every one of you has done to help this site start. We have over 350,000 torrents and 10,000 users, and we're growing more each day.

As a thank you, we talked to Santa and convinced him to come a little early this year. Your presents?

** Invites, Buffer & Freeleech Tokens **

Each current Power User will receive 3 invites, and each current Member will receive 2 invites. This is separate from the normal invite distribution starting at Power User, and is a singular event.

Note: PU+ invite distribution happens on the 8th and 22nd of each month. If you did not receive an invite on the 8th for class advancement, you unfortunately missed the cut off point. You will, however, receive the appropriate set of invites on the 22nd.

Each user will also receive an extra 4.5 GB towards their buffer. This also applies towards new accounts that open after this post (each new account will now start at 5 GB).

Finally, each user will also be getting 25 tokens, to spend on torrents. This includes new accounts. However, this does come with some strings attached:

The tokens will expire January 31st, 2017. If you don't use them before then, you lose them.
There is a 2 GB file size limit. You will not be able to use them on anything larger.
We have decided to ban collages and forum posts centered around the maximizing of file size freeleech token downloads and buffer trading. We feel this goes against the spirit of freeleech tokens: the pursuit of your own musical interests and exploration. Users should not feel they have to strategize the best possible use for tokens, or put off using them and possibly forget about them until it's too late. The best strategy is to use them soon for something you want to listen to.


Other than that, we hope you enjoy.

Note: While freeleech tokens do not affect your download, they may affect your required ratio. The required ratio wiki is not yet available, but the short advice is to keep seeding anything you download to get the maximum benefit out of it. For more information about these tokens, please look here

To use these tokens, search for the torrent that you'd like. If it's under 2 GB, you should see the "FL" button, which allows you to use one token on that torrent to make it a personal freeleech for yourself. After clicking the "FL" and confirming, download the torrent normally.

Here's what it would look like with the "FL" button (bordered with purple for emphasis, will not actually show purple):

https://ptpimg.me/044yaq.png

If you have any questions, please feel free to hop into our #pth-help channel on IRC.

Christmas Trivia


Some of our FLS team members are hosting a Christmas Trivia game. Read below for more info...

Alright Ladies and gentlemen, as Christmas draws near, PTH has decided to give all of you a special opportunity to earn some nice Christmas gifts from None other than Father Christmas himself, Santa Clause. We will be hosting a Christmas Trivia on IRC. We will be serving up lots of eggnog and plenty of Christmas trivia questions for the night.

Top 5 people that have answered the most questions correctly, will be given a wonderful Christmas gift from Santa and PTH!

What type of questions? Christmas Movies, Christmas Music, Christmas History! Everything Christmas!

Prizes:
1st Place - Custom Title, 3 Invites, 5 Freeleech Tokens
2nd Place - 2 Invites, 4 Freeleech Tokens
3rd Place - 1 Invite, 3 Freeleech Tokens
4th Place - 2 Freeleech Tokens
5th Place - 1 Freeleech Token

Note: No "Participation Trophies" - Only the top 5 will receive prizes.
Note: Prizes will be handed out within 24 hours.

Rules
You must be a member of the site.
This will not be a chatting channel. Be respectful and please keep chatting to a minimum. We are looking for answers without the clutter of mass people posting.
The first person to answer the question correctly, with the correct spelling, will be marked as the winner for that question.
After you have given your answer, please do not chat. We need to be able to see the other answers given.
When we have called out a winner, please stop giving answers. That round is over.

Note: Any violation of these rules can disqualify you from the game.

If you will be connecting via a standard IRC application (non-web client), please add !Winner to your highlight/nick alert list. This trigger will let you know that a winner for the round has been called.

Details
Time: 6:00 PST (2:00 AM UTC)
Day: Friday. December 16th, 2016 (December 17th UTC)
Place: #ChristmasTrivia on irc.passtheheadphones.me (SSL port 7000)

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Happy holidays.

Love,
Nala & the PTH Staff

You can discuss this post on our forums here.

it means we can see invites giveaways here

thanks 25+

Originally Posted by elaking

it means we can see invites giveaways here

thanks 25+

I sure hope so. Waited around for hours on their IRC Channel for invite applications to start, nothing happened...

Originally Posted by fiorentini

I sure hope so. Waited around for hours on their IRC Channel for invite applications to start, nothing happened...

i am sure there will be big query in irc

Originally Posted by elaking

i am sure there will be big query in irc

Not sure whether they accept non ex-WCD members, and those who are not on the 'elite trackers' they're recruiting from. The instructions didn't say no, but it's not guaranteed..

You know, PTH their userbase limit is quite small in comparision to others. So they recruit Elite+ first and I think they may not recruite WCD PowerUser, or if they recruite WCD PowerUser it will not be in the very near future, say about 1-2 months more.
As What.CD had more than 140k enabled users and PTH couldn't recruit all of them. So they PTH had to select the highrank WCD refugees first and they chose Elite+ => WCD Powerusers must find another way to join PTH.
At the moment, there are so many WCD Elite+ applications and applications from their recruitment topics on respested trackers so we have to wait until they complete received applications. They don't want to ignore any applications so they need much time. They seem to have stopped recruitment on their IRC channels (so many people apply for invites there). => We may have to wait long.
But it appears that PTH staff are openning their door by offering invites to their users whose ranks are: Poweruser or Member (not user rank)
Contact your friends, they may have one-two invites remaining. Good luck

Yes it makes sense... Nothing is happening on their IRC channel so I guess you're right, they might've stopped recruiting there for now. Their strategy is working - it's hard to get in but they're bringing 20% of the people who had 80% of the content; that's why they managed to rebuild so much with so few!

Originally Posted by elaking

it means we can see invites giveaways here

Originally Posted by G3010

TL;DR
I am looking for an invite to passtheheadphones
Waffles for years with an excellent ratio
What.cd for years too