RED SPAMMER’S BIBLE
VERSION 1.1
JUNE 1, 2025
Hello anon, if you are reading this you have decided to take your first step in climbing the ladder to reach the coveted cabal trackers. This means you passed the RED interview humiliation ritual. You learned about codecs, spectrograms, and formats. Never shall you fall victim to the horrors of rotational velocidensity. But now you’re stuck. What the fuck do I upload and where do I get it without spending any money you ask yourself. Well that’s what this document is here to provide the answer to.
PART 1: THE STREAMING SERVICES
I am sure by now you have seen the talk of “Deezer spam” and “Deezer slop” in /ptg/. Of all the streaming services Deezer is the most infamous due to how heavily it has been targeted by pirates. In the past downloading from there was as easy as obtaining a tool like deemix, deezloader, or smloadr and with a free account you could get the flac files that are only supposed to be accessible to their subscribers who pay for the highest tier. This is no longer the case. The owners of Deezer are sick and tired of our bullshit. For a long time many public download sites used Deezer as their main source using paid accounts to serve files to anybody who requests them. They have started to crack down on this too. As this document is being written this activity is starting to shift to Qobuz and Tidal.
Streaming services are a mixed bag. Distributors supply them with content in the form of wav files with metadata in xml files. These distributors will allow basically anybody to sign up and use them to distribute their music to streaming services. The slop economy enabled by AI content generation has fueled a rush to fill these services up with complete and utter garbage. For the most part these services do not give one single fuck if the content that is being dumped on them is good or not. They only care if these slop peddlers start using bot farms to inflate their streams and defraud them.
Does this mean the dead internet theory is real and streaming is nothing but slop? Lol no. It just means streaming services on their own are a shitty means of music discovery. Many people love their recommendations and playlists. If that’s what they are into just leave them to it. You can even be a “Spotify is good enough for me” type yourself and still find value in learning how to find music outside of the streaming services, at the very least for the purposes of RED spamming which is what we’re trying to do here.
PART 2: HOW TO SEARCH STREAMING SERVICES
If you go to tidal.com, deezer.com, or qobuz.com you will be met with a page begging you to sign up for their services. Don’t get discouraged by this. For search engine optimization purposes they list their entire catalogs of music publicly. If you do a Google search for an album they want you to find their service. But if you go directly to their website it might not be totally obvious where to go to search. For Qobuz and Deezer an easy way to bypass the bullshit is to open the page of an album, artist, or something similar directly and start searching from there.
https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/album/the-death-of-slim-shady-coup-de-grace-eminem/esfftivyrqz1a
https://www.deezer.com/en/album/614167792
Tidal is more of a pain in the ass. Try searching “Artist Name” tidal.com on Google.
PART 3: DOWNLOAD SITES/BOTS
https://squid.wtf/ Qobuz (currently working) Deezer (currently broken) RECOMMENDED
https://doubledouble.top/ Qobuz Tidal
https://t.me/+zsc35_7qd7RjNjY1 “Master Beaters” Telegram group Qobuz Tidal
https://t.me/deezload2bot DeezLoad bot Deezer
Squid’s interface allows you to search the album, artist, or title. My recommendation is to put both the artist name and title into an album search. If the album name is not unique enough it can bring up a bunch of unrelated bullshit. I find the artist search to be especially shitty. On doubledouble paste in the URL of the release and it will provide you a zip file. In the Master Beaters group send a message with /zip followed by the url of the release and it will download/upload a zip to Telegram. For the DeezLoad bot first send /settings, set it to flac, then send the URL of the release you want. It will give you an option to download all tracks. You won’t be able to get them in a zip so you need to download them one by one.
Most releases are on Qobuz, Tidal, and Deezer. I recommend using Qobuz in most cases. Squid is the most reliable site so it is recommended. Use the others as backups, especially for when you find a release is not on Qobuz. A major upside to downloading from Qobuz is their large library of 24bit flacs. Squid will display if an album is 24 bit or 16 bit when you hover over it's artwork which is especially helpful. 24bit = bloat = more upload.
When you are uploading 24bit flacs using this tool https://gitlab.com/beep_street/downsampler-threaded can help you to dither them to 16bit the proper way so you get two uploads from the same release. This is recommended. I do not recommend doing mp3 transcodes because recruiters consider them to be spammy. In 2025 flac is king. Don’t bother with anything else.
Do not blindly trust the tags generated by these sites or bots. Quite often they are fucked up in one way or another. Keep multiple sites open in different tabs and cross reference the metadata. Fix the tags when you find discrepancies. I know this seems like pointless busywork but if you don’t do this you risk getting your uploads trumped.
COMMON ISSUES WITH FLACS FROM SPECIFIC SERVICES:
Qobuz: Downloads that exclude featured artists from the titles. Unset md5s in flac files which will make your upload trumpable on RED. Downloading from Squid gives an option to fix the md5 issue at the cost of making downloads slower. The script provided in part 5 of this document also fixes the md5s by recompressing the flacs.
DeezLoad bot: (Artist Name Remix) in the filename but it’s missing from the tag.
Tidal: No genre tag set
ALTERNATIVE METHODS
Perhaps you don't want to use these public sites or bots. Or you are a more technically advanced user who is capable of understanding how to write their own scripts. Or any case that's in between. If so you may wish to explore the following options.
firehawk52 Telegram group: https://t.me/firehawk52official
In this group you can find sections containing tokens and invites. The tokens belong to Tidal accounts with subscriptions and can allow you to download directly from Tidal without actually paying for anything. Each token links to an exe of TIDAL-Downloader-NG for Windows on some file locker site and if I were you I would not use that. Consider getting it from github instead: https://github.com/exislow/tidal-dl-ng/releases
If you scroll through you might be able to find some Qobuz and Deezer tokens in there too but ymmv with those. Tidal is known for putting out new releases before other streaming services so if you are trying to make your own scripts and race that's probably what you want to target anyway.
There's also the invite section where if you are fast enough you might be able to join someone's group plan for Deezer or Tidal. These accounts are probably just free trials being shared. Along with the link to sign up it tells you which country the invite is from. The implication being that you need to connect to a VPN from that country in order to initiate and complete the sign up process. Once you are signed up you should be able to use that account from an IP address in any country. Since it will eventually expire treat such accounts as disposable. Just don't talk in there unless you want to get deemed a beggar and told SAR YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE INVITE. You can probably guess what kind of people groups dedicated to acquiring free shit by dubious means can attract. If you find something useful outside the tutorials, invites, and tokens it will be buried under a fucking mountain of cringe.
firehawk52 rentry: https://rentry.org/firehawk52
While this may be out of date it's still a comprehensive resource for information about ripping from streaming services. Ignore the things like the Deezer ARLs. You can see they all expired in 2024 and as I said in the opening of this document the days of that shit are over. Instead use this guide for help with popular tools like OrpheusDL and Streamrip. You can try to get free trials for the various services to rip from them, and when they expire try to sign up again. It has worked for me in the past.
PART 4: HOW TO FIND MUSIC TO UPLOAD
METHOD 1: DOWNLOAD SHOPS
https://www.junodownload.com/
https://www.hdtracks.com/
I recommend browsing junodownload and hdtracks to look for music that is not already on RED. Searching music that is available on these sites can help you discover other sites that sell music for download as well. I already went over the situation with the slop on streaming services. Services that sell music have less of an incentive to push it on their customers. They want them to buy music from them so they provide a bit of curation. On the junodownload side they are more focused on selling to Djs with a heavy emphasis on dance music. They also feature a decent selection of soul and hip-hop releases with a less notable rock section. Browsing new releases on the site will help you quickly find new things to upload. Browsing through their best sellers can help you find music that people are actually buying, as in not slop. Be careful though because junodownload does stock some of the types of “ambient” “relaxing music” etc slop that is frowned upon by RED. Avoid that shit. On the hdtracks side we have music marketed to boomer audiofools. This is where you go to dig up the 24 bit bloated shit to search for and find on Qobuz. It has the kinds of safe, unadventurous genres those people like. Rock, pop, jazz, classical. This means at first glance it might seem like everything is already uploaded on RED. But if you dig a little bit deeper you can find things.
Even if you don’t like the kind of music you are uploading judge with your ears. Does this sound like something someone else might enjoy listening to? People who are into specific genres or subgenres will download every single thing that fits into that category. It could be amateurishly produced and have AI cover art but still be worthy of an upload. Just be careful and try to exercise proper judgment when it comes to these things. Read the specific rules linked from "Spam Playlist Releases & AI Created Music" in the RED upload form. This gives some good information to help you when it comes to learning how to spot AI slop. But as a spammer who may not care about this music it can be harder to pin it down. I've seen posters in /ptg/ getting confused about this.
TIPS FOR SPOTTING AI SLOP
Look at the spectrals. AI music generation tools such as suno.com only provide their output as lossy mp3s. I don't know if this applies for all AI music tools but I have downloaded things that were a bit sus and decided not to upload them for this reason alone. Most things you will upload that need to be reported for "lossy WEB" will have one or two tracks that cut at a specific frequency, not every single track. Just because something is a lossy WEB doesn't mean you should not upload it, but if it looks like shit, it sounds like shit, and it's even slightly suspicious it probably is shit.
Search the artist name on RED. Has anything else by them ever been uploaded before? Does it fit the same genre? If nothing comes up for the artist name perhaps try searching for other artists who have released on that label. If the label is simply the name of the distributor like "RecordJet" or "DistroKid" that's a possible sign of slop and you should be careful.
METHOD 2: SCENE
Now I know what you’re thinking. Scene shit is everywhere. If it’s so easy to get these releases why aren’t they all uploaded to RED already? Well if you upload an untouched scene release to RED a bunch of seedboxes that already have it will jump in the swarm to automatically cross seed which makes it utterly pointless. So if we’re going to take advantage of the scene we need a different approach.
https://predb.me/?search=WEB+FLAC
https://predb.me/?search=WEBFLAC (one dumbass group keeps using this and getting nuked lmao)
If you want to check which tracks are on a release or see the nfo file to figure out which streaming service it was obtained from you can paste the release name into the search box here:
For some genres of music scene will be much slower than uploaders on RED who are also very interested in the same shit. Other genres are neglected almost entirely. By observing which groups are putting out music that isn’t already on RED you can find music to upload. Instead of obtaining the scene rip you should rip it yourself so the seedboxes will download it from you. The upside of this method is that some scener that perhaps actually cares about a specific kind of music is making the choices for you.
METHOD 3: OFFERED THREADS
In the “Offered” section of the forums there are threads where users can request anything they want from these streaming services simply by replying with a link to it. You can upload it then quote them with a link to it. While these threads are associated with specific streaming services there’s nothing stopping you from using whatever service you want to fill. Sometimes you will find yourself racing other users but it’s not as bad as requests where anything that’s on streaming will get instafilled. Occasionally you will see morons not uploading things that are requested because they are lossy mastered and announcing this. These dumb motherfuckers are too stupid to simply upload it and report it for lossy WEB request. When you see this take advantage of their ignorance.
BONUS TIPS
If you only look at albums it might start to feel like damn near everything has been uploaded. This is a direct result of RED’s hard economy. Uploading a great single or EP gets you less of a reward than uploading a piece of shit album. I don’t think the RED admins notice or even care about this situation. It will probably never change. Uploading singles and EPs may take slightly more effort than just spamming albums but there are less people doing it. There’s years and years of neglected content of this sort you could be uploading. Some genres of music (dance especially) just lend themselves better to singles. Even singles from popular artists get ignored while losers with no life will be impatiently waiting so they can be the one to upload the album it’s attached to. The real reason you can’t talk about “exploits” on RED is because the community might develop tools to BTFO these parasites and make them feel less special once anyone can race uploads.
Browsing through the Qobuz website is especially great for finding 24bit flacs to spam with. Once you find one you can click on the label and see if they released anything else that isn’t on RED yet. If you’ve been uploading for awhile you can start to remember labels that release in 24bit so you know to go straight to Qobuz when you see them. Sadly some other RED uploaders are well aware of this and you might find many of the best things to upload are already taken. But a 24bit EP can be nearly the same size as a 16bit album, so being smart about it can still get you far.
For years the advice given to anons spamming uploads has been to upload current year or previous year flacs. This is evergreen. As of the time this is being written that means uploading 2025 or 2024 releases is pretty much guaranteed to get you snatches. A lesser known piece of advice is that many of these autosnatchers will grab anything with specific tags, not just things from specific years. For example anything you can add the "jazz" tag to is guaranteed to get you at least one snatch regardless of the year it was released. While uploading older releases may get you less snatches if you're doing it with a home connection instead of a seedbox you will probably only get a ratio of 1 on most torrents anyway, it doesn't make a difference. Observe the snatching patterns and adjust your strategy accordingly. Also add as many relevant tags to your upload as possible to attract more autosnatchers. For example if your upload is punk.rock it's rock too.
PART 5: RELEASE CLEANING SCRIPT
https://files.catbox.moe/5jwnmo.py
Provided here is a python script to clean folders containing flac files. The idea is that you unzip an album into a folder, or in the case of deezloader you make a folder and dump all the flacs it gave you into it, and the script will prepare it for upload. This automates a lot of the bitch work caused by download sites and bots giving you bloated/poorly named files. It recompresses the flacs with -8 and ensures there is no jpg files attached to them to debloat. If there is no jpg in the folder it will attempt to extract it from one of the flac files. It will add track numbers and titles to filenames based on tags. It is an AI generated script though. It’s not perfect either. I encountered one case where it fucked up when a track title started with a number. I could probably ask AI to fix it but I’m too fucking lazy. Laziness is the point of the tool in the first place. It cannot solve all problems. Just most of them. Expect it to work like it should more than 90% of the time.
Instructions:
Place this .py file in the folder where you plan to extract the music folders you will process.
You need flac and metaflac. Get it here: https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/xiph/releases/flac/ If you are a Linux user like me compile the latest version and make sure it’s in PATH. If you are a Windows user get the zip file that ends with -win.zip and extract flac.exe and metaflac.exe from the correct folder inside of it, probably the win64 one. Then make sure flac.exe and metaflac.exe are in the folder with the py file.
If you are on Linux you probably already have python installed. If you are on Windows you will need to download it and install it. Any version of python3 should work, idk lol.
If you’re on Linux you probably already know how to execute a python script. If you’re on windows open up the command prompt, you know press the windows key, type cmd, hit enter. Then use cd to change directory to where your py file, exes, and music folders are. Run python3 5jwnmo.py (or whatever you renamed it to) and when it asks Enter the directory to clean: provide it with the folder containing flac files that you want to clean.
If you think my instructions are shit I won’t disagree. I tried my best. You can always just ask chatgpt.
Another anon has recommended "smoked salmon" which you can find here:
https://github.com/smokin-salmon/smoked-salmon
This may take a bit more effort for you to set up than my simple shitty script but it does have a lot more features. Depending on where you are sourcing your files and how much processing they need you may want to use it instead of, or in conjunction with my script. One tip I can give you is that it suggests installing flac from your distro's repo, you should probably compile it yourself instead and put it in PATH because you will be able to ensure you have the latest version that way.