June 15, 2009 by sharky
After more than two months of intense work, AnimeByt.es has finally launched. AnimeByt.es is a community-oriented site that doubles as both an Anime tracker and a Japanese music tracker - all rolled together into one. Because Anime is mostly episodic, most trackers have a difficult time keeping content well-organized. That’s where Gazelle comes in, with its advanced tagging system and grouping features. Combine this with exceptional custom coding which serve to link both the anime & music torrents, and you’ll see why AB is an anime tracker unlike any other.
Finding an invite — Currently, registration is not open directly to the public. However, invites can be requested through their #invites IRC channel. You’ll need to come prepared, so first read (and complete) this application form which you’ll need to PM to an IRC OP when required:
• http://animebyt.es/application.php
All new accounts come with 10GB upload credit and 5 invites.
AnimeByt.es - A Dual-Purpose Tracker
The content on AnimeByt.es is neatly partitioned into two sections (dual browse pages), and these sections into categories. The first section is for none other than anime and all of its related media. The second section includes J-music, featuring music by any and all Japanese artists.
"Our goal as a tracker is, in short, to become the single largest and most organized repository of anime, consolidating it and all of its variants (manga, novels, OSTs, video games, and live action works) all in one place and in multiple formats as well-seeded torrents. Secondly yet equally important, is to become a community where members actively share what the content they have, and discuss what they think. We hope that in time as our memberbase and content selection grows, AnimeByt.es will become your first and last stop for geting all things anime-related. If you are not yet aware, this tracker runs on the Gazelle codebase (pioneered by What.CD) and optimized to be fit as an anime tracker. As such, you will notice that our method of organization for torrents is highly specific and categorical. It is this among other reasons which we hope will make up for the ways in which other trackers fall short. These ways include little and/or poorly seeded content, little community, adherence to copyright restrictions, and little or no organization."
AnimeByt.es - Unique Features
• Series List — To compliment grouping & tagging, the dev team has also added a Series page which lists anime as browseable torrents by series name. Animebyt.es has also incorporated a similar Collages page, which you’ll be familiar with through other Gazelle trackers.
• Official AniDB, ANN and Wikipedia links for the anime releases - as well as artwork & series info.
• Hentai Allowed — Unlike many other anime trackers, AnimeByt.es isn’t afraid to allow Hentai content, although this function can be disabled in the search.
• Two distinct upload pages for both anime and J-Music releases; as well as two separate torrent browse pages.
• Upcoming Features:
- — Anime OP and ED listings - This will be a chart which will list each opening and ending song for that every anime and video game which has thus far been uploaded. It will also show the name of the song and its artist (linking back and forth the anime and J-music sections).
- — Related series - This will be a chart on each series page which will list series related to the current one (prequels, sequels, adaptations, spinoff, etc.). Since each series on AnimeByt.es is series-unspecific, it won’t be necessary to say whether this is anime is based off of that manga, etc. Instead it will relate series of different names to one another. Perhaps in the future, we can turn it into a more graphical representation.
- — Character / Voice Actor listings - A third chart which, as the name suggests, will list each character of the show, that character’s voice actor, and how many series each the character and voice actor has been a part of. Clicking on either the character name or voice actor name will show a collage of the other series the character / voice actor has been a part of and will include a bio as well.
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