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- Chris_F, on 11/23/2008, -4/+40Tip #1: Don's split files into a million .rar files! It had its purpose in newsgroups, bud don't fricken' split files in torrents! It's the dumbest thing ever!
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -0/+24Don't use .daa files , please use ISO . It is the standard , please remember that . Nothing worse than downloading a file getting stuck with a .daa and spending the next 2 days on a mac trying to convert it, the converting options always fail for me, its just too much extra work when it should be iso to start with
- peterjmag, on 11/23/2008, -0/+17Another tip: Note the bitrate of the of an album rip in the torrent title. I hate downloading an album only to find out that it was ripped with some crappy encoder at 128kbps.
- neko6, on 11/23/2008, -1/+17There are still people who split RARs to 1.4Mb so they fit in a floppy... People who never owned a friggin' floppy. They probably don't even know WHY they use this size... At least they're not ARJ-ing.
- quomen, on 11/23/2008, -2/+17Two big things for me. Don't make the entire album a single ***** file. Secondly, if you're going to release a FLAC, please include a log.
- Culyt, on 11/23/2008, -0/+13If you release MP3's:
Make sure you include tags and correct file names. I have no idea, how many times I find a bunch of perfectly named .mp3 files that turn into track01 when opened because there is no ID3 tag information, or track01.mp3 that then has correct names. Then there are some that just have no names at all...
For extra points embed album art into the .mp3 files them selfs rather than as a separate .jpg file (or in addition to), this will show up in iPods.
The best way to do this would be to use MusicBrainz, Picard tagger. You might need to add an entry to the MusicBrainz database itself if its a new album or different release, there also needs to be an Amazon entry for albumart to be pulled in. You can speed up creating the database entry if you already have the metadata in the files using the 'add cluster as release' plugin.
MusicBrainz is also good because it actually allows the end user to update the tags using the program, so if there are spelling corrections the end user can fix them simply by syncing with the MB database. You might also not have to enter the metadata yourself since often there is an entry already in the database so you can save yourself time.
Otherwise EasyTag is a great way of manually embedding the art if its not in musicbrainz/Amazon in and lets you convert filenames into ID3 tags and the other way around.
And finally, CHECK ALL THE TRACKS ARE THERE. Ive found releases where half the tracks missing for no good reason.
If you do release the albums as one giant file, include a .cue so people can split them up. But I don't know anyone who bothers to burn cds anymore.
☢ - chas46, on 11/21/2008, -0/+7 Pirate Bay here I come!
- Sparky9292, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6"fondly remembers the high quality rips at Oink torrents"
- stygyan, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6And please, please, always tag your albums correctly - there's nothing so utterly wrong as to download an album all tagged in caps, or untagged, or... And include covers if you can.
- lowtolerance, on 11/23/2008, -0/+5bin/cue should be another no-no
- KungFuJesus, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4um, those high quality rips are still around at what.cd and waffles.fm...
it's not that hard to get membership, just go on what.cd irc and wait to be interviewed and if ur not a moron you'll pass and get membership.
Seriously what.cd is better than oink was - zmigliozzi, on 11/23/2008, -1/+4be aXXo?
- mcosmi, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3guess what....whoever posted this wont be back to read your poignant comeback to him/her...thats if it isnt a bot, which it most likely is.
- skazzleprop, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3I don't understand why you're not being dugg up more.
- searcade, on 11/23/2008, -1/+3What do u think of the way i make my torrents?
http://thepiratebay.org/user/devpint/
I'm new to this, normally i just upload files to sites and share them on forums and blogs. Any recommendations? i have ton's of things to share.
Normally users archive there files, and once people extract them they just delete it so they can't seed but i keep the files without archives and i get alot of seeder's is that good? - Slade605, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Just wait till people have the same reaction towards getting a popular torrent as a front paged digg article.
- techdever, on 11/24/2008, -0/+2simple: make you torrent, then look for any other torrent providing the same content and post a comment like 'VIRUS, TROJAN, DON'T DOWNLOAD"
- Culyt, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2I'm sure that's great for the 0.3% of the downloading community that burn cds. Oh and that % has to also care about audio quality. ☢
- benroy, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Whoever is creating those awesome FTV Girls torrents...god bless you, sir.
I *heart* good porn.
Oh, and I guess RadioHead and Nine Inch Nails are pretty cool too. (makes flippant-jack-off motion...) - kayuri, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1They brought us a new way of life - Viva la torrents, torrents, torrents! :-)
- adderx99, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1http://aluigi.org/misc/magiciso_gpl_violation.txt
if youre looking for a good (not poweriso or magiciso) gpl method of converting daa files, use
uif2iso
http://aluigi.org/mytoolz.htm#uif2iso - Culyt, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Notice that you can't even cut and paste the link in.
Stupidest spammer ever. Well not really, they get fairly stupid. - Culyt, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1raring compressed files like avis makes them bigger.
I think the real reason is that the originals are released on newsgroups and need to be split. People should still extract them before torrenting them but I guess it can help people who downloaded some from newsgroups but need extra files, I don't think there are very many in the group though...
☢ - lowtolerance, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1never seed a collection in an archive - only a tool wants every DOS game ever created.
oh, and never, ever make a series of rar files that unpacks to a ***** zip file. - Sparky9292, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1http://www.twilightedge.com/mac/daaconverter/index ...
This works pretty well for converting daa to iso on OSX. - Photonerd28, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1sheisty bastard lol
- Sparky9292, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1It's a hold over from the old days where people downloaded on 56k modems, or hosted the files on FTP servers that didn't support resuming. So if your connection dropped out at 95%, you wouldn't have to start all over again -- you'd only lose the last archive of the series.
- Chris_F, on 11/23/2008, -2/+2Go to hell W e a l t h y B e a u t y . C O smamer
- muzikoverdose, on 11/24/2008, -0/+0My personal favourite is loading in some new music and having it listed under genres as ****THIS SONG ROXX!!!!OMG!!!**** etc.... ***** me off no end.
- clarious, on 11/23/2008, -1/+0If they release lossless music, then they have a good reason to make it a big image file, as you can make perfect copy with it, if you are unhappy with it you can alway split it into smaller file with program like CueTools.
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