And you NEED to justify all that ass-kissing (and “donations”).
That’s why you NEED to believe anything public and open (non-exclusive) is bad.

I think, the writer may have been just a bit, hungover.

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.

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That’s funny.

Trackers have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH DOWNLOAD SPEED.

(Also, 720P is 1.1 GB, not 4-7 GB)

@Whoever said RARs are good for correcting info on torrents: No. They are not. Just reload the corrupted data into the torrent program and force a re-check. Your client will mark the bad pieces and re-download just those KB. That’s even less than downloading part of a split RAR.

And on that note, I agree: Archiving files on bittorrent in general is outright stupid, as people will finish the downloads and immediately stop seeding so that they don’t waste space when they un-archive the file.

http://www.aquariumfish.me

its totally not difficult to download that amount… My sister and I download each our own series and have compleet over floating hard drives and we can store 200gig without a problem.

Apparently your too cluelss to realise that people in the BT scene use the word “tracker” in a generic way to refer to the whole process of downloading, download speed & seeding – the general experience & happenings around a tracker. How would you refer to a particular swarm, forum, website etc. if you don’t say the tracker’s name or “tracker”?

Example: Trackers where the swarm is slow are commented on by using the trackers name: as in “The Pirate Bay is a slow tracker” … get it noob?

“Why are multiple trackers a good thing? More often than not, a tracker goes down for some days and hours just at the wrong time.”

Errm, excuse me, your saying that more often than not (50% or more of the time?) trackers you use go offline? Right… slow, crappy, public trackers for you right there. And you, of course, do specifically what the experts tell you not to and add another tracker. Not only that, your “lesser known trackers” that you add are THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD, responsible for OVER 1/2 the public torrents – or didn’t you know that TPB domains are alias for the same tracker. Slowing the swarm (tracker – get it) down and contributing to making it slow and crappy.

@15 says: “the torrent filename should include tags for your tracker and your nick

e.g. [migel][h33t]”

Most trackers dont do this – for one it has nothing to do with how long torrents lasts, secondly people who upload torrents shouldn’t take credit unless they produced files (cracked/encoded etc. – ie. did something other than make a torrent file) and thirdly most trackers/users aren’t hell-bent on advertising their mediocre tracker that sits uncomfortably between the largest public players and struggling private trackers and fails to offer the best aspects of either.

“disable the evil DHT! the best trackers use ipfiltering to block tracking IPs and keep them out of the swarms. the evil DHT allows bad anti-p2p peers into your swarm!”

Idiotic – IP filters are only as good as the known IP’s, no one can hope to block all of them… another symptom of trying to be completely open and yet not keep track of rations. Pointless.

“do NOT use muli-RARs aka split archives or multiple volumes of the format file.001 file.002 file.003 etc. if RAR is appropriate then recompile the archive into a single RAR”

Well … DUUUUHHH. The only reason torrents are released like that is because private scene trackers race each other to be as close to pre times as possible – no time to extract – and then users of those private trackers can race them to other scene trackers, usenet & topsites. All this is done through remote servers of course – which makes private trackers very fast, faster than open, public places with no ratio.

“you are then in the bad situation you have 100 seeds but the availability of only 3 because every seed only has 10% of the torrent files … the solution is to RAR all the small files into a package and force the downloader to take them all and thus seed the whole torrent”

oH MY GOD, how inconvenient do you want to make it for your users? At private trackers those kind of files are made freeleech so people have an incentive to grab the whole thing and others can grab a smaller number of files and partial seed.

“1.2GB is the limit unless you are uploading a game or dvd or a full set of software. if it takes a downloader 3 weeks to take a 7GB torrent it will take him 12 weeks to seed a full copy to 1:1.”

HAHAHAH…HAHAHAHA, this is pathetic. Have you even been into a half-decent private tracker? Today I uploaded an 11.2 GB BD rip of The Dark Knight – that’s what happens when users have seedboxes. If you had been to a decent private tracker you would notice that people are sharing a great number of 1080p (8-14GB), 720p (4-6GB), DVD9 (5-9GB) and packs of movies (10-120GB, Naruto for example). Really, your tracker is crap, you apparently are against HD movies and season packs.

“MOST IMPORTANT: propagate the torrent to as many sites as possible. propagate means upload to as many sites as possible. only then will people find it and join the swarm”

The crowning piece of stupidity – after telling people to use one tracker address you say “propagate” – unbelievable. Out it goes for people to add TPB trackers to your torrents and well, cya. Oh wait, your labelling your torrents aren’t you. Parasite advertising then.

BTW, torrents arent meant to be immortal, they die out after a while.

http://www.h33t.com filesharing PROPER … really, give me a break, your site is really bad. If you don’t enforce uploader rules, ratios or seed times (hint: this encourages seedbox users like me to come in) – then downlaods are slow. When it gets a bit bigger you’ll start having major influx of PPI uploaders I’m sure.

say a torrent has 50x files. when the client selects only 1x file when the download is complete the client sends a complete message to the tracker and that client is a 100% seed … it is a fault in the protocol

@Anonymous #17

do not confuse many archives e.g. 1.rar 2.rar 3.rar etc with split archives which are ONE SINGLE archive split into many small pieces

on usenet we see split archives because ftp downloads cannot be restarted and they are not error correcting

bittorrent protocol is restarting and error correcting. in 10 years i have NEVER received a corrupted download

multi-RARs are BAD for 2 reasons 1) RARs disguise fakes … it is easy to download the first 0 blocks of an avi to test the authenticity 2) a RAR needs extracting which means 2x disk space if the downloader is to seed …

Apparently your too cluelss to realise that people in the BT scene use the word “tracker” in a generic way to refer to the whole process of downloading, download speed & seeding – the general experience & happenings around a tracker. How would you refer to a particular swarm, forum, website etc. if you don’t say the tracker’s name or “tracker”?

Example: Trackers where the swarm is slow are commented on by using the trackers name: as in “The Pirate Bay is a slow tracker” … get it noob?

“Why are multiple trackers a good thing? More often than not, a tracker goes down for some days and hours just at the wrong time.”

Errm, excuse me, your saying that more often than not (50% or more of the time?) trackers you use go offline? Right… slow, crappy, public trackers for you right there. And you, of course, do specifically what the experts tell you not to and add another tracker. Not only that, your “lesser known trackers” that you add are THE LARGEST IN THE WORLD, responsible for OVER 1/2 the public torrents – or didn’t you know that TPB domains are alias for the same tracker. Slowing the swarm (tracker – get it) down and contributing to making it slow and crappy.

@15 says: “the torrent filename should include tags for your tracker and your nick

e.g. [migel][h33t]”

Most trackers dont do this – for one it has nothing to do with how long torrents lasts, secondly people who upload torrents shouldn’t take credit unless they produced files (cracked/encoded etc. – ie. did something other than make a torrent file) and thirdly most trackers/users aren’t hell-bent on advertising their mediocre tracker that sits uncomfortably between the largest public players and struggling private trackers and fails to offer the best aspects of either.

“disable the evil DHT! the best trackers use ipfiltering to block tracking IPs and keep them out of the swarms. the evil DHT allows bad anti-p2p peers into your swarm!”

Idiotic – IP filters are only as good as the known IP’s, no one can hope to block all of them… another symptom of trying to be completely open and yet not keep track of rations. Pointless.

“do NOT use muli-RARs aka split archives or multiple volumes of the format file.001 file.002 file.003 etc. if RAR is appropriate then recompile the archive into a single RAR”

Well … DUUUUHHH. The only reason torrents are released like that is because private scene trackers race each other to be as close to pre times as possible – no time to extract – and then users of those private trackers can race them to other scene trackers, usenet & topsites. All this is done through remote servers of course – which makes private trackers very fast, faster than open, public places with no ratio.

“you are then in the bad situation you have 100 seeds but the availability of only 3 because every seed only has 10% of the torrent files … the solution is to RAR all the small files into a package and force the downloader to take them all and thus seed the whole torrent”

oH MY GOD, how inconvenient do you want to make it for your users? At private trackers those kind of files are made freeleech so people have an incentive to grab the whole thing and others can grab a smaller number of files and partial seed.

“1.2GB is the limit unless you are uploading a game or dvd or a full set of software. if it takes a downloader 3 weeks to take a 7GB torrent it will take him 12 weeks to seed a full copy to 1:1.”

HAHAHAH…HAHAHAHA, this is pathetic. Have you even been into a half-decent private tracker? Today I uploaded an 11.2 GB BD rip of The Dark Knight – that’s what happens when users have seedboxes. If you had been to a decent private tracker you would notice that people are sharing a great number of 1080p (8-14GB), 720p (4-6GB), DVD9 (5-9GB) and packs of movies (10-120GB, Naruto for example). Really, your tracker is crap, you apparently are against HD movies and season packs.

“MOST IMPORTANT: propagate the torrent to as many sites as possible. propagate means upload to as many sites as possible. only then will people find it and join the swarm”

The crowning piece of stupidity – after telling people to use one tracker address you say “propagate” – unbelievable. Out it goes for people to add TPB trackers to your torrents and well, cya. Oh wait, your labelling your torrents aren’t you. Parasite advertising then.

BTW, torrents arent meant to be immortal, they die out after a while.

http://www.h33t.com filesharing PROPER … really, give me a break, your site is really bad. If you don’t enforce uploader rules, ratios or seed times (hint: this encourages seedbox users like me to come in) – then downlaods are slow. When it gets a bit bigger you’ll start having major influx of PPI uploaders I’m sure.

the torrent filename should include tags for your tracker and your nick e.g. [migel][h33t]

name the torrent directory the same as the torrent filename

include an .nfo or .txt file with a full description of your torrent. for movies always tell resolutions and fps. for software always tell install instructions. for audio always tell bitrate. add value to the torrent by adding a title, tracklist, picture, tell small thing about why you like the contents

use the .nfo to post a description of the torrent on your fav tracker website. descriptions are EVERYTHING

disable the evil DHT! the best trackers use ipfiltering to block tracking IPs and keep them out of the swarms. the evil DHT allows bad anti-p2p peers into your swarm!

use a single reliable tracker. do NOT use many trackers for the number 1 reason that the swarm is split across the trackers and they cant see each other. a torrent on a single tracker has all the peers together and will be bigger and live longer. you lose *swarm weight* with multi-tracker torrents and you help the MAFIAA track people

do NOT use muli-RARs aka split archives or multiple volumes of the format file.001 file.002 file.003 etc. if RAR is appropriate then recompile the archive into a single RAR

do use RAR for the following: discographies, large collections of pictures or comics etc. the problem is file picking. in large torrents with many small files downloadersd will pick single files to download and their clients will then report as a complete! you are then in the bad situation you have 100 seeds but the availability of only 3 because every seed only has 10% of the torrent files … the solution is to RAR all the small files into a package and force the downloader to take them all and thus seed the whole torrent

make the torrent a sensible size! 1.2GB is the limit unless you are uploading a game or dvd or a full set of software. if it takes a downloader 3 weeks to take a 7GB torrent it will take him 12 weeks to seed a full copy to 1:1. make your torrents a sensible size that makes it easy for the downloader to seed back a full copy. the size of the optimum max torrent will increase in the future as we see bigger connections

NEVER RAR an avi

ALWAYS choose to upload the iso (disk image) and NOT the RAR

NEVER use password archives

reseed the torrent if the seeds fall below 4 full seeds

MOST IMPORTANT: propagate the torrent to as many sites as possible. propagate means upload to as many sites as possible. only then will people find it and join the swarm

*the secret of an immortal torrent is twofold 1. popular content 2. good construction*

*the secret of a GOOD torrent is ONLY good construction. if it dies then delete it and re-upload it again!*

http://www.h33t.com filesharing PROPER

http://www.torrentino.2500mhz.info

dude dont be embaressed about what your doing, people that laugh at your internet connection speed should be executed immediately.. its those kind of idiots that really piss me off with there lack of intelligence.

You have PATIENCE. Its what most P2P people DO NOT have. I do the exact same thing, except I use LOGMEIN.com to manage the computer while im at work. I just dont care about when the file downloads, as long as its getting an OK speed, I just SET and FORGET.

DO NOT F*CKING whine when you are getting things for FREE.

But one thing you should try and do is seed the file after your done, if your leaving it running all day anyway, mise well just COPY the file to your permanent location and leave the file to seed until its done.

Its the right thing to do.

it doesnt happen with every torrent, but sometimes i just get these ones where there will only be like 1 or 2 trackers in the torrent.. and like 30 seeds. So I add the ones from TORRENTZ and sure enough it boosts up to like 1000 seeds (Or whatever).

I’ve only created three torrents.
season 2 of dexter, season 4 of House and season 4 of Lost, all in 720p high-def.
The feedback in the comment section were all positive, except for the regular noobs screaming for more seeders. they were soon enough told to shut up by the other users.

I uploaded season 2 of Dexter simply because noone had done it yet, and I wanted people to enjoy the great season in high-def.
The hardest part was getting the file “out there”. But 24 hours on a 2Mbit upload was enough, and the torrent soon stabilized with people staying to seed.
One year later there’s still hundreds of people downloading the torrent at any time, 400 peers atm., and it would have been great to know the total download.
If someone’s got a tip on how to do that, please post it here.
I used thepiratebay tracker, and posted it on just about every public torrent site out there.

Annoying.

You won’t need to add extra trackers if you have a healthy torrent in the first place

The point about .nfo files is silly as well: The reason .nfo files are included is to either allow a tiny file to be downloaded to see attributes about the main files – bitrates, sources etc. etc. – or to inform the user of procedures required – how to install, special considerations etc. etc. Often .nfo files do both these things… so its an integral part.

If some user, downloading from a public tracker like many people possessing low intelligence do, loses this file then they shouldn’t be able to re-seed.

Especially if they are dumb enough to make one for their “own music video” … give us a break, the vast majority of people here are downing copyright material, not spreading ownm our work, rofl.

LOL.

Im sure its all true and whatnot, but all I know is that sometimes I have torrents going slow as hell, and then I add more trackers to it that torrentz found, and sure enough it boosts right up.

So your argument aside, adding more trackers has PLENTY of times sped up my downloads.. I go by what works, not whats ‘best’.

Thank you

Stumbled