OK, I know from the statistics that people are downloading this pretty heavily. Does it run? Do you like it? Its OK to admit you have it. Nobody will think you are bootlegger scum.Believe it or not, the only reason I haven't checked this out is because I don't bother with bit torrent. :(
Besides, the forum is pretty dead right now anyway. Say something.
Believe it or not, the only reason I haven't checked this out is because I don't bother with bit torrent. :(
SOZ, some people don't like torrents...
SOZ, some people don't like torrents...
BTW, you should think about compressing this. Use APE or FLAC on every wave file and then RAR everything up along with a batch file + decoder to decompress it back with ease. At least having RAR'ed the whole thing as is would've made sharing it somewhat more bearable. Guess you were just in a hurry?
I wanted to preserve the sound quality as much as possible, and make it a one step burn so I made the songs wave files. I wanted it to be played on actual hardware, and not just emus. Downloading doesn't take that long, and once your burn it to CD the disk space isn't an issue either. I guess I'm just selfish because I prepared this exactly the way I always wanted someone else to do it, but they never did.
Also, the world needs APE like I need another hole in my head. I'm all for alternatives, but not when they aren't needed whatsoever. Ditto for FLAC.
[one hell of a post, basically]
Test. WTF? This is the second time I am having a problem cut-n-pasting in a post! (The Astralius thread was the first). I lost my original post, so I re-wrote it to post here, but I get a 404 error page! Goddam.Quote from: stevek666Believe it or not, the only reason I haven't checked this out is because I don't bother with bit torrent. :(
I don't understand...
That sentence doesn't make it any easier to understand. If one doesn't like bootlegging, yeah, I can see that. Not liking BT as a way to bootlegging, that I don't get. Its fast as hell and I don't need hundreds of gigs of bandwidth to serve it out. It seems perfect for me.That's very interesting...considering you later made a post about needing extra software for formats your PC doesn't currently support. :D See the connection? If so, then you'll understand my point. :D
That's very interesting...considering you later made a post about needing extra software for formats your PC doesn't currently support. :D See the connection? If so, then you'll understand my point. :D
I think he's running a mac, but there should be macros you can create in place of batch files(I'm guessing)?
NightWolve, I take it they're are command line(console) decompressors for APE and FLAC (I haven't looked into it)?
Night, this brings up an interesting question - how about including an APE encoder with Turborip?
BTW, I use OSX exclusively at home, and very reluctantly at work. The only positive Windows experience in the past several years for me was TurboRip. Thanks!
APE, FLAC, and whatever the next thing is I can't play without installing software that doesn't work: The formats irritate the hell out of me. I just learned of APE a few months ago when I pirated something APE without realizing it. It won't play in iTunes, or on my iPod so I tried two programs to transcode it and neither worked. I can't play it. I can't burn it to CD. Furthermore a single CD album was 460MB! Certainly there is some kind of "loss" if I'm devoting 460MB to unplayable files. This pissed me off. Then I realized that since I didn't pay for this music I had no right to complain. This pissed me off even more. This is how it always goes with this crap for me. If I can't play it myself the last thing I'm going to do is seed files with the same problem. Maybe the file size was actually reduced to the point where it was worth it, but, IMO, it isn't. I spent enough time chosing the tracks, decompressing them, normalizing them and editing them (I wish I didn't have to do that last part, but CDs have limited running times). All the time it would save for users to download (something that can literally be done in their sleep) would basically be made up for by me as I wasted days learning which software actually works, and then of course answered emails from people that can't get the thing to unpack correctly. Its just a huge waste of f*cking time, to use the vernacular. We can come back to this argument when I do my next remix (probably GoT) and at that time I have no doubt whatsoever that another useless audio format that I can't play will be coming into popularity with the open source crowd. Even though we're listening to the same 16-bit 44.1khz files we've had for...24 years now, I'd guess, there is always a new way to encode them, isn't there?
When I say that these pain the ass formats not are "needed whatsoever", I guess that isn't true. They obviously entertain somebody or they wouldn't exist. The same can be said for OS/2, Cadillac SUVs, and carbon fiber back scratchers. They aren't useless, exactly, they have a use of some sort, but I think that often times it isn't really the exact use that people claim it to me.
Why the image is huge: I wanted someone to be able to open Alcohol %120, which virtually everyone has, and just tell it to burn the .cue file. Quality isn't even really the main issue since about 1/3 or more of these audio tracks came from MP3s anyway. It needs to be usable by noobs so everyone can enjoy. I don't even really understand what you are talking about in your wonderful, informative, and well spoken post, and I'm the one doing the remix. Expecting anything from users is a mistake (as I'm sure you are realizing more and more as you read this).
Bit Torrent: The upload for this torrent is slow because I am the main seeder. If people would leach less it wouldn't be a problem. I live the US with a home cable connection so the upload totally sucks. With more popular stuff I download though I get downloads of 500kbs, and sometimes twice that. I don't know of any other way to get that speed. I'm sure someone will tell me about one though, and I'm sure the program won't run for me.
This kind of frustration often manifests itself in somewhat a$$hole-ish comments. Sorry about that. NightWolve on the other had, you have the manors.
APE on the other hand is just a huge pain in the ass way of doing something that could otherwise be much simpler, in addition to that I can't get stuff in APE to play or convert at all.
APE, FLAC, etc: Not as simple as MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, etc. Depends on massivly unreliable open source/sharware programs that may leave you with hundreds of MB is unplayable files.
Test. WTF? This is the second time I am having a problem cut-n-pasting in a post! (The Astralius thread was the first). I lost my original post, so I re-wrote it to post here, but I get a 404 error page! Goddam.Quote from: stevek666Believe it or not, the only reason I haven't checked this out is because I don't bother with bit torrent. :(
I don't understand...
Update: I can't PM my pasted message either. Anyone else experience this?
No, I still don't get it. BT is about as simple as Notepad. Its small, easy to use, availible on every platform, and almost never f*cks up. APE on the other hand is just a huge pain in the ass way of doing something that could otherwise be much simpler, in addition to that I can't get stuff in APE to play or convert at all.The point was that as you don't want to have to install something extra, so do other people not want to install something extra. It's not a hard concept to understand. :D
No, I still don't get it. BT is about as simple as Notepad. Its small, easy to use, availible on every platform, and almost never f*cks up. APE on the other hand is just a huge pain in the ass way of doing something that could otherwise be much simpler, in addition to that I can't get stuff in APE to play or convert at all.The point was that as you don't want to have to install something extra, so do other people not want to install something extra. It's not a hard concept to understand. :D
Bittorrent is the best thing to hit the internet EVER, I can't even imagine going back to the days of downloading without it.
Bittorrent is the best thing to hit the internet EVER, I can't even imagine going back to the days of downloading without it.
IAWTP. And the basic one is so small, I can't imagine the reluctance to install it being a refusal to having to add something extra, especially when it gives you access to a lot of shit.
Its the opening monologue for Draclua X.
Mission was absolutely successful and took approx. three minutes to do, and that includes the downloading and installing. The sound is from the opening cinema of Dracula X with the German narration and is six seconds long. :)
I try to avoid BT if I can - I hate leaving my machine on to download stuff, and sometimes the wait for the seed to start isn't worth it. If it's a huge file and I can't find it anywhere else, then BT will do.
Oh, then we both have the same problem. I too dislike leaving my PC on if I'm going to sleep and so forth. The context I was going by there though was for those who haven't installed BT and refuse to (going by what nodtveidt said). Your case would be different if you do use it. But anyway, this is a problem with any type of sharing software I would say, not so specific to BT. I think in general I've gotten much bigger files and at faster rates than with what I was ever able to get with FTP, DC++, Kazza, etc. Most of the torrents I've run into have been pretty fast with many users, so that shapes my general good impression about it. The torrent for this was one of the slowest, but perhaps that was due to coming too late.
I have to say that this thread made me pee a little. I appreciate NW's humor. I just gotta say I am also scratching my head to your APE woes, it is easy to use, and if anything, it's MORE usable than apple's mandatory format.
great if you want to play music on ipod, useless for any other purpose.
I downloaded one song from itunes, and I will never do it again. I don't like the idea of paying for music and then apple telling me what I can do with it. Nightwolve, it's funny that this discussion arose, because it was actually using your rigg archives that introduced me to ape, and now ape and flac is all I use! Although, I too slightly prefer ape.
Well what I meant was that if you get the song from iTunes, your only option is the secured files, and that to me is crap. If I buy the CD, I can do whatever I want with the music. It sounds like in your case, computer and iPod are the only places you listen to music, and if thats the case then, itunes would be fine. It's true there is no current mp3 player that supports ape, but if you have the codec, you can save your music without losing a single byte of waveform, and still save disk space, and you can always restore your original wave exactly as it was to rip to any other format, or burn a perfect copy of your original cd. You can play them on winamp, and you can burn them directly with nero. I would guess that more support will come, but yes right now itunes is more omnipresent. I didn't mean to sound mocking, I have just never heard of anybody having problems with ape. I'm no computer savant, but it's pretty simple for me. I think we are sort of comparing apples to oranges in the scope of our individual use of music. In your case iTunes is probably better.