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waltjocketty
Joined: 09 Oct 2006
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| Well, I tried Limewire and Soulseek. Limewire has a great selection of music, but you have to search for and download one song at a time, then you can only play it through Limewire's player. |
simply not true. you just need to try a little bit harder. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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I never tried to download foreign titles on Soulseek, but I do successfully download full English titled albums at least once a week. Here are a couple tips for successful downloading on Soulseek:
- only download from results that are in bold, black letters. Gray means you will have to wait in queue.
- after the search has run for a moment, click on the D/L Speed button at top and then try to d/l from the person with the highest kbps rate.
- you can right click on a file and hit 'download containing folder' to quickly queue the whole thing.
I still have tons of luck with Soulseek. Only the most obscure things are unavailable. (Though I have been getting trouble downloading Rachel's Systems/Layers for some reason) |
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Meggiebea
Joined: 20 Oct 2006
Location: Uijeongbu, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
The pleasant surprise was www.torrentz.com. It's probably the most complete torrent search engine out there, |
OK, I'll be the first to say, I am idiot, but what is a torrent? |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Meggiebea wrote: |
| Son Deureo! wrote: |
The pleasant surprise was www.torrentz.com. It's probably the most complete torrent search engine out there, |
OK, I'll be the first to say, I am idiot, but what is a torrent? |
It's a wonderful new way to sit there waiting for some people to come online who have the files you want... |
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Meggiebea
Joined: 20 Oct 2006
Location: Uijeongbu, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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WOW!!! That sounds fantastic!!!!
really? |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I've had a poor success rate when it comes to getting what I want out of a torrent. But most people I know swear by the method. |
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waltjocketty
Joined: 09 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| torrents suck. limewire is the only way to go |
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Meggiebea
Joined: 20 Oct 2006
Location: Uijeongbu, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok, limewire, I've heard a lot about this site. BUT I downloaded it and cannot listen to the things i downloaded because it did not have a licence...whats the trick? |
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waltjocketty
Joined: 09 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| i don't know...that never happened to me. you have to check the box, when you sign up, saying that you don't plan on downloading copyrighted material. Other than that, I don't know. When I download songs or movies, it automatically gets transferred into my itunes folder and I can listen to it right away. |
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mt01ap
Joined: 04 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| Meggiebea wrote: |
| Son Deureo! wrote: |
The pleasant surprise was www.torrentz.com. It's probably the most complete torrent search engine out there, |
OK, I'll be the first to say, I am idiot, but what is a torrent? |
Wikipedia's definition of bittorrent is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent.
Bittorrent is fanastic to use, I have both limewire and bittorrent and I always use bittorrent over limewire. Limewire is good for downloading individual songs and individual episodes. Bittorrent is a lot better for downloading entire discographys, and entire seasons of tv shows. However, it is also takes up a lot more space and takes days and days to dl. But it's worth the wait.  I downloaded the first 4 seasons of the sopranos, seinfeld season 7, south park sesaon 5, and discographys of oasis, killers, and dave matthews band in less than 3 weeks time. Long time waiting, but def. worth the wait. |
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