Hi guys,

What is the best bittorrent site to download stones stuff?


Thanks!

Cheers,
Wuudy

Dime. Also Rocks Off.

Try [novogate.com]

It´s Only Rock´n Roll



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-11-17 14:42 by Harlix.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2018-08-04 21:02 by UrbanSteel.

I don't understand the whole bit torrent thing. Why do that as opposed to just downloading mp3's?

the traders den
bootcity
pinkrobert

are all good sites

jamesfdouglas Wrote:
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> I don't understand the whole bit torrent thing.
> Why do that as opposed to just downloading mp3's?

it's a question of purity. I listen to all my tunes on mp3. HOWEVER...if i download, say, a copy of Brussels Affair as mp3s, and then decide i want to listen to it on my conventional CD player, I have to 'expand' the mp3(s) to a file that a CD player can understand - a 'wav' file. Now, in the original conversion from wav to mp3, a hell of a lot of the source material is lost. You can't hear it, to an extent, but there is a loss.

If you try and 'expand' to 100% something that's only 15% in size, you probably won't notice the sound difference. but if you were to LOAN that CD with mp3s masquerading as ordinary CD tracks to somebody and THEY were to make mp3s of it, then the sound would be lousy.

Thus, I think the convention is that it's good manners on torrent sites to upload/download larger files. They tend to use 'flac' files which are slightly smaller than 'wav' but have no loss in sound (flac stands for free lossless audio codec')

If you wanna download mp3s, rock on - the 'hot stuff' section here is f**king brilliant for that and it's where i get most of my stuff...but you shoudln't, as a rule, burn stuff you got on MP3 to audio CD and pass it on to anybody...

am i making sense?!?!?

TM

a cry for help:-

recently downloaded a torrent, in the form of .shn files
used a program to convert the .shn files to .wav files.

-however 2 of the tracks have converted to wav.bak and not wav.

is it possible to convert the 2 wav.bak files to .wav files???

jamesfdouglas Wrote:
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> I don't understand the whole bit torrent thing.
> Why do that as opposed to just downloading mp3's?


because the quality is better

Adrian-L Wrote:
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> a cry for help:-
>
> recently downloaded a torrent, in the form of .shn
> files
> used a program to convert the .shn files to .wav
> files.
>
> -however 2 of the tracks have converted to wav.bak
> and not wav.
>
> is it possible to convert the 2 wav.bak files to
> .wav files???

Save a copy and rename without bak

C

liddas Wrote:
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> Save a copy and rename without bak

thank you ,i'll try it out.

the file "name" is blah.wav, in the "type" it says .bak
so if i save the file name and rename as something else, that should do it?

..sorry i'm cr@p with this sort of stuff.

Thanks, textmonkey. I didn't understand and that helps.

Adrian-L Wrote:
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> liddas Wrote:
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> -----
>
> >
> > Save a copy and rename without bak
>
> thank you ,i'll try it out.
>
> the file "name" is blah.wav, in the "type" it says
> .bak
> so if i save the file name and rename as something
> else, that should do it?
>
> ..sorry i'm cr@p with this sort of stuff.

if the file name is blah.wav.bak

rename as blah.wav

I don't know if it helps, though. It did for me in the past!

C