23 Mar
2005
23 Mar
'05
12:31 a.m.
g'day
i've just finished re-recording a song that a few people on the list
have expressed an interest in mixing ... i'm just wondering the best way
to make the tracks available, and i was thinking that the solution would
be to tarball the seperate tracks and make a .torrent file out of them.
the thing is, i haven't got that much space on my server, and it seems a
bit of a waste to take all the time to upload it there (i only have an
upload speed of, like, 7k/b or something) when i could just share it
directly in the superb way that bittorrent does.
also, what would be the best way to share the seperate tracks? as *.wav
files or *.flac or something else?
shayne
23 Mar
23 Mar
4:06 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:45:11 +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
g'day
i've just finished re-recording a song that a few people on the list
have expressed an interest in mixing ... i'm just wondering the best way
to make the tracks available, and i was thinking that the solution would
be to tarball the seperate tracks and make a .torrent file out of them.
the thing is, i haven't got that much space on my server, and it seems a
bit of a waste to take all the time to upload it there (i only have an
upload speed of, like, 7k/b or something) when i could just share it
directly in the superb way that bittorrent does.
also, what would be the best way to share the seperate tracks? as *.wav
files or *.flac or something else?
A torrent seems like a good idea, but in the worst case it will actually
hammer your upstream bandwidth more than uploading it, as it could involve
everyone fetching it directly from your system.
If there is a service out there that acts as a .torrent hosting site and
also a permanant/long term torrent node for the data then you can be sure
that it will be better. I dont know of one though.
It depends wether your trying to be a good citizen by offering people
(potentially) faster downloads, or minimise your upstream bandwidth usage.
FWIW, I wouldn't bother with FLAC and co., I'd just use high-ish rate ogg
files. The difference is hard to spot.
- Steve
4:24 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:45:11PM +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
g'day
i've just finished re-recording a song that a few people on the list
have expressed an interest in mixing ... i'm just wondering the best way
to make the tracks available, and i was thinking that the solution would
be to tarball the seperate tracks and make a .torrent file out of them.
the thing is, i haven't got that much space on my server, and it seems a
bit of a waste to take all the time to upload it there (i only have an
upload speed of, like, 7k/b or something) when i could just share it
directly in the superb way that bittorrent does.
I've got quite a bit of disc space on my server. If you just seed the
torrent I'll leach it and let it stay up on my server.
also, what would be the best way to share the seperate
tracks? as *.wav
files or *.flac or something else?
I'm not sure but the programs that I use seem to mostly handle*.wav.
But I go for FLAC, as it is truly free, if it was up to me.
regards,
- Bengan --------------------------------------------------------------
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5:55 a.m.
Bengt Gördén wrote:
I've got quite a bit of disc space on my server. If
you just seed the
torrent I'll leach it and let it stay up on my server.
cool ... thanx a bunch! i've never published a torrent before, but i've
tried to do so with azureus.
apparently this is the announce url, if that is all you need:
http://61.68.35.195:6969/torrents/the_girls_-_the_sailor.tar.gz.torrent?3B5…
let me know how you go.
I'm not sure but the programs that I use seem to
mostly handle*.wav.
But I go for FLAC, as it is truly free, if it was up to me.
it seems to get pretty good compression on a *.wav file, too ... i ended
up going for the *.flac
cheers again
shayne
6:18 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:09:34PM +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
let me know how you go.
No. Cant get it. Says:
Connecting to 61.68.35.195:6969... failed: Connection refused.
Neither with firefox nor with wget.
regards,
- Bengan --------------------------------------------------------------
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7:57 a.m.
Bengt Gördén wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:09:34PM +1100, Shayne
O'Connor wrote:
should be alright now ...
hopefully?!
thanx for trying.
shayne
let me know how you go.
No. Cant get it. Says:
Connecting to 61.68.35.195:6969... failed: Connection refused.
Neither with firefox nor with wget.
8:20 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:10:52PM +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
should be alright now ...
hopefully?!
Yes. It's working now. Should be downloaded in about 4,5h.
I'm not sure how bittorrent actually work. If you disconnects your
seed it might stop seeding. As the torrent only points to you. But, as
I said, I'm not really sure. Some one that knows?
thanx for trying.
No problem.
regards,
- Bengan --------------------------------------------------------------
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