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BootyLove said:
UKNova isnt' bad for that - I find it pretty easy to keep my ratio up - depends how popular the torrent is though. I use Soulseek and bittorrent - soulseek is good for those hard to find tracks - or if you just want the one - bitorrent is good for entire albums - and everything downloads so much quicker than soulseek -which only allows one download of each file at a time whereas bitorrent is sharing to lots of users at a time. Soulseek tends to be quite slow as well so not suitable for larger files (though I did get star wars from there - took about 15 hours)
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Thing I've noticed on UKNova, is that most of the popular stuff there's far more seeders than leechers. For instance, I'm uploading something at the moment, but it's constantly hovering around the 2kps/3kps upload. Which means I'll have to leave it uploading on there for bloody ages to bring my ratio up (which is currently 0.182, which is piss, but better than the 0.028 that it was!

And also, cos my ratio is so low, I can't just find something with lots of leechers and no seeders and start dl/uploading it, cos there's a delay...
 
RenegadeDog said:
Thing I've noticed on UKNova, is that most of the popular stuff there's far more seeders than leechers. For instance, I'm uploading something at the moment, but it's constantly hovering around the 2kps/3kps upload. Which means I'll have to leave it uploading on there for bloody ages to bring my ratio up (which is currently 0.182, which is piss, but better than the 0.028 that it was!

And also, cos my ratio is so low, I can't just find something with lots of leechers and no seeders and start dl/uploading it, cos there's a delay...
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yeah that can be a problem as most of the seeding is done when it first arrives - also the majority of the uploading is usually done when you're downloading the file. - are you seeding a lot? - try stopping a load of them (if using Az) and see if that helps.
 
RenegadeDog said:
Thing I've noticed on UKNova, is that most of the popular stuff there's far more seeders than leechers. For instance, I'm uploading something at the moment, but it's constantly hovering around the 2kps/3kps upload. Which means I'll have to leave it uploading on there for bloody ages to bring my ratio up (which is currently 0.182, which is piss, but better than the 0.028 that it was!

And also, cos my ratio is so low, I can't just find something with lots of leechers and no seeders and start dl/uploading it, cos there's a delay...
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http://uknova.com/topten.php?type=2&lim=50&subtype=wse
 
Is there any way of working out how big a downloaded file is? I mean after you've changed( or whatever the correct term is) from avi/Dvix to something burnable. Sometimes I want to burn episodes of a series and have to convert them two or three times, either because there's space on the disc for another one, or because there's not enough space.
 
Can anyone recommend me a good music search site that isn't impossible to get into?

I've been using the general ones like ISOHunt, Torrentspy etc but can't always find what I want.
 
I got myself sorted out with oink.me.uk today which was surprisingly easy (be nice in the IRC channel) and that's got everything I could think of. I'll keep using the open ones though to go easy on my ratio.
 
I missed a couple of episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm in the middle of Season 4 so I'd like to catch them via bittorrent. However the Big Five sites only have CYE by seasons and the occasional episode. Which I don't need.

There used to be a really good site that dealt with TV episodes, BEFNET or something like that, but it shut down Anyone recommend a suitable heir, or just anywhere I can get those CYE episodes. Thanks!
 
If they have grouped the files by episode (normal) then you can set the torrent client to only download the files you want. ABC does at least.
 
You can do this in azureus too. Double click the torrent to open it and then right click the files to set priority.
 
Oh yeaahhhhh I've heard that you can do that with ABC (and now Azareus I get told).

A shame, I've always used Bittornado as the above two never worked out for me in the past. Hmmm.... so no sites then I have to do it by client.

PS Isnt it odd how clients work out so differently on different computers. People swear by ABC while others find it so slow, same with Bittornado. It's like computers have tastes or something! :confused:
 
tom k&e said:
You can do this in azureus too. Double click the torrent to open it and then right click the files to set priority.
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Plus use the shift and control keys to select whole wads of files if you need to. Only found that out a few months ago, had been using Bittornado whenever I wanted to select particular files from massive packs.
 
Find loads more torrent sites.

Most torrent sites have a very similar disclaimer on their front page . By googling parts of it you can find whole hosts of new sites.
For example, google "Disclaimer: None of the files shown here are actually hosted on this server. The links are provided solely by this site's users." http://tinyurl.com/cloar and you get 49,000 responses.

or how about "The administrator of this site" "cannot be held responsible for what its users post, or any other actions of its users." http://tinyurl.com/ckr7s which has 22,000 results from sites using mainly, the old torrentbits based code. Some of which you would be very unlikely to stumble across. For example, I have just found the excellent http://www.1bt.ru/ which shares graphics apps and tutorials. Anyway, the whole disclaimer from the torrentbytes site is as follows...

"Disclaimer: None of the files shown here are actually hosted on this server. The links are provided solely by this site's users. The administrator of this site (www.torrentbytes.net) cannot be held responsible for what its users post, or any other actions of its users. You may not use this site to distribute or download any material when you do not have the legal rights to do so. It is your own responsibility to adhere to these terms."

Just play with googling chunks of that and see what you get.
 
kenny g said:
or how about "The administrator of this site" "cannot be held responsible for what its users post, or any other actions of its users." http://tinyurl.com/ckr7s which has 22,000 results from sites using mainly, the old torrentbits based code. Some of which you would be very unlikely to stumble across. For example, I have just found the excellent http://www.1bt.ru/ which shares graphics apps and tutorials. Anyway, the whole disclaimer from the torrentbytes site is as follows...
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That is a pretty cunning hack kenny :D
 
Bob_the_lost said:
If they have grouped the files by episode (normal) then you can set the torrent client to only download the files you want. ABC does at least.
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Yep. Bitlord can do this too. Although you have to be careful. I did about 4 episodes of Firefly, and then came back to do the rest. Because it was a bit slow, I thought I'd try the other tracker's one. I pressed 'remove task and files' and it not only removed the ones it had just started doing, but all the other, completed files too! And I am in the middle of doing the whole bloody lot again.
 
kenny g said:
Most torrent sites have a very similar disclaimer on their front page . By googling parts of it you can find whole hosts of new sites.
For example, google "Disclaimer: None of the files shown here are actually hosted on this server. The links are provided solely by this site's users." http://tinyurl.com/cloar and you get 49,000 responses.

or how about "The administrator of this site" "cannot be held responsible for what its users post, or any other actions of its users." http://tinyurl.com/ckr7s which has 22,000 results from sites using mainly, the old torrentbits based code. Some of which you would be very unlikely to stumble across. For example, I have just found the excellent http://www.1bt.ru/ which shares graphics apps and tutorials. Anyway, the whole disclaimer from the torrentbytes site is as follows...

"Disclaimer: None of the files shown here are actually hosted on this server. The links are provided solely by this site's users. The administrator of this site (www.torrentbytes.net) cannot be held responsible for what its users post, or any other actions of its users. You may not use this site to distribute or download any material when you do not have the legal rights to do so. It is your own responsibility to adhere to these terms."

Just play with googling chunks of that and see what you get.
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nice trick kenny.
 
Divisive Cotton said:
Question: I have the option of announce url, announce list and HTTP seeds. What's the difference?

Edit: I'll rephrase that - what are HTTP seeds?
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What the name suggests - http ie web servers with the complete file. If you want to keep a file seeded for a long time, but reduce the load on your webserver, you can enter an http seed, from which the file will be downloaded if there's nowhere else to get it.

I've never used it, and wouldn't recomend it unless you have a lot of bandwidth on your website, or very little on your personal connection. What are you distribuing exactly?
 
Rune said:
Is there any way of working out how big a downloaded file is? I mean after you've changed( or whatever the correct term is) from avi/Dvix to something burnable. Sometimes I want to burn episodes of a series and have to convert them two or three times, either because there's space on the disc for another one, or because there's not enough space.
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Are you converting formats so that you can play them on your standalone DVD player? Cos that's the only reason you'd want to do so, and unfortunately no there's no foolproof way of telling how big they'll be before you start :(
 
Crispy said:
Are you converting formats so that you can play them on your standalone DVD player? Cos that's the only reason you'd want to do so, and unfortunately no there's no foolproof way of telling how big they'll be before you start :(
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Yes, I am.
And to your second point, bah :(
 
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