Thetownend.com

please

http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentdetails&id=290617

It's a torrent

spot on, ta.

this is fucking ace, download it!

DARE (feat Shaun Ryder) is proper good, All Alone (feat Roots Manuva) is damn good and Dirty Harry is fucking class as well. Groooooovy.

downloading now my friend

Will download tomorrow I think. Im downloading 18 albums at the moment  :shock:

bloody hell that was quick. Took 15 mins !

bloody hell, I hope your Uni don't mind...

I don't live in halls  :advercool:

I've been mostly listening too it for a few days. I like the fire coming out of a monkeys head or whatever it's called.

don't really think much of the roots manuva track. his colaborations are normally so good too  :|

I've gone off Roots a lot recently, dunno why, but I really liked his track on the Gorillaz album.

his 'colabs' with u.n.k.l.e., mr scruff, leftfield and the cinematic orchestra are superb. check them out if you can find 'em.

including the maximo park one that i asked for i hope

Just out of interest what kind of download speeds do people get with these torrents, I usually get around 200-230 Kb/sec when downloading, ahem, non-music related resources  :wink: but only seem to manage 30Kb/sec max with a popular torrent..

While were at it what god damn ports to I need to forward nowadays?

If you have a router, it's all about port forwarding, once you've done that you should get near maximum speeds on popular torrents. I get over 200k/second on 2mb ntl.

I'll try and find something that tells you what to do.

You can choose the port you open (forward). You need to tell which port you want the client to 'listen' to. This only applies if you are behind a router that has a built in firewall.

Cheers B.W.B that's all i needed to know.. it's alworking sweetly now just need to get my hands on a new hard drive to store this shit!

downloading Basement Jaxx and it's running at 40kbs.

whats all this forward stuff??

i'm on bt-yahoo 2meg.

Do you use a router?

no.
i'm straight from pc to phone socket

Then you're all good, no need to worry about port forwarding.

A slow speed might be because there are few seeders (people who have completely downloaded the file). Also your download rate is proprtional to your upload rate

ah i see.

my download rate is:
50 - 60kb/s

upload:
20 - 30 kb/s

are these good speeds??? :?

For a 2mb connection i would say not. It varies with how popular the file is though, you may actually find that not many people are downloading (you swap the bits of the file you need with bits they need)

What site are you downloading from? What album? I can get 56kb/s off www.torrentspy.com with the singles album with my 512kb connection

yeah i'm on that site also.
something is slowing me down then??

i'm also using version 3.4.2
should i update my torrent software???
where do i do that??

I don't use the original client I use BitComet:

http://www.bitcomet.com/

whats this site like in comparison???

BitComet is a bittorrent client i.e. it handles the downloads, rather than using the original BitTorrent. This one enables multiple downloads in one window and you can chose which parts of the file you want to download (e.g. certain tracks off an album). Other than that it's all the same really, I did notice it was quicker, but only marginally

this new torrent stuff is all new to me but it's looking good so far

I'm downloading deluxe editions of three Cure albums and an interestingly titled 'winner of Miss Norway.mpeg'...

I downloaded 18 Cure albums overnight  8)

If you all want to look for these files this is another good search site:

www.isohunt.com

I've got 25 8)

Do you have The Sims 2? The one on there is French I think :/

downloading faithless and i'm only getting 56kb/s download and 27kb/s upload.

how can i make this faster :evil:

Give me the link for Faithless...I will see what I get

http://www.torrentspy.com/search.asp?mode=torrentdetails&id=151864

I'm only getting 22kb/s at the moment, yours sounds about right

just busy then i take it??

It all depend on how many seeds there are in comparison to those downloding

seeders 65
downloaders 85
 :?:

All sounds a bit strange, usually it speeds up the more time you spend. What modem do you have?

it's an Thompson Speadtouch 330

Nothing unusual I can find with that modem. Thinking about it you might have spyware/adware that's slowing the speed down

whats best to use to check for these things??

i have Mcafee internet security suit so i didn't think anything could filter through with this

Um ok so maybe it's not spyware :?

I really have no idea

no nor me?

just getting oasis' new album and it's running at 30kb/s.

spose will just have to put up with it :evil:

but to be honest i'm getting free albums so i'm a winner :beers

Whits will know

good thinking pieman

i've never used torrents before... its ace!!! any tips?

Some good sites:

www.thepiratebay.com
www.torrentspy.com
www.isohunt.com

Add any others that are good here people

iosohunt just tried to get a trojan on my laptop... grrrrr.

bitcomet is running at 98kb download, 7kb up. is that about right?

Sounds good!

the main reason why bit torrent isn't always as quick as downloading from a website is because you are downloading parts from other people and not a dedicated webserver, but you are also constantly uploading to other people so there is more traffic plus it depends on how many sources have the full file. if only a few people have the full file it means the speed will slowly decrease as you get near the end of your download.

i think  :-))(

i've read that back and it makes no sense! i'm going to bed will try and re-write in the morning!

It makes sense, but magic's downloads seem to be slow all the time (for his bandwidth)

I've downloaded over 1gig of music today, I remembered why I stopped leeching last time... I've only got 200mb left on my mp3 drive.

p.s. these remastered deluxe versions of Faith/Pornography/Seventeen Seconds are ace. A Forest sounds about ten times better.

quality, may have to have a gander at that sometimee soon

my torrent virginity was lost with Gorillaz, Oasis, and British Sea Power... i love this shit!

The original mixes were pretty shite but these are seriously far superior, I need to get hold of them on CD now because I feel too much of a pikey downloading music.

Yeah I only found out about bittorrent stuff about a month ago. It's all gravy

get the new QOTSA album, it's ace :advercool:

Nice! I forgot about that! Cheers yooffy

no worries, I saw the video for 'Everybody Knows That You're Insane' last night and was inspired. It's a weird video, some naked bloke waving his cock around throughout...

If you disable the QoS packet schedular in windows I swear internet and download speeds are better

Listening to QOTSA now  8)

My only problem with downloading music is that the sound quality won't be as good, but seeing as I will buy any of the albums I really like or make cd audio copies with my recording deck that doesn't matter. My hi-fi is back in Swindon anyhoo

I put all my music on the computer anyway so I can listen to it easily, a quality VBR with LAME encoder is as good as you'll get, it's impossible to tell the difference unless you've got seriously good equipment, which I don't.

A VBwotsit? I thought LAME meant not very good.

My hi-fi at home is a seperates system (my pride and joy) and I can notice the difference, but I'm very anal retentive with the details

I rip all of my CD's to mp3 format using a program called CDex which uses an encoder known as LAME. I encode at VBR quality, which is Variable BitRate and basically it's the best form of compression for mp3s without too much quality loss and massive file sizes.

I've got a Sony mini hifi I've had for years, got my PC hooked upto it though so I can play my mp3s via Winamp and use my speakers for it, ace :D

I download most of my music these days, bought about 50 cds last year but it's much much cheaper, free in fact so I've downloaded a few 100 albums. I just play it through an amplifier and it sounds pretty sexy.

I'd love to buy albums, but as a student the amount I listen too is un-affourdable. But the music I reccomend too people makes up for it. For example, I wouldn't know about kaiser chiefs or  maximo park before they became big if other people recomended them to me.  But downloadig hurts no one

you should all use audioscrobbler, i find it perversely interesting.

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/mankatron2005/

I do http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/benwahballs/ it's very insightful, I haven't listened to much recently though as my pc wasn't working.

What exactly does that do,bear in mind I have no speakers on this PC at work.Is it playing music?

it just keeps track of what music you've been listening to, it's kind of interesting to see what I've been playing lots.

can you listen to music at work yeovil?

Yes Ive got a little mini hifi  thing I brought in from my games/junk room.

that's alright then. I don't like the thought of you sitting in silence for 12 hours. It upsets me.

Today I have mostly beem listening to-

Adorable - against perfection
Ride - ox4
Teenage Fanclub -four thousand seven hundredabd sixty six seconds

Ride are always good 8)

Like A Daydream is the bestest song ever.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jameswalsh/mp3s.htm

I'm bored.

Yes you are. So am I, but not bored enough to read all that!

OK now I am. Re-downloading Maximo Park because it cocked up first time round  :|

Do you have the Duke Spirit album? I'd quite like 'Love is an unfamiliar name' if you've got it. I'd buy it on iTunes but I'd have to burn it to a CD then rip it... oh sod it I'll buy it on iTunes.

No I don't i'm fraid. Could probably find it online though and it would be free  :wink:

too late, bought it already...along with 4 other tracks. Damn iTunes!

:D how much did that purchase cost?

£3.95. I'm going to be overdrawn by over a tenner now!

If you had taken charge of the Sponser a player thing you could have 400 quid in your bank now. :o

£3.95 for a couple of mp3s :shock: fucking apple.

What's the limit? I'm £1244.12 overdrawn if it's any consolation

I'd also have a lot of angry people after my blood   :shock:

si, it's a debit account so I don't know how I've managed to get myself overdrawn, I do it on a nearly fortnightly basis. Lloyds TSB are gonna slap my arse soon.

I've 800 pound saved,thats the most money Ive ever had.

I was £1200 in the black before uni  :cry:

I've never had more than £1k in my bank account and that only lasted a week.

I wonder if Flamey collapsed with vodka sickness.

I might start drinking neat vodka to look hard

I think I would have had about £3000 before uni if I hadn't wasted a lot on the hifi and driving lessons

Drink it at bus stations thats the hardest you can get.

I think I have more than a grand in the bank now, £6,000 down in loans though and have a few big fees to pay soon.

I had 15000 in the bank the other week but that was a loan to pay off debts so it didnt count.

I get paid weekly so my wages never build up to much because I spend them on beer and bones.

Student loans of £3,000
Overdrawn by about £100
At the start of Uni I had £1000  :(

worth it, though

Full time job, always £300 overdrawn at the end of the month.  Bonus will pay it off next month and then some, then i'll proceed to overspend again...

am I the only one with a big hefty bank account then 8)