Downloading music

can you explain what seeds and peers mean?

how do i determinegood files from bad?

tx

 

seed is the person who originally hosts the file

peers are the others who are downloading it

the entire file is broken into parts so you can be getting certain parts from one person and and another part from another while uploading the parts you already have to the same peers or differant peers

What do you mean by good files?

 

What file format are the music that you typically down load from torrents. I get movies and they are typically .avi which I have software to convert. Will they me MP3s for the most part?

 

no, typically better quality formats. It's not meant to be a quick way to get files.

 

i have got the utorrents rolling, but speeds suck. i am assuming i need to fix my ip and do that porting deal.

i make teeth not fuck with computer stuff all day. how difficult is it to give me a static ip?

 

care to elaborate how you then find them on your computer and they then end up on your mp3 player?

 

William J, there is an app called Switch. You can find it here:

http://www.versiontracker.com

I am a Mac user and it converts .wma to .wav, .mp3, etc.

It will also change .avi + .mpg to whatever the hell file type my Moto i580 cell uses for video.

There is a Windows version also but I don't go there so can't testify.

One of these days I'm gonna find out how these torrents work but Limewire has been good for me for a few years now.

 

i got it wrked out.

torrents kick the shit out of everything else out there for file exchange.

for instance, you can download in a single torrent every neal young album ever produced. it is sick nutty.

i am way behind the times on this.....

 

It's easy. You do want to make sure you have port forwarding turned on with TWC. Also make sure file/print sharing is disabled on your torrent machine.

You should also read the TOS for TWC.


[TWC] TW Officially Announces Packet Shaping for All RR Users

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TIME WARNER ANNOUNCES INTRODUCTION OF PACKET SHAPING TECHNOLOGY NATIONWIDE

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