Available
LVJBS Bit Torrent Downloads:
(read the “How-To” guide below before
you get started)
Tea
Leaf Green: 1/17/2004 Moon Doggies West –
Las Vegas, NV
Originally seeded: 2/12/2004
Tracker Status: click here to make sure
this show is a currently seeded
BT Link (click here to begin download)
Please keep your BT windowand
help seed the show when your download has finished
Bit Torrent Downloading:
Easy and FAST!
By Andy G.
An
overview:
Bit
Torrent (bt) downloading is one of the easiest ways
I’ve found of downloading shows. In addition to
being easy, it is also very fast when compared to other
methods of downloading.
You
can identify a bt file to be downloaded by its “.torrent”
file extension (the very last part of the file name).
Usually, the file name is pretty long and contains the
band’s name, the date of the show, and the format
in which the files will arrive, normally “.shn”
or “.flac” (but more on that later).
Without
getting too technical, the process goes like this:
• The first person to upload the show becomes
the original seeder.
• Once the show is up, the people downloading
it become the leechers.
• When a leecher has completed the download, they
automatically become an additional seeder.
The
beautiful part: The reason that this is so quick
and easy is because, when you are leeching, you are
getting your files from every active seed and leech.
This means that you are getting your files from everyone
participating in the download, not just the original
seed. This is the reason why bt works better and goes
faster when there are more people downloading.
The
catch: The only trick here is that good bt etiquette
asks that once you’ve finished your download,
you leave your windowand be a seed for a while.
Why
you should do this:
First
of all, it’s so easy! Seriously, I had to get
a bigger hard drive just to store all the stuff that
can be downloaded this way.
Second,
this is a highly efficient (and extremely cost-effective)
way to spread the gospel of the LVJBS. When we upload
a show, an e-mail is sent to an announce list (similar
to our Yahoo Group), which is read by a very large segment
of the online trading community. Every show we upload
will have the LVJBS name and info on it, so…you
get the picture.
Third,
and most important, this is a super-easy way for all
of us to get our very own copies of all the shows we
do from now on. Once we get good at this, our shows
should be available within a week’s time, and
of course, you’ll be the first to know when they’re
ready.
What
you need:
To
successfully download a bt file, all you need is one
piece of bt software. If you search, you will find a
number of variations of the original software, but I’ve
found that the original works best for me. The latest
version of this software, for both PC and Mac, can be
found here:
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html
Once
you have the software installed, all you need to do
is click on any file or link with a “.torrent”
extension, and the download will begin (you will be
prompted to choose a location on your hard drive where
you would like the files to be downloaded to). That’s
it; you are now downloading the show! If, for any reason,
you need to interrupt your download, you can restart
it from the point you left off by clicking on the same
link you used to start the original download and selecting
the same download location on your computer.
NOTE:
As stated above, the files you download will arrive
compressed as either “.shn” or “.flac”
files. You will need the appropriate software to decompress
these files, if you don’t already have it.
For
Shorten (.shn), software can be downloaded here:
PC: http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html
Mac: http://www.hornig.net/shorten/
For
Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac), software can be found
at:
PC and Mac: http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
Both
of these programs work in a very similar way. Basically,
you willthe program and choose the files from
your hard drive (the ones you just downloaded) that
you want decompressed. When finished, you will have
original quality files that are ready to be burned onto
a CD or played on your computer’s media player.
For
a full list of bt resources, visit: http://smiler.no-ip.org/BT/BTlinks.php
©2004
Las Vegas Jam Band Society - For The Music
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