I usually google search as well. I'll usually try searching for megaupload or rapidshare first and if I can't find anything or its a full discography, I'll go with the torrent. Usually I end up at The Pirate Bay for torrents.

Using Limewire is like injecting with a dirty needle; you just never know what you're going to get.

I mostly search blogs, using Google. Works like a charm.

for torrents: torrents | your bittorrent search

but I prefer using: Google fileshare search

:rofl:

Demonoid sucks as you have to sign up for it. The two ones I use are isoHunt - the BitTorrent and P2P search engine & Mininova : The ultimate BitTorrent source!. Two best IMO. If I cant find something on there I go to MegaDownload.net - megaupload.com and rapidshare.com search engine.

Isohunt and Mininova suck in comparison to Demonoid... You just haven't found someone cool enough to give you an invite. Alternatively you might just be a douchebag nobody wants to give an invite to. :p

Well, everything Ive ever needed 99% of it Ive found on those two sites. I wasnt aware that Demonoid was the 'fashionable' site to use :rolleyes:. Also that would be 'bawbag', seen as Im from Scotland and all ;). So you can keep your 'douche', bawbag.

What's a good torrent program to use?

I think mine is called uTorrent... it's the best I've ever used.

Alright.

Cause I have BitTorrent on my old computer.

I just don't want to mess up my new computer, you know?

No wait, I think the one I have is BitTorrent... argh I don't know. It's on my roommates computer.

Hahaha. Let me know whenever. I'm not downloading any programs tonight.

uTorrent is what I use, it's easy to use and runs in the background nicely.

What do you mean by that?

It doesn't hog my computer's resources, so I can do other stuff while I have downloads going without my other stuff lagging/slowing down.

For Mac, Transmission is the way to go.

I have a Dell. =P

I like Isohunt as well.
Reason being, they always have picks with a lot of seeds/peers. And I've never gotten a shoddy pick from them.

I think he means that uTorrent is a very small program that doesn't hog a lot of resources.
I use it, and the speeds are phenomenal, plus the option modifications are all there. It's a tiny program but it does as much as anything else you can get.

And you'd prefer it over BitTorrent?

What's the different between the two?

I've never used BitTorrent or anything else for that matter because I've never had any issues with uTorrent. I'd assume there can't be too many differences, I just like uTorrent because I can start a download, go off and browse MB/play poker/watch a movie and it never makes a peep or causes my other programs to stutter or lag.

Hey AwwSugar, found out the one I have is uTorrent. It's really good. Never had any problems with it at all. I highly recommend it!

(If I'm insulting your intelligence here, I'm sorry.)


What you need to understand is the fact that downloading torrents involves two things:

1. A program that acts as a client to download the file
2. The file itself, supported by a good number of seeds/peers, which is usually found on popular websites in which the file has been downloaded a lot and seeded a lot.


uTorrent is a client program that allows you to download the files.
There are other client programs that do the same thing, but uTorrent is a good one.

Once you've got a client program, you can just go on google and search for what you want, while adding the term "torrent" in the search. All the results you get will be results that are hosted by torrent sites.
This is the point where you'll need to wisely choose which torrent site to download the source file from. The source file is simply a small file that links your download through your client program.

What you should be looking for in a particular download is a high number of seeds and a decent number of peers.
The way torrents work is that you download pieces of the file from many different sources. These sources are generally people who've downloaded the same file. You're downloading pieces of the file from a lot of people who are "seeding" that file, aka, uploading portions of the file.
All together, you get high speeds if there are a lot of sources.

Your client program, aka uTorrent, is simply the program that assimilates all this into a workable solution. You should pay more attention to the torrent site and whether the file you wish to download is being supported with people who are seeding the file and are available to do so.
These parameters are: Seeds, and Peers.
Regardless of your client program, those are the two items you need to look at. The higher, the better.

Alright sounds good. =3

I know all of this. ^_^ You aren't insulting my intelligence, just reiterating what I already know.

I know all of this, what I'm wondering is if it can harm your computer as much as... say Limewire.

Sorry to resurrect an ancient thread but I'm curious about current good sites. I'm new to the torrent thing and have been a little underwhelmed by the sites I've checked out (demonoid, isohunt).

I'd recommend Extratorrent, it's fairly easy to navigate and the torrents up there are mostly verified by mods so you don't have to worry about getting viruses.

How are they for jazz? That's one the things I've been striking out on.

I just looked it up, there's well over 2000 jazz torrents. Hopefully you find what you need. :D

Can someone explain to me what the advantage of torrents are to file sharing sites? To me they're more confusing, take longer to download, and there's a greater chance of getting caught.

So I'm just wondering why people bother with torrents?

Large files, they actually download pretty fast, and a website generally can't be held as liable because the "crime" is being perpeptrated by multiple users of the site sharing their load over multiple computers.

Getting software is a right pain in the ass unless you have a good torrent site.

There's this russian site called rutracker which has a load of great torrents without any ratio bullcrap like what.cd

I would still love a what.cd account though

I'm starting wonder that myself. I was under the impression they were some kind of goldmine but I haven't been able to find much of what I'm looking for.

Where the feck are you looking and what are you looking for? I've had some trouble finding more obscure stuff like certain low-key programs but that's about it.

On the other hand, mediafire works far better for grabbing albums.

Torrents are great for getting movies, games, software, ebooks, pdfs, and music. Many of the file uploading sites have a file size limit and often times throttle your download speed if you're using their free version, most egregiously with RapidShit. I know it's a hard compliant to make with a straight face as you download something for free, but when other, better sites like Mediafire let you download fast and easy without having to wait 90 seconds, it's really hard to wonder why anyone would want to use anything else. While it's true that torrents do have a bit of a learning curve, we're also fortunate enough to live in a day and age where information can easily be accessed by using the very same electric smiles machine you're using to read this post right now. The only real downside to torrents is when nobody seeds the file, or there's only a couple and the download takes a long time, but again, how much can you really complain when you're getting something for free?

As for the best torrent sites, they're usually the ones that have some kind of membership where you can only join up by being sent an invitation code by an established member. Sites like demonoid and what.cd are the ones I've used in the past, although my membership with what.cd is currently disabled because I fell behind on my upload to download ratio.

It was, but I've found that since Megaupload was taken down, Mediafire has done quite a bit to remove itself from that same circle. A few of my other pirate chums have had their accounts deactivated and all their files deleted, which I suppose is better than them leaving it available for some fed douchebag to find. The day Megaupload went down I deleted my account, so I suppose if that was the FBI's long term intent, mission fucking accomplished.

Some recent failures that I can think of (but there have also been a lot of jazz albums I've failed to locate):

Sxip Shirey—Sonic New York
Friedrich Gulda—At Birdland
Red Chamber—Redgrass
Pueblo Cafe (anything)
Nilsson—Duit on Mon Dei, Sandman and ...That's the Way It Is

I've been trying Demonoid, isoHunt and ExtraTorrent.

Makes sense. I haven't really used torrents to download any music (aside from large discographies) in a while, but I do remember encountering the issue of albums like these being hard to find. Torrents essentially work by popular demand. Higher the demand, higher the chance of finding something.

So yeah, best bet would definitely be file hosting sites for these.


When is Kim's trial? The whole fucking world has sort of assumed he's guilty already.

Just failed at finding another one:

Dr. Lonnie Smith—Caravan

:laughing:

Thing is, I had already exhausted that avenue, which I why I decided to look in to torrents. :(

All they did was take down Megaupload and the whole friggin after effect is a lot of these sites shat themselves. I'm having trouble finding easy stuff sometimes.