BitTorrent
 

I have no idea how to use it.

Okay, I GET THAT I DOWNLOAD ALBUMS.

I just don't know how.

Help?

Okay here's the deal.
After you've downloaded bittorrent, go to a website like isohunt or btjunkie and type in the search bar the artisyou want to download. Then it will list all the torrents that they have for that artist. Find the one you want and click "Download". Then in the window that pops up click "open". Then bittorrent will come up with a window with all the files in the torrent you downloaded isted. Uncheck the files you don't want to download then click okay. Then just wait for the download to finish.

Okay, that sounds pretty simple. When I went onto isohunt last night, I couldn't find anything that said download. I was looking for something like that.

I'll look again tonight when I come home.

piratebay is better...

actually searching just one site is rubbish. Do a torrent search, which is much better, and very rarely returns piratebay as the highest seeder.

Isohunt compiles torrents from all sites. It's thepiratebay + about thirty others, minus the spam and spyware.

I was talking out of my ass, I haven't used isohunt for a few years now. It used to be filled with shit and advertisements. Unlike thepiratebay...

Anyhoo, private trackers>>>public ones...:j

Oh gawd.

Oh so guess what, guys.

Is there a program like BitTorrent that works on Macs? 'Coz I downloaded it but it didn't work on my Mac OSX... :(

You should probably google these things. The internet is an amazing wealth of information you know...;)

Ha I know right, I just thought I'd ask while a thread was up, 'cause I've been having trouble with this for months.

Have never used one torrent since I got a Rapidshare account.

Opening torrents in limewire seems to work pretty well on my macbook

Google Blogsearch is all I'll ever need.

I've got a macbook, too.
I didn't know Limewire could open torrents? Can Frostwire, too?

Never used it so I dont know
yeah, you go to 'file' and click open torrent
I only found it after getting a mac necessitated a change from bittorrent

Limewire = bad for computers.

I have'nt done any torrents for a long while now. I don't have the patience to download them. I would much rather get the file in zip/rar. You just have to know how to search for things ;)

Example: The two heavily virused computers sitting in storage at my house.

I only really use torrents for films or shows, and thats not often really. Blogsearch really is your friend.

Okay so I finally downloaded an album.

Now it won't play.

What the hell?

>.<

what file format is it and what are you trying to play it on?

When I open it, it asks what I used to download it.

So I choose BitTorrent.

And then it says it's unable to play.

once you have downloaded the file you play it in any media player, not in bittorrent. bittorrent si what you use to download it (uTorrent is better)

uTorrent? There's more to download? My dad's going to kill me.

Back to basics:

Download a client which will download all the files you need. Bittorrent, BitComet, uTorrent etc, any of those of the other hundreds out there.

Go to a site such as this Torrent Search - ScrapeTorrent.com where you can do a search for what you are after. You need to be looking for files that have a higher number of seeders, and ideally not as many leachers.

Click on the link to whichever one you choose.

This will open up the web page of the site that hosts the link. here you can check that the album/song is going to be in mp3 or FLAC etc or if it is a rar. file.

Click on 'download torrent' or the title of the album/song whatever, which will download a link.

You then open this downloaded link with your bittorrent client and it starts downloading.

Once the file is downloaded you can then open up the file with the media player of your choice, unless you downloaded a rar. file, in which case you'll need to unzip it first

Okay. Let me try this.

It plays one album I downloaded.

It just seems to hate Nine Inch Nails.

But what kind of file is the album and what are you trying to play it in?

It was Flac.

And I was trying to play it on iTunes.

But I deleted it and downloaded a different file type. Same album.

I doubt iTunes supports FLAC.

You'd have to download a different version or use something else to convert it.

I got it working. [=

I still don't know what file I downloaded but it works. =P

Thank youu. ^_^

Now does anyone know how to transfer my LimeWire music so that I can delete LimeWire but still keep all of my songs?

Cant you just move all the songs from the folder into another one?

It's not in a LimeWire Folder.

It's in a selfmade folder.

So do you think it would work?

>.<

Yes.
I have all my music in a "Music" folder, so I can transfer it to different programs.

Good luck with that

o.O What do you mean?

Even after you uninstall it it'll still be around on your computer.

Limewire is a real bastard to get rid of.

=P I'm well aware. Heh.

I don't know where else I have to go to delete all of its little offspring.

I just deleted the main component.

But I know there's a lot left.

My mac doesn't open any .rar files nor half of zip files :(
That's it, I'm getting a new computer.