Torrents.

Singo · 11-06-2009, 01:07 AM

For torrent tracker I use Google... seriously :P

And some local private trackers which have great DL speed because of dedicated users. For public you can also find torrents with torrent search engines like isohunt.com.

music_phantom13 · 11-08-2009, 08:06 PM

Haha ok, if I wanted to download something like Frank Zappa's discography, I would go straight to demonoid. It's just not worth the effort to hunt down all those albums. I just don't really download discographies very often; I usually prefer to work my way through slowly and just get 2 or 3 at a time. And I guess to be honest, it's probably easier to go through torrents if I want 3 or more, but I usually just blog them all anyway.

Astronomer · 07-03-2013, 06:34 PM

I'm bumping this, hope it's OK. I'm just wondering where others acquire their music these days. Do people still use torrents? Because I'm rebuilding my music library I'm trying to work out the easiest way to get a bunch of music. I've got uTorrent but I'm not sure which sites to get the actual torrents from. Or do people not use torrents anymore? Thanks so much for any help!

Trollheart · 07-03-2013, 07:15 PM

Torrents are in VERY short supply these days. Demonoid is gone, though back but very restricted in content I find. Isohunt seems to have gone too, and kickass is the only one I can use now, even then most of the torrents don't work for me. Though that is I think down to the Irish ISPs who all seem to have signed up to bend over and take it for the RIAA...

Personally, I use mostly this site Download mp3 music from megaboon.com --- albums at less than a dollar? All the new releases? Can't be beaten. There are other sites I use too. Then there's Grooveshark and Spotify of course, though you can't buy from them. Oh, and Itunes ---- NOT! It'll be a cold day in Hell the day I pay their outrageous prices.

You can also get some albums on YouTube; you know how to download from there of course?

Let me know if I can be of any help, and as I said in the other thread if yuo want a list of what I got you only have to ask.

TH

Astronomer · 07-03-2013, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Torrents are in VERY short supply these days. Demonoid is gone, though back but very restricted in content I find. Isohunt seems to have gone too, and kickass is the only one I can use now, even then most of the torrents don't work for me. Though that is I think down to the Irish ISPs who all seem to have signed up to bend over and take it for the RIAA...

Personally, I use mostly this site Download mp3 music from megaboon.com --- albums at less than a dollar? All the new releases? Can't be beaten. There are other sites I use too. Then there's Grooveshark and Spotify of course, though you can't buy from them. Oh, and Itunes ---- NOT! It'll be a cold day in Hell the day I pay their outrageous prices.

You can also get some albums on YouTube; you know how to download from there of course?

Let me know if I can be of any help, and as I said in the other thread if yuo want a list of what I got you only have to ask.

TH

Thanks so much TH I will check out Megaboon! Do you mean using a plugin to download the audio from YouTube or...? Sorry I'm a bit clueless! Thanks so much for all of your help!!!

Trollheart · 07-04-2013, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

Thanks so much TH I will check out Megaboon! Do you mean using a plugin to download the audio from YouTube or...? Sorry I'm a bit clueless! Thanks so much for all of your help!!!

Yep. If you're using Firefox there's an addon called, imaginatively, "Download YouTube Videos as MP4" which you can get by just selecting addons and installing. If I remember when it's installed it then shows an icon beside any YT video which says "Download this video". Pretty handy.

Astronomer · 07-04-2013, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Yep. If you're using Firefox there's an addon called, imaginatively, "Download YouTube Videos as MP4" which you can get by just selecting addons and installing. If I remember when it's installed it then shows an icon beside any YT video which says "Download this video". Pretty handy.

Ahh yep, gotcha - I've done that before! I had a similar add-on on my old laptop.

CanwllCorfe · 07-03-2013, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

I'm bumping this, hope it's OK. I'm just wondering where others acquire their music these days. Do people still use torrents? Because I'm rebuilding my music library I'm trying to work out the easiest way to get a bunch of music. I've got uTorrent but I'm not sure which sites to get the actual torrents from. Or do people not use torrents anymore? Thanks so much for any help!

I do one of two things: Look for it on Filestube, and search on Google for, "(Name of the album) + blogspot". For example, "Amesoeurs Amesoeurs blogspot". Out of curiosity I actually decided to check and see what would come up, and literally every result on the first page has a download link.

Astronomer · 07-03-2013, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by CanwllCorfe

I do one of two things: Look for it on Filestube, and search on Google: "(Name of the album) + blogspot". For example, "Amesoeurs Amesoeurs Blogspot". Out of curiosity I actually decided to check and see what would come up, and literally every result that comes up on the first page of results has a download link.

Thanks for the tip!

CanwllCorfe · 07-04-2013, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

Thanks for the tip!

You're welcome.

11-06-2009, 01:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Torrents are in VERY short supply these days. Demonoid is gone, though back but very restricted in content I find. Isohunt seems to have gone too, and kickass is the only one I can use now, even then most of the torrents don't work for me. Though that is I think down to the Irish ISPs who all seem to have signed up to bend over and take it for the RIAA... Personally, I use mostly this site Download mp3 music from megaboon.com --- albums at less than a dollar? All the new releases? Can't be beaten. There are other sites I use too. Then there's Grooveshark and Spotify of course, though you can't buy from them. Oh, and Itunes ---- NOT! It'll be a cold day in Hell the day I pay their outrageous prices. You can also get some albums on YouTube; you know how to download from there of course? Let me know if I can be of any help, and as I said in the other thread if yuo want a list of what I got you only have to ask. TH __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

11-08-2009, 08:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
music_phantom13 Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 942	Haha ok, if I wanted to download something like Frank Zappa's discography, I would go straight to demonoid. It's just not worth the effort to hunt down all those albums. I just don't really download discographies very often; I usually prefer to work my way through slowly and just get 2 or 3 at a time. And I guess to be honest, it's probably easier to go through torrents if I want 3 or more, but I usually just blog them all anyway.