It's no secret that Jesus had a music addiction. He fueled this addiction by downloading via torrents. The Romans(RIAA) crucified him for this. :lol:Quote:
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It's no secret that Jesus had a music addiction. He fueled this addiction by downloading via torrents. The Romans(RIAA) crucified him for this. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by BawA
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Originally Posted by WHiCKWiREIt's no secret that Jesus had a music addiction. He fueled this addiction by downloading via torrents. The Romans(RIAA) crucified him for this. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by BawA
Here's my problem: I'm sitting here with over a TB of "properly ripped and encoded" FLACs, and a horde of obscure movies, thanks almost entirely to BT. I have niche tastes, and I wonder if Usenet caters to a niche market. Honestly, I don't care at all about mainstream content.
I don't know what kind of music your into check this out -->
http://www.binsearch.info/browse.php...ounds.lossless
Thers a group for almost all music tastes ...
Personally I like documentary's I found a lot very good documentary's on usent...
:w00t: i love it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by iNVADERQuote:
Originally Posted by WHiCKWiRE
I've downloaded a few FLAC albums off newsgroups and the logs were all wrong, if they had any at all (usually just nfo). Also, if y'all want to save some money, most of the stuff from Newsgroups goes right to DC++, just join the better hubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by cubbyche
I indeed come across incorrect logs or rips with Usenet, but not nearly as much as I do with bittorrent trackers like oink and now waffles. E**** seems to be the diamond in the rough. Waffles is filled with the shit. Just since it's start, I've had to report over half the "FLAC" rips I've downloaded as bullshit, virtual drive, garbage.Quote:
Originally Posted by orfikI've downloaded a few FLAC albums off newsgroups and the logs were all wrong, if they had any at all (usually just nfo). Also, if y'all want to save some money, most of the stuff from Newsgroups goes right to DC++, just join the better hubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by cubbyche
I convert every rip I download to a single CDImage, verifying against AR in the process, so I know if what I have is truly lossless.
I join the FLACs into a single wav (via CUETools) and mount them with Daemon Tools, to determine the pregpa lengths. If they match up to what the EAC logs show, the rip is bullshit.
Sometimes newbies follow the EAC ripping guide exactly, without even understanding what they are doing. Just reverse the offset (-12) via CUETools (assuming the original rip was done with the right offset to start with), and remount in Daemon Tools, then retest with arcue.pl. If you get a 100% match, again, the rip is bullshit.
As for DC being commensurable to Usenet, that's laughable.
That's funny, because I've had great luck with waffles and what.cd when it comes to proper logs, but it may just be the type of music I listen to (it breeds anal retention). For the log itself, I'm only interested in proper pre-gap length, CRC verification, no c2, and no extraction errors.
Offset correction is useless to me. Read correction is to make sure it doesn't lose small fractions of seconds at the beginning of data set, which only really matters very far down the reproduction line, when those errors affect real data and not complete silence.
To verify whether or not the rip is lossless, I just convert the FLACs to WAVs and run them through Cool Edit Pro for WA/SA. You seem pretty knowledgeable, though, so tell me if I should really bother verifying them through Daemon Tools.
And I don't know. I'm only care about music and obscure film, and Newsgroups just didn't do anything for me. DC was on par in my experience. Maybe I'll try it again.
Personally I use both...best of both worlds
Yes you make sense. This should not be about mine is better than yours. After all we share right? So share information to.Quote:
Originally Posted by aburyach
I see little need myself to use DC hubs. But I am always open to suggestion. It just seems to me some people post to promote something that maybe works for them but maybe more to promote this option. I have tried DC and it is not for me. Other places both p2p and server do what is required far better. Use DC if it works for you.. not me:01:
BT couldnt pay me to use it
Newsgroups i would be happy to eat shit for it
There are several popular methods, though I am not familiar with the Cool Edit Pro method.Quote:
Originally Posted by orfik
Most bullshit rips are done with a virtual drive and 99% of people use Daemon Tools as their virtual drive of choice. Since asshole pneubs are predictable and I assume they use Daemon Tools, I just retrace their steps. I won't go into detail with the how-to's as I won't teach anyone how to falsify rips. (Not saying you, just in general)
A good place to start is Audiochecker - http://www.dester.hu/English/home_e.html
How graphic. Anyway, I used to use audiochecker, but it returned too many false positives (1 in 20). Cool Edit allows you to run a spectral analysis on the WAV to see if it represents the full frequency spectrum. You can tell the difference between a proper WAV and a transcode by looking for compression artifacts in the waveform. So, at the end of the day, if I download an album with a proper log, proper cue, and impeccable music files, then kudos to the uploader if it is a fake, since they went through way too much trouble.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dean141
I wouldn't mind trying Newsgroups again, though. What's the best free option?