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Originally posted by FreakGrrl@23 August 2003 - 01:11
Ok, I haven't read this entire post, cuz honestly I got bored. But as soon as I had a few times where I downloaded songs that had that God awful noise to them, I just started doin' shit a different way. Maybe these tips will help the noobs out, if they haven't already done these things:
1. I play the song while it's downloading. If the stream is coming in too fast (i.e. I'll have the song downloaded before I can tell it's a fake), I'll pause the download after about 1.5 MBs have been downloaded, and preview it. When I hear that nasty li'l noise, I just cancel the download.
2. Looking for 'signs' in the filename won't work, but looking to see if the SAME USER has the SAME FILE multiple times on their PC will. Then what I do is list all the files by that user. For example, I just found someone sharing 5 copies of Dido's "White Flag". Upon seeing what else he was sharing (192 files) I saw that many of them were duplicates. I jotted his name down and whenever I go to get a file and see that user come up.... well guess what? Chances are that it ain't the right file. (shame on you, willum689.. you're just a tool of the Man yanno..)
3. Think of it as a challenge. ;) I didn't hear Mary J. Blige's new song until yesterday - that song is the joint! It took me about 8 downloads, but I finally have a real copy of it, and it sounds really good. And for you @ssholes at the RIAA peepin' this post, I just bought Pink's cd, Taproot, Chevelle, and Disturbed. Downloaders aren't the problem, we're the end result of your bullshit.
...yeah that's all I gots to say. :P
