[Blue_Nose]

Hello everyone,

I have several invitations available to a private music bittorrent site of which I'm a member, so I figured I'd see if there were any takers. It's one of the largest private sites out there (I won't mention the name on here), has a really good selection in every genre. I use it for any and all of my musical needs

As I said, it's exclusively music, so what I'm hoping is that someone else might have a private site invitation to swap that has movies and/or television shows. Otherwise I'll probably give them to the people who seem to want them the most!

[RUEZ]

Tman1 Tman1:

What's wrong with public sites?

Wouldn't public sites be better anyway? Considering the more people that download a torrent file the more peers you have.

[Blue_Nose]

Not a whole lot, but private sites have more selection, better quality, and rules that govern what people can upload.

I also find that downloading is about 5-6 times faster than any of the more popular public trackers.

[Blue_Nose]

RUEZ RUEZ:

Tman1 Tman1:

What's wrong with public sites?

Wouldn't public sites be better anyway? Considering the more people that download a torrent file the more peers you have.

Actually, it's the opposite - since people are concerned with keeping their share ratio up (amount uploaded vs downloaded, which they monitor), more people are liable to seed things after they download them. I know that as soon as I download something from a public site, I delete the torrent, but I'm still seeding music from this site that I downloaded months ago.

[Tman1]

Using bittorrent depends on your upload and download capabilites. Public sites are just as good as private for bittorrent. I might consider joining you if you get to select individual songs instead of the whole thing.

[Tman1]

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

RUEZ RUEZ:

Tman1 Tman1:

What's wrong with public sites?

Wouldn't public sites be better anyway? Considering the more people that download a torrent file the more peers you have.

Actually, it's the opposite - since people are concerned with keeping their share ratio up (amount uploaded vs downloaded, which they monitor), more people are liable to seed things after they download them. I know that as soon as I download something from a public site, I delete the torrent, but I'm still seeding music from this site that I downloaded months ago.

Depends on what client you are using. It is important to keep your ratio up and most people do set their settings to certain standards. 1:1 ratio is most expected since you are dl and up 100% but in any bittorrent standard, the more peers and seeds, the better. Nobody likes a leecher. It isn't any different from a public site.

[RUEZ]

Blue_Nose Blue_Nose:

RUEZ RUEZ:

Tman1 Tman1:

What's wrong with public sites?

Wouldn't public sites be better anyway? Considering the more people that download a torrent file the more peers you have.

Actually, it's the opposite - since people are concerned with keeping their share ratio up (amount uploaded vs downloaded, which they monitor), more people are liable to seed things after they download them. I know that as soon as I download something from a public site, I delete the torrent, but I'm still seeding music from this site that I downloaded months ago.

Good point I do the same thing.

[Blue_Nose]

Tman1 Tman1:

I might consider joining you if you get to select individual songs instead of the whole thing.

You just need to switch to utorrent to do that.

[Tman1]

I hear utorrent is good but I go with Azureus. A bt client is a client. Why would I need to switch?

[Blue_Nose]

Because you want to download one song instead of a whole album!

utorrent lets you pick any number of files from the torrent to download.

[Tman1]

So does Azureus and many other clients. I thought perhaps the music files were in whole dl batches instead of individual. Nevermind.

Ever use DC ++?

[Canadaka]

I wouldn't mind one, I probably wouldn't download much, but would be interested in it for research for the future Canadian Torrent Community that is slowwwly in the works.

[CanadianWalrus]

My tracker is private, but is accepting open registrations at the moment since it's just started. I'm also keeping an eye out for contributers to help run the darn thing, so feel free to hop onboard and enjoy the ride

[neopundit]

Tman1 Tman1:

I hear utorrent is good but I go with Azureus. A bt client is a client. Why would I need to switch?

I switched from Azureus to uTorrent because uTorrent seemed much less resource-intensive after I tried it.

No regrets.