Quote :

"Best advice: wait until a freeleach, go crazy."

7/12/2010 7:12:53 PM

to put it at its most basic, does going crazy during a freeleach just better your chances that people will need what you are seeding thus giving you better odds at uploading?

7/12/2010 7:30:09 PM

what?

it means you can grab as much as you can without fucking up your ratio.

somehow i've maintained a 1.3 ratio.e

if i had a means of ripping my vinyl (no preamp, can do usb, but dont want to upload some junk), it would be great.

i've got a ton punk 7"s and eps that are not up there

[Edited on July 12, 2010 at 7:56 PM. Reason : e]

7/12/2010 7:56:14 PM

I've never had the time or resources to upload much, just a few random things I've grabbed from other sites. Uploading is great, community, blah blah, but you don't need to rely on it to boost your ratio. I stayed right on the borderline of suspension for a year or so, then went big on site-wide freeleaches around last Christmas and have been hanging around 1.25 with about an 8gb buffer. Those are pretty rare, maybe two a year; just keep an eye on the homepage for staff pick freeleaches, which pop up probably every other month. You can get a huge boost by grabbing FLAC torrents during those.

Having a great ratio is great. But with the new rules, even if you've downloaded 100+ gb, you only need a 0.6. If you seed everything you download, that shouldn't be too hard.

7/12/2010 8:09:00 PM

^is there anything wrong with grabbing some freeleach staff picks in FLAC and seeding them for as long as possible, then just deleting? i don't collect anything in FLAC nor have an interest to start but if it'll help keep my head above water i'd do it.


(sorry for all the n00b questions, but the most elite share site i've been a member of is demonoid where keeping a 1.0 ratio is easy as snapping fingers)

7/12/2010 8:15:10 PM

why would you delete your shares?

7/12/2010 8:16:22 PM

Your required ratio is affected by how much of what you've downloaded is being seeded.

So if you aren't seeding the FLACs you download, your required ratio will go up slightly.

It won't make that big of a difference though.

I'm still seeding a lot of shitty FLACs I've picked up during FLs. Unless you have a shit HDD, I don't see why you'd dump them.

[Edited on July 12, 2010 at 8:20 PM. Reason : ]

7/12/2010 8:17:50 PM

^,^^

i guess i'm just used to my routine and letting iTunes manage/rename my music. It's always been download->add to itunes which duplicates/renames->delete .torrent and original share file->move on.

so i just need to change my ways

7/12/2010 8:51:46 PM

that Best Coast album grew on me pretty quickly

can't stop listening

7/13/2010 3:43:20 AM

i need to find Best Coast again --- i waited to long on he first link and now magiska and bolachas have had both of theirs taken down.

7/13/2010 4:26:01 AM

^

hxxp://www.urbanoutfitters.com

7/13/2010 4:30:06 AM

if I wanted the new Annuals record, that's where I'd go.

7/13/2010 4:57:15 AM

it's streaming ok.

7/13/2010 5:18:24 AM

i wrote a semi-proper review of best coast earlier this week

but i wrote a twitter review ten minutes ago that i like more

"It's like the new Wavves record w/ more reverb and 90sness and tits and has sex with Wavves. Oh, and better."

7/13/2010 10:37:10 AM

This is a bit old, but Local Natives - Gorilla Manor is fantastic. I've been playing the crap out of it.

7/13/2010 5:06:28 PM

Nice^

7/13/2010 5:30:25 PM

the new women album, public strain, is pretty great.

7/14/2010 8:06:53 AM

HEY DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL CAME OUT YESTERDAY

jk that came out over a year ago for all those non emi whore people

7/14/2010 3:43:00 PM

Quote :

"Should Carles and Best Coast ‘chill’ and smoke some fat blunts, riding chillwaves to fuzzbuzz heaven 2gether? Are yall on #TEAMCARLES or #TEAM_BEST.WAVV?"

7/15/2010 12:48:56 AM

7/15/2010 1:38:33 AM

new track from miss jenny lewis

http://hypem.com/#/track/1160907/Jenny+Johnny+-+Big+Wave

7/15/2010 4:00:22 AM

i quite like it

better than the first promo track from that record

7/15/2010 4:29:40 AM

jesus christ i forgot how goddamn funny Hipster Runoff could be

Quote :

"Facebook is a tool where people talk about life, and other people read about their lives’, then other people comment, and u feel like u have friends on the internet who care about u and want to get to know about u and what u like so sometimes u can go out with them in real life and take pix them post them and tag them, then other people will see those pix and will be like, ‘o kewl they must be friends. saw them tagged 2gether in a few photos and blowing up my minifeed with wall2walls.’ Anyways, facebook is also a place where mainstreamers talk about indie buzzbands. Due to social networking buzz, tons of previously undiscovered buzzbands are getting ‘tons of coverage.’ Here is another example of some mainstreamers talking about the ‘totally indie’ band Phoenix It seems like mainstreamer #1 found out about Phoenix from MTV. then mainstreamer #2 was like ‘nah bro, heard about them on the OC [via California here come]‘ then mainstreamer #1 was like ‘oh i feel rlly mainstream. do u know any other good bands’ then mainstreamer #2 got in a time machine and said ‘the shins and modest mouse kill it.’ then an altstreamer comes out of nowhere and is like ‘YALL ARE FUCKING MAINSTREAMERS.’ finally, every1 simultaneously said ‘we luv indie rawk.’ Do yall talk about buzzbands on facebook? Have u picked up sweet recommendations from facebook? Whenever a buzzband releases a new mp3 do you ’share’ that shit to look cool? Have you seen any mainstreamers talking about buzzbands on facebook? Do u get pissed when mainstreamers find out about indie buzzbands? Is Phoenix the ultimate modern mainstream indie band? "

7/15/2010 8:14:46 AM

^is that supposed to be funny b/c the referenced posters had never heard of popular indie bands, The Shins and Modest Mouse? or is that funny b/c commenting on such people is stupid?


either way, I hope I'm not the only person who would be very suspicious of the quality of your sense of humor.

7/15/2010 9:49:51 AM

i thought this thread was about what ratios.

7/15/2010 10:00:33 AM

to me it was neither of those that made me laugh to me.

7/15/2010 10:01:00 AM

I think one day Im gonna go through this whole thread and check out all this shit and see if I actually like any of it.

7/15/2010 10:07:11 AM

ouch, we have only sold 1 copy of the new M.I.A.

p4k backlash in full effect

7/15/2010 5:38:48 PM

'clinically insane-ass bitch' backlash in full effect.

7/15/2010 7:35:45 PM

^^warms my heart

7/15/2010 9:25:36 PM

not really the genre that gets much talk in this thread, but if you enjoy the Gaslight Anthem check out the AM Taxi album. It's a pretty damned good listen.

7/16/2010 9:28:50 AM

I like The Gaslight Anthem. I'm not ashamed to admit it.

7/16/2010 9:38:56 AM

you shouldn't be. it's good, solid rock 'n roll.

7/16/2010 9:40:05 AM

the new Big Boi album is excellent -- and i generally don't like rapish type stuff too much

7/16/2010 12:12:10 PM

i, too, dislike rape and things associated with it

7/16/2010 12:18:08 PM

i'm digging the new panda bear songs.

7/17/2010 4:32:24 PM

^^haha...i prefer old-school rape like a tribe called quest, but the new big boi is some pretty damn solid rape

7/17/2010 4:47:42 PM

I cannot get by without Wu-Tang rape.

7/17/2010 4:59:25 PM

gangbang

7/17/2010 5:23:51 PM

i'd like to return to her 36 chambers

if you pick up what i'm puttin' down

7/17/2010 6:33:49 PM

Thirty-six chambers?!

I must not be hanging out at the right places, the women I meet only have one.

[Edited on July 17, 2010 at 6:42 PM. Reason : .]

7/17/2010 6:41:06 PM

okay, three

7/17/2010 7:01:33 PM

suddenly "fork in the road" takes on an entirely new meaning for me

7/17/2010 7:33:14 PM

Quote :

"i, too, dislike rape and things associated with it"

lololool

7/17/2010 7:58:00 PM

The new Lucero is pretty legit. Kinda late on it, but I haven't seen it mentioned. It is not Tennessee, but it is better than Nobody's Darlings for sure.

7/18/2010 11:52:07 PM

1372 Overton Park?

yeah, i really enjoy that album and liked the addition of the horn section

7/19/2010 8:16:18 AM

Also, the new Chatham County Line album is quite good. Their harmonies are probably the best they've ever been and this is their first album to include drums. Check it out.

7/19/2010 1:00:26 PM

^^Yeah, although I failed bigtime when I didn't realize it came out late last year.

Fuck.

Oh well, it is still really good.

7/19/2010 10:00:29 PM

Shitty quality samples: http://www.amazon.de/The-Suburbs/dp/B003W5S336/ref=mb_oe_o

7/20/2010 11:46:45 AM

^ awesome- thanks for the link! i've been waiting for something like this. i'm going to not listen to the leak whenever it comes seeing as we're so close to the release date, but i'll sure as hell listen to these samples.

7/20/2010 12:07:49 PM