Ian Cropton
10-09-2007, 05:59 PM
Dimeadozen.org is a bit-torrent site where bootlegs are shared. It contains a wide range of music, both in style and age. You'll need a bit-torrent client, there are a number of free clients available, for Windoze I can recommend uTorrent from www.utorrent.com. You'll also need decompression tools - again for Windoze FLAC and SHN (google them) will handle most of the torrents that are available. FLAC comes with its own GUI, SHN doesn't and is a pain in the arse to use, so I use a multipurpose tool called Switch which has a GUI, handles SHN, FLAC and a host of other compressed formats. I'm pretty sure it used to be freeware, but alas they're now charging for it. But at the current USD exchange rate its fairly cheap :biggrin:
Roy's gigs pop up there sporadically and many of the Roy gigs on the Stormcock Vines list come from Dime or its predecessor Ezytree. Nick's gigs are beginning to show up there too.
To get subscribed, visit the site and click on 'Subscribe'. It has a cap of 100,000 members so you may need to retry a couple of times before you get in. New slots are made available each day. Dime keeps a record of the amount of stuff you've downloaded and uploaded or 'seeded' - and will turf you out if your 'share ratio' ie upload vs download volumes go below 0.25. It is considered good practice to keep newly downloaded torrents connected into the site for 2-3 days so that you can help to seed other downloaders, and try to aim for a share ratio of 1.0 or above.
Feel free to give me a shout if you need any help with using the site
cheers ee
Roy's gigs pop up there sporadically and many of the Roy gigs on the Stormcock Vines list come from Dime or its predecessor Ezytree. Nick's gigs are beginning to show up there too.
To get subscribed, visit the site and click on 'Subscribe'. It has a cap of 100,000 members so you may need to retry a couple of times before you get in. New slots are made available each day. Dime keeps a record of the amount of stuff you've downloaded and uploaded or 'seeded' - and will turf you out if your 'share ratio' ie upload vs download volumes go below 0.25. It is considered good practice to keep newly downloaded torrents connected into the site for 2-3 days so that you can help to seed other downloaders, and try to aim for a share ratio of 1.0 or above.
Feel free to give me a shout if you need any help with using the site
cheers ee