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Bit Torrents...where do I begin?

reubs said:
Within the folder, which has a .shnf ending, there are files with the following endings: .jpg (I know that is the front and back for the jewel case), .txt (which contains the setlist from the show), .md5 (I'm at a loss on this one), and .shn (this is the extension on all of the song tracks for the CD).
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MD5 files are used for integrity checking of the other files. I've never heard of SHNF or SHN, but a quick and easy Wikipedia lookup tells me that SHN is Shorten, "a file format used to losslessly compress CD-quality audio files." I assume that SHNF is related. If you search MacUpdate there appears to be at least one application that can convert Shorten files to WAV.

dllavaneras said:
AFAIK, iTunes can't read ogg/wmas, just AAC, AIFF, WAV and MP3. Has this changed?
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Only if you have a QuickTime plugin that lets it read them.
 
I've dragged all of the .shn files into Disco (thanks, macheist), and now I'm waiting for the CD to burn. I'm not sure if that's what I am supposed to do or not, but we'll see. Converting all of them to waves seemed like an awful lot of space would be taken up, so I'm trying this route first. I'll keep everyone posted.
 
i have a question because i used azureus on my pc, but if i d/l azureus on my mb will i also have to d/l Bittorrent (the actual program) or does d/l'ing azureus automatically d/l BT for you?
 
Mac'Mo said:
i have a question because i used azureus on my pc, but if i d/l azureus on my mb will i also have to d/l Bittorrent (the actual program) or does d/l'ing azureus automatically d/l BT for you?
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Azureus is a BT client you don't need the application called Bit torrent to use Azureus.
 
Mac'Mo said:
i have a question because i used azureus on my pc, but if i d/l azureus on my mb will i also have to d/l Bittorrent (the actual program) or does d/l'ing azureus automatically d/l BT for you?
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No, Azureus is a separate application - either you use it or you use Bittorrent (or any other BT client for that matter).

What you're asking is the equivalent of saying, "When I install Safari as my web browser, do I need to instal Firefox or does installing Safari automatically install Firefox for you?"

Get it? :)
 
I have been using Bit Torrent, and I've found it to be sufficient. The UI isn't very nice, and it seems a bit slow, but for my needs it's fine. I open it up and leave it on most of the day.
 
reubs said:
I have been using Bit Torrent, and I've found it to be sufficient. The UI isn't very nice, and it seems a bit slow, but for my needs it's fine. I open it up and leave it on most of the day.
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Take some of the advice in this thread - there are way better options out there than BT. You'll be thanking us later. ;)
 
Oh, I'll try some other stuff out later. I tried Azureus and didn't really get it at first. I needed something to get my feet wet and that was really easy. I used Transmission at first, but I think I was just too impatient to really give it a real try. Now that I've got so many going in Bittorrent I'm kind of hesitant to pull any of them out.

I almost wish I had stayed ignorant b/c these things are addictive.
 
To expand on what Chanabra said: many private trackers only accept bitrocket, tomato torrent, rtorrent, and azereus. So if you're using a site like that, you're limited to one of those. I personally like bitrocket because its most similar to utorrent, which is what I used before switching.
 
reubs said:
I've dragged all of the .shn files into Disco (thanks, macheist), and now I'm waiting for the CD to burn. I'm not sure if that's what I am supposed to do or not, but we'll see. Converting all of them to waves seemed like an awful lot of space would be taken up, so I'm trying this route first. I'll keep everyone posted.
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I should have noticed this thread a while ago,

Ya man, eTree is a great site where it's all concerts and the popular formats that people put the shows in is .SHN and FLAC

those are just lossless versions of the audio WAV files. So they're much smaller than the original format (WAV) but they sound as good because they're "lossless" that's the theory anyway. If all you want to do is burn em to a CD, then by all means use Disco or Toast and burn them directly as SHN or FLAC, all disco is gonna do is uncompress them back to WAV and burn a great sounding CD.

If you want to convert the .SHN or FLAC files down into a nice small sized file that will be great on an iPod on in iTunes, go ahead and download and install

This for .SHN

and

This for FLAC

I use those programs to convert the FLAC or SHN files back to WAV's then I import them into iTunes as AAC files (small still good sounding files that are great for an iPod)

I use Automator as a bonus tip, specifically for files from eTree.

After I've gotten all my files out of FLAC or SHN into WAV, I use an automator command I made, (open automator, find the iTunes options, find the one that's called "import audio tracks", drag it to the right as your first command, then set the option in it for "AAC" then find a second option in the list of iTunes automator options for "set info for iTunes files" drag that to the right under the first command, mark off artist and album and genre, then finally drag the last command called "add files to playlist" select "new playlist named" and I call mine 'AAC imports' name it whatever. then click file>save as plugin

done

SO

after all that, you should be able to go to your folder with all the WAV files you converted with Xact, highlight them all, right click>automator>AAC imports. Sit back and it should import all your tracks, ask you to name the artist and album (helpful for eTree cuz no one tags their concerts right) then it should create and add all the tracks to a new playlist making it nice and easy for you to locate.

I have seperate plug ins like that for Mp3, apple lossless and AIFF/WAV imports.

Beats having to go into prefs in iTunes to change it every time.

phew.

:)
 
dllavaneras said:
And that's why both my internal and my external drive are almost choking... no DVD drive makes making backups quite a huge PITA. So I have basically all my DL'ed files there
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Bet you can't wait for Macs to have Blu-Ray drives so you can burn off 50 GB at a time per disc, huh? ;) :D
 
So most of my DLs have errors in them that are revealed during decoding...

Something happened and I had to move a few folders around (probably a bad idea in hindsight), and now when I go to convert the .flac or .shn files to .WAV to be converted to AAC I get errors. I've been using xACT to convert the files.

Here is the error code that is attached in the output file:

/Volumes/Firewire External/Torrent Downloads/AAEA Live Compilation - 2 Disc Collectors Edition/Disc 1/d1 - t_01 Round Here CE.flac: d1 - t_01 Round Here CE.flac: *** Got error code 0:FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC
d1 - t_01 Round Here CE.flac: *** Got error code 2:FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_FRAME_CRC_MISMATCH

d1 - t_01 Round Here CE.flac: ERROR while decoding data
state = FLAC__STREAM_DECODER_SEARCH_FOR_FRAME_SYNC

I've got no idea what that means, and any help would be great. I'll post back if I start getting more errors like it.

Thanks in advance.
 
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