Downloading torrents (which is illegal)
Wednesday July 11 2007
So, downloading pirated stuff is illegal, and we’re all not supposed to do it. Of course I NEVER… do it.
But if I were to do it, this would definitely be one of the things I would download.
1. First, you need a torrent program like Azureus. I’ve heard this program is very good. It’s easy to download and install. Downloading this program is perfectly legal (freeware)
2. Next after you install it, you have to search for different torrents. So if you were looking for episodes of 24, season 1, you’d google “24 season 1 torrent” and it’d show you different websites from where you can download the torrent.
3. The torrent that I think is very interesting is this one with 18 oboe CDs on it. It appears as though some college kid went into his college CD library, copied them, and posted them on the internet. It’s very large (4.6 gigabytes) so make sure you have enough space. Downloading this might take a couple hours, or even a couple days.
4. Finally, all of the music comes in FLAC… files, so you’ll have to download a FLAC… decompressor. FLAC… frontend is a very friendly program. Once you have all of the 18 oboe CD files downloaded, go into the files and drag the .FLAC files into the FLAC… Frontend menu screen and hit “decode”.
The downside of all this is that when it decodes, it decodes into one gigantic 60 minute long mp3, rather than breaking it down into separate mp3s (which you can do with different programs such as AVS… Audio Tools Manager, but hey, it’s 18 Free oboe CDS…!
Some CDs of the 18:
Alfred Genovese CD I blogged about with him playing with Peter Serkin
Nancy Ambrose King×Winning Program
Lucarelli×Concertos CD which I listed as one of my favorites.
John Anderson×Strauss, Martinu, and Francaix
Redgate×Pasculli Oboe Solos
This is all the steps I would do if I downloaded stuff. Which I don’t.
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