Lossless sharing and entire albums

[winslowst]

I have two questions:

1) I am only interested in sharing lossless music. What criteria should I limit to when receiving shared music? Do you recommend a particular p2p, etc. for the best quality sharing?

2) I would like manage my shared music into entire albums. Do you know of software, sites, etc. that will enable me to share entire albums, or to organize my current collection into albums, and specify tracks I am missing, and then automate the process of finding those tracks to share. Here again, I am only interested in lossless sharing.

Thank you very much.

[notbob]

there are hubs on direct connect that cater to people like you--shn freaks, shnapster, shnzone etc

get dc at neo-modus.com the hubs are all on the public hublist, and can be readily connected to almost immediately after installing DC

i personally don't see the point of shn, but to each their own i guess

[winslowst]

there are hubs on direct connect that cater to people like you--shn freaks, shnapster, shnzone etc

...maybe I should not ack, but what is shn freaks, shnapster, shnzone?

[Shadow, Thief of the Sun]

Only Soulseek and Direct Connect allowing you to share entire albums. But i would recommend Soulseek for that case, because DC is not showing bitrate of your songs plus search there is working very bad.

[Foreverboard]

If you do use direct connect, use DC++ it is a much better program. Also you can zip up your albems and then share them on any P2P system.

[TC75580]

I have found WinRAR to be better for sharing full albums.

[notbob]

you asked about lossless--lossless=shn

those are dc hubs that cater to shn exclusively--dc has "channels" so to speak, and shnapster, shnzone etc are specific channels that carry shns--as to bitrates, shn doesn't apply to them, since it is "lossless"--these channels are so anti everything else that if you have non shns they boot you

[winslowst]

Originally posted by notbob
you asked about lossless--lossless=shn

those are dc hubs that cater to shn exclusively--dc has "channels" so to speak, and shnapster, shnzone etc are specific channels that carry shns--as to bitrates, shn doesn't apply to them, since it is "lossless"--these channels are so anti everything else that if you have non shns they boot you
...Thanks, now I get it. I think I will try it.

i personally don't see the point of shn, but to each their own i guess
I playback on high-end home audio. One can hear compression that is lossey...hence the name. Thanks for steering me in the right direction, even though you don’t see the point of it!

[Rickio]

Yes there is a differance between the lossy and lossless compression methods. but it reminds me of going to the audio store and the sales guy turning the volume real high so you can hear there is no distortion and it sounds so good.

But if you go home and turn your new stereo to that level everyday, you won't be living their long :-)

The human ear cannot even hear some differances, it takes expensive equipment and a strong effort to hear some differances.

I apreciate good clean sound and personaly do not like the popular 128 bitrate that is mostly shared on popular p2p's
But 198 and 320 bitrate with lame encoder is very, very good and even on a good system holds up well.

Download a few files at the higher bitrate and see what you think, at least it gives you more options on where to find music.

There are a few folks on the edonkey network who are making more and more releases with the ape or monkey audio format. Also it does cater to higher quality, complete albums or cds.

You might want to check it out.

Here are a few forums where people post their releases.

http://www.musicdonkey.da.ru/ .

http://filenexus.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=33

http://www.donkeyfr.org check out this french site and look at the centralisations threads. Real good music here.

Hey let us know how it goes. I am not on DC but been considering it. It seems like a hassle as they require a certain amount to be shared before they let you join some of the hubs. Like 10-20 gigs!

I got just barely got about 30 gigs of high quality stuff recently, so I may go check it out.

[notbob]

the big minimums are not as common as most people say--as for the shn hubs they usually ask 2-5GB of shn files--wouldn't take too many albums to get that!

[notbob]

here are the hub addresses:
Shn City(shn only)= harlock.serveftp.com
Shnapster (live Music only, only in shn)= 165.123.175.142
huga = 165.123.175.142

i'm sure there are others, but the hublist is random and constantly changing