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FragKrag
United States11567 Posts
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micronesia
United States24782 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:06 FragKrag wrote: not everybody has fios How hard is it to upload music files? They are small compared to movies. Do you seriously download hundreds of gigs of music? Oh wait I forgot people are picky and need flacs with petabit quality. | ||
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FragKrag
United States11567 Posts
you got the wrong guy here micronesia. Uploading at 30 kb/s is a sad thing I only DL v0/v2 :D | ||
CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11598 Posts
also how do you find music that's not already on WHAT? I'm not bout to go to BestBuy to purchase a CD to rip it on upload it. | ||
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
On January 04 2010 13:44 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: You'll just die if you get in anyways, since getting a decent upload on what.cd is ridiculously difficult considering how all they do on there is hoard uploads and no one ever DL's anything for fear of their ratio taking a hit lol. My account: Joined: 1 year, 2 months ago Last Seen: 3 mins ago Uploaded: 71.77 GB Downloaded: 42.46 GB Ratio: 1.69 Required ratio: 0.28 you're wrong. | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:17 zulu_nation8 wrote: need to jump on the freeleeches this is important On January 04 2010 15:02 micronesia wrote: Ratio: 42.70 People complain too much. How much have you exactly downloaded and uploaded? I'm a bit curious you can maintain a ratio that high. I am assuming you downloaded very little? :o and @OP: I can send you an invite soon, I get one once a month but I've used mine all up ^_^;; | ||
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Katkishka
United States658 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:14 CaucasianAsian wrote: what the hell are you downloading? I need a better ratio also how do you find music that's not already on WHAT? I'm not bout to go to BestBuy to purchase a CD to rip it on upload it. My only source of upload has been from my obscure album collection. I searched through my mommy's entire music collection (200+ albums easily) and couldn't find 1 thing that wasn't uploaded already. I've had no trouble uploading most of my album collection, but part of the reason for that is most of them are either; A) not available for download anywhere B) incredibly hard to find so you can download them I only upload music that I own anyway, for quality assurance. ^_^ So I guess you're mostly outta luck. + Show Spoiler + This is prolly against the rules, but since I barely use what.cd I can rip some albums that I haven't uploaded yet in flac and send them to you so you may upload them yourself if you want  | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:17 Amnesia wrote: this is important How much have you exactly downloaded and uploaded? I'm a bit curious you can maintain a ratio that high. I am assuming you downloaded very little? :o and @OP: I can send you an invite soon, I get one once a month but I've used mine all up ^_^;; How Soon ?  in related news, i just failed the 2nd part of the interview (but that allowed me to research all questions) so in 48 hours (they put a delay) i'll be able to go through the first 2 parts. How many parts is there in total? | ||
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
I don't know about the interview process, someone I know invited me. | ||
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Katkishka
United States658 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:27 intrudor wrote: How Soon ? in related news, i just failed the 2nd part of the interview (but that allowed me to research all questions) so in 48 hours (they put a delay) i'll be able to go through the first 2 parts. How many parts is there in total? I forget how many parts there are, but just a little heads-up; if you get an interviewer they'll probably ask you different questions. If you're not confident about completing it, try dodging until the one that first interviewed you is active and see if you can get another one with him/her | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21245 Posts
On January 04 2010 15:16 Amnesia wrote: My account: Joined: 1 year, 2 months ago Last Seen: 3 mins ago Uploaded: 71.77 GB Downloaded: 42.46 GB Ratio: 1.69 Required ratio: 0.28 you're wrong. Obviously it's an exaggeration, but the people I described do constitute a decent portion of the site. On January 04 2010 14:14 Spinfusor wrote: Can't you get plenty of pirate classical in China? Last time I went to Shanghai I bought home some 300+ CD's/DVD's. Lots of OOP stuff too. I don't actually live in China right now. I tried uploading classical torrents to what.cd before, they just got deleted for inactivity since it seems no one on what.cd really cares lol ;O | ||
intrigue
Washington, D.C9935 Posts
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~_~
Canada239 Posts
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Katkishka
United States658 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:41 ~_~ wrote: what is the appeal of a site like this over using google to search for mediafire/megaupload files Quality. Rare albums that are difficult to find. And plenty more I'm sure. But those are just my top 2. Plus I enjoy sharing my own music with others. Getting a simple 'thank you' is so satisfying. xD | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:44 Sunny Afternoon wrote: Quality. Rare albums that are difficult to find. And plenty more I'm sure. But those are just my top 2. Plus I enjoy sharing my own music with others. Getting a simple 'thank you' is so satisfying. xD Basically that's the only pros compared to a traditional rapidshare/megaupload community or even public trackers. I really wouldn't say there was anything else. What.CD is great at finding rare or obscure stuff. Take this for an example, I wanted to download some albums from an Argentinian band called Miranda! I checked isohunt.com and thepiratebay to no avail. I popped in that name on what.cd and got a hit for an album and downloaded it. As said What.CD allows you to choose quality ranging from FLAC to MP3(192 or 320) and other types of quality that I can't explain, because I don't know what they are. Random question. I usually download MP3-320. Should I go for FLAC or is there hardly a difference? | ||
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:56 Amnesia wrote: Only go for FLAC if you can afford the ratio. The files are a lot bigger but the difference in quality is huge. It really depends how good your sound system is though. Yeah, I guess. I've heard the difference is minimal unless you're running a top notch sound system, which I'm not. Also, I feel that FLAC files are way to huge. | ||
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Katkishka
United States658 Posts
On January 04 2010 16:53 Mickey wrote: Basically that's the only pros compared to a traditional rapidshare/megaupload community or even public trackers. I really wouldn't say there was anything else. What.CD is great at finding rare or obscure stuff. Take this for an example, I wanted to download some albums from an Argentinian band called Miranda! I checked isohunt.com and thepiratebay to no avail. I popped in that name on what.cd and got a hit for an album and downloaded it. As said What.CD allows you to choose quality ranging from FLAC to MP3(192 or 320) and other types of quality that I can't explain, because I don't know what they are. Random question. I usually download MP3-320. Should I go for FLAC or is there hardly a difference? There is really no difference to be honest unless you're a perfectionist. Most music starts sounding like a lossless rip, assuming it wasn't transcoded from a lossy format, at 192 kb/s with LAME 90% of what.cd users use LAME so v0 is usually just fine for most music. Plus since it's vbr the size will generally be smaller than cbr, without loss of sound quality unless you have superhuman ears. Plus, as mentioned before this post, sound systems play a big role. If you use speakers of any kind I wouldn't recommend flac tbh. High quality headphones on the other hand might show some difference, but it would be pretty minor between 320 and flac. | ||
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Mickey
United States2606 Posts
On January 04 2010 17:00 Sunny Afternoon wrote: There is really no difference to be honest unless you're a perfectionist. Most music starts sounding like a lossless rip, assuming it wasn't transcoded from a lossy format, at 192 kb/s with LAME 90% of what.cd users use LAME so v0 is usually just fine for most music. Plus since it's vbr the size will generally be smaller than cbr, without loss of sound quality unless you have superhuman ears. Plus, as mentioned before this post, sound systems play a big role. If you use speakers of any kind I wouldn't recommend flac tbh. High quality headphones on the other hand might show some difference, but it would be pretty minor between 320 and flac. Thanks. | ||
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