Rare Commons

[biohazardxero]

figures a half-assed solution would present itself... the illusion of sharing seems to be more desirable than actually sharing

 

EDIT: slightly refined Rare Commons design

[Hybrid Soldier]

do you want to keep the hq on your server? i would like to be able to update it if i needed

[biohazardxero]

do you want to keep the hq on your server? i would like to be able to update it if i needed

if you want to update it, then no, you can keep it on your server... it's your call, i don't mind doing the updates

 

EDIT: my audio/video list fully updated, see page 10

[donbyers]

i agree with chesterchaz and AZ""" the really good shows i.e soundboard rips etc should be up for free d/l and concerts like i.e portland 04 should be traded so people can still keep up with a damm good hobby (trading)

[Cyro]

i agree with chesterchaz and AZ""" the really good shows i.e soundboard rips etc should be up for free d/l and concerts like i.e portland 04 should be traded so people can still keep up with a damm good hobby (trading)

 

Exactly. I agree with that.

[Hahninator]

I agree too.

[Hybrid Soldier]

sounds great

[donbyers]

well this looks like a point were we could agree on, nick?

[Vash_the_Stampede]

Yeah, I also agree. Talking to people like Jordan & Spike, I have begun to see both sides again...

[donbyers]

were not being unreasonable at the same time we dont want say 100 concerts up for d/l we need to come to a full rule agreement, i think 40-50 GOOD shows is fair for both sides

[Hybrid Soldier]

Im thinking we'll stick it to 20-25. Agent is going to post the plan up in a bit.

[donbyers]

20-25 full stop?

[Hybrid Soldier]

well, at a time

[donbyers]

this is were we need to discuss things fully, theres no point trying to work out a deal if ur gonna put 25 up a week, in just a month u would of done the 100

[biohazardxero]

ok, we've got a fairly large supply of shows available... keep in mind everyone needs time to download everything... i say about 1 FLAC show per week, 2-3 MP3 shows per week... that puts us at about 6 months to get through the full audio bootleg catalog... opinions?

[Hyper]

i don't understand the whole... FLAC format.. someone care to explain?

[Hybrid Soldier]

we are crrently working things out over msn, we will update you when we are fully updated ourselves

[Th30racl3]

i don't understand the whole... FLAC format.. someone care to explain?

 

mp2, mp3, wma are all compressed audio, its like zipping files. FLAC, WAV, MKW, SHN etc... are all lossless audio, meaning they've never been compressed. Hence one FLAC file is 39 megs while its mp3 counterpart is like 4 megs.

[Hyper]

ah! that helps so much. so, it still plays on winamp then correct?

[Hybrid Soldier]

yeah, it does

[Cyro]

Heh, I usually don't mind having a concert in non-loseless format.... I only have so much room on my HD.

[Th30racl3]

Heh' date=' I usually don't mind having a concert in non-loseless format.... I only have so much room on my HD. [/quote']

 

LOL, thats why I never got into it. Sometimes you can't even hear the difference. Lossless traders actually have to use a program to distinguish a once mp3 compressed sourced show.

[biohazardxero]

mp2' date=' mp3, wma are all compressed audio, its like zipping files. FLAC, WAV, MKW, SHN etc... are all lossless audio, meaning they've never been compressed. Hence one FLAC file is 39 megs while its mp3 counterpart is like 4 megs.[/quote']

that's not exactly the difference... so, let's start w/ WAV format, the beginning of everything... WAV is ~1400 kbps audio and features the full spectrum of audio frequencies that human beings can hear (20-20000 Hz)... FLAC/SHN/APE compress WAV files without losing any of the audio data, hence the term "lossless compression"... generally, FLAC files are about 50% smaller than WAV files, running at a variable bitrate around ~800 kbps... MP3/WMA are compressed formats as well, but they discard higher frequencies (as these are harder to detect by human ears than low frequency sounds) of the WAV file in order to achieve a smaller file, hence the term "lossy compression"... a 128 kbps file will generally discard frequencies above 17000 Hz... obviously, lower bitrate MP3s will discard more high-frequency audio than high-bitrate MP3s... the difference between lossless and lossy is not always apparent, but i find it worthwhile

[donbyers]

i got some lossless but i think mp3 shows are best, a) hardrive b) i got all my bootlegs on my iPod

[nkramar78]

i got some lossless but i think mp3 shows are best' date=' a) hardrive b) i got all my bootlegs on my iPod[/quote']

a1) Get a bigger/2nd/external harddrive

a2) Burn shows off to CD/DVD

b) Apple sucks.