Wednesday, March 09, 2005
What's that, you say? You want to hear all that great music at the SXSW music festival, but want to avoid going to Texas because it's a horrible horrible place akin to the most hellish version of Hell-on-Earth imaginable?I sympathize. And, apparently, so do the organizers of the SXSW festival. Because, according to Wired magazine, the organizers have made available more than 2.6 GB of songs from artists performing this year. For free.
And, even better, they're using the open source free-speech software BitTorrent to do it.
Only something free-as-in-both-beer-and-speech like using BitTorrent to share free music could make Texas palatable.
I'm downloading the music even as we speak. Not getting good bandwidth yet (a paltry 4-5 kilobit per second) but it will increase as I get more pieces of the file.
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Make sure you do a wget on:
http://2005.sxsw.com/music/showcases/date/2005-03-16.html
and
.../2005-03-17.html
.../2005-03-18.html
...
So that you have documentation...of what you are listening to...
--
Caleb
http://2005.sxsw.com/music/showcases/date/2005-03-16.html
and
.../2005-03-17.html
.../2005-03-18.html
...
So that you have documentation...of what you are listening to...
--
Caleb
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:: 3/09/2005 8:22 PM
:: 3/09/2005 8:22 PM
It's been downloading since around 6 PM last night -- and I've only got about 380 MB! It's so sloooooooow... It's gonna take days to get this file.
C'mon, everybody, the more peers that are getting the file the faster everyone will get it!
C'mon, everybody, the more peers that are getting the file the faster everyone will get it!
OK, when I got home last night I only had about 550 MB. Way too slow.
I cancelled that download and restarted it (I didn't lose what I had already downloaded so I didn't have to start from scratch) and this time around I got about twice as many peers sharing the file, which upped my speed considerably. Instead of getting the whole thing in days, it was listing the time in hours.
In fact, by this morning it was completely done, and I was just sharing it out to others.
Didn't have time to open it up and add it to iTunes and the iPods but at least the damn thing is mine!
I cancelled that download and restarted it (I didn't lose what I had already downloaded so I didn't have to start from scratch) and this time around I got about twice as many peers sharing the file, which upped my speed considerably. Instead of getting the whole thing in days, it was listing the time in hours.
In fact, by this morning it was completely done, and I was just sharing it out to others.
Didn't have time to open it up and add it to iTunes and the iPods but at least the damn thing is mine!
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