Comments on: Free music - SXSW 2007 artists

Free music - SXSW 2007 artists

dobbs — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:30:36 -0800

Tons of bands playing at this year's SXSW. Not going or going and don't know what to check out? They've put up a torrent of 739 MP3s by 739 artists. The organization also has plans for an upcoming torrent of trailers for scheduled films. {via waxy}

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:38:23 -0800

Um, that's over 37 hours worth of songs!

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:51:20 -0800

Yay!!! I loved the 2005 & 2006 torrents. This is excellent.

By: Komsomol

Komsomol — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:02:05 -0800

I knew they were wrong in university Economics when they told me "There is no free lunch!"! I don't know how MP3s will feed me though. This is awesome still thanks!

By: tracert

tracert — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:02:34 -0800

The prospect of adding a 739 song compilation to my music collection terrifies me to no end. And yet, I find myself compelled to download this torrent. Trying to fathom the organizational work to come, I feel as though I am staring into the grim and black heart of madness itself. My despair is palpable. Neat! Thanks, dobbs

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:15:33 -0800

I guess when I am excited about less than half of one percent of the musicians at a festival then I should probably go to a different festival.

By: popechunk

popechunk — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:15:33 -0800

can anyone recommend a good torrent client for Tiger?

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:22:35 -0800

aubilenon, I'm surprised you know 99.5 percent of these artists well enough t dismiss them. Impressive! popechunk, I can't comment on whether it's good or not, but I use Tomato Torrent. I've never been able to get any other BT client to work though so I'm probably not the best person to ask.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:33:04 -0800

popechunk: BitTorrent?

By: cgc373

cgc373 — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:33:30 -0800

popechunk, David Watanabe's new app, Xtorrent, is the easiest, awesomest, bestest EVAR client for OS X.

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:59:12 -0800

popechunk: BitTyrant is also good--the creators claim to use some tricks to increase download speed.

By: rolypolyman

rolypolyman — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:02:03 -0800

It's really, really ironic for a city that showcases SXSW to not have any FM radio stations that play that format, at least when I lived there a few years ago. I suppose there might have been a college station that did, but I heard mostly talk at the bottom of the FM band. Austin was where I solidified my resolve to get XM Radio. If I had just been driving through there I would have concluded Austin culture was nothing but Ted Nugent and Garth Brooks.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:22:25 -0800

The OS X native bittorrent client is Transmission except for a few private trackers, long story... Tomato Torrent is ancient worse than the official Mainline client, Azureus is a hog and is flush with VC cash trying to turn it into a HD YouTube (BitTyrant is just a modified Azureus), and Xtorrent is yet another commercial rip-off of OSS from David Watanabe. Seriously, it's just a broken, widely-banned, complicated version of Transmission. That costs money. Don't buy it. Watanabe's a jerk.

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:31:03 -0800

Oh man, I'm drooling over 3.1 gigs of music, but my compy would be bursting to the seams upon download completion. Time to get a new hard drive (external?)? Delete some of my other music? Nevar!!111one! Get rid of all my college pdfs and word documents of poetry, writing, essays, research papers and old IM conversations? My gigantic corpus of anime style sketches that I labored on for minutes, sometimes even quarter hours at a time? Augh, too many decisions! ASKME CAN HELP??! Oooo...better yet, get my sister to download it since she has more space on her computer and let her be a sort of... err... music filter and send me the best stuff. Mmmm... AH, ohohhah! Seems that you can download individual songs from the profiles of each artist. I can be my own filter.

By: timsteil

timsteil — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:17:35 -0800

heh very cool.....my nephew is playing bass with a band at one gig...plus two solo showcases.... damned kids....bastards better stay off my lawn

By: pfafflin

pfafflin — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:26:17 -0800

It's really, really ironic for a city that showcases SXSW to not have any FM radio stations that play that format ... I'm not sure what that format is, but Austin has a few excellent radio stations in the form of KUT and KGSR. The latter tends to lean little more towards AAA, while the former is a bit more eclectic. The UT-Austin student radio station is KVRX. All the stations have excellent SXSW coverage -- with live in-studios, interviews and the such -- and stream via the web.

By: rhapsodie

rhapsodie — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:50:17 -0800

5 peers? It will take me weeks to download this thing. What the crap, SXSW?

By: DonnieSticks

DonnieSticks — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:53:53 -0800

Not going and not caring. It's too loud and I'm too old. That and Austin will stink of hipster for weeks.

By: fFish

fFish — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:12:06 -0800

If the mac implementation is half as good as the PC version, I'd recommend Azureus.

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:32:36 -0800

Seriously, it's just a broken, widely-banned, complicated version of Transmission. To be fair, it's widely-banned for the same reason that Transmission is, as far as I know. (Transmission is my client of choice wherever it's not banned. Where it is banned, I just use mainline, even though it's ancient and not even a universal binary)

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:05:32 -0800

5 peers? It will take me weeks to download this thing. i got it overnight ... and i think it was probably downloaded in about 6 hours ... that was with azureus on xp i'm going to try to listen to all of it over the next few weeks ... on my 21st song ... listening to bands these days seems odd ... even though there's a lot of different genres being covered here, so far, there's something kind of flat and samey about it ... i can't quite put my finger on it ... in some ways much of it seems conservative sounding i do know that the best melody by far i've heard so far is aj croce's maybe i'm amazed ... which was written by paul mc cartney, so ...

By: owenkun

owenkun — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:36:55 -0800

That and Austin will stink of hipster for weeks.

Seconded. Thirded, even. For the next god-knows-how-long I'll need to hear about all the 'amazing' interactive presentations and 'fantastic; musical performances that are going on in my own town...all the while cursing every idiot that's clogging up MoPac. That's not to mention how the lowly word 'wristband' is now a verboten word thanks to SXSW. Bitter? Who, me?

By: lapolla

lapolla — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:47:04 -0800

thanks for the tip, mr. cheese! i am now cherry-picking.

By: mzurer

mzurer — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:12:09 -0800

This is cool - Anyone know if the torrents from 2005 and 2006 are being tracked anywhere?

By: mzurer

mzurer — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:19:22 -0800

Found 2006 here but nothing for 2005...

By: the sobsister

the sobsister — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:22:30 -0800

Here's '05.

By: mzurer

mzurer — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:38:48 -0800

the sobsister, the link to the actual torrent file is dead on that page.

By: the sobsister

the sobsister — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:41:25 -0800

Sorry; I assumed that it, like the '06, was still good.

By: mmrtnt

mmrtnt — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:35:52 -0800

tracert aubilenon dobbs I am about 90% through 2005 after having downloaded the two massive zipfiles in March '05. By my tastes, I have 65 faves (songs I can listen to more than once) and 44 outright rejects leaving hundreds in various subdirectories - ska, weird, dance, exotic, etc. So for me, at least, it's uh... let's see, carry the one... 10%. And these are tunes I really like. Just doin' the math.

By: mmrtnt

mmrtnt — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:37:49 -0800

mzurer I still have the original '05 zipfiles, if enough people are interested, I'll figure out how to turn them into a torrent. Assuming that's legal, of course ;)

By: dobbs

dobbs — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:15:59 -0800

The torrent's pretty much dead for me after dl a measly 44.1 mb. Ugh. :(

By: popechunk

popechunk — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:12:16 -0800

I left my torrent client up all night and got zero bytes. What a total bummer. To complete my derailing of this thread, I used Transmission, because I think his Handbrake app is so awesome. I do not generally buy shareware, so XTorrent is not an option. Thanks to all who had suggestions.

By: mzurer

mzurer — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:03:31 -0800

I had no problem downloading both 2006 and 2007 overnight, but I do see that the tracker has been throwing errors.

By: popechunk

popechunk — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:42:24 -0800

The webmaster just emailed me and told me that the server had been down, and is now fixed. I'll fire up the tranny agin' and see what happens.

By: donnagirl

donnagirl — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:13:25 -0800

I haven't been able to get anything since last night - I have at this point about 80% of it, but nothing more. Anyone else having any luck?

By: kjs3

kjs3 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:03:40 -0800

Can anyone put up a link to the earlier torrents?

By: kjs3

kjs3 — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:10:14 -0800

Duh...note to self, read all comments first...

By: popechunk

popechunk — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:37:29 -0800

Anyone else having any luck? 12 hours into it I am at 1.22 GB of 3.06 GB.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:42:26 -0800

I really doubt anyone's paying attention to this now, but, 2005 is still on the tracker, as a torrent of a couple of zip files. The main release is on isohunt, and I found the update torrent on Google.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:14:06 -0800

sweet ... thanks pronoiac