Bit Torrent For Dummies.pdf

current version 2.00 released 25OCT2003

BT 4 Dummies

BitTorrent Guide On How To Seed A Show

Table Of Contents

(click on names or page numbers and you will be taken directly to that page)

1) Introduction

p. 3

2) ftare

. 4

3) Creating A Torrent For Your Show

p. 5

a. General guidelines

p. 5

b. Creating md5 checksum

p. 6

c. Text file creation

p. 8

d. Torrent creation

p. 9

e. Creating a new thread in the forum

p. 11

f. Uploading torrent to tracker

p. 12

4) Mac BT Seeding Guide

p. 14

Credits

There are a lot of people to thank here for helping me get this done and out there to

the masses. In no particular order, thanks go to tiedyetoga, jwolf, r0b, jaydub,

z0rk, ab71, bill_kate, mkdevo, and everyone else I’ve forgotten. Thanks to

U2Lynne and RedBeard for their help with the Mac section of this guide. If you

feel you were missed, drop me an IM and I’ll include you in the next revision.

Introduction

If you've found your way to this guide, and you're asking yourself, well what the heck is BT,

you've gotten a little ahead of yourself. That's OK. Just take a look for the BT FAQ in the

Getting Started section of the Groove.

By now, you should have gotten pretty familiar with BitTorrent, shorten, md5s, and maybe even

flac. But you're just not sure what it takes to get your show out there. I haven't seen a good

guide out there that really condenses it all together. Yes, there are several threads out there, but

one can easily get lost in all the good information found in them.

This guide is an attempt to compile a lot of that information in here and dummy it down.

Perhaps it's a fairly common show, perhaps not. It might have even been a show that you taped.

Whatever the case, you want to share it with others bur aren't quite sure how. This guide should

be your answer.

This guide is geared towards posting a show at SharingTheGroove.org. The instructions

contained within are for that site. Other sites hosting BT shows may have slightly different

procedures for getting the torrent to them. However, torrent creation will be the same. While

this guide is being written with audio concerts in mind, the same holds true for the video section

of The Groove.

This is written for Windows, since that's the platform I'm running.

Included with this guide is a section for Mac users.

I need someone on Linux to help write up a guide so it can be included with the next revision.

I hope you find this guide very informative.

Please send any feedback you may have about it to ddstree at yahoo dot com

If you really like this guide, please consider making a donation to Sharingthegroove.org to help

keep the site up and running. With more and more people jumping on the BT bandwagon (an

awesome thing), the site costs a lot of money to run. Every little bit helps.

Thanks, and enjoy

-Doc

Software

Software can be a nightmare. Why? There are quite a few programs out there, each with its own

advantages and disadvantages, ease and difficulty of use, and simplicity and complexity of

function. KISS.

The following are programs I recommend. It’s my recommendation, not a mandate. You may

like other programs out there better than the ones I mention here. If it produces the same end

result, great. If not, consider the stuff here. In no way am I endorsing this stuff, but it’s all free.

1. BT Client – I highly recommend TheShad0w’s Experimental BitTorrent Client. You need to

be using this one! There are many clients out there now, clients based off the core client, and

clients based off of other clients. This guide will NOT get into all the various clients

available. This guide will only cover Shad0w’s Client. Other versions may/will not have

backup support or super-seeding mode.

http://home.elp.rr.com/tur/ (aka http://bt.degreez.net )

2. Torrent Maker – I recommend MakeTorrent v2.0. It is simple to use, supports multiple

trackers, and is php tracker compatible. Make sure you remove any previous version of

MakeTorrent before installing a newer version

MakeTorrent v2.0 RC1c

BTEasy used to be the recommended software of choice, due to its simplicity. However, due

to its incompatibility with php trackers, it has been removed from this guide. Perhaps with a

newer version, it may find itself in this guide once again.

That’s all you NEED to get your show out. However, here are some links to other great software

out there, stuff I recommend getting.

1. Winamp v2 (v3 is garbage) – Simplest player out there, and best IMO. Easy to use

2. ShnAmp v2.02 3/4/02 – Plug-in for Winamp v2 – Play your shn files via winamp

3. EAC v0.9 beta 4 5/22/02 – Hands down the best (and only secure) way to rip a cd

**Note – by setting up shorten for the compression scheme, can go straight from CDA ->

SHN (automatically deletes the wave files for you after converting to shn)

4. Shorten v3.5.1 2/12/03 - Create shn files from your wav files

**Note – do not use this to take mp3 -> wav -> shn. It defeats the purpose of lossless trading

5. md5summer - Generates md5 checksum from the shns made with Shorten

6. mkwACT v0.97beta 1 10/2/2000 – generate and verifies your shns, converts files, & more

Creating A Torrent For Your Show

The order has changed slightly, to accommodate tracker linking, but the principles are all still the

same. But to quickly summarize, this is what we’ll be doing:

1) Creating/copying shn/flac files to cpu with checksums and text files

2) Creating a torrent file

3) Creating show thread in the forums

4) Uploading the torrent

OK, now that you have your software and have installed it, you’re all set.

This next part will be sectioned into two parts

1) You own an audio bootleg of a show illegally produced/released by some foreign company.

The process here is known as Liberating a Bootleg.

2) You have the show on cd in shn or flac format

There is a third part, but this kind of trading is on the downhill. That is audio disc trading. CD

Audio disc trading was very popular some time ago, but has lost favor with many people since

the advent of shn and flac formats. Why? The show/files can be verified, and it eliminates any

potential for pops/clicks that can occur when burning an audio cd. And you never really know if

that audio cd was sourced from an mp3 (GASP!). More than likely, the discs may not have any

source info with them either. Please do not seed a show via this format.

A. Now, If you already have the show on disc in shn (or flac) format, copy the files into a

directory on your hard drive and skip to step 4 of Section B (a few pages down)

Please conform to etree's naming convention

http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=NamingStandards .

While I am by no means a conformist, it does make it easier to locate your show on a tracker

page, because you’re looking for the date of the show, not some name the seeder used that

you may or may not know.

Naming standards would go like this.

Band abbreviation year-month-day.mic info.shnf

An example would be dmb2003-08-07.km140.shnf

dmb – Dave Matthews Band

2003 – 4 digit year

08 – for August

07 – the 7 th of the month

km140 – the mics that were used

shnf – folder containing shn files (along with the associated md5 file(s) and text file)

Flac files can be encoded for 16bit or 24bit audio. Thus as opposed to using “flacf” for a

folder containg flac files, flac16 or flac24 should be used in its place.

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: