vines question--why not just upload to FTP?

igator · Post by **igator** » April 24, 2006 12:08 pm

instead of vines, why not just upload shows to an FTP server such as ftp:jimmybuffett.servebeer.com? or to RapidShare or PutFile.com etc? Seems those solutions would be much more reliable and less confusing..any thoughts appreciated..

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » April 24, 2006 12:10 pm

Some shows are, but some get overloaded quickly.

Then of course there are still a few people here (*cough, cough* Tiki) that still have dial-up.

pgr17 · Post by **pgr17** » April 24, 2006 12:14 pm

FTP would be fantastic...

DeltOU · Post by **DeltOU** » April 24, 2006 12:16 pm

I agree with the uploading. I'm looking for the 4/20 Irivine show. It was an awesome concert to experience, and I want to re-live it...especially since folks are saying they got great recordings of it.

The FTP works nicely, as it doesn't have a size limit.

However, I'm assuming it takes longer to upload the flac/wav (lossless) files, rather than mp3.

igator · Post by **igator** » April 24, 2006 1:41 pm

DeltOU wrote:I agree with the uploading. I'm looking for the 4/20 Irivine show. It was an awesome concert to experience, and I want to re-live it...especially since folks are saying they got great recordings of it.

The FTP works nicely, as it doesn't have a size limit.

However, I'm assuming it takes longer to upload the flac/wav (lossless) files, rather than mp3.

Lossless files are bigger but that shouldn't be too much of an issue..and if they're mp3'd, the whole show shouldn't be over 120 MB all together.
http://rapidshare.de/ and http://putfile.com/ (although not ftp) are fairly straight forward to use. If I get copies, I'll definitely upload them..

DeltOU · Post by **DeltOU** » April 24, 2006 2:21 pm

I'm on the 4/20 Vine, but if users can download the flac files directly and put on cd, we can get this show out to the masses...and any other lossless quality shows for that matter.

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » April 24, 2006 2:44 pm

DeltOU wrote:I'm on the 4/20 Vine, but if users can download the flac files directly and put on cd, we can get this show out to the masses...and any other lossless quality shows for that matter.

Another issue is that someone has to break the file down into tracks to make CDs. The show is too long for one CD.

DeltOU · Post by **DeltOU** » April 24, 2006 4:35 pm

land_shark3 wrote:
DeltOU wrote:I'm on the 4/20 Vine, but if users can download the flac files directly and put on cd, we can get this show out to the masses...and any other lossless quality shows for that matter.
Another issue is that someone has to break the file down into tracks to make CDs. The show is too long for one CD.

I understand that. I'm just hoping that once they are cut into tracks, somone can zip them up and upload them to a share site, or individually to an FTP site

If I can get the discs, I'll upload them to share with people.

HB-COWBOY · Post by **HB-COWBOY** » April 24, 2006 6:20 pm

Once you up-load the concert would you be willing to PM me an Idiots Guide to downloading them?

traderphan · Post by **traderphan** » April 24, 2006 10:41 pm

I don't know of any shows from this tour that are on FTP sites, though. Are there any?

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » April 24, 2006 10:47 pm

I've tried, but can't get FTP sites to work.

Soraya · Post by **Soraya** » April 24, 2006 10:54 pm

springparrot wrote:I've tried, but can't get FTP sites to work.

I've gotten them to work in the past.....but they aren't working currently.

weeks82 · Post by **weeks82** » April 25, 2006 8:34 am

Theres also the option of creating BitTorrents for these shows. For those who arn't familiar it's basicaly a peer to peer network. Here's a link that will give you the basics.

http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/

If someone wants to send me copies of these I'll gladly track them out and either host the FTP or start the BitTorrent.

igator · Post by **igator** » April 25, 2006 9:16 am

Again, I'd also be willing to cut them up into descrete tracks (and upload) if I can get access to copies of the shows. So far no one seems to have them..

Jason Mason · Post by **Jason Mason** » April 25, 2006 1:42 pm

weeks82 wrote:Theres also the option of creating Torrents these shows. For those who arn't familiar it's basicaly a peer to peer network. Here's a link that will give you the basics.

http://www.dessent.net/btfaq/

I've never created torrents myself, but have downloaded them tons of times. I'd be glad to help out and get this started when I get the shows.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR PIC AND DO YOU HAVE A LARGER ONE?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!????!?

weeks82 · Post by **weeks82** » April 26, 2006 12:00 am

Jason Mason you have a PM

Tiki Bar · Post by **Tiki Bar** » April 26, 2006 10:04 am

land_shark3 wrote:Then of course there are still a few people here (*cough, cough* Tiki) that still have dial-up.

That's what I was gonna say!! That, and all other conversation in this thread is greek to me! I'm lucky I can figure out how to burn a cd!

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » April 26, 2006 1:38 pm

igator wrote:
DeltOU wrote:I agree with the uploading. I'm looking for the 4/20 Irivine show. It was an awesome concert to experience, and I want to re-live it...especially since folks are saying they got great recordings of it.

The FTP works nicely, as it doesn't have a size limit.

However, I'm assuming it takes longer to upload the flac/wav (lossless) files, rather than mp3.
Lossless files are bigger but that shouldn't be too much of an issue..and if they're mp3'd, the whole show shouldn't be over 120 MB all together.
http://rapidshare.de/ and http://putfile.com/ (although not ftp) are fairly straight forward to use. If I get copies, I'll definitely upload them..

Those sites have fairly low file size limits.. You'd probably have to end up uploading each song separately, and that would be a pain in the donkey.

DeltOU · Post by **DeltOU** » April 26, 2006 5:32 pm

SharkOnLand wrote:
igator wrote:
DeltOU wrote:I agree with the uploading. I'm looking for the 4/20 Irivine show. It was an awesome concert to experience, and I want to re-live it...especially since folks are saying they got great recordings of it.

The FTP works nicely, as it doesn't have a size limit.

However, I'm assuming it takes longer to upload the flac/wav (lossless) files, rather than mp3.
Lossless files are bigger but that shouldn't be too much of an issue..and if they're mp3'd, the whole show shouldn't be over 120 MB all together.
http://rapidshare.de/ and http://putfile.com/ (although not ftp) are fairly straight forward to use. If I get copies, I'll definitely upload them..
Those sites have fairly low file size limits.. You'd probably have to end up uploading each song separately, and that would be a pain in the donkey.

Yeah, but if you zip it up before uploading, it reduces the size drastically.

igator · Post by **igator** » April 27, 2006 8:06 am

I know of a couple that allow up to 250 MB each..and Rapidshare allows for 100 MB each. If the whole show is split into songs (w/ mp3 conversion), the whole thing should not exceed 140 MB. Each song averages out at 4-to-5 MB each. Unless you want to keep them in AIF (uncompressed cd format) or Lossless where each song averages out to between 30-to-40 MB each. Either way, I can split labeled sets of descrete songs in 'packages' that will fit under any file size requirement. That's no problem.

If I had a subscription to Siruis, I would have done this already..