tribalmixesdotcom for dummies q&a

slash ProDanceCulture on April 16th, 2006 / post 4001
hey, this little thread/topic/section is going to be a work-area for creation of a the tribalmixesdotcom for dummies (most annoying questions and answers). after this topic exists for a few weeks or so, we can publish a kind of guide for all newcomers who might have lots of questions about anything happening on tribalmixes with them and without their part, as for ratios and warnings, comments and ratings, uploads and downloads, anything at all!

everyone is welcome and stroungly encouraged to ask anything they have ever thought about someway related to www.tribalmixes.com rules, rights, torrents and the comminity being!!!

also this is a call to all the experienced users to take a big part in this project, especially staff members, answer questions, provide opinions, very appreciated if experienced user will post a question and answer right away, maybe saving someone some work, like "how do i download music" or "how do i seed my downloads". those questions, that annoyingly are reapearing in shoutbox every few hours. let's all try together to put out such a complete guide into tribalmixesdotcom, that every newcomer will have any possible question answered, sorted and printed out right there.

this feature will intentionally become a must-see page or part of the page, with possible "hints" reapearing for questions like those "did you know..." and stuff like that, attracting their attention and releaving us much for the sake of having more time for other more interesting conversations... and of course everyone taking part in this, whether it's a warned user or an uploader, will be mentioned and credited as one of the authors of this project. with a huge list like photoshop has... :) post pictures as screenshots if required/explained better. so, everything you thing is appropriate is really appreciated.  :thumbsup:
slash ProDanceCulture on April 16th, 2006 / post 4008
jozeg wrote:
settings for µtorrent!!!
Choose a port from the 49152 - 65534 range.
this is a good one, but maybe could you just like cut out little pieces of these monster screenshots and that info that's being changed, you know, it would look much different... :) and less. and private..
slash ProDanceCulture on April 17th, 2006 / post 4028
not much attention and work in this forum... anyways, let me show you all guys how this would look perfect...

  • Question :: What is it all about? How do I get the music?

    how come :: www.tribalmixes.com is all about sharing live dj mixes and radio shows of club-dance music. it is only the members of this community who builds it (community) up, every day brings newest freshest music and always on the lookout for the best of the best of club scene. the mechanic of this filesharing is also based on users of the website, as it is "torrents" that are used to spread the music across the globe, and while downloading a torrent your program will keep uploading to others, which is called "sharing".

    answer :: if you are brand new to this kind of stuff, check out website 'links' page to read the complete f.a.q. about torrents. otherwise all you should already know is : website is also called a tracker (tracks info/stats on all torrents), it provides ".torrent-files" (but not the music mp3-s!!!) that you can download and open in your "bittorrent-client" software program (utorrent, azureus, bitcomet). you can only get music if you have this bittorrent client. without the website there will be no downloading or sharing, as it direct any activities and must exist in orded the community could exist with it.

  • Question :: What do I need to worry about when downloading the music?

    Answer :: whenever you download something, you must "give it back" to the community by letting others download same stuff from you. this is the main principle peer2peer filesharing works, this is the way the website community lives. "giving it back" means you have to keep torrents open and seeding for other users. it is easy to do, just do not remove them from the client and set up its options to keep seeding indefinitely or till seeding ratio is over 1.00 (100%). this ratio thing is the only issue you should consider around here, it equals your total uploads divided by total downloads, so if you give back same amount of data you take, then your ratio will be around 1.00 and no problems will ever bother you, but if you don't let others download torrent's data from your client, then your ratio drops and at some point your downloading privilidges will be stopped and you will not be able to download any more.

  • Question :: Is it safe to download music from here? All these torrent clients don't look safe...

    Answer :: Yes, it is perfectly safe!! if you are concerned about safety of this stuff, please don't! torrents and clients are 100% safe virus-hacker-wise, if someone is downloading from you, he/she cannot have any access to your computer as it is. more to that, many newest versions of clients have this feature DHT (decentralized hash tables), which allows them clients to exchange sources for torrents, even that can be disabled in options to make sure only members of this very community can download from you.
  • slash ProDanceCulture on April 17th, 2006 / post 4029
    zahran wrote:
  • "HELP MY DOWNLOAD RIGHTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY"
    SOLUTION:
    1-FORCE START ALL THE TORRENTS UVE DOWNLOADED AND SEED THEM UNTIL U GET UR RATIO UP
    2-MAKE SURE YOUR ARE CONNECTABLE (this is widely explained and talked about in forums, f.a.q. and many other places here and everywhere else).
    3::if your client stops and removes torrents by itself, look into options of it and set up the sharing rules (seed till 1000% or indefinite, prioritize torrents without seeds and other stuff).
    4::in case nothing is in your client, find out which torrents exactly you have downloaded by clicking your ratio-number below your nickname, then proceed to every torrent's details page, download .torrent-s and open them in your client, tell client to save to where your mp3-s are (those that you have downloaded using the website) and seed, seed, seed. if everything is done right, you will see your "::seeding: 0" number will change. if you tell client to save mp3-s to a wrong place where they are not stored on your hdd, it will try to download them again and will be refused by tracker.

  • HOW CAN U GET A JUMP START ON UR RATIO WHEN UR A NEW MEMBER:
    1-TRY TO AVOID DOWNLOADING THE OLDER TORRENTS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE (older torrents are rarely downloaded by users, so it is hard to get acceptable share-ratio on them)
    2-TRY TO BE THE FIST ONE TO LEECH A NEW TORRENT CAUSE BY THE TIME U FINISH DOWNLOADING THE SET U'LL HAVE SEEDED MOST OF IT (also new torrents are popular, so many users will be downloading something new, that when you should take advantage of it and sees as much as possible, if you upload more on this torrent then download, you can go ahead and download some other older torrent that will probably not give you any uploading if noone else downloads that torrent).
    3-ALWAYS SEED AFTER U DOWNLOAD AND DONT MOVE THE MP3S TO ANOTHER FOLDER UNTIL UR SURE UR DONE SEEDING :) (please always differ your global share ratio vs. torrent share ratio, where first one is the global summary of all 'second' ones. when global ratio can be seen on your website's control panel, torrent-ratios can be seen in your client for each torrent, or in the torrent-details page on the website, but it is reset to 0 if you stop/start the torrent, so client's info is the most up-to-date one)
  • jozegstarvip retired on April 18th, 2006 / post 4054
    if someone have problem with utorrent or azureus or problems with router/modem ,check this link:

    https://www.utorrent.com/faq.php
    slash ProDanceCulture on May 1st, 2006 / post 4466
    maybe someone would be interested in adding up to this glossary... i noticed some people don't even know what does it mean to 'upload' or 'share' or whatever... so if you feel some terms can be explained here in short words, feel free to post!! please use the format like this with bb-tags {b} and {size=2}...

    .torrent file - rather small (10-30KB) file that carries technical info about the data shared as Torrent. Note that .torrent files (data description files) are often mistaken for Torrents in general meaning (the data itself, including mp3s, and whatever else, usually large files or folders with files, size measured in MBs).

    0-day music - it is called 0-day music or 0-day release, if a fresh show or liveset is uploaded and shared on the very same day of the release/air/event itself, so if feels like you have been there on the party...

    ABC, Azureus - types of "bittorrent client"

    active torrent - torrent with 1 or more registered seeds

    announce url - url address used by bittorrent clients to communicate with a tracker

    bandwidth - speed of some internet connection, rather its capacity

    bitrate - bps, bits per second, the bigger the number (128kbps, 192kbps...) the better the quality of sound, but the bigger the file-size gets.

    BitTorrent - type of uploading/downloading protocol structure when your bittorrent client downloads data from other users' clients and uploads it back to them, so exchange is done very fast and downloading speeds are maximized. napster -> kazaa -> edonkey -> bittorrent. so it is the most advanced p2p protocol. tracker is the backbone of every private/open bitTorrent community and technically tracker's Torrents activity will sooner or later die without a tracker.

    BitTornado, BitComet, BitLord, Burst - same as "bittorrent client"

    bittorrent client - a software program that allows you to share Torrents online. it opens .torrent files, downloads Torrent data (actual mp3/oth files), at the same time it uploads downloaded data to other clients involved in current proccess of sharing this Torrent. if Torrents are not removed from bittorrent client after downloads completes, program continues to upload (seed) torrents, thus improving your ratio. you cannot download Torrents without bittorrent client of some kind.

    breaks - genre of electronic/dance music

    broadcast - publicly radio-transmitted live (or not) recording of some dj session. a.k.a. radio broadcast, club-night broadcast, webcast.

    categories - website categorization of Torrents (by music styles/data type)

    comments - very important part of everyday life of tribalmixesdotcom, totally depending on the users in this community: your feedback on Torrents that you should and are able to add to each of your downloads. this really cheers uploader up and helps them stay focused on what's liked or not at the moment. one of the good tone rules.

    connectable - regarding a peer (most of the time) states that this peer accepts incoming connections on some specified port. such (_good) peer will have fastest communication with all other peers and new peers, thus providing fastest up/download speeds. regarding a user (rarely) could be used for a person whose ports are not properly forwarded making all peers not connectable (_poor). if you have peers of both types, simply stop/start not connectable peers to see their status change to connectable on tracker, might need to repeat 2-3 times if no effect.

    connectability - quality of peers, connectable or not, is determined by tracker at the time bittorrent client registers peers at the tracker for the first time (when you open .torrent file and click start/force in your client). tracker attempts to connect to the peer, and if successes marks peer as connectable, otherwise at not connectable. this judgement might sometimes be wrong, especially at the moments of high load with over 50-100 peers updating or registering at the same time, so try to stop/start Torrents in your bittorrent client to see if peers change their status.

    damn leecher - very bad version of "leecher", cursing, bad language officially allowed for use towards users who downloads/leeches, but never uploads back. such users lose their downloading rights very fast, then try to register more accounts that leads to fast loss of access to the tracker.

    dead torrent - Torrent with no seeds

    dedicated server - a special server somewhere out there that is rented for tribalmixesdotcom and only. since tracker always needs to communicate with peers, it causes high load on computer that it is physically located at, so we needed to switch to a dedicated server 4 months after website was born.. read more

    delay - same as "wait time delay"

    djmix, djset, djliveset - whatever you call it, this is what brings thousands of people here: live dj perfomances recorded in clubs or sessions broadcasted on the radio and then recorded, which is afterwards (or along the way, depending on what software/teknik ripper is using) processed into mp3s and shared with others (or kept for private use).

    d'n'b, drum and bass - genre of electronic/dance music

    doubled torrent - torrent uploaded by someone who didn't care to check if it was uploaded earlier and already exists on the tracker. removal by staff counts as a mistake for power users and users.

    downloading - actually getting data by means of the internet and saving it to your computer hard drive. with Torrents and p2p in general this process is always accompanied by uploading, this resulting in "sharing".

    [e]-browser - short for [e]ntertainment browser (tm), a project of tribalmixesdotcom to provide full and complete info on all kinds of musical life aspects, including djs, producers, clubs, parties, labels and any other musical stuff. each entry can be rated or reviewed by users, reviews are offered if present and are also accessible through the special forums section.

    [e]-record - one dj/label/show/radio, any record from [e]-browser

    electro, electro house - genre of electronic/dance music

    ever_life - same as "undead", reg. ratio-free torrent

    F.A.Q. - file of answered questions, this is a vast collections of general types of questions about bittorrent, downloading, uploading and .torrent-ing as well. very very very helpful with much valuable info.

    featured DJ - DJs featured at tribalmixes.com, use link on the left to check their info, pics and torrents (all undead).

    feedback - same as "give back", but more into verbal/printing type of it

    firewall - it is the 'problem' that will keep your peers not connectable if not properly configured. use right port set up and port opening/forwarding.

    force start - feature in most bittorrent clients that instantly starts torrent to seed/download.

    forums - part of tribalmixesdotcom : great source to communicate with dance music lovers from more than 100 countries of Earth.

    give back - consists of comments, rating, uploading, good ratio, forums posts, donating, uploading your works, anything else valuable here at tribalmixesdotcom

    global ratio - same as "ratio"

    goa, goa trance - genre of electronic/dance music

    good ratio - goor ratio to have would be 1.00 and over, meaning you download as much data as you upload to others, that is very fair and the only fair way, one of the good tone rules.

    hash - some long string used in hash check, it is stored in .torrent file along with other technical info

    hash check - special algorythm performed in order to check if transmitted Torrent data is complete or corrupted, all bittorrent clients are able to perform this procedure along the way with downloading new torrents, to insure the proper data is being received and stored

    history - info on all the torrents that have been here on tribalmixes.com, but never became undead thus were deleted after 3-4 months online. please consult if you want to upload something for if this torrent has been here already!

    hit-and-run - this happens when you remove Torrent from your bittorrent client upon completion,  with no reported data uploaded on this given Torrent or torrent ratio reporting below 0.100. it is really bad and prosecuted behavior. if you receive a message about hit-and-run awarded to you, beware, because 3 more hit-and-runs will give you a warning for 1 week, 3 more careless actions (total of 7) and you are banned from the website. if your bittorrent client has seeding rules active, make sure the rules for new torrents like must stay active for first 24hr or seed until 100% or more, look into that to protect from client stopping torrents not well seeded and run client active 24/7, bittorrent clients as uTorrent do not take any resources.

    house - genre of electronic/dance music

    infohash - same as "hash"

    jungle - genre of electronic/dance music

    leech, to leech - same as downloading, but it is rather used to describe a peer.

    leecher - usually in bad sense for a user who only leeches but doesn't want to upload, thus making a bad sharer, bad ratio, warning...

    legal - nothing on tribalmixesdotcom is illegal, commercial or prohibited by law, it is for promotional use and much lower quality than real cds and albums. we support djs, we do not steal their music! most of promos are approved by their producers!

    links - page leading to various recommended links and rss feeds.

    liveset, live session - dame as "djmix"

    low ratio - ratio reporting "low" when you click your ratio link on control panel above. involves warning and revoked downloading privilidges.

    minimum ratio - must be kept to be able to keep downloading. please note that the more you download, the bigger your ratio should be, starting from just 0.100 on 1GB, it should be 0.75 when you reach 100GB downloads, resulting in 75GB or more of uploaded data. see more in ratio ladder.

    minimal (house) - genre of electronic/dance music

    mistake - is usually an action (torrent upload) resulting in removal of your torrent by someone of staff. 1 such mistake will revoke power user's automatic uploading permission.

    MainLine - type of "bittorrent client"

    not connectable - regarding a peer (most of the time) states that this peer does not accept incoming connections due to some firewall/router/port wrong configuration. connectability is determined by the website at the time your bittorrent client first time registers new download/seed (new peer), tracker tries to connect to your client at the port you have specified in its options. not connectable peers will still seed or leech, but only in case they connect to other connectable peers, although many other not connectable peers for this torrent will not be able to communicate with your client, thus you are having lower download and upload speed, less data uploaded, worse ratio than connectable users. not connectable user will state that this user has most peers not connectable. also note, that if some of your peers report connectable (_good) than it is quite possible to make all other peers of yours also connectable by stopping/starting them in your client. alot of info on becoming connectable is written in forums on this website and other forums all over the internet.

    offer - generally out of wide use, implies a forum topic in special section offering something not uploaded on tribalmixes, mostly relating to fresh djs, featured or member dj mixes.

    online radio - a type of radio where music is being streamed in the internet, and users listen to it by the means of mostly any music players, such as winamp, wmp or similar.

    OUTLOOK - same as "your website preferences", a section of the website where users can set up alot of appearance options, move or close some windows, set the amounts of displayed result records and personalize their own image by adding their age, location etc.

    peer - an entity in the world of p2p sharing, usually meaning one of your torrents (or any other software's named/described means for file sharing) being managed 'in the net' by your sharing software client, so each person can run a few open peers, going to thousands in rare cases, peers are what the driving force of the global peer to peer sharing world community.

    PLATINUM USER

    podcast

    port

    port forwarding

    post

    power user

    progressive house - genre of electronic/dance music

    promo

    rating

    RATIO

    ratio ladder

    rebroadcast

    required minimum ratio - same as "minimum ratio"

    request

    reseed

    ripper

    rules

    scene

    scrape

    seed, to seed

    seeder

    share ratio - same as "ratio"

    sharing

    show

    skin

    SKINMaster

    staff

    stats

    stream

    system

    techno, tech - genre of electronic/dance music

    thread, topic

    Torrent - file or folder with files (can be mp3, mpeg, avi, exe any kinds of files)shared over the interned using some special tracker and bitTorrent protocol with some bittorrent client together with specially created .torrent file. Note that .torrent files (data description files) are often mistaken for Torrents (the data itself, including mp3s, and whatever else, usually large files or folders with files, size measured in MBs)

    torrent ratio - same as "ratio" but just for this one given Torrent

    tracker

    tracker response

    tracker update period

    trance - genre of electronic/dance music

    tribal - genre of electronic/dance music, tribalmixesdotcom is not only about tribal, it is very versatile in music selection.

    tribalmixesdotcom - (r) (c) (tm) www.tribalmixes.com

    undead

    upload, to upload

    upload credit

    upload offer - same as "offer"

    uploader

    uploading

    uploads

    uTorrent - same as "�Torrent"

    videos

    warning

    website skin - same as "skin"

    website tracker - same as "tracker"

    ...


    ok.. not connectable ... that's it.. :) 2.5 hours, and this is not even a half... feel free to work on this. or for some reason i feel that all will feel free not too... :)
    vargabeszlightning hello world on May 8th, 2006 / post 4704
    don't be so sad.. i understand your concerns, but there are some really nice people around here who really do appreciate all this work you're doing for us. at least think about us when you're in this kind of a mood.. we need you! you can't leave us! e-browser is great! i think most people here aren't interested at djs, they just wanna have music. they don't even care how it sounds just have the most they can have at once.. i don't like those people. i think this site is great because it not only has the newest music on the planet, but tells me the most info about the djs, mixes, and other users thoughts as well (when they write it down). i'm getting tired of people who just ask "how do i seed?"... they don't belong here in my opinion. if they're uncapable of reading the faq and looking around a bit then they don't deserve to be here. don't give up slash, i know you won't. just keep on doing your great job and please improve this fantastic site! thanks for everything so far  :thumbsup:
    I know I need a new avatar URL
    (user gone) on July 12th, 2006 / post 7484
    hello there...i would like to ask you if there is any SEARCH BAR ??? i would like to enter a dj's name there and to press enter and to find all the torrents with that DJ.....if there exists a SEARCH bat how is named??? :unsure:
    lucabativip Degenerate on July 12th, 2006 / post 7485
    cozma wrote:
    hello there...i would like to ask you if there is any SEARCH BAR ??? i would like to enter a dj's name there and to press enter and to find all the torrents with that DJ.....if there exists a SEARCH bat how is named??? :unsure:

    right above the categories, there is a torrent searchbar, u can enter the name of the dj there as all the torrents have the name of the artist so...
    Jake, it takes more than sex to make a man happy. You also need money.   (Charlie Harper)
    (user gone) on July 12th, 2006 / post 7488
    thanx...FORZA D'ITALIA :-d
    mihai2211starvip deep/dark prog on October 15th, 2006 / post 12397
    hi slash!
    i saw what you"ve said above, about quiting what r udoing.i wanna tell u that there are  a lot of peo,ple who really apreciate what have u done and what r u still doing!and i'm one of those people. even if i don't post too much topics or chat too much.so,keep on going!thanks for everything :thumbsup:  u r doing!
    arnanivip D-Formation Gue on February 28th, 2007 / post 16615
    hope this will help a little
    arnanivip D-Formation Gue on February 28th, 2007 / post 16616
    amazing topic slash  :-) here i will help with something all beginers need.... you all know that you have a limit of ratio to dload with and this is written under yor name in the up of the page and this ratio decreases when you dload torrents so there are torrents called ever life torrents (undead torrents) this torrents are for free they dont decrease your ratio this torrents you will find beside them a yellow box on the torrent page so after you dload them if you want to take your ratio back you will find 9 yellow small boxes on the top of the page under your name and ratio click on the secound one from the RIGHT after you click on this box u will find a word called "DOWNLOAD DEBIT" and here you go you will gain your ratio back.... i hope u understod and i will post some pictures to let you understand better

    Pictures:

    https://www.gigasize.com/get.php/451993/1111.JPG
    https://rapidshare.com/files/18749491/1111.JPG.html

    this is the kind of ever life torrents

    https://rapidshare.com/files/18749680/adddd.JPG.html
    https://www.gigasize.com/get.php/451997/adddd.JPG

    here is after u dload the torrent click on the circled thing

    there is two links for evrey picture

    the circled thing in the pictures are the aim sry that the pictures dont look that good.... i hope slash that i helped a little bit  :-)
    marcanbj user on March 9th, 2007 / post 16939
    Hey, I'm a new user and this seems like a great site!!

    I was just wondering if it is possible to download torrents that are in the history section ?

    Had a look around and there doesn't seem to any mention of how to do this or if its possible or just a reference tool. There is a mention of snatching but I don't really know what this means.

    Any help would be appreciated

    Cheers
    arnanivip D-Formation Gue on March 9th, 2007 / post 16950
    marcanbj wrote:
    Hey, I'm a new user and this seems like a great site!!

    I was just wondering if it is possible to download torrents that are in the history section ?

    Had a look around and there doesn't seem to any mention of how to do this or if its possible or just a reference tool. There is a mention of snatching but I don't really know what this means.

    Any help would be appreciated

    Cheers


    unfourtneley u cant dload torrents in history... but u can request torrents thier is a section for it in the formus and for sure some one will upload it  :-)
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