Mar 04, 2017, 12:14 pm
(Feb 08, 2017, 02:22 am)Dr0223 Wrote:(Feb 04, 2017, 04:34 am)rigmar_radio Wrote: OK Gang we are about half way through so I am taking a few days off as I need my upload bandwidth for other projects for a day or so. I will be back with Vol 32 and then daily until done. The following question and answer session will be posted on that torrent, but is reproduced in advance here for your information:
Rigmar Karaoke Collection 2017 CDG+MP3 Audio 128 or a lot better
Welcome back after our short break to allow the slow downloaders to catch up with the main and current swarm. Please view the plain text file called TRACK LIST VOL 32 for the contents of the Single RAR Archive.
Q. Why Archive this torrent?
A. Bit torrent clients and computers in General do not handle large numbers of open or half open individual files very well. Due to the duel file nature of CDG+MP3 Karaoke each torrent would contain over 2400 individual files if I did not Archive them first. Seeding that many individual files would use up vast amounts of computer resources and lead to problems on less powerful systems with too many open files, Too much Virtual Memory, RAM and CPU resources if anyone were to seed more than a handful of torrents in this series.
Placing over 2500 files in a single Archive reduces the file count to just one, solving that particular problem. You also save 40% or more on the downloaded file size due to the compression factor. I am well aware that un packing such a large Archive takes time on slower Computers, but this is the only way I can distribute the huge number of individual files which will make up this collection when done.
Q. You seem to have a bee in your bonnet over slow download speeds. What is that all about and why should I care?
A. Bit torrent standards have been in decline for some years now. At the very time ISP's are giving the World a better connection with more upload bandwidth than ever before, average swarm speeds have been going DOWN. When people download very slowly from a swarm it is because they can not upload to fellow peers in that swarm. This in effect makes them LEECHES who can only download slowly due to overloading there connection by running more than one active torrent at any time. While it is true you can seed as many active torrents as you want at the same time, this IS NOT THE CASE if you want to download quickly. Each seeding torrent and every download takes a part of your tiny upload bandwidth away from the swarm until you have none left to give. SLOW DOWNLOADERS disrespect the original seed by not taking the maximum download speed the SEED is offering them. SLOW DOWNLOADERS are LEECHES who drag the average swarm speed down to there pathetic level when they have a unique bit of the whole torrent no one else but the original seed has, as they are unable to upload that BIT to the rest of the swarm due to there sloppy bit torrent habits. SLOW DOWNLOADERS are taking 24 hours or more to download a file(s) which they should be able to grab in 1 hour or less and leave himself/herself open to detection due to the long time they remain in the swarm. SLOW DOWNLOADS ARE KILLING BIT TORRENT in 2017, let's all work to make dial up download speeds yesterdays News.
Q. What is the point of such a large project on Bit Torrent?
A. Go look at any commercial Karaoke download portal and see the prices they charge for bulk Karaoke start up collections! Now you get the point. This series, uploaded once every year is designed to help those new to Karaoke presenting get there first Karaoke collection up and running. It is also designed to raise standards in the file naming of Karaoke collections so all Karaoke users file name following industry best practise. Finally this torrent series is designed to help those established presenters, and I know there are a lot of them! Make a clean start to there collection when there original has grown out of control and is giving them problems with bad search results due to duplications and errors over the years. Over the years we have seen so called Karaoke release groups shouting they only upload clean fresh Karaoke, only to find the file names and tags are all over the place and many hours are needed to get that Karaoke in a place where you can import it into playout software and get the Artist data in the Artist field and the Song title in the song title field. Hopefully this collection will spread around the World and put a stop to this nonsense. NO ONE GIVES A FLYING FIG about original Karaoke manufacturers catalogue or disc numbers and they are placed at the very front of the filename where the Artist info should be in a music file name grrrr... if you import as is in pro DJ, VJ or Club playout software. Yes some Karaoke players do take care of this, but HELLO if you are setting up Video feeds for Karaoke lyric display, you may as well promote HD Music Video between singers when you can and that rules out using most of the micky mouse playout software seen in many Karaoke only venues. Many Karaoke only players are just not up to the job requirements for professional presenters.
Q. Is this the largest bit torrent project ever?
A. No other very large 500GB plus torrent projects have been uploaded in the past. This however is possibly the fastest to download each day.
Q. When will I be finished?
A. When you see ZZ Top in the Artist fieldEst between Vol 50 and 60 if I reach that far. That will take until the end of February 2017.
Q. How much disc space will the collection take up when I un compress the archives?
A. I can only guess at approx 500 Gigabyte disc space. I have never uncompressed the entire collection as duel CDG+MP3 files as Ots DJ Pro use a single file system for Karaoke which saves a lot of space on your hard drive.
Q. Can I make a new torrent from all or part of this collection and call it my own? on a private tracker site???
A. Yes though a mention of the fact the torrent is the Rigmar Karaoke Collection would be the correct thing to do when re posted as it would tell your peers what they are getting inside each archive and avoid duplicate downloads. Once this collection is out there every year, it is public domain.
Q. Why do you upload the whole collection every year and not just the parts or songs which have changed since last time?
A. Many thousands of changes, edits, Audio sound quality improvements are made over the course of a year to all the tracks in the collection. The file names may not change but this year for example a large number of songs now have Audio sampled at 320 kbps for better sound quality. Many thousands of tracks have minor changes made to both file names and MP3 tags to give better search results when using professional playout software.
Q. Will I get a spreadsheet of all the songs suitable for sending to a commercial printer to make Karaoke song selection books?
A. Yes on the last Vol of this years collection a CSV Plain text file suitable for importing into any decent spreadsheet will be included along with pre made Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets sorted by Artist and then Song Title. This book will run to over 900 A4 sized pages at a font size of 10 pixels. Best print double sided using a commercial printer for best results.
Q. Will I be able to put the name of my roadshow on these books?
A. Yes blank headers and footers will exist in the Excel versions for you to edit.
Q. Can I use open office to make these books from the CSV plain text file and sort by Artist or song title from it?
A. YES the CSV file will import correctly into any half decent spreadsheet on a PC or MAC.
Each RAR Archive contains 1200+ Tracks and is uploaded daily. Target download time for the 5GB sized download is 1 Hour or a lot less!!!! If you take longer than 1 hour please find out what you are doing wrong and correct it for next time. Please not that if you share an internet connection or have a DSL (Phone Line) connection there may be little you can do to improve your download speeds. Thank you.
Rigmar Radio - Seeding to the World since 2004.
Q. I am running an old MAC Snow Leopard OS. Do you know if there is compatible DJ or Video Club software for my system? As of right now I cannot open the file with any of my current apps.
I'm having a hard time finding the actual download for this