What annoys me so much: mixed tracks on Audiogalaxy

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Posted by vmc on Mar-18-2002 21:44:

What annoys me so much: mixed tracks on Audiogalaxy

(Posted again: I don't know what happened to the first thread, it's broken)

You know, I really dislike when people put mixed tracks on Audiogalaxy without labelling it as Various Artists or:
ID3v2:
artist: (dj, who mixed the compilation) - (original artist)
title: (title)
OF COURSE those ppl label the track normally as artist - title. Lots of trancey freaks like me are only interested in full vinyl/cd rips, so you can imagine how I'm mad when I have to delete about 40% of my fresh-downloaded mp3s because they are mixed !!!!!!!

Older tracks, like from 1999, are almost impossible to get on AG in full version.

Posted by D_G on Mar-18-2002 21:47:

Yea, it sucks!

I have about 20 odd tracks d/l from AG that are ripped from mixes etc... but it is so hard to find a none mixed version of most tracks that i end up keeping them...

[Dan]

Posted by sauce_policy on Mar-18-2002 22:06:

i don't mind the mixed versions!

Posted by Tranex02 on Mar-18-2002 22:12:

true.....but
it's better than nothing....

Posted by torontotrance on Mar-18-2002 23:18:

What bugs me is that ppl complain about this, like vmc. Dude, we don't live in a perfect world and thinks happen, true no tags does bug most ppl but it's reality with audiogalaxy, same with napster (when ppl used it) and any other file sharing application. BTW, i do have all my tags labelled btw.

Posted by tranceDJ on Mar-19-2002 01:13:

How could people liked the mix versions? It's not that big of a deal but it really is a bitch when you find some old track on AG you've been looking for a long time and it turns out to be mixed...especially when you have a 56k. I have broadband so when I get a mixed song I shrug it off and delete it, it would be worse though if I had a 56k. My 2cents...

Posted by JM on Mar-19-2002 06:43:

dude i totally agree with you, especially about the older tunes!

>JM<

Posted by Mark on Mar-19-2002 07:04:

how hard is it to differentiate between a mixed file and a vinyl/cd rip? 99.9% of the time i have no problem telling the mixed file apart from the full rip.

Posted by Stanza on Mar-19-2002 07:30:

quote:
That's true. I download almost exclusively old tracks from 1998-1999. The rare ones on AG are not full rips, but mainly from very obscure mixed 4CD compilations and mixes by completely unknown DJs.

Are you sure you're downloading from AG properly. Remember to choose "Exact version" for the track in order to determine if there is a full version of the track. Do this by looking at the time of each track being listed. If some of them are very short like less than 5 mins then don't selected those ones since you can guarentee that they aren't full rips.

Of course full rips are pretty hard to get off AG. Takes a bit of time but I usually get my tunes. If you any problems getting a tune from 98-99, just ask me and maybe I could help you out

Posted by vmc on Mar-19-2002 15:29:

quote:
Originally posted by torontotrance
What bugs me is that ppl complain about this, like vmc. Dude, we don't live in a perfect world and thinks happen, true no tags does bug most ppl but it's reality with audiogalaxy, same with napster (when ppl used it) and any other file sharing application. BTW, i do have all my tags labelled btw.

If there is something in the world what we concern as a bad thing, we have to change it, do something about it. Napster was horrible btw, 70% of tracks I had downloaded with it was mixed. It could't have also resume downloads - now that's annoying!

Posted by D_G on Mar-19-2002 15:50:

quote:
Originally posted by tranceDJ
How could people liked the mix versions? It's not that big of a deal but it really is a bitch when you find some old track on AG you've been looking for a long time and it turns out to be mixed...especially when you have a 56k. I have broadband so when I get a mixed song I shrug it off and delete it, it would be worse though if I had a 56k. My 2cents...

I only have a 56k...!

But i have a trick!

When im d/l a track i allways listen to the ''.temp'' file so that i kno if its a mixed version or not...

Also, the extact version is good but sometimes, even if u search and search and think u've found wut could be the full version, it often isnt!

[Dan]

Posted by Keown on Mar-19-2002 21:52:

quote:
Originally posted by slifedogg
my whole collection of 550+ mp3s are full vinyl rips (and 192 kbps+ bitrate at that). i've spent way too much time accomplishing this, but im proud now watch my hard drive crash.. ::knocks on wood::

Dude if i was u I would have all ur MP3's backed up on CD cause u will sleep peacefully at nite then

But yea I am on a 56K and i cant get an ASDL cause BT "dont believe there is enough depend for it in my rural area" so I tend to ring them from neighbours houses pretending that all the houses are interested in it , not sure if it will work but its worth a try I think...
But anyway It can be a bit annoyin with the Audiogalaxy mixed tracks, but hey thats life - its free music after all, however the problem would be a lot less if I managed to get ASDL

Posted by izzywillynilly on Mar-19-2002 22:35:

i hear ya man, i'm um...what do you call it...kinda ANAL about my mp3s. I MUST have a certain syntax for all my mp3z like:

Tupac - All Eyez on Me - 01 - track name

so it really pisses me off just for having id3 tags. because i just remove them all and have winamp read off the file name itself. this may sound quite unnessesary, but when you ahve 400+ albums it gets kinda hairy, especially when you got 21 albums of one artist or something.

But what pisses me off the most is when a live set has an id3 v. 2 tag, because when you remove it it fucking takes for ever (since the file is so long).

why can't everybody be as organized as me

Posted by whiskers on Mar-20-2002 04:27:

quote:
Originally posted by izzywillynilly
But what pisses me off the most is when a live set has an id3 v. 2 tag, because when you remove it it fucking takes for ever (since the file is so long).

i put tracklists into id3v2 tags... such a good idea!!! although it rewrites the whole mp3 to the hard drive, i can bare with that.

i'm anal not only about filenames and id3 tags, but also if the songs have crackle or other shit in them. if i can't fix it with cooledit, i have to redownload it on my 56k and that pisses me off, caz i wanna enjoy the full version of that track RIGHT NOW

oh yeah, doesn't it piss you off when you queue the original track and a remix and when you download them, they appear to be the same mix? and goddamn it i hate when people don't use full rips!!!!

Posted by m1ke101 on Mar-20-2002 05:13:

a little offtopic, but still about audiogalaxy, i was wondering if everyone can only download one song with audiogalaxy at a time, and at max 13k, because thats whats happening to me. i love how AG has such a big selection of songs, but its torture trying to download full sets at 13k. anyone know if i'm doing something wrong or have to tweak a setting?

Posted by elena on Mar-20-2002 05:47:

WORD
wrong tags suck cats hairy nipples

Posted by Drifter on Mar-20-2002 09:45:

hmm......i tried d/l a liveset b4 at 1.5k/sec....

Posted by Keown on Mar-20-2002 10:06:

quote:
Originally posted by TiestoInTheMix

i put tracklists into id3v2 tags... such a good idea!!! although it rewrites the whole mp3 to the hard drive, i can bare with that.

Cool that is such a flippin good idea, here i think I might start doing that to, it would make life a lot easier if the tracklist was already on a Liveset when u downloaded it

quote:
Originally posted by m1ke101

a little offtopic, but still about audiogalaxy, i was wondering if everyone can only download one song with audiogalaxy at a time, and at max 13k, because thats whats happening to me. i love how AG has such a big selection of songs, but its torture trying to download full sets at 13k. anyone know if i'm doing something wrong or have to tweak a setting?

I think that to be able to download more than one file at a time from Audiogalaxy, U have to be sharing like at least 20, or 25. Not sure if that would have anything to do with the speed, could jus be u were gettin the song from some1 slow (13K, compared to my max. 3.6K isnt bad anyway )

Posted by tu_face on Mar-20-2002 11:34:

quote:
Originally posted by slifedogg
my whole collection of 550+ mp3s are full vinyl rips (and 192 kbps+ bitrate at that). i've spent way too much time accomplishing this, but im proud now watch my hard drive crash.. ::knocks on wood::

i am much the same... i got a bit over 600+ full vinyl rips etc... ive spent much time on this too as me = 56k...

if my HD dies so do i...

Posted by whiskers on Mar-20-2002 12:08:

a bit offtopic too, but has anyone tried registering with ag lately?
what a pain in the ass!
first it tells you your username is taken, but that's normal. then it says your password is too short - need 8 characters (on my 2 previous usernames they are 5 letters with no numbers). fine, but then it tells you you need digits in the password... ok... afterwards, it tells you like 10 times that your password is too easy to guess. WTF??? how is "xoposho37" easy to guess???

Posted by izzywillynilly on Mar-20-2002 16:17:

quote:
i'm anal not only about filenames and id3 tags, but also if the songs have crackle or other shit in them. if i can't fix it with cooledit, i have to redownload it on my 56k and that pisses me off, caz i wanna enjoy the full version of that track RIGHT NOW

oh yeah, doesn't it piss you off when you queue the original track and a remix and when you download them, they appear to be the same mix? and goddamn it i hate when people don't use full rips!!!!

oh hell yes, even one crackle means that i'm getting another version of that song. Its just so damn annoying to be blasting a great song and have a fucking pop ruin the mood (especially if one is under the influence, i swear i've lost years off my life due to crackle related stress)

Posted by Mark on Mar-20-2002 17:13:

heh i hope you don't mean the crackle that you hear from vinyls because it could be pretty hard to find a vinyl rip that don't have those static like sounds.

Posted by vmc on Mar-20-2002 21:36:

But in spite of this I prefer vinyl rips to cd rips. They sound better to me.

Posted by izzywillynilly on Mar-20-2002 22:16:

quote:
heh i hope you don't mean the crackle that you hear from vinyls because it could be pretty hard to find a vinyl rip that don't have those static like sounds.

no, i'm talking about blips and cracks, When the person ripping the mp3 fucks it up, usually by doing to many things and taking up resources.

Posted by biznology on Mar-21-2002 01:32:

look at the world we live in...its not enough that you have ACCESS to this music, much less you are stealing it without recourse- you need to bitch about it not being *perfect*. i understand tho, i just always remind myself whats up before owrrying about it too much/

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