BitTorrent tracker What.cd launched Gazelle last night (beta), effecting a complete re-launch of sorta. There’s a new site design (though still with the familiar wood theme) and some new features. One of them, Paranoia, lets users set how much info is available to other users of the site. Things like recently snatched torrents, current seeding/leeching and other stats can now be regulated. There’s tags, wikis, related artists, etc.
The site itself seems to be having some issues right now. Search is hit or miss, for example.
Overall, and keeping in mind that team is still working out the bugs—it’s still beta, after all—not a bad update. Right now, What.cd’s looking better than Waffles.
Again, I don’t have any invites. It’s very hard to seed on Time Warner, what with my 60KB/s max upload speed on BitTorrent. To think I’m paying for that.
any invites to share?
No, unfortunately. I addressed that in the post. When I get more, I will give them out here on CrunchGear.
-na
thats the problem, your not supposed to give it out to people you don’t know. maybe thats why your not getting any invites.
If you go to the What.cd invites irc channel, these are the questions you are asked:
1. What is the concept of maintaining a ratio.
2. Explain how lossy and lossless audio codecs are different? Give three (3) examples of each codec type.
3. Define transcoding – in terms of audio.
4. Why are some transcodes acceptable and why are some transcodes not acceptable.
5. If given the three maximum frequency ranges of (22khz, 20khz and 19khz) and file sizes (78MB, 104MB and 299Mcool smiley match each of them to the most likely format of either (320 CBR, V0 and FLAC), ie. Type-Size-Frequency
6. If a V0 and 256 CBR album are both available which would you prefer and why?
7. Give examples of methods that could be used to prove an audio file is actually the type of format/bitrate that it is advertised.
8. After encoding a new audio file which of the following tag(s) is/are recommended?
a. , , , and
b. and
c. ,
d. leave them all blank
9. When seeding audio files, editing the id3 tags of the audio file will interfere with the complete transfer of the files? (TRUE or FALSE)
10. If transcoding and no more than one lossless to lossy encoding is permitted which of these transcodes are/is generally acceptable? Give only a YES or NO for each specified example.
a. FLAC->WAV->APE
b. V0->V1->V2
c. MP3->AAC->128
d. 320->256->192
e. VBR->ABR->CBR
f. WAV->ALAC->AAC
g. MP3->APE->FLAC
h. CDA->WAV->MP3
i. MP3->WAV->CDA
j. 320->WAV->FLAC
k. CDA->V0->V1
l. APE->FLAC->APE
m. V0->WAV->CDA
I greet or mugł would give someone me invitation to What.cd, I would ask very
I greet or mugł would give someone me invitation to What.I cd, would ask very about then email mk8817@gmail.com