How can I file share more obscure metal ?
I have been using peer to peer filesharing programs since napster but with every new generation of file sharing software, I always I have problems finding more obscure music especially stuff that hasn't been rereleased in years or ever. I was wondering what all of you internet masters thought was the best way to get into more serious and specific filesharing, especially anything community based.
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You could try
this. The results are kind of patchy but sometimes hit.
Seek out an invite to
Oink.me.uk.
There are loads of obscure albums coming up every day on various "sharity" sites, such as
Chocoreve -- more stuff than one can listen to. My music-and-video-blogroll is up to 39 sites (offering single tracks, albums, videos)
The best way to find really obscure music on the internet is to share really obscure music on the internet.
And while I understand the argument that the more obscure folks are the ones more in need of royalties, most of the bands that I'm tracking down get nothing whether I buy the insanely overpriced eBay vinyl or whether I download it. There's an argument to be made that downloading albums makes labels less likely to rerelease, but the chances of them tracking down rights-holders is slim to none anyway...
Yeah, get yourself to sharity blogs, weirdomusic.com, WFMU's beware of blog, and OINK (or whatever that other indietorrents site is)...
Live Music Archive.
Audiogalaxy was sooo cool! You could find anything on AG.
Fourth or whatever for Oink. I've hardly used anything else since getting on there about a year ago. Before that I used to be seriously into Soulseek, but it was well into a pretty steep decline in usability when I quit using it. Also, with Soulseek, as a sharer I was getting sick of playing God with my upload queues (e.g. letting the people who wanted more obscure stuff ahead of the people who were downloading Rammstein from me).
Mind you, I'm primarily into industrial/idm/experimental music, and Oink has a fairly dedicated subgroup of people dedicated to spreading goodies in those genres. YMMV with other types of music, although it is a very large site with thousands of users.
soulseek is superb for many weird subgroups. Once you find someone who is into your area of music, start getting on people's lists - a lot of people are list-only, but once you pass that barrier, really everything is there.
omnidrew: I've just now downloaded the Claudine Longet RAR from Chocoreve, and it wants me to "enter the password for the encrypted rar." Do you know about this?
I would also go visit
tofuhut. They have a ton of links to other music blogs. If you get
songbird going, you can browse around the internet while listening to some weird stuff (and save what you like). Songbird crashes alot though (still under development).
You can browse OPML of 350 sharity sites:
http://www.optimalbrowser.com/?url=http%3A//www.openomy.com/download/rickdog/SAGE_sharity.opml
