Entry 30. [Bored] --- A bit of a downloading fit...

Dixie currently feels:

Bored

 

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I don't think I mentioned in a previous blog - but recently, my Bearshare decided to kill itself.

 

Ah, the great times I had with Bearshare.

The most I ever downloaded on it at once was 50 files.

 

Sometimes, when I start downloading, I can never stop.

 

I had a huge downloading fit at the start of January, and I ended up with my downloads folder filled with about 120 mp3s.

 

Although I don't end up liking all of it - I sometimes find some awesome things that I love.

I take bands I've heard of, or have heard songs before - and click the top rated stuff, so I know what I'm getting is decent.

 

Bearshare was never great for Nintendo soundtracks. It took me about 6 hours to find all 29 songs from Dancing Stage: Mario Mix.

 

Though, it was awesome for the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack.

Stupidly, I didn't download all of it, so I have about half of the soundtrack.

 

That's a game with a lot of music - the official soundtrack, apparently, is 4 discs.

The game itself is 3 discs, so.

 

 

Lmfao, that's a good suggested tag.

"downloading is fun"

 

Ah, the suggested tags never fail to amuse me. :)

 

 

Anyway, with a broken Bearshare - I needed a new downloading server.

 

On my old PC, I used WinMX - which sucked.

Then I got eDonkey - which got me a ton of viruses.

 

I got my new PC, and Adam suggested Bearshare - which I grew to love.

 

Though, I am NOT going to download Bearshare 6.

It's just a server where pedophiles trade porn videos with each other.

 

And yes - Bearshare WAS good for porn - they downloaded really fast, and I got a lot of results.

Though, I'm over that habit now. :)

 

 

So, I thought I'd take a leaf out of Emily's book and get Limewire.

A lot of files I got on Bearshare were taken from Limewire users, anyway.

 

So, after waiting several hours for it to install, a few days ago - I tried my first search.

 

Rammstein. :)

 

And, it actually found a lot of results that Bearshare didn't.

 

 

Today, I've taken the downloading fit to a new level.

 

The fastest download on Bearshare for me was 13 seconds.

Limewire is considerably slower - but multiple downloads go faster than they did on Bearshare.

 

Anyway.

 

My downloads folder now contains...

From starting totally empty...

 

It now contains:

 

 

457 files.

 

 

Yep. Tons.

 

 

I've downloaded the whole 127 track Paper Mario: TTYD soundtrack, along with the whole Hyrule Symphony album, tons of tracks from Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker...

 

Then I started downloading new tracks from bands I know of - then I downloaded all the new songs that are available to download for Guitar Hero 3 - so I can see what they sound like first...

(I added those to my Guitar Hero III soundtrack folder...)

 

THEN, I downloaded Stand By Me - great film, which has provided inspiration for mine and Emily's duo novel, Fire of Glory; notably, chapter 41 and 38.

 

Then, I downloaded some episodes of Super Mario Bros. Super Show - which I have a few volumes on DVD, but, when I get my iPod, I'd like to put some episodes on there.

 

THEN, I downloaded about 7 episodes of Little Britain - for the same reason as posted above.

 

I still have the whole Guitar Hero 2 soundtrack to get, bar a few songs - and the rest of the Guitar Hero: Rocks The 80's soundtrack to download too.

 

I got some music videos that I like - mainly Rammstein and Slipknot.

 

I also re-kindled my love of Eminem, downloaded a few of his tracks, and the Without Me video.

Damn, it's so funny. :)

 

 

I'm going to start listening to the new songs shortly, after I've got all the details sorted.

I can't stand mis-named files.

 

All my files have to be named properly - with all the details entered right.

 

I can't stand it when band names are spelt in lowercase, and the albums are entered wrongly with wrong dates, and all the rest - so I sort all that out.

(Which will also help organising my iPod, WHEN I GET ONE...)

 

Oh, and I hate it when people wrongly classify the genre of Rammstein as rock.

THEY'RE NOT ROCK!

 

They're TANZ-METALL!

Industrial Metal, if you so prefer, but, damnnnnn, they're not rock.

 

 

Two songs I've already listened to that I love, are Absolute, by Thousand Foot Krutch - though I can't stand the bit at the beginning where it sounds like a CD jumping...

 

And Sprite, by Freezepop.

It's so jumpy and happy, and the lyrics make me smile. :)

 

 

What makes a melonball bounce?
A melonball bounce?

A melonball bounce?

What makes a melonball bounce?
The ice tart taste of Sprite!

 

 

...What IS a melonball bounce?

Is it a cocktail, or?

 

 

Ah, Freezepop are weird anyway. :P