Where to go to find great music. What to do when you find it. Well, I suppose it depends on what kind of music you like. If I'm totally bored with the groups I listen to, and I really want something new, I go to Blalock's Indie Rock Playlist. I'll download a torrent of the month and run through it, weed out what's great, and what's not so awesome. Another cool place to try, for Indie Rock, is Indie69.com. They list several playlists every month to sample. They're not as great as Blalock, in my opinion. But hey, you were bored to begin with right?Now, once you've decided to go ahead and download a torrent, are you done? No. You have to have a BitTorrent client to use the torrent and complete the download. Basically, a torrent is a shortcut telling the BitTorrent client where to download the files from. Now, some people use BitTorrent for piracy, and they infringe on copyrights. This is ill-advised. The sites above, are not mine, and I did not post any music on the internet.
If you don't have a BitTorrent client, I recommend uTorrent. I use it, and it's a very quick, small-sized client. And, one more little trick to boost your download speeds:
- Open the torrent with uTorrent
- Let uTorrent assign you "seeders"
- Click the "Trackers" tab at the bottom
- Right-click one of the web addresses and click "Add Tracker"
- Erase all but one address, but then add a random number in the address somewhere
- This will make uTorrent not find the tracker, hopefully boosting your down speed
I use this trick all the time, and with my phone tethering, I can get about 500kb/s. So, in closing, if you aren't a fan of indie, I'm sorry. But hey, you never know, you may find something that tickles your fancy. And if you do like indie, I hope you enjoy checking these places out for some new toonskies.
Please, share where you get ideas for your new music in the comments!
