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Re:Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents by andrewcooke on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @11:39PM (#4353768)
i'll tell my grandpa about the dead stuff, thanks. meanwhile, how can you tell if a particular track is on a torrent? or how can you to search for files on torrents?

ah, ok, so if it's a torrent it's listed as such in the download links.

and it's the etree collection (the concerts) that seems to be what is available. you can search with "collection:etree" in the search. so "bluegrass AND collection:etree", for example.

Re:Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents by dfc on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @01:44AM (#4354119)
If you were not such a good grandson I'd downvote you for making me feel old with the grandpa comment:) While you are at it make sure you thank him for being such a good music role model. I'm 32 years old, no kids or grandkids and still love listening to Jerry...
Re:Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents by underscor on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @02:07AM (#4354193)
if there's something you want torrentized that's not, feel free to post here too and I can poke it.

edit: assuming it's in one of the collections we're currently testing on. (all the opensource_* ones) (etree and netlabels _should_ be all torrentized [we hope])

Re:Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents by andrewcooke on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @08:56AM (#4355252)
hi, ok, so here's an example (taken at random from the pueblo nuevo archive i linked to above) - http://archive.org/details/pn014

i don't particularly want that album (i probably already have it thanks!) but it doesn't mention a torrent that i can see (the etree files have torrent in the links). and that's the same for all netlabel files (not many) that i have checked.

in comparison, http://archive.org/details/SPBB2006-04-29 (bluegrass etree!) does have a bittorrent link (bottom right).

i don't understand your opensource_ comment, but pueblo nuevo is a netlabel. so it seems to me that etree have torrents, but netlabels do not.

(this is just in case it helps / it's likely i am confused / no criticism intended / thanks for doing all this)