Search and Download Free Music With Bit-Torrent
Bit-Torrent file sharing protocol allows multiple Internet users to download and distribute large amounts of data at the same time. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting, and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, each recipient supplies pieces of the data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence on the original distributor.
Choosing a Bit-Torrent Client
- To use Bit-Torrent, you must download a Bit-Torrent client
- There are a wide variety of Bit-Torrent clients.
- The Official Bit-Torrent client from the protocol’s designers
- Azureus
- Torrent Swapper
- Burst!
- Tomato Torrent
Using Your Bit-Torrent Client
- Download and install your chosen client
- Leave the program open on your desktop when downloading music
Finding and Downloading Songs
- Now that you’re ready to download torrents, it’s time to start looking for them on the Web
- Some sites have been set up to trap users looking for torrents
- TorrentSpy has been ordered to track and log all of its visitor activity
- Visit The Pirate Bay, the largest and most trusted torrent “tracker”
- Click on “Browse Torrents”
- Click on “Audio”
- You will now see a list of the most recently updated torrents in Pirate Bay’s system
- The column marked “Size” indicates the size of the file
- The column marked “SE” indicates the number of users currently “seeding” this file
- To download, click the name of the file you wish to access
- You will see an information page giving a quick rundown about the file
- Click “Download This Torrent”
- Your Bit-Torrent client will pop up on screen and begin the download
- Most clients include a “% Downloaded” so you can watch your file’s progress
- Once your download is complete, it is considered polite to continue to “seed” the file for other users
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