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NAPO
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"Can somebody school me on how to use OiNK properly."


  

          

i just got an invite from a generous fellow OKP. i read the faq, but it left me with more questions than answers. i dont wanna mess up the rep of the invitee and i wanna stay a good user in the oink community, so somebody help me out.

some questions:
1. do you have to upload albums that are have not been previously uploaded?

2.do you have to upload something in the first 14 days or get kicked off?

3.how exactly do you upload. do i just take a folder, make a torrent and then kick upload? is there certain information you have to have.

aight ya'll have a nice day!!


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SEED CONSTANTLY. Do more seeding than leeching.
Oct 13th 2006
1
Yup -- uploading is overrated
Oct 13th 2006
2
make sure you have utorrent and just leave it on when you want
Oct 13th 2006
3
RE: Can somebody school me on how to use OiNK properly.
Oct 13th 2006
4
Yup -- I usually never take torrents out until they're at least 1.0
Oct 13th 2006
5
what I did........
Oct 13th 2006
6
that might have been illegal
Oct 14th 2006
15
      RE: that might have been illegal
Oct 15th 2006
22
oink is wak
Oct 13th 2006
7
No they don't.
Oct 13th 2006
8
yes it is.
Oct 14th 2006
9
and most of those sites suck.
Oct 14th 2006
12
RE: yes it is.
Oct 14th 2006
14
delete
Oct 14th 2006
20
and how many times is OiNK better than the rest?
Oct 14th 2006
11
      50% better.
Oct 14th 2006
13
           I think you mean 100% better. I mean if you want your joke to work.
Oct 16th 2006
24
look in the requests
Oct 14th 2006
10
there are other torrent sites out there NO SHARE RATIO...
Oct 14th 2006
16
do they have the same quality and broad selection as OiNK?
Oct 14th 2006
18
      sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit /nm/
Oct 14th 2006
19
           errr.. thanks?
Oct 15th 2006
21
                RE: errr.. thanks?
Oct 16th 2006
25
Most of this is in the rules section of OiNK
Oct 14th 2006
17
invite anyone? please?
Oct 16th 2006
23
okay. so i got my invite, but...
Oct 17th 2006
26
you do realize that oink *does* actually have a help forum right?
Oct 17th 2006
27
      lol
Oct 17th 2006
28
      i didn't. sorry to waste your time.
Oct 17th 2006
29
      the snark is strong in this one. n/m
Oct 17th 2006
30
      c'mon, be nice.
Oct 18th 2006
31

jetblack
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1. "SEED CONSTANTLY. Do more seeding than leeching."
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you should be seeding Justin Timberlake, Fergie and XTina.

if it's Pop.

Seed IT!

Trust.

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celery77
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Fri Oct-13-06 02:14 AM

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2. "Yup -- uploading is overrated"
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Odds are you have a few CDs in your collection that would be nice additions (well, hopefully), but for the most part build your ratio on seeding.

I have something like 10 uploads, mainly instrumental versions of albums or albums independents of discographies (which worked before they eliminated discographies) or small release stuff I got with a magazine or something. Aside from that I have 40 GBs uploaded off SEEDING. Find something popular, download the torrent, and then leave your torrent open long enough to get your ratio up.

Most of my upload has been built off albums I never even listened to, popular indie releases or pop albums that hit. Also, popular programs aren't bad, either. The Microsoft Office suite might seem daunting at 642 GBs, but I've uploaded 1.5 GBs off it in like a month now of sporadiuc use of my torrent program.

So yeah, don't sweat the uploads too much, although it's not a bad idea to take a chance on one if you see that it's not up there, the rest of the time just seed.

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Nabs
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3. "make sure you have utorrent and just leave it on when you want"
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bearfield
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Fri Oct-13-06 09:50 AM

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4. "RE: Can somebody school me on how to use OiNK properly."
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>i just got an invite from a generous fellow OKP. i read the
>faq, but it left me with more questions than answers. i dont
>wanna mess up the rep of the invitee and i wanna stay a good
>user in the oink community, so somebody help me out.
>
>some questions:
>1. do you have to upload albums that are have not been
>previously uploaded?

nope. there are a lot of duplicate uploads out there. some new releases are being uploaded 3 or 4 times by different ppl with different bitrate encodes (flac, 192, 320, etc.)

>2.do you have to upload something in the first 14 days or get
>kicked off?

again, no. it really helps when you first get on go thru the requests page. you should be able find a cd you own that someone wants. if you can rip it in .flac (http://flac.sourceforge.net/), all the better. none of that is really necessary tho. if you jump on a release that's going to be very popular soon after it's uploaded, you'll seed enough to establish a good ratio

my offer to help you out still stands. just pick a random cd you have, rip it in flac, upload it, and pm me in oink (username: bearfield) with a link to the torrent. i'll be more than happy to download it and get your ratio up. and that offer stands for any okp on oink who needs to get their ratio up

also, seed FOREVER. i don't delete torrents i've downloaded until they've seeded up to a 1.5 ratio, no matter how long it takes

>3.how exactly do you upload. do i just take a folder, make a
>torrent and then kick upload? is there certain information you
>have to have.

that's pretty much the gist of it. it depends on what you create the torrent with. check out http://jiggafellz.isa-geek.net/ for torrent creation tips

>aight ya'll have a nice day!!
>
>
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celery77
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5. "Yup -- I usually never take torrents out until they're at least 1.0"
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>also, seed FOREVER. i don't delete torrents i've downloaded
>until they've seeded up to a 1.5 ratio, no matter how long it
>takes

And I usually have 25-30 seeding in my uTorrent whenever it's open. After long enough, pretty much ALL of them end up with a good, positive ratio.

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acedro
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6. "what I did........"
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I put together a zip file that included software w/codes and the file size was about 2GB.

Took me 2 days to get a good ratio.

If you can get just one person to grab a 2GB file from you, you should be good to d/l for a while and keep a decent ratio, as long as you seed.

  

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Warp and Woof
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15. "that might have been illegal"
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they don't allow for self compiled software packages. It should either be a standalone program, or a manufacturer bundle (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite).

I don't know what your zip file contains (I don't recall if they even allow zip files instead of just folders), but you might want to check it out before someone decides to report it.


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acedro
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22. "RE: that might have been illegal"
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well, I've seen others do it which is why I decided to.

it was a while ago, so no worries.

  

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HighVoltage
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7. "oink is wak"
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they ask you to seed more than 95% of what other torrent sites ask of you.

ill stick to albumbase.

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8. "No they don't."
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Fri Oct-13-06 05:02 PM by bignick

  

          

>they ask you to seed more than 95% of what other torrent
>sites ask of you.

Keeping a 0.5 ratio is not too much to ask.

  

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HighVoltage
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9. "yes it is."
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tons of sites dont ask for ratios at all.

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Nopayne
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12. "and most of those sites suck."
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How hard is it to just keep a .5 ratio? smh


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14. "RE: yes it is."
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>tons of sites dont ask for ratios at all.

I'M STILL ON

Didn't I invite you a few times? hahahahahaahah

  

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Mr Mech
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20. "delete"
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Sat Oct-14-06 06:57 PM by Mr Mech

          

delete

Mech

  

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Steve O Tron v2
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11. "and how many times is OiNK better than the rest?"
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>they ask you to seed more than 95% of what other torrent
>sites ask of you.
>
>ill stick to albumbase.

  

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13. "50% better."
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24. "I think you mean 100% better. I mean if you want your joke to work."
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Doc Maestro
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10. "look in the requests"
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upload higher quality versions of albums already on the tracker (if there's a 192 or 224 or 256, upload a 320 Kb/s one)

if there's no lossless one, rip it in FLAC (and do it right)

search for artists you think would be popular and see what's on there or not

it helps to actually own a considerable amount of actual CDs so you can up those if they're not on the tracker already

sheeeeit

  

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jetblack
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16. "there are other torrent sites out there NO SHARE RATIO..."
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snatch the shit and roll..i'll seed for like 6 hours...i'm gone.

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18. "do they have the same quality and broad selection as OiNK?"
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if so, name a couple.


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19. "sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit /nm/"
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21. "errr.. thanks?"
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Apparently I'm missing something here.


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25. "RE: errr.. thanks?"
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>Apparently I'm missing something here.

meet jetblack, master of unrepliable posting. ha

absence, Al_Tru_Ist, BreezeBoogie, dank_reggae, Drewmathic, Ir_Cuba, jacksonwonderland, LBs Finest, LML, LVing, MIAthinker, Robert, Roofdogg10, Sandbox194, Supnakga, thafuture, wonderl33t

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Warp and Woof
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17. "Most of this is in the rules section of OiNK"
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>i just got an invite from a generous fellow OKP. i read the
>faq, but it left me with more questions than answers. i dont
>wanna mess up the rep of the invitee and i wanna stay a good
>user in the oink community, so somebody help me out.

Be sure to read the rules ( http://oink.me.uk/rules.php ), as well as to check some of the tutorial section posts in the OiNK forums. Which is a very helpful place by the way, faster than Okp in most cases, and definately more accurate on the answers.


>some questions:
>1. do you have to upload albums that are have not been
>previously uploaded?

You can only upload an album if it has a higher bitrate than the available copy, or if it is in a different format.


>2.do you have to upload something in the first 14 days or get
>kicked off?

As far as I know, you only have to maintain their minimum ratio.


>3.how exactly do you upload. do i just take a folder, make a
>torrent and then kick upload? is there certain information you
>have to have.

This link is all over OiNK: http://jiggafellz.isa-geek.net/bt/

>aight ya'll have a nice day!!

You too.


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23. "invite anyone? please?"
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now that i understand how this works. i can get with it.

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26. "okay. so i got my invite, but..."
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i use a mac. i used to use transmission, but since it doesn't work with oink, i got bittorrent. at first i tried azureus, but that made absolutely no sense to me, so i went with bittorrent. unfortunately, now i can download, but not seed. i know it's not a problem with bittorrent, since i can seed torrents from other sites. is there something special i have to do to seed torrents from oink? i'm really not trying to eff up this person who sent me the invite. is my only option to upload?

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/whitenotion/
http://www.myspace.com/flowtron
http://mynameisshaun.blogspot.com

  

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27. "you do realize that oink *does* actually have a help forum right?"
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<--- *licks lips*

i've got a fetish for tall men and deep voices.

  

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28. "lol"
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stop ma, don't hurt'em
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29. "i didn't. sorry to waste your time."
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http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/whitenotion/
http://www.myspace.com/flowtron
http://mynameisshaun.blogspot.com

  

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30. "the snark is strong in this one. n/m"
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31. "c'mon, be nice."
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just a particular era that happened at the same time as
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