I've got stuff that I'd like to share with everyone but I've never created a file sharing account and posted links.

Any pieces of advice for a n00b? Naming conventions, etc?

Thanks,
Chris

Helmet, knee pads & a cup.

I've got stuff that I'd like to share with everyone but I've never created a file sharing account and posted links.

Any pieces of advice for a n00b? Naming conventions, etc?

Thanks,
Chris

I've found that 4shared is good. It gives you a good amount of space for free, and has a drag and drop interface for uploading. On the other hand, stay away from Sendspace unless you want to annoy people. They have excruciatingly slow download speeds. Though only sometimes. Sometimes they let you DL at a proper speed. But I find that pretty much everyone else offers a proper speed all the time.

As for naming conventions, it looks like composer's name and title of work is preferred around here.

Oops.

I'm relatively new myself, but here's what I've been doing. If you're using Winrar, make sure to set a password and have "encrypt file names" checked. I usually use the CDs catalog # as the archive's name, but if it doesn't have one then I'll just use the title's acronym. For the file hosting site I've been using Mega (https://mega.co.nz/). Files can die quickly there sometimes, however. Only other site I've used is Mediafire, but they don't allow split archives anymore and they have a 200mb limit. There's a workaround to this by linking your folder or something, but I'm not sure how to do that. Best of luck!

Thanks for the info.. I don't quite the "Helmet kneepads and cup" thing but.... ok.

Why the thoughts on password protection on rar files?

Also - I'm not sure if what I have may be dupes on here but then again with so many old posts with dead links to sites that are no more.... (quandary here)

I've made a tree dir listing of my music directory and output it to a txt file. I'm removing non-soundtrack stuff from the list (yes... that means I won't be posting my listing of Rod McKuen records) so not to bog things down.

Thinking that I might just post a list of what I have and then let others ask for items they want me to post then I'll create a new thread with the title and links for it.

Thoughts on my thoughts?

4shared

anyone wanting to download will need to create a free account and sign in.

ZippyShare, Dropbox, mega.co.nz are popular.

Why the thoughts on password protection on rar files?

Also - I'm not sure if what I have may be dupes on here but then again with so many old posts with dead links to sites that are no more.... (quandary here)

I've made a tree dir listing of my music directory and output it to a txt file. I'm removing non-soundtrack stuff from the list (yes... that means I won't be posting my listing of Rod McKuen records) so not to bog things down.

Thinking that I might just post a list of what I have and then let others ask for items they want me to post then I'll create a new thread with the title and links for it.

Thoughts on my thoughts?

People don't care about dupes. It's extra links, since links can go down easily.
Expect a lot of comments about "this has been floating around SINCE I WAS BORN!" crap.

Lots here post a thread of their own and let people pick and choose requests.
though a lot of the popular threads of old are unmaintained now. The owners have vanished from Shrine.

You password protect your archives because some of the uploading sites might temporarily download/extract or view inside the archives and find out you uploaded pirated content and block/delete the files and/or your account.

Also name your arhives with obscure names.
Example: "Danny Elfman - Oz The Great And Powerful MP3 320" to "3deO_gp20.rar"
Using their real names is a dead giveaway of pirated content and more likely to have your links disabled.

Also throw in a simple text file with the track names and artist or whatever.
The small file size difference will make it different than any other upload of the same.
Sites can do CRC checksum scans and compare your results to a database of known copyrighted-infringed material.
Example: If you upload "Danny Elfman - Oz The Great And Powerful MP3 320" with just the tracks and nothing else, someone else might have uploaded it exactly the same as you with just the tracks and nothing else. And they could have been caught and links disabled. Their uploaded content's file size values, CRC checksum values, file name, etc are collected into a database and if you match the criteria, you get scrutinized.


Also, don't code your links either.
People who don't have an account with Shrine can find your links via google search, show up, and download without registering/signing-in.
So anyone working for any sort of Anti-Piracy, DMC, Copyright offices, etc can easily follow your link and determine that the content is indeed pirated and take actions to disable your links.
Instead use a website service that disables the link referrals.
If you post a link on this forum, whoever clicks it, the destination site will know where the user came from. This site. Clicking on a link doesn't just send you to the new site, it also carries information about where the link was hosted in the first place. A site like this is notorious and gets a lot of attention/drama. So if, say, MediaFire finds out that someone clicked on a link from here to download something, it won't be long before they put 2 and 2 together and arbitrarily determine it must be pirated content.
Removing the "middle-man" kills the messenger and allows you to get the goods with minimal trace.
:smrt:
Anonym.to to anonymize your links. (http://anonym.to/?http://anonym.to/en.html)

If you're going to post pictures, upload them to a free account at a image hosting site.

Imgur
Photobucket
ImageShack
Tumblr
etc


Don't use pics that are hosted on sites like Wikipedia, Soundtrack.net, Billboards.com, etc.
Posting their pictures on this forum directly is hotlinking.
Hotlinking also provides statistical information of where the picture is viewed. If you use a picture from the official Varese Sarabande site here (and yet provide no link, due to the PM rule for VS releases), they can still get in a hissy fit due to your hotlinking and may decide to start an uproar with us once again.
Also, I believe that even something so little and simple as hotlinking is actually part of some copyright infringement, country/state/province dependent laws abide.
If you find a picture already hosted on an image hosting site, no reason to not use it. Unless the owner of the account deletes the picture or closes their own account and thus the image becomes null.
I have an account with Imgur that I use for here. It's quick and easy.

Codified your link when you post, simple thing does nobody done ( we are a Members Forum )...but anyway...password or no, codified or no...my links are on Filetube the day after !!!