The Shifting Language is now available in a lossless format, as FLAC files, from the Internet Archive. The package also includes album artwork in a lossless format, as PNG files, as well as midi files, notation, tablature and more…

The Shifting Language (lossless)

Now, there is no reason to be afraid. I do not know what it is, but for some reason, the mere thought of a SLR camera sends many potential buyers into the camera madness. Even sophisticated computer tech-geek in the crowd begins to break a sweat and all nervous to take pictures with a SLR. Perhaps they had recovered a bad experience with an SLR camera as a child and never really far away. It 'really hard to say why. But what I know is that the SLRCameras today are not the same lens reflex, like a small child would panic of a generation ago.

E 'surprisingly easy work of SLR camera. I do not know why people no longer the owner of this book. In fact, if you had a digital camera over the past decade, chances are very good that your better equipped to deal with the proper functioning of a digital SLR. The gap between compact cameras and SLRs decreased in recent years, although on fronts years. FirstMany people do not realize the price. You can easily play SLR for about $ 500 currently. This is more or less the same price you pay for top compact cameras.

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I’ve been converting all my CDs to Apple Lossless audio files. To do this, I’ve been using EAC and iTunes encode, which have been working wonderfully good up to now.

At first, EAC was a bit daunting and somewhat difficult to use, but after a few days of experimenting with it, trying out different settings, different rips, reading some online guides and forums, I think I’ve found the “sweet spot” that works for me. The only thing I wish it was able to do is: include a field for “Album Artist”, another field for Disc Number, and finally, Album Art. But then again, nothing is perfect, and I value more the quality, accuracy and control of my rips instead of these minor details which I can control later.
I started using EAC to rip directly to WAV, since there was no built-in Apple Lossless audio codec, and I really wanted to use this to be compatible with iTunes, iPhone, and my future Apple TV (if I ever get one).

After reading some blogs online, I was glad to have found iTunesEncode. This little program allows the conversion of WAV to Apple Lossless audio files using EAC + iTunes. The combination really did it for me, and now that I look back, I have NO IDEA how long (much longer than I would have desired) it would have taken me to convert those WAV files to Apple Lossless using iTunes, then adding the tags manually.

In a nutshell, the way it works is this: Configure EAC to your desired and recommended settings by many online guides and forums, use iTunesEncode as the “External Compressor”, add the iTunesEncode options (switches), and voila. After a few minutes (depends on rip quality, disc condition, etc), you’ll have a perfectly ripped copy of your CD in Apple Lossless format! All it takes from here is adding the newly-ripped media to iTunes, getting the Album Art from the iTunes Store or anywhere else on the web, adding a disc number, album artist and DONE! The CD went from physical form to a perfectly ripped audio file, fully tagged and in my iTunes library.

I could have easily taken the CD out of its case, popped it in my computer’s CD-ROM drive, fired up iTunes and encoded away to get the “same results”, but instead, I chose the approach mentioned here. I quote the phrase same results because in the end, I’d end up having Apple Lossless audio files, but no way of really knowing (other than listening to each individual track) of its rip quality. Some CDs, no matter how much you take care of them – will develop surface scratches, or if you buy some of them used like me, although they are in “like new” or “very good” conditions, sometimes they may still have a few scratch or two, which may or may not affect playability. This happened to me when I originally ripped my CDs with iTunes a few years ago in 128 kbps; some songs had skips, some obvious, others not so – but it was, indeed, a flawed rip.

I use iTunes to store all my music, and rarely (if EVER) use the original CD after I’ve transferred it to my computer, but I still must have the physical copy somewhere. As I read in a blog somewhere – the physical copy is like my “license”, my “backup”, my “rights” to the music, plus I have access to liner notes (not that I ever read them more than once…)

In the near future, I will post the EAC guide that I’ve been using, as well as other details regarding this project.

Well, thanks to a certain bigwig, I got off of my duff to make a mix CD for his round robin dealio.  No major theme this time like prior mixes… the only rule I placed before myself was that everything is current (i.e.- released in 2009).

{If you aren’t part of the round robin and want a CD, contact me.  If you’re local, even better. I’ll get ‘em out around Thanksgiving.}

The following songs were put on the mix CD from lossless sources for promotional purposes only (read: free direct market advertising to people who decidedly love music).  Most of the artists on this compilation are independent (put out the music themselves) or signed to smaller, independent labels.  If you like what you hear, check out their music / support them with your wallet if you are able.  The artists’ Webpage, MyFace & Spacebook (whether official or not), and Amazon links are available for each song below.  I’ve also included concert review links if I’ve seen the artist recently.

PDF front liner is available HERE (designed to print double-sided).

UPDATE (12/18): free download / bonus track #18 below

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01 Nellie McKay “Do Do Do” from Normal As Blueberry Pie: A Tribute to Doris Day
Well, the person who got this round robin going (Brad) was a direct influence in me getting into Nellie McKay back when Get Away From Me came out.  I’ve been a fan ever since.  I think GAFM is my favorite of hers, but she’s still quite consistently entertaining to me.  Her latest album is a tribute to the late great Doris Day.  It’s missing some of Nellie’s sly wit, but is definitely fitting in her “I wish I was born in another era” wishes.  The album art is 135% fitting for Nellie, too.  Perfect choice!

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02 John Zorn “Miller’s Crake” from O’o
I could have put on some more skwoky Zorn, but I opted for a more accessible number.  John Zorn is prolific, but this was actually a slow year – I only count six Zorn-related releases.  O’o is twelve lyrical and adventurous instrumentals combining world music, surf, exotica, soundtracks, easy listening, and minimalism dedicated to twelve different birds (Chippy’s artwork is amazing).  “Miller’s Crake” is a delightful Guaraldi-esque jaunt from the band that came out of the Electric Masada / The Gift / The Dreamers sessions: Marc Ribot, Jamie Saft, Kenny Wollesen, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron, and Cyro Baptista.

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03 Extra Golden “Gimakiny Akia” from Thank You Very Quickly Vol 3
I was planning on going to Eugene Celebration anyway, but I got a call from a friend who suggested that we meet and definitely go to see Extra Golden.  Um, OK, sure.  Then I saw them, and wow… fuuuuun.  I love African music, but sometimes it’s gets all too similar unless you do something fun (a la Fela Kuti, Antibalas, etc).  Well, Extra Golden are half Kenyan and half American (which I guess is the “something fun” part?  I don’t know).  They fuse some great jam-rock with Kenyan beats* and singing… great stuff.  Fantastic live show, too. *-Though, coincidentally, not so much Kenyan beats on this track.  Yeah, sorry.

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04 Ember Swift “Hollowed Bones 空骨” from Lentic :: 子玉
Ember Swift (yes, her real name) is finally starting to head in a new direction.  I mean, I dig her a lot, but her past albums have been slightly derivative of Ani DiFranco (with maybe a little more adventurism).  She’s from Canada, but has spent time living in China recently.  In fact, I think she’s still living there (don’t quote me on that)… that culture has definitely had an impact on her music.

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05 Works Progress Administration / Glen Phillips “Rise Up” from Works Progress Administration
This song first showed up on the Concert to End Slavery compilation as a Glen Phillips solo song.  It’s my favorite from WPA, but it’s not very representative of the album.  The album is more folky / americana via the heavy influence of Sean & Sara Watkins from Nickelcreek and Luke Bulla (from Lyle Lovett’s band).

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06 Madeleine Peyroux “Damn the Circumstances” from Bare Bones
I am usually not a fan of vocal jazz… it’s usually too full of schlock, if you ask me.  Well, Madeleine’s smoky voice overrides that generalism for me.  She’s a fantastic vocalist, a throwback to the golden era of jazz vocalists.  This album is her first of non-covers.  All original, either written solo or co-written, Bare Bones moves her from a “fantastic standards” singer to bringing vocal jazz back into fresh territory.

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07 dredg “Gathering Pebbles” from The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
dredg is one of my favorite bands now.  2005’s Catch Without Arms floored me, and I was eagerly awaiting the follow-up.  It took too long (4 years), but it was well worth it.  The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion is by far my favorite album this year.  It was inspired by Salmon Rushdie’s essay “Imagine There’s No Heaven: A Letter to the Sixth Billionth Citizen.”  In fact, this past fall, dredg and Salmon did a joint show that was captured by Spin magazine.

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08 Porcupine Tree “Flicker” from The Incident
The best progressive rock band around, Porcupine Tree’s The Incident is a 55-minute epic concept album/song.  “Flicker” is actually a session b-side from the 2nd disc from the collection.  I got a chance to see Porcupine Tree this September, and Steven Wilson & Co delivered the impeccable studio sound to the stage.  It’s almost magic.

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09 O.S.I. “Terminal” from Blood
I really like this 3rd record by O.S.I. (formerly know as the Office of Strategic Influence).  O.S.I. is a joint collaboration of Chroma Key’s Kevin Moore and Fates Warning’s Jim Matheos.  Most of Blood is heavier progressive rock, but I tend to like the more Chroma Key-esque tracks like “Terminal.”  The album has guests Gavin Harrison (of Porcupine Tree) on drums, Mikael Åkerfeldt (of Opeth) on vocals for one track, and Tim Bowness (or No-Man) on vocals for one track as well. The 2nd disc also features a Kevin Moore-sung, rockin’ tribute to Elliott Smith (“Christian Brothers”).

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10 900X “The Black Beach” from Library Catalog Music Series: Music For Lubbock, 1980
Sufjan Steven’s label Asthmatic Kitty is really becoming a favorite.  They host music by Sufjan, My Brightest Diamond, Fol Chen, Osso, and now the excellent experimentation from the various Library Catalog Music Series artists.  The 900X release is my favorite of the six releases so far.  I received the high quality mp3s from the record label for free, and I loved it so much that I bought it on vinyl.

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11 Chali 2Na featuring Talib Kweli “Lock Sh*t Down” from Fish Outta Water
I’m still sad that Jurassic 5 broke up, but now we get albums from Portable Payback (Marc7 & Soup), Cut Chemist, DJ Nu Mark, Akil the MC, and, of course, Chali 2Na (my favorite from the group).  Chali’s got that deep booming voice that makes you pay attention.  This song’s lyrics (and video) are kinda cheesy, IMO, but it still features some nice flow from the “lyrical manphibian.”

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12 Peter Mulvey “Vlad the Astrophysicist” from Letters From a Flying Machine
Storytelling has always been a fantastic part of Peter’s live shows.  Nine years ago, when his first niece was born, Peter got into the habit of writing physical letters to his nieces and nephews (now 17 kids in total).  This album is interspersed with spoken word letters and new music.  I think it’s his strongest album since 2000’s The Trouble With Poets.  I like a lot of different music, but with that being said, I think Peter is by far my favorite singer-songwriter.  Support indie music!

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13 David Bazan “Curse Your Branches” from Curse Your Branches
I wanted to put on “Hard to Be,” but due to space limitations, I went for a shorter song.  This is David’s first full-length solo album since disbanding the indie rock band Pedro the Lion.  PTL was really David’s thing anyway; so him disbanding the band isn’t that big of a deal, if you ask me.  This album also marks his first decided move away from the “religious guy” things into the “heavily agnostic thing” (kudos to him, from me at least).  This album is peppered with his thoughts and doubts of his religious upbringing – even moreso than in his prior Pedro days.  It very well called a “breakup letter to God” by some.

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14 John Zorn “Novato” from Alhambra Love Songs
Alhambra Love Songs is a set of 11 songs that are an eclectic homage to San Francisco Bay area musicians.  This particular song is dedicated to Mike Patton (and, no, that’s not why I picked it).  The album is played by pianist Rob Burger, bassist Greg Cohen, and drummer Ben Perowsky – and also falls into the “more accessible” John Zorn camp.

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15 Wussy “Little Paper Birds” from Wussy
This little band that could from Cincinnati is getting some good buzz in major publications (I know Spin has featured them several times).  I went to college with their female lead singer, Lisa Walker, and remember when she did a more folky thing.  I think Wussy’s sound suits her well (and vice versa).  Anyway, this is their third record, and features some great songs from both Lisa and Ass Ponys’ Chuck Cleaver.

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16 The Dead Kenny G’s “Birther Blues” from Bewildered Herd
Prior to moving to the PacNW, I had heard of saxophonist Skerik via John Zorn and other avant-garde connections.  I never got to hear him until I moved here and saw him at Sam Bond’s.  He seems to be down here in Eugene every other month or so, in different band incarnations.  The Dead Kenny G’s features Skerik on tenor sax & pianos, Mike Dillon on drums (who I recently saw drum with Ani DiFranco), and Brad Houser on bass & baritone sax.

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17 Ikue Mori “Redeye Skimmer” from Class Insecta
Ikue Mori is an interesting instrumentalist.  She mostly utilizes a laptop, and I saw her play live with Ellery Eskelin & Jim Black in NYC in 2007 and was wowed by the improvisational nature of her craft.  Most of her albums are more avant-garde.  She has one album that I’d consider to be much more accessible (1995’s Painted Desert on Japan’s DIY/Avant label).  Class Insecta is also more accessible than most of her work.  I suppose if you like well composed, electronic music dedicated to insect species, it’s for you!

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18 Derek Webb “What Matters More” from Stockholm Syndrome
(bonus mp3) DOWNLOAD it >> http://www.derekwebb.com/387/WMM.zip
Stockholm Syndrome is an album that I’m bummed I didn’t get fit on the CD version of this compilation.  It’s going to place fairly well in my year-end “Best of 2009″ list.  I think it’s the best thing Derek’s ever done, including Caedmon’s Call and prior solo work.  It has a great overall vibe, and a message that I can agree with, even though I don’t agree with his religious philosophy.  This song, while not the best on the album (IMO), has a great lyric and pro-gay marriage position and was actually banned by his independent Christian label (INO Records).  He subsequently released an “uncensored” version of the album, and now has the song available for free on his site.

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Let me know what you think…

unfortunately missing (due to space or flow limitations, or that I simply didn’t get them in the mail yet): pop from Regina Spektor, Zero 7 & the Swell Season; jazz from Dave Douglas’ Brass Ecstasy and A Single Sky, Masada Quintet + Lovano, and The Fantastic Terrific Munkle; comedy from Flight of the Conchords; and some metal Ahleuchatistas, Megadeth, Isis, Dream Theater, Puscifer, Tides From Nebula & Alice in Chains.  Oh well, those may make it on my “favorite albums” of 2009 list.

~Dan – np: Puscifer – C is For…

there are no torrents, free mp3 or other downloads available

If you’re an audiophile, and I am, you need a good CD to MP3 Ripper as much as you need a great amplifier or speakers. Maybe more… You see, if you don’t get a perfect lossless quality rip from your CD’s, you are just listening to digital junk. And maybe you aren’t needing quite the lossless rip I require (meaning you would sacrifice some audio clarity for lots of file size reduction), but you still don’t want to hand your CD ripping job to any software other than a pro… And that is what FreeRIP CD to MP3 Converter is the granddaddy of doing.

FreeRip has been around for over a decade. Every six months or so it gets its regular update and gets better like clockwork each time. It is one of the most downloaded applications of all time – and it does one thing very well: It will rip your CD’s into most any digital format you like (MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis or Flac). As of this writing, I have over 44,000 songs on nearly 3 terabytes of hard drive space and I don’t download my music – it is all purchased so that I get a perfect recording. And iTunes doesn’t rip my cd’s into a FLAC format (which you kind of need) – so my digitally inspired world is heavily dependent on FreeRip’s simple masterpiece. It’s easy, powerful and I love it almost as much as my Brick (which delivers those sweet digital sounds into a my McIntosh amp… (I just turned up the volume…)

I have some really HQ rips of the CD for you all! They’re all in 320 kbps, but I also originally ripped them in lossless format! Please enjoy~

1.) SCANDAL BABY
2.) Shojo S
3.) DOLL
4.) Koi Moyou
5.) Yumemiru Tsubasa
6.) Anata ga Mawaru
7.) Space Ranger
8.) Ring!Ring!Ring!
9.) Maboroshi Night
10.) Kimi to Yoru to Namida
11.) Hitotsu Dake
12.) SAKURA Good-bye
13.) Kagerou -album mix-

Entire album – Mediafire [password: scandalousdl]
Entire album – Megaupload

Now for something different. Apparently this was given as a gift to those who bought the first copies of Scarlet Weather Rhapsody from toranoana. This is a 2 track CD with what I think are some of the best touhou arranges I’ve ever listened to. It’s also the last CD I got from Godspeed… fucking Godspeed… Vorbis and FLAC versions for this one because you want them. And no, I won’t start uploading lossless versions of everything, just of very few, very good and very small CDs.

[水音] (2008) ViViX – 東方緋想天とらのあな初回購入特典CD (Vorbis)
http://www.mediafire.com/?jrzmdhkirdy
[水音] (2008) ViViX – 東方緋想天とらのあな初回購入特典CD (FLAC)
http://www.mediafire.com/?mmmn0jotym1

Track list:
01 Godspeed – Wild Moon
02 Godspeed – Rage

On another note, I also added a lossless version for EASTERN CROSS’s 2 track CD. You may notice a very small difference between the tags of the FLAC and Vorbis versions. I make undocumented changes to the tags with some frequency, so some of the things I have uploaded are outdated already, but I will only reupload them in case I absolutely need to. If I ever batch my releases, however, they will have been already archived and with the latest tag schemes.

Ok, just one more.

Now, this. THIS was a hell of a finding this Comiket. Fucking ass kicking Jpoprockanison thing, way better than so much of the shit in the commercial territory of Jpoprockanison, and it was released in the doujin market!! Cheers to the dudes who put this on the internet. Man, even their website is fucking awesome, it has an english and runewords version.

[水音] (2009-08-15) (C76) EASTERN CROSS – ？ (Vorbis)
http://www.mediafire.com/?rymgymvdytj
[水音] (2009-08-15) (C76) EASTERN CROSS – ？ (FLAC)
http://www.mediafire.com/?tdnqnmzlyua

Track list:
01 EASTERN CROSS – 赤いリボンの女神様
02 EASTERN CROSS – それも嫌なら…

Ciertamente, la progresiva digitalización musical ha acarreado innumerables ventajas aunque no estoy muy seguro de que las discográficas piensen lo mismo. El formato MP3 se ha consolidado como líder de este revolucionario movimiento que nace unido a la popularización de Internet. Todos conocemos las virtudes de este formato, todos somos usuarios habituales del mismo, por ello considero que las alabanzas no tienen cabida en esta entrada donde intentaré, más bien, explicar sus defectos.

Al ser un formato de audio comprimido, irremediablemente conlleva pérdida. Esto es un hecho. El oído humano no percibe la compresión realizada mediante la eliminación de ciertas frecuencias. No obstante, simplemente hay que escuchar algunos temas en MP3 y después en CD para comprobar las diferencias latentes.

Existe mucha literatura cibernética sobre la fatiga auditiva que produce escuchar MP3 durante mucho tiempo. En mi caso, no sé si debería llamarse fatiga o simplemente saturación. El MP3 suena plano, monótono.  No es comparable a un CD, menos a un vinilo. Y es que el disco vinilo no solo alimenta tópicos románticos; sus ventas no paran de crecer.

Podría decirse que la evolución de los formatos de audio está conllevando una pérdida sistémica de la calidad sonora sino fuera por los emergentes formatos sin pérdida -Lossless- . En internet podemos encontrar bastante discografía subida en este tipo de formatos, entre los que destaco FLAC.

En cualquier caso,  pese a que se está evolucionando el modelo de compresión de formatos con pérdida -para conseguir la máxima fidelidad posible al original-, mucha de la música que nos descargamos de la red y  acostumbrados a escuchar, adolece de una rebaja en su calidad sonora con respecto a los formatos usados hasta ahora.

Till date 9 versions have came of the so called Apple Audio Player, “iTunes”, and not a single version has supported any other formats than its own, except MP3 and WAV, but they have thein own reasons for this.

MP3: When iTunes launched it was not well-known, well-followed and well appreciated, but Apple forced Users to use it because of it was the only Aplication to support iPod. But still, before the iPod launch MP3 was successful to create its mark on Portable Music Listeners and if Apple was unable to add support for this format, people would have founded it useless, and full of crap. That was a nice game Apple Played giving support for Mp3.

WAV: Support for this format was added just because it was and it is the most basic format, without any Audio Compression, and it was developed by Apple, and the last reason would be Apple was well-known of the fact that giving support for this format wouldn’t cost any loss to it.

Apple is not adding support of any other Audio Codec just beacause Steve Jobs thinks that their formats AAC, AAC Plus and Apple Lossless will loose market shares, users, appreciators, reputation. Not giving support to any other lossless format is considerable as they know their machine better than anyone else, and they have made something that their machine completely supports in any condition and gives the best playback and performance. Adding support for any other lossless(not lossy), format would cost them more labour and surely then come more issues. So, Apple is keeping it simple and powerful.

But still Apple supports or not supports(i dun know wat to say?!?) WMA Lossless and WMA’s. Whenever a user tries to add a WMA to iTunes, it automatically converts it to its own predefined formats. An example of healthy competition with Microsoft. But when it comes to other Lossless audio Codecs, Apple seems to back off, clearly showing that Apple just considers Microsoft as a competition and everything else just junk. Whenever you try to add something to Apple iTunes which is not WMA or M4A, the result is that, the file is not added and the most interesting part is iTunes doesn’t show an error message or File is not Compatible message, like the application doesn’t cares about anything else than M4A.

Atleast Apple could’ve treated other audio files as it treats WMA Lossless, and it would’ve gained more appreciators, users, market share. It would’ve been a more healthy competition with other formats, giving them some respect, which they are really worth of and it would be more easy for users to migrate from one format to the other.

Maybe Apple will do something like this in the future, till then we’ll love to keep our tounges sticked to other classy formats.

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Sí amigos HDcity abre sus puertas, y está en semana de freelech, ¿que mejor momento para entrar que AHORA?

podeis acceder desde aqui:
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Bien para que no sepan de qué va este mundillo os doy uan miniexplicación, un tracker cerrado es uan comunidad de intercambio p2p (torrent el 99%) de intercambio de ficheros en los cuales hay unas estrictas normas de comportamiento para que sodos salgan beneficiados y no haya aprovechados.
¿Suena feo lo de las normas no? Bien, a favor de esto diré que este tracker en especiales muy suave y es 100% recomendado y más aún para los que están empezando.

¿Qué puedo encontrar en ese sitio?

Material proveniente de Bluerays, HDDVD´s, HDTV, y musica lossless (sin perdida de calidad), casí todo este material cuestamucho encontrarlo por internet por no decir que la gra mayoria son exclusivas del sitio.

¿Qué eso del freelech?

“descargas gratis”, explico, en los tracker privados por lo general para bajar cosas también debes compartir con lo cual se llevan 2 datos: DATOS SUBIDOS (que has compartido con los demás) y DATOS BAJADOS (que son los que te bajas) cuando hay un torrent o unos dias freelech durante el tiempo que dure puedes bajar sin que te cuente enla cantidad de datos bajados

¿Qué es eso y para que sirve?

en el tracker hay una cosa llamada RATIO = datos subidos/datos bajados, si el resultado es inferior a 0,7 se te banea automaticamente, esto no es sino un metodo de evitar que haya gente que sólo baje y no comparta, por eso con los freeclech no aumentaras los datos bajados y por lo tanto tu ratio seguira igual y no bajará

¿Y el sitio es español?

SÍ, 100% español además TODAS las peliculas deben llevar obligatoriamente el audio en español, así que tranquilo por el idioma.

¿Las normas son muy estrictas?

Hay normas, pero son muy suaves en este tracker basicamente cumplir con el ratio y no flatar el respeto a los demás users

Me interesa eso que vas contando ¿Como puedo bajar las cosas?

Sencillo hasta el 22 de agosto del 2009 hay puertas abiertas, sólo debes ir al tracker y al foro y registrate y voilá ya puedes descargar, pero ojo las noramsas si no las cumples tardaran poco en prohibirte el acceso.

Pero es que a mí ahora no me interesa, ¿puedo despues del 22 de agosto?

NO, sólo podrías si alguien te manda una invitación, cosa muy difícil sino conoces a nadie que esté dentro y tenga algo de antigüedad, las puertas abiertas sólo suelen ser 2 o 3 días a lo largo del año y su función únicamente es que “entre algo de aire freco de la calle”, ya que como he dicho son comunidades cerradas.

Tengo más duda y no me la has resuelto aquí.

Eres libre de poner un comentario preguntándome, te responderé no hagáis la picha un lío y úniros que ya vereis como disfrutais las peliculas :p

EN fin lo dicho, ¡no seáis tontos y aprovechad!

Todays world is an on line world. Those on line seek to share their experiences with others via images and videos. But this would all not be possible if it wasn’t for the data compression techniques. The reasons for this compression arise from the fact that there are transmission bandwidth limitations in place in order to give everyone fair access to the World Wide Web. Web administrators also look to cut as many costs as possible such as storage capacity in order to hold more for less.

So how do we compress data then? Well the aim is to obtain a more efficient representation of the image while preserving the essential information  contained in the data. This is done by using clever information about how we perceive our environment. In images, not all the information is needed to represent it on a computer screen. This is due to the fact that the human eye is less sensitive to fine color detail than it is to fine brightness details due to the densities of receptors in the eye. The human eye is also good at seeing small differences in brightness over large areas but not exact strengths of high frequency brightness variations. This all simply means that the eye does not see all the colors in the environment and is also more sensitive to different brightness variations. Therefore by removing duplicate and redundant information, we can compress an image or video. However audio is a little more difficult due to the fact that our ears have a far more dynamic range of sounds than the eye has to pictures.

There are two main types of compression being Lossless and Lossy. Lossless compression retains more data at the expensive to lower compression. It also offers the advantage that the image can be encoded/decoded without loss of information. Lossy on the other hand provides higher compression ratios though poorer image quality. Despite the loss of information, the lossy algorithms can encode and decode images without any “visual” difference (for the human eye) from the original image.

To compress data, there are 5 main algorithms that exist. These being Run Length Encoding, Chain Coding, Vector Quantization, Arithmetic Coding, Predictive Coding. I shall not go into how each of these work, but if any of you need an explanation, leave a comment and ill be happy to explain it to you.
In terms of compression, the choice of algorithm depends on 3 factors: compression efficiency, compression complexity and the distortion.

Image Compression
A picture is worth a thousand words. But without compression techniques, how would we display the trillions of images on the WWW today.
JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) is the most popular image compression technique designed for gray scale and full color images of natural world scenes due to the fact more data can be removed and can be either simple or progressive for web pages. JPEG uses a lossy compression technique to exploit the known limitations of the human eye as mentioned above. It allows a trade-off between quality and size. The main disadvantage of this algorithm is the fact that repeated compression and decompression results in increased degradation. Gray scale images compress less than that of color images as the human is more sensitive to the brightness variations than to hue variations. Compression ratios of up to 20 to 1 are possible. The algorithm proceeds as follows:

1. Translate the image into a suitable color
2. Group the pixel values into 8×8 blocks (experiment prove thats the best section size)
3. Apply a Discrete Cosine Transformation (DCT) – I assume you know what that is, if not drop me a comment
4. Divide each block by a separate quantization coefficient based on luminance and round the result to the nearest integer
5. Next to more encoding using either Huffman or arithmetic coding.
6. Output the image

Video Compression
MPEG (Moving Pictures Expert Group) is one of the best compression techniques for videos and draws its inspiration from JPEG. It is used to represent video and audio signals exploiting more perceptual redundancies and allows for up to 30 to 1 compression ratios however audio is less due to the fact explained above. The algorithm basically predicts the  motion from frame to frame in the temporal direction, and then uses discrete cosine transforms to organize the redundancy in the spatial directions.

1. Convert the image to YUV space
2. Apply the discrete cosine transforms (DCTs) to 8×8 blocks and use the luminance channel to predict the motion
3. Quantize the DCT coefficients
4. Encode the DCT coefficients + parameters using Huffman/arithmetic coding

There are many other compression techniques out there but I prefer to narrow it down to the mainstream techniques. For any other questions or more information related to this topic, please do not hesitate to drop us a comment.