should I put a FOF-torrent site in action? (updated 02/02)

[creepah]

*BUMP*

[lordhardware]

you should start a new discussion thread now that you've decided to do it :)

[ryanpanties]

Didn't see many suggestions for categories and such.... people have a point when they say torrents are not an especially logical format for small single-song files. At the same time, I can't imagine how a site would be hurt if i wanted to post and seed a single song I made.... hurray categories!!! Limiting single song chart uploads to original chart author in the site rules might help keep things organized as well.

-Single Custom Songs
-Song Packs (by artist/band)
-Song Packs (by genre)
-Song Packs (by author/fretter)
-Song Packs (by country)
-Complete Albums
-Complete Discographies
-Custom Tier Sets

...and if you're going the GH/RB route, of course spots for those as well.

You'd also ideally want the ability to tag a torrent by instruments included, and sort the torrent list by that.... guitar, bass, drums, lead, rhythm, keyboard, etc, as well as the ability to tag genres and difficulties and chart editor/authoring software onto a post in the same sense. (Didn't necessarily word that perfectly, but I hope you get my drift.)

I think what people are missing in the tracker list format is the possibility to demand song details and info on upload that will make searching for your ideal game songs a breeze compared to a keyword search of the forums. (Not that i don't love it here, hehe)

Many torrent sites adopt a policy demanding staff approval by account (uploader status), rather than by upload..... this would allow for quality control of a sort, yet avoid the need for staff to play and rate mass amounts of songs, also removing the delay between posting and availability that approval on a per upload basis would cause.

I really liked the song.ini.orginal concept, if somebody could come up with a batch file (not that it's not just a copy/paste/rename anyway).... unless somebody wants to jump in this thread trolling about the huge size of storing double ini files..... ...I always hate to see a torrent site continue to support rar/zips, because nobody has the harddrive space to double everything forever. As long the original poster didn't include the song.ini file in their post (instead including the song.ini.original file) this would all stay pretty simple. Or, as someone else said, ini's are tiny and the text could just be copy/pasted out of the torrent description. Even if some peers only continue to seed mid and ogg, surely some peers will not have deleted the mid.original yet, and the swarm will still have that file.

Organized request section allowing for "second-ing" to bump requests. (I know somebody made a great one that's stickied in Tune Posting, just wish it was incorporated into a equally organized tracker.)

Last thing I would recommend is a rating system attached to comments.... stars or something. Shouldn't be hard, lots of trackers include this feature. Maybe two ratings per torrent? 1) Song Selection/Taste 2) chart accuracy

I definitely support this idea. If there's anything I can do to help count me in.

[lordhardware]

:) what he said... just remember NO ARCHIVED TORRENTS!... thats what mediafire is for...


EDIT. i will moderate for you

[ram156]

artist packs would be good, as well as career packs, like GHII or PuppetzHero
Single Songs only if its like, 6ames 30min mixed guitar solos xD
but you could put all of them in a pack anyways. =p

[Azzco]

How about DLC like packs, 3 songs in each pack minimum?

[MarvinPA]

Actually. Come to think of it, I would use this. Especially as I had to download the RB2 Megapack seperatly. :/

[lordhardware]

exactly :)