found a way to find files with valid sources

Ann Street · #1 (**permalink**) January 26th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bert5412

ok just a minute a go i was seaching for somehting, many files came up claiming to have sources in the double and even triple digits. when i went to download these, many of them said "need more sources" but one of them was actually downloading, when i looked at the difference between these files i found that with the files i was able to download i was also able to browse host. I coulnd do this with any of the files that needed more sources. when i searched it again i found that this trick also works before you start the download. This way you can eliminate all the files that need more sources.

SO my advise is: if you can browse the host then there is high chance of finding valid sources.

great tip, one that i have used many times, however there are a lot of clients who state that we can chat or browse, unfortunately the message alert says cannot browse! perhaps it would help all users if clients would update their profiles if they do not want their files to be browsed.

birdy · #2 (**permalink**) January 26th, 2007

Browse host isn't reliable at all. You might be unable to browse a host then 10 minutes later the same host can be browsed. You may see 30 files when browsing a host, 10 minutes later you can see 100 files from that same host.
You have more chance of being able to browse hosts who have chat enabled, but even then it's very random as to who can & can't be browsed.
Users who are firewalled are very hard to browse.

There's no option to enable/disable browsing.

vicarious · #3 (**permalink**) January 29th, 2007

sup y'all (note the gangster/redneck accent...)
I hate bumping... but I got a good technique....
I've done this various times.. (yet I never realized it..)

Put your cursor over the file...
A good file should read... (As follows)

Quote:

File Name
Title: .....
Artist: .....
Album: .....
Genre: .....
Length: .....
Bitrate: .....

~~ Example~~ [for educational purposes...]

A song - Vicarious
Title: A song
Artist: vicarious
Album: I kick-***
Genre: nu metal
Length: 4:00
Bitrate: 128
========

Something like that... I do this all the time.. I just now realized it works... most of the time....
Note: Look for the length

Many fake files don't have length... try it out...

sticky this airhead...

birdy · #4 (**permalink**) January 30th, 2007

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Originally Posted by vicarious

sticky this airhead...

Erm...are you talking to me?

Some fakes don't have length showing within extended tooltips & some have the length that you'd expect. Some fakes have zero as track number. Some have TRACK1, sometimes you have a run of files with identical tooltips info - starting from the file with 100 sources down to the file with 5 sources. And sometimes the info looks just as you'd expect from a legit file. There's no one thing that stands out...people should stay away from anything that looks remotely strange.

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