Wednesday 18 March 2009

Downloading Music

This article does not condone the illegal download of music.  It is merely meant to explain how content can be downloaded using the Internet torrents.

A lot of people ask me how to download music and content from the internet so here is a simple step by step tutorial on how to do this.

Torrent Client

First and foremost the best and non visur laden method of downloading content from the Internet is to use one of the many torrent clients that are out there.  I use Utorrent and find it reliable and intuitive. You can download this from www.utorrent.com  Downalod and install.

Find Content

There are many torrent web sites out there but I usually use www.torrentz.net which searches all the torrents sites.  Go to this type in what you are looking for and it will present you with a list of links to torrent sites that have the content you are looking for.

Click on one of these links.

This will bring you to the site.  Many of these sites have unrelated links that you are not interested in.  Click on the link that says Downlaod Torrent.

Once you have done this the link should automatically open up your torrent client (Utorrent in this case).

Download

The speed of the download will depend on the number of seeds that have this content.  The more seeds (or other computers on the Internet) that have the content the faster the download will take.  It can vary between minutes and sometimes hours and also depends on the size of your download.

You can monitor the progress of your download on the client.  From time to time a downalod will fail.  If this is the case go search for another source for your files and try again.

Have fun...

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