trade mp3s
May 10, 2005 10:13 AM Subscribe
Has anyone ever heard of a thing like a CD swap, but for HDDs, with the goal of sharing digitized music in extremely large quantities?
It seems kind of cumbersome when you can share digitized music in extremely large quantities over the internet...
Well, never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of hard drives speeding down the highway.
posted by koenie at 11:30 AM on May 10, 2005
Well, never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of hard drives speeding down the highway.
posted by koenie at 11:30 AM on May 10, 2005
I was considering an NYC DVD swap, or LAN party, at one point. Never heard of anything similar actually happening though.
posted by Jack Karaoke at 12:23 PM on May 10, 2005
posted by Jack Karaoke at 12:23 PM on May 10, 2005
I think a DVD swap is a better idea.
But a bunch of people congregating and forming an ad-hoc wifi network to share files with eachother sounds neat too.
posted by angry modem at 1:03 PM on May 10, 2005
But a bunch of people congregating and forming an ad-hoc wifi network to share files with eachother sounds neat too.
posted by angry modem at 1:03 PM on May 10, 2005
Response by poster: And btw, I'm thinking of a lot of music, like 100GB. DVD, even WASTE would not be as efficient as swapping HDDs.
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 1:57 PM on May 10, 2005
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 1:57 PM on May 10, 2005
See Wired article from 2002 (I remembered this Boing Boing post.) It's been going on.
posted by Zed_Lopez at 2:39 PM on May 10, 2005
posted by Zed_Lopez at 2:39 PM on May 10, 2005
Yes, it's done often. Usually between small groups where everyone knows everyone else. Because of the man, and all.
/sitting on about 5 terabytes of movies and another 3 terabytes of music
is there a metafilter waste server? should we start one?
There is, but because of the beta-ness of WASTE, it hasn't taken off like, say, a small torrent tracker might.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:14 PM on May 10, 2005
/sitting on about 5 terabytes of movies and another 3 terabytes of music
is there a metafilter waste server? should we start one?
There is, but because of the beta-ness of WASTE, it hasn't taken off like, say, a small torrent tracker might.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 4:14 PM on May 10, 2005
My uncle just sent me a computer with 200GB of MP3s. I was impressed, to say the least. :)
posted by graventy at 4:50 PM on May 10, 2005
posted by graventy at 4:50 PM on May 10, 2005
I've never done an HD swap, but i've done massive long-running rsyncs before.
posted by mosch at 6:42 PM on May 10, 2005
posted by mosch at 6:42 PM on May 10, 2005
We need to do this to augment the MeFi Mix CD swap, like right now. It would probably work best with DVD-Rs, though hard drives would be pretty cool too. Everyone's got a spare or two.
Doing it over the internet would remove the mystery and laborious preparation involved, selecting good music that you don't think other people would have. It could be structured like the pre-existing swap, with each person sending an mailer to five other people.
Maybe each person send a DVD mailer to the next person in the chain, constantly recieving and passing it on to the next person. This could keep going infinetly, and you could do it with more than just music. It would work just as well for hard drives too.
If it was done with hard drives, maybe they could be contained in USB2 or Firewire enclosures for less wear and tear.
[This is good]
posted by blasdelf at 1:21 AM on May 11, 2005
Doing it over the internet would remove the mystery and laborious preparation involved, selecting good music that you don't think other people would have. It could be structured like the pre-existing swap, with each person sending an mailer to five other people.
Maybe each person send a DVD mailer to the next person in the chain, constantly recieving and passing it on to the next person. This could keep going infinetly, and you could do it with more than just music. It would work just as well for hard drives too.
If it was done with hard drives, maybe they could be contained in USB2 or Firewire enclosures for less wear and tear.
[This is good]
posted by blasdelf at 1:21 AM on May 11, 2005
For a DVD/HDD Swap a system could be set up to track the travel of individually numbered packages so that they could be forwarded to those who had not yet recieved them.
If we want to be really bold in our efforts, such a site could catalog desciptions of the contents of the HDD/DVD do that people could sign up to be next in line. If a particular item gets popular, it could be duplicated for easier dissemination.
It might be better to keep the whole operation small though...
posted by blasdelf at 1:50 AM on May 11, 2005
If we want to be really bold in our efforts, such a site could catalog desciptions of the contents of the HDD/DVD do that people could sign up to be next in line. If a particular item gets popular, it could be duplicated for easier dissemination.
It might be better to keep the whole operation small though...
posted by blasdelf at 1:50 AM on May 11, 2005
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If you want to efficiently and securely share or access collections of files (presumably legal files) among a group of trusted people, WASTE is a great tool.
posted by agropyron at 10:44 AM on May 10, 2005