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are people aware that the internet archive includes netlabels with a huge amount of free music? http://archive.org/details/netlabels (there is some decent chilean electronica at http://archive.org/details/pueblo_nuevo for example; clinical have experimental jazz http://archive.org/details/clinicalarchives (some of it is a bit freaky for me, but their collections are ok))

trying to work out if it's available via torrent now...

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Yes! A lot of the audio is available via torrent now [1].

"Decent chilean electronica" nice, but the Internet Archive has an impressive collection of live music; you can thank the Grateful Dead for letting people tape their concerts [2].

[1] http://archive.org/details/bittorrentaudio

[2] http://blog.archive.org/2012/03/27/sharing-works-100000-conc...

i'll tell my grandpa about the dead stuff, thanks. meanwhile, how can you tell if a particular track is on a torrent? or how can you to search for files on torrents?

ah, ok, so if it's a torrent it's listed as such in the download links.

and it's the etree collection (the concerts) that seems to be what is available. you can search with "collection:etree" in the search. so "bluegrass AND collection:etree", for example.

If you were not such a good grandson I'd downvote you for making me feel old with the grandpa comment:) While you are at it make sure you thank him for being such a good music role model. I'm 32 years old, no kids or grandkids and still love listening to Jerry...

if there's something you want torrentized that's not, feel free to post here too and I can poke it.

edit: assuming it's in one of the collections we're currently testing on. (all the opensource_* ones) (etree and netlabels _should_ be all torrentized [we hope])

hi, ok, so here's an example (taken at random from the pueblo nuevo archive i linked to above) - http://archive.org/details/pn014

i don't particularly want that album (i probably already have it thanks!) but it doesn't mention a torrent that i can see (the etree files have torrent in the links). and that's the same for all netlabel files (not many) that i have checked.

in comparison, http://archive.org/details/SPBB2006-04-29 (bluegrass etree!) does have a bittorrent link (bottom right).

i don't understand your opensource_ comment, but pueblo nuevo is a netlabel. so it seems to me that etree have torrents, but netlabels do not.

(this is just in case it helps / it's likely i am confused / no criticism intended / thanks for doing all this)

But I won't thank GD for stream only soundboards:( (1) I'm glad I saved all my crispy SBDs from the glory days of bt.etree.org.

My recommendation for awesome singer/songwriter with a lot of content (SBDs) on archive.org, Danny Schmidt(2). If you live near Austin you should definitely try and see him live. When Danny was asked if it was okay to put his material on archive.org he said:

"Sure, I'm fine with your posting the recording on there. Do I need to do anything to formally give my permission -- or is this email enough?

Thanks for thinking of me -- and thanks for helping spread my music around to new ears. I really appreciate that. And thanks for the heads up about Archive.org.

All the best -- Danny"

(1) http://archive.org/about/faqs.php#245

(2) http://archive.org/details/DannySchmidt

Thanks for linking to the electronica. I've been looking for some new stuff.

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