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FAQ
If you don't find your answer here or in rules, please PM Revan or write into forum....
What are the rules here?
There are just few, you can find them all by clicking on your profile and then clicking the rules button. Or by clicking here
Can my username be changed?
Your username cannot be changed by you. However if you'd still wish to have it changed, contact one of administrators.
Is this site legal?
This site is merely a tracker. No files are hosted on this site. The tracker also has no way of checking the contents of any files which it tracks - it merely records the hash ID and the IP addresses of users connected to each particular torrent. It is your responsibility to check that the content of the files which you download is legal in your locality.
What clients do you recommend to use on this site? What clients does not work?
Recommended clients:
μtorrent
BitTorrent
Vuze
Azureus
Deluge
BitTyrant
ArcticTorrent
Transmission
BitTornado
ABC
XBT
G3 Torrent
BitRocket
BitComet
Problematic clients:
None discovered
If you haven't found your client in this list it wasn't tested. If you want try it and post into forum if it worked or not, thank you
Why is a torrent I'm leeching/seeding listed several times in my profile?
If for some reason (e.g. pc crash, or frozen client) your client exits improperly and you restart it, it will have a new peer_id, so it will show as a new torrent. The old one will never receive a "event=completed" or "event=stopped" and will be listed until some tracker timeout. Just ignore it, it will eventually go away.
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Terminology
Torrent
This refers to a small 'metadata' file can be downloaded from a web server (the one that ends in .torrent.)
Metadata here means that the file contains information about the data you want to download, not the data itself. Contained in this 'metadata' file contains is a location that tells the BitTorrent client where to go to find the tracker that manages the uploading and downloading.
It is generally a good idea to save the .torrent file to your local system. This is useful if you want to be able to re-open the torrent later on without having to download the .torrent file again.
'Torrent' can also refer to everything associated with a certain file available with BitTorrent;
E.g.someone might say "I downloaded that torrent" or "that server has a lot of torrents", meaning there are lots of files available via BitTorrent on that server.
Client
In order to download the files that are listed in the .torrent file you need a BT Client. The client uses the .torrent file to connect you to a specific tracker, which connects you to the other peers who are running the same .torrent file in their clients.
Peer
A peer is another computer on the internet that you connect to and transfer data. A peer can be a leecher or a seeder (i.e. uploading and/or downloading a torrent).
User
A user is a person controlling a computer (it can also mean someone with authorised access).
Leecher
A peer who is downloading a file but has not yet fully downloaded it.
Seeder
A peer that has a complete copy of a certain torrent and uploading it to other peers.
Reseed
When there are zero seeds for a given torrent (and not enough peers to have a complete distributed copy), then eventually all the peers will get stuck with an incomplete file. Since no one in the swarm has the missing pieces. When this happens, someone with a complete file (a seed) must connect to the swarm so that those missing pieces can be transferred. It's a great way to help out the community.
Tracker
The 'tracker' is a central server (an application run by a webmaster of a bittorrent site) which manages the downloading/uploading requests and transfers. The tracker only manages connections. It does not have any knowledge of the contents of the files being distributed. In turn this allows a large number of peers that can be supported by a single tracker with relatively small amounts of bandwidth used.
Swarm
A group of machines that are collectively connected for a particular file. For example, if you start a BitTorrent client and it tells you that you're connected to 10 peers and 3 seeds, then the swarm consists of you and those 13 other people.
Share Rating
If you are using the experimental client with the stats-patch, you will see a share rating displayed on the GUI (Graphic User Interface - the window you see on the screen) panel. This is simply the ratio of your amount uploaded divided by your amount downloaded.
What's Bittorrent?
BitTorrent is a P2P system that makes transferring of large files (or groups of files) amongst a large group of people easy, fast and efficient. The BitTorrent network is set up in a way that is not very dissimilar than a normal P2P network.
With this network you go to websites that have lists of released files and their corresponding .torrent file. You really don't do any searching from within the BT Client for files that other users may have as you would with traditional clients (i.e. Kazza).
The websites listing the torrents are called indexing sites and have become very popular. Their popularity has come at a cost however; the MPAA and law enforcement agencies are shutting them down fairly quickly.
There are no shortage of sites to go to so long as you know which are currently being used, as they come and go so quickly these days. There are sites that are dedicated to listing the torrent sites available.
The files that you get all come as a package called an archive. The information about the 'archive', like files names and sizes are stored in a .torrent file. Once you have downloaded the .torrent file, your BitTorrent client will kick in enableing you to download the files contained in the archive.
BitTorrent is a P2P system that uses a central location to manage users' downloads. The central location is a called a 'tracker' that is connected to when you download and launch a .torrent file. The tracker keeps track of all the people who have launched the same .torrent file as you and connects you to the other users for downloading and uploading.
The BitTorrent network is impressive mostly for the speed and reliability with which you get files that have been recently released. As long as a .torrent file has enough peers then you can be assured that it will start quickly and maintain a good download speed.
This is what makes browsing through recently released .torrents so much fun. Whatever catches your eye can be yours in no time. Most indexing sites have a system of listing the number of Seeders and Leechers for a particular archive.
The main difference from other P2P systems (i.e. Kazza) is that peers/users of BT(BitTorrent) upload (transmit outbound) at the same time as they are downloading (receiving inbound.)
Utilising this method of file transfer network bandwidth is efficiently used. BitTorrent is designed to work as the number of people interested in a certain file increases so does the download speed.
There advantages of using BT to other P2P systems:-
- In BT when you are downloading a file(s) you are normally connected to a large number of peers. In other P2P's you would be lucky to connect to more than 2 peers in realtion to the same file(s).
- As you are connected to many users download speeds are generally much faster than other P2P systems
- BT is secure, as when you run a torrent you are only connected to the other peers who are downloading the same file(s) as you are. In many other P2P systems you are connected to many thousands of people without the need to. Therefore BT reduces the amount of peers you are connected to, which reduces the potential for an internet intruder to your computer.
I'm shown as active/passive, what does that mean?
If you're passive it means that you aren't accepting incoming connections. Usually the reason is that your firewall is configured incorrectly. Some connection providers blocks the ports and then there's nothing you can do. If other client tries to open a BitTorrent connection to yours, your end won't answer. If two peers are both like that, they'll never manage to share with each other. If your listening port is blocked, reconfigure your firewall to accept BitTorrent connections if you can. When you don't receive incoming connections, that slows the torrent down for everybody, especially for you.
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What are torrents?
Torrents are small files (generally smaller than a few 100kb) which are opened by a torrent program such as azureus or �torrent.
These programs then use this file to locate all other users on the same torrent site with the files you are trying to download and attempts to connect to them to start downloading from them.
Using these small files puts very little strain on websites, as the main volume of data transfer is between computers, not through the site's server.
Because torrents connect to other people's computers to download the data, the download process can sometimes be very slow if the person you are downloading from has a slow internet connection.
How to upload
(1). when making your torrent, add the files you want, and in the box which says "Tracker:" enter http://gdtorrent.com/announce.php do NOT write it with WWW!!!!
build the torrent (obviously!!! lol)
(2). Put location of the .torrent file in its appropriate box on the upload page.
(3). you can type a torrent name in the box asking for it on the torrent upload page - Please the rule is that the first should be date, then place or show or bootleg name for example 1995-06-20 Garage, San Jose Secret Gig...
(4). Type up the torrent description in the box - Please keep these infos, not just name of the show! If you dont know 100% sure some things in info, let it blank:)
-stuff you need in the torrent discription:
- Location: (where it was)
- Date: (when it was)
- Lineage (if known..., e.g.: VHS(1),DVD(2),8mm,TV>VHS)
- Video info (Codec, Bitrate, Size, Format - the same like the cathegory, Aspect Ratio and FPS)***
- Audio info (Codec, Bitrate)***
- Setlist
+ videos: put few screencaps on imageshack.us or so, for better quality evidence. Put there links, it will be edited dont worry with putting thumbs and so:)
+ audios - we can ask uploader to do spectral analysis to prove that the audio is lossless..then he will put there some screencaps of it...if its lossy but rare, we will put there warning of the source..
(6). Select what category your torrent is (audio or video, relevant format, e.g. MPG,DVD,FLAC)
(7). keep everything else the same (unless you want to automaticaly add shout into shoutbox about new torrent or turn on the two last options about being emailed...)
***if you are unsure as to how to find this information there are some programs you can use:
GSpot - for windows
MPGinfo(direct download) - for mac
for playing videos and also taking screencaps, we recommend VLC player, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
and for FLAC,SHN,APE, there are winamp plugins...
if you use GSpot there is a great picture here, which explains what all of the bits mean...
if you have any problems, please pm machettaman or Revan or send mail to admin@gdtorrent.com
Getting started with torrents
All downloads at GDT use torrents, so you'll need a torrent program to download anything.
Mostly all torrent clients should work on GDT correctly, but some might not, for full list of clients tested see this.
Once installed it is recommended that the program is port-forwarded through your firewall.
Information on port-forwarding can be found at http://portforward.com/default.htm
It is also good to make sure you have all incoming and outgoing connections through your firewall for the torrent program allowed, so that the program can function properly.
Downloading and seeding
To download a torrent, you need to first download the torrent file. Once you have downloaded it, you open the file with μTorrent, which will prompt you to select where you want the data saved and other options.
Depending on how many uploaders there are on the torrent may depend on how long it will take you to download the data.
Once the torrent has finished downloading you must not delete or move any of the data you downloaded from the torrent so that you can seed (upload) it.
At GDT there is a ratio system in place. Your ratio must be over a certain limit for you to be able to download. This ratio is calculated by diving the amount you have downloaded by the amount you have uploaded.
For example, if you have downloaded 5GB, and have only uploaded 1GB, then your ratio is 0.2, which is below the ratio limit, which will mean that you wont be able to download anything else until your ratio is above the limit again.
So, it is vital that you don't delete downloaded data so you can seed to other people.
You can read more about ratio on rules page.
What formats am I allowed to upload?
Almost anything!
For audio it is preferrable that the audio is in the .flac format, but .wav's, lossless wma's are fine too.
For video a dvd folder is the best way to upload it, and the .ts format is also good for high-definition videos...
vcd's are acceptable, but if a dvd of the show is uploaded then the vcd will be deleted.
mp3's and lossy wma's etc are not acceptable unless they are rare.
also, it is not acceptable to convert a mp3 show to a lossless format such as .flac and pretend that the show is lossless.
How to upload screencaps into torrent description?
Click the third icon from right (one with the mountain) and in the new window on the panel sent choose the image to upload, then click upload to server, and on the first panel type into field URL the url you got, click ok, and that's it!
How do I resume a broken download or seed something?
Open the .torrent file. When your client asks you for a location, choose the location of the existing file(s) and it will resume/reseed the torrent.
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