I’ve been seeding the torrents that I download since the old days of Limewire, but I’ve always download and re-shared by seeding.
But a few months ago I couldn’t find a set of audiobooks I’d been looking for with the original narrators from the 90s.
I finally found a set on CD on eBay and coverted those to mp3 and loaded them on my phone, but it occurred to me that others might also be looking for a complete version of the series too and wanted to share that media.
Apologies if it’s an obvious answer that I somehow missed.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    282·
    1 year ago

    Depends on your client (say qbittorrent), your tracker (say 1337x) and their rules (say only tv and movie but no audio).

    Just as a heads up: Most prefer FLAC or WAV since that’s the best possible quality. MP3 can be converted from them.
    Well received are logs how close it copied the data from the source or if it has read errors (bitflips etc.).
    EAC (ExactAudioCopy) for example does it. There are others but tutorials can be searched rather easy. Make sure to adhere to the more audiophile forums for advice but don’t believe every esoteric opinion from them.
    Also private trackers usually have guides or tutorials in their wiki, faq or forums. Make sure to pay a visit.

    • WestwardWind@lemm.eeEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      The common standard for audiobooks isn’t FLAC or WAV, it’s chapter track MP3 or chapterized M4B. The vast majority of audiobooks are encoded at 64 or 128 kbps. I wish the minimum was 128kbps but that’s where the audiobooks community has been for like a decade now.

      • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been doing my research and I feel that opus should be the way to go? Can have chapters and compression is the best there is. I read that m4b keeps track of where you left… but I feel that that should not be the task of an audio file?

  • Shepy@feddit.ukEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Out of interest, what’s the series? (Didnt answer the question as the post an hour ago covers it nicely)

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      It’s the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett with original narrators (Stephen Briggs and Nigel Planer).
      Audible has been replacing them with new narrators, and they switch narrators several times every few chapters in each book. There’s still some of the originals around on audible but they’re slowly replacing them one at a time. It was difficult to find a complete collection and all in good quality from torrent sites before.
      I’ve ripped them directly from the CDs so it’s (mostly) great quality with the exception of a few that were converted from older tapes. And all the extras like the science of discworld books and a collection of short stories by Pratchett too.

  • interceder270@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    It’s a wonderful little exercise. Try creating the torrent then downloading it with your phone with LibreTorrent.