SXSW Tunes

The SXSW Music Sampler BitTorrent! I'm not sure if it a good or a bad thing that it is 2.63 gigs. No, it can never be a bad thing to receive for free 2.63 gigs worth of music. The unfortunate thing about the file size is that I started downloading last night and as of this morning still had 6 days worth of music to go. The nature of BitTorrent is that you get all the bits in no especial order, so you can't start listening to any particular song until the entire download is done. Additionally, the concept behind BitTorrent is that as you download material you immediately start uploading to other downloaders. If you look at the stats below, I have uploaded about 3 times what I have downloaded. Because of this, I can't run it during the day--it would take too much of the upload bandwidth (which is less than the download bandwidth) so we can use the VOIP phone. Maybe by the time SXSW is over I'll have the whole thing. I'll burn a DVD of it so you guys don't have to download it (unless you have bandwidth to burn and can run it day and night and get the whole thing before me!).