Our Next Primary File Storage Service

Kookaboo
The download speed of the most commercial file hosting sites is too lame for free users: it varies from 20 to max. 70 kb/s!!! That is just harassment.

It's just business. They cap the free speed to make more ppl wanna buy premium. And if all their traffic would move to others like PL or ZS they would eventually have to do the same thing. AFAIK this happened to all popular hosters, except for MU, but then again that didn't turn out so well.
There's no way around this when it comes to filehosters. They are companies so it's all about money. If we wanna use any of them, we have to take the good with the bad.

Kookaboo

Rapidgator...both may disappear soon (as it already happened) and then all files will be lost.

they will be lost anyway :)

korniceman3000A

Hopefully there will still be wonderful people willing to upload larger files to putlocker, sockshare, zippyshare and other fast servers even if UL remains the primary option.

i'm working on a better solution...

Uploaded.To is fine for me.

Hugefiles.net or billionuploads.com or Putlocker.com

These three have the best free user download speeds

Nothing can Beat UL.TO.

Fastest Download & Upload!

LV-426,

If you offer only bullshit to choose from, in the end the winner will be one thing for sure! BULLSHIT!

Quakeaudio

Fastest Download & Upload!

50 kb in download ...

SAiNT
Thank you for giving us so many sites where we can get our musical fix...no matter which hoster is primary. If only everyone knew the efforts that go on behind the scenes daily to make the experience better for everyone. People complain about the little details and this keeps them from remembering the important things such as gratitude. Rest assured some haven't forgotten my friend.

ArticStorm
Fakebook.
If you need I have a 48 hour coupon for you as a show of appreciation for your help with AudioSex and here as well so no more waiting time. Maybe you have a premium but you know I always have to offer.

audiozuser76
What is your damage? Is there some kind of standard you have that every time you open your mouth something nasty has to come out? I've issued you plenty of warnings in the last week from the Logic thread where you called PC users stupid and ignorant to your fit over Reaper being cracked (You'd think by version 4.51 you would already know that ) and now here we are yet again. Don't mistake my kindness for weakness, it would be a gross miscalculation. The least you can do for the community that was made for you for free is to treat it like what it is...a community. If that's not your cup of tea then go sit in your house alone and let the rest of us have somewhere that doesn't suck. Or you can go to KVR or Gearslutz where your alpha male know-it-all disposition will feel right at home.

lukehh
Mega takes down links too and haven't been that successful in resisting the copyright assholes. They are located in a volatile political climate at the moment and moving to their service would be premature in my honest opinion not to mention it's not an option on the poll. Maybe this could be a future consideration though. Their encryption is a particularly attractive feature.

thisis theend
I like the way you think in general and thanks for saving me the time of explaining some stuff. The scene has survived this long because they're careful and this has been achieved through private membership which I think is fair since they're the ones putting in all the work. Pretty much all scene groups are opposed to public dissemination and vehemently opposed to making money off of their work. If we accept the breaking of the former we should also accept the breaking of the latter particularly with cyber lockers since links have to be kept alive, it's not like they're posted once and that's it. And as to why this poll was posted it's really simple mate...because it's important that we all get a vote, that way it's fair and people stop their incessant whining.

My 2 cents on the subject
Transitions of this magnitude should not be taken lightly because of the sheer scope of the change and possible unforeseen circumstances. I think we should keep Uploaded.net for the interim with members pitching in to post mirrors of their choosing. This way we can investigate other avenues for exploration but keep the good times rolling. Those complaining about making money off of warez can end it right now: we'll immediately put you in charge of working 7 days a week to post new uploads and keep them alive for everyone for free with risk to your personal freedom. You all complain about it but how many of you are ready to take over the massive influx of files that we have here daily? Standards are good but not when we begin to see ideals instead of reality and usually we see ideals for others and not ourselves which is the epitome of the hypocrite. Mega is nice but they take down links when reported and reside in New Zealand at the moment. However Kim has been talking about moving his services to Iceland to avoid spying and I assume the countries new anti-piracy law. You need to remember Mega is still new so they will have some growing pains. Most link sites use Uploaded.net and Rapidgator.com and there is a reason that they haven't yet switched to Mega or any other lockers, it's not simply a coincidence. Not to mention your account also gets you access to these other sites whereas if you had another membership you would be boned. You guys also seem to forget that Mega isn't impervious to copyright issues lest we forget the dismantling of MegaUpload not that long ago and everyone's personal files were lost even those that had nothing to do with copyright issues. Uploaded.net has been around for a while now and even though they REALLY need to make some damn upgrades they are our best bet for the interim. I don't see another site that is resilient enough to back as a primary. Those that might seem resilient at the moment simply haven't had to deal with the equivalent traffic that Uploaded gets (BitShare) and most don't have an affiliate program (Putlocker, ZippyShare, etc.), are located in a country that is likely to cause problems or are in a transitional stage and their future is yet unclear (Mega). Not to mention they aren't listed so it's useless voting for them. Rest assured we are working hard to find solid solutions for a bright future for Audioz and AudioSex.

Cataly5t,
I'm thinking of reuploading "Sample Modeling The Soprano And Bass Clarinets v1.0.3 Incl Keygen WiN/MAC" once to uploaded and once to MEGA ... then take my stop watch and count the seconds till uploaded and MEGA links will went down! With uploaded the average alive-duration was about 15 minutes at this thread.

Sample Modeling The Soprano And Bass Clarinets v1.0.3 Incl Keygen WiN/MAC

Uploaded is better.

I would like suggest this servers that are good and better than uploaded and others here...

1-http://www.unibytes.com/ for big,small files are good
2-depositefiles and zippyshare is good for small archives
3-http://narod.ru/ for big,small files are good.

cheers.

that could be a wise choice:

choose 1 well known ... ex: UL (probably censured in many country)

+

choose 1 not popular (probably not censured at all)

keeping UL and RG sucks even if the pool say so... ;)

ps: extabit should be totally banned! I hate watching its 32secs!

get a couple of vpns so you can change your ip.. delete all your cookies..

from the providers, and delete your cache if you like.. the wait time ceases to be

an issue.., after that I find hulkfile provides the user with the best speed...

the rest cap at 70 or less.. they freagging TELL you how long your file will take,

because they set a max, that conditions and load will not allow you to exceed..lame lame

lame imho.... durrrrrrr

LV-426,

People start eating shit!!! .... Millions of flies can not be wrong!

lukehh

Cataly5t,
I'm thinking of reuploading "Sample Modeling The Soprano And Bass Clarinets v1.0.3 Incl Keygen WiN/MAC" once to uploaded and once to MEGA ... then take my stop watch and count the seconds till uploaded and MEGA links will went down! With uploaded the average alive-duration was about 15 minutes at this thread.

It's not just about the longevity of links (which is also dependent on archive naming schemes) and you can almost always find a working Uploaded link. It's also not an option on the poll so why are we having this discussion? How many Uploaded files are still up? How many MegaUpload files? How many sites use Uploaded exclusively? Mega exclusively? Which is more common on the net giving you access to other sites? And most importantly can you be sure that if suddenly the warez world would switch to Mega there wouldn't be issues from copyright holders as well as other factors that we may not foresee?

lukehh

If you offer only bullshit to choose from, in the end the winner will be one thing for sure! BULLSHIT!

Yet voting still exists.

Everyone
Honestly many of the considerations everyone is making is only with their desire to not pay for locker services in mind and not the big picture. Paying for an Uploaded.net account is not that big of a deal and if you take issue with CAPTCHAs, wait times and limits then maybe you should look into a premium account. Who said the world is required to provide you with free storage and bandwidth for nothing so you can download illegal files at breakneck speeds? You're not that important.

Cataly5t,
You know why only a few sites uses MEGA..Its just because they offer such a great download speed also for free users that noone is thinking of paying for a premium membership. And all these Warez sites in these days have only one aim...to generate money. They do it either by protecting their downloads with passwords that only premium members of that site can see or they force you to buy a premium membership at uploaded etc. by offering their downloads only via this hosters. MEGA also has an affiliate program but none of our uploaders use it because they know at MEGA they wont be able to generate a lot of money because of its excellent speed also for free users. Tell me what ever you want. This is definetely the one and only reason why noone here offers downloads via MEGA!

See..most of our regular uploaders here serves several mirrors...but noone offers at least one with a good speed for free users. Why? I bet if we would make a new rule here at audioz that uploaders have to provide at least one provider like "zippyshare", "putlocker" or "MEGA" in addition to their regular Uploaded, Rapigator etc. links, most of them would quit uploading..because they wont earn anything!

What I wanna say is not, that they should not use audioz to generate money (even if I would never do so)...but that also here the main reason for using hosters like uploaded etc. is not safety of the files but making money--second reason is making money..also third one is making money..than after a great while maybe something like safety will come in sight!

why putlocker not on the list? It's fast and reliable.

Are you kidding me?? UL.to 53.76% (236 votes)
he said
Things are changing and I believe it's time to choose a new primary FFS for AudioZ.
i think 236 people are blind

i see other websites are uploading music stuff with Putlocker.com / sockshare.com
it's the best! no stupid limits and it is faster then all the files uploaders from the POLL put togheter

billionuploads, hugefiles, putlocker, zippyshare....

Apparently some people need to reread my posts on the subject a few more times and then check the options on the poll. Or you can continue to think that you're the center of the universe but then don't be surprised when the universe doesn't feel the same.

lukehh

People start eating shit!!! .... Millions of flies can not be wrong!

Flies eat shit to survive. What seems like shit to you is vitamins, protein and bacteria that is harmful to us yet allows them to persevere. As Einstein would say: it's all relative.

No that's not the reason why uploaders don't use MEGA they don't use it cause when u make a account it gives your account a encryption key that is locked to that account, plus do you think MEGA wont or does not delete links? Most sites warez or non warez use uploaded and if your going to say ZS, WETRANSFER etc etc then they don't pay you shit and you have to pay WETRANSFER a monthly fee

I have paid for every hoster out their and I'm happy with uploaded and been with them for 2 years now, I don't make money from warez we give you guys stuff for FREE and if u can't afford a monthly fee of $10 for a uploaded account then you want sumthing for free

You guys download thousands of pounds of software from here but then you complain and say I can't afford to buy a pro account, why don't you guys stop and think before you right your comments, in the last 2 years of uploading stuff on here and other sites I made a total of $100 that's all and this year do far its $10 so I don't knw who's make thousands of pounds on warez?

STOP COMPLAING AND BE GRATEFULL, THAT'S THE REASON TEAMS DONT RELEASE SHIT CAUSE ALL UOU WANT IS MORE MORE AND MORE FOR FUCKIN FREE

I really think that MEGA its a good choice, Free, lot of space, fast//

Bitshare is the least terrible of those options.

navid811

No that's not the reason why uploaders don't use MEGA they don't use it cause when u make a account it gives your account a encryption key that is locked to that account, plus do you think MEGA wont or does not delete links? Most sites warez or non warez use uploaded and if your going to say ZS, WETRANSFER etc etc then they don't pay you shit and you have to pay WETRANSFER a monthly fee

I have paid for every hoster out their and I'm happy with uploaded and been with them for 2 years now, I don't make money from warez we give you guys stuff for FREE and if u can't afford a monthly fee of $10 for a uploaded account then you want sumthing for free

You guys download thousands of pounds of software from here but then you complain and say I can't afford to buy a pro account, why don't you guys stop and think before you right your comments, in the last 2 years of uploading stuff on here and other sites I made a total of $100 that's all and this year do far its $10 so I don't knw who's make thousands of pounds on warez?

STOP COMPLAING AND BE GRATEFULL, THAT'S THE REASON TEAMS DONT RELEASE SHIT CAUSE ALL UOU WANT IS MORE MORE AND MORE FOR FUCKIN FREE

irrelevant, most of sites sharing games are using MEGA and Putlocker, links are up even after months, so why music scene should be different? it's not, that's why there are small sites uploading on Putlocker as an alternative.. it's just better, no captcha, faster, links are up as for uploaded..

the last line is hilarious, we shoulndt complain cause we dont want to pay? well, uploaders shoulndt complain cause we try to pay less since they earn from stealing other people's work, wich is fine for me but dont complain if i try to pay less, its my right, BE GRATEFULL WE DOWNLOAD FROM YOU...

navid811

No that's not the reason why uploaders don't use MEGA they don't use it cause when u make a account it gives your account a encryption key that is locked to that account

Hmm, and what exactly is the problem with that?

I don't make money from warez we give you guys for free...

...and you also got it for free, aent you?

I made a total of $100 that's all and this year do far its $10 so I don't knw who's make thousands of pounds on warez?

A little contradiction in terms..but OK!

BTW..I never had and I will never have a premium membership at what hoster ever! I was always able to download everything without it. But its really annoying to do so at 50Kb/sec..thats the reason why I sometimes switch to another site (we all know) as he offers putlocker links. And sometimes I'm also offering things if someone asks for a zippyshare or putlocker link. And believe me if I would have "contributor" status I would more often post some MEGA, Zippyshare or putlocker links. Of cause not for every release (have a job additionally :) but I would..but as I also would have to offer an uploaded link for mirrors, it would be a little difficult for me!

lol.... nobody holds the moral or ethical high ground here. uploaders complaining about people wanting fast free hosting sites and the folks complaining about the premium sites uploaders use. silly really

I remember the last time we had this vote and discussion. It seems to me that nothing has really changed all that much -- some of the hosts being offered have different names, but the problems remain the same. To an ever-increasing degree I wind up "shopping" for my downloads here, but am then forced to go to other sites to actually "buy" them.

Clearly, there are much better hosts that can be used for downloading for free. Some of those are putlocker, zippyshare, mega, 180upload, hugefiles, etc. But the last time people voted up some of those hosters their vote wound up being ignored. They don't fit in with the "business model" of the uploaders here -- it's a shame because the very thing that's supposed to bring people in here -- the download links -- winds up driving them away to other sites!

I still argue, as was pretty much the case last time, that this site will have difficulty sustaining on this basis, relying on the "business model" of the uploaders. I say that because I think there are far more people going along without premium accounts than people who are subscribing to premium. That greater number of people increasingly get driven off to other sites where they can find links or torrents that are easier for them to download. As the number of people downloading the links at AudioZ gets smaller and smaller, you have more backbiting between the uploaders at AudioZ (which we've seen plenty of here lately --> hello Sunny & Funtime), and more uploaders dropping out because they can't make a buck at this any more since people have moved on to downloading from other sites. It's a vicious circle, where more and more people get driven away from this site.

So, as far as I can see, I don't think this game plan can really sustain itself indefinitely and there's not really much point in voting. As long as other sites are willing to offer faster, cheaper ways for people to download stuff, the pressure will be on here to adapt or lose. I like this site, and visit often, but when other websites offer an easier way to download links, the choice becomes clear. Either you get some hosters in there that are game changers, or you'll wind up being left behind.

lukehh

A little contradiction in terms..but OK!

BTW..I never had and I will never have a premium membership at what hoster ever! I was always able to download everything without it. But its really annoying to do so at 50Kb/sec..thats the reason why I sometimes switch to another site (we all know) as he offers putlocker links. And sometimes I'm also offering things if someone asks for a zippyshare or putlocker link. And believe me if I would have "contributor" status I would more often post some MEGA, Zippyshare or putlocker links. Of cause not for every release (have a job additionally :) but I would..but as I also would have to offer an uploaded link for mirrors, it would be a little difficult for

yeah that's the point, if an uploader really makes just 10$ then why being stuck with a terrible service as Uploaded and moving to Putlocker as other sites did?
1 it's faster both in ul and dl
2 link are not taken down faster, it's a legend, we all can check at the site you are talking about
3 it's free... here is the point..