TheAudioScene.net - Dedicated To The Pro Audio Scene

	TheAudioScene.net FAQ
	General Site Rules	Expand & Collapse Anwser

	Minimum Ratio and Seeding	Expand \| Collapse
	Normal class users need to keep a 0.20 ratio. Membership class users have no minimum ratio requirements.

	Instant Bans	Expand \| Collapse
	1. Do not disrespect the staff/moderators. 2. Respect other users. Even if your options differ. There's nothing wrong with a debate. But keep it civil and clean 3. Inappropriate usernames selections or system based name selection (oper, system, trust installer.... So on) 4. Don't talk about other trackers, filehosts or bring drama from another site to ours. 5. Trolling is not permitted. In fact it shows you waste time rather then being productive. 6. No public requesting of serials, keys, key gens, cracks 7. Keep your email address up to date. This is the only way we can let you know about aspect of the site. If we get a bounce from your email related to inactive or not existing anymore your account will be banned.

	Having More Then One Account	Expand \| Collapse
	Each member is only allowed to have one account with two ips. Members caught with more than one account will be banned. if you need to download from more then one location. Insure its not the same torrent at the same time and add the ip to your Server IP in the Account page to insure remote torrenting.

	Requesting Something	Expand \| Collapse
	If you would like to request something that is or is not already released. Please use the Audio Goodies Request section on the forum and fallow the below required info. If the release isn't scene/web released then you will have to use the fallowing format and post a new thread Thread Name: Production Company Product Title \| Company Product Title Thread Post: Must contain.. Thread Name (newline) Product Description (newline) Product website link If the release is already scene/web released then Simply use the Thread Post for the official release title. Failure to follow any of the above will result in your post being removed. NO REQUESTS IN THE SHOUTBOX!!!

	Missing Account	Expand \| Collapse
	Accounts are purged on a mia of 2 months. On the 7th week a email is sent via automation and on the ending of the 60th day, Week 8 its purged. Then from that point theirs a 5 day grace point where its a semi-recoverable But after that time frame all is lost.

	Bounced Email	Expand \| Collapse
	Any email that gets bounced back for any reason excluding blacklisted or temporary errors to the remote system will be banned. Its your responsibility to maintain a reachable contact email address at all times. This can be managed in the (Account) link top left of the site. While this is not a full out ban. The second time it happens it will be a ban that will not be removed. We take pride in not spamming our users with email and to keep our email score low bounced emails are frowned upon. So keep your email address up to date with us.

	The Shout Box Rules	Expand \| Collapse
	ENGLISH only. No requests allowed and act like an adult. Do not post Gifs. of Kitty cats Never answer a question with out a personal experience with the subject matter.

	Disposable Email Addresses	Expand \| Collapse
	Any user found with a disposable email address will have their accounts disabled. Any user that atempts to signup with a disposable email address will have their accounts revoked.

	Torr Network And Proxies	Expand \| Collapse
	Unless your internet service provider enforces a proxy or vpn. All accounts found with a proxy/vpn will be banned. While proxies and vpn's do have usefullness. In this type of site they serve nothing good. Tor network usage is not allowed here. We understand the good it can be used for but also the bad.

	Torrent Terms	Expand & Collapse Anwser

	What is a Seeder?	Expand \| Collapse
	Seeder = the one(s) with the file A seeder is uploading, to get a file you need at least 1 seed in the swarm.

	What is a Leecher?	Expand \| Collapse
	Leecher = the one(s) without the file (also known as a peer) A leecher is downloading from a seeder (and most of the time is also uploading to other peers/leechers too).

	What is a Tracker?	Expand \| Collapse
	Tracker = the site that keeps track of who has what and what pieces. There are many trackers out there, some public and some private.

	What is a Swarm?	Expand \| Collapse
	Swarm = the group of computers involved with any one particular torrent. The number of computers that the swarm contains is found by adding the number of seeds to the number of peers.

	What is Ratio?	Expand \| Collapse
	Ratio = the amount you have downloaded compared to the amount you have uploaded. Also referred to as your stats. If you use Bit Torrent you MUST at least upload/seed as much as you download/leech.

	What does Reseed mean?	Expand \| Collapse
	Reseed = asking someone to repost a torrent that has no seeds.

	What is a client?	Expand \| Collapse
	Client = the program you use to download Bit Torrent's.

	What does Nuke mean?	Expand \| Collapse
	Nuke = A torrent that has been deleted from a site.

	What is a Dupe?	Expand \| Collapse
	Dupe = when an uploader does not search before uploading and posts a duplicate file already posted on a site.

	What is a Hit and Runner (H+R)	Expand \| Collapse
	A hit and runner is someone who downloads a torrent until completion and then fails to seed it. Repeated H+R will get you a warning followed by a ban from the site.

	Common Upload Error Messages	Expand & Collapse Anwser

	Failed To Select Torrent File Location	Expand \| Collapse
	You forgot to select where the torrent file was on your computer

	Failed To Add Torrent Description or No NFO Was Uploaded	Expand \| Collapse
	You didn't add a description about the torrent file as no nfo file was uploaded. Here we require you to have a nfo or describe what it is your are uploading regardless of the torrent name. Copy and paste the description from the website. We don't care as long as you tell us what it is

	Seems The Torrent File Is Not a torrent	Expand \| Collapse
	You probably uploaded something that wasn't a torrent file by mistake.

	Seems The NFO File Is Not a NFO	Expand \| Collapse
	You probably uploaded another file by mistake. It happens, Make sure that text file is NFO extension

	Seems The Torrent File Is Larger than...	Expand \| Collapse
	A rare thing that happens, But we only allow torrent files and NFO files if they are not greater then 1mb. If you get this error then you could be uploading the source files rather then the torrent files or NFO. We've seen this happen a few times

	Seems The Torrent File Is Less than...	Expand \| Collapse
	Well this is a no brainer. Whatever you uploaded was less then 1Kb.

	Unable To Obtain Folder Name	Expand \| Collapse
	We have enforced a sharing method design that no longer allows single file uploads without being in a folder with some proper naming. My.Files.zip will fail /My.Files/My.Files.zip will pass as its in a folder

	Unable To Obtain Folder Name	Expand \| Collapse
	We have enforced a sharing method design that no longer allows single file uploads without being in a folder with some proper naming. My.Files.zip will fail /My.Files/My.Files.zip will pass as its in a folder

	Shared Files Are Not In A Subfolder Called...	Expand \| Collapse
	You tried to upload files without them being in a directory. See " Unable To Obtain Folder Name "

	The File is not compressed or allowed	Expand \| Collapse
	We don't allow single file extensions that are not zip,rar,nfo,txt. Saves us working looking for this as well

	Uploaded Value Not Numeric Values	Expand \| Collapse
	Your bit torrent client is not sending valid torrent data to the tracker. Please contact support for your particular client.

	My upload error is not listed here.	Expand \| Collapse
	You need to send in a support ticket @ theaudioscene.net

	Common Download Error Messages	Expand & Collapse Anwser

	Why do I show as unconnectable?	Expand \| Collapse
	The tracker can not establish what port you have open for a full torrent client connection. Your client and or firewall needs to be configured properly. BitTorrent relies on two basic types of connection to share files, those made by other people asking you for something are called Incoming or Local Connection, and when you initiate a connection with someone else, you are making an Outgoing or Remote Connection. This Option has been disabled. Use the port check page in the profile area menu to see if you can get a successful TCP connection while seeding/downloading a active torrent file from this website. Please go to PortForward.com for help forwarding your ports.

	Unable To Obtain Passkey	Expand \| Collapse
	There is two kinds of passkey errors. One being Passkey IP Mismatch, Visit the website then do a force update. Other being Passkey does not exist, Re-download the torrent file... Keeping the existing data If you are using a remote connection then you will have to obtain that location IP and use it in the server ip spot of the profile for your account.

	Torrent not registered with this tracker	Expand \| Collapse
	There are a few reasons you may get this error. The uploader has decided to delete his torrent, Staff has deleted it for not living up to the rules or the system deleted because it was seedless .

	Your Download privileges have been removed	Expand \| Collapse
	You either hit and ran on too many torrents and the system (Skynet) got you or you really pissed off a staff member. See: theaudioscene.net to help resolve the issue

	Problem connecting to tracker - timeout exceeded	Expand \| Collapse
	Every once in a while the tracker is overloaded. Try again later, Please.

	PassKey No Longer Exists, Redownload The Torrent	Expand \| Collapse
	You passkey was reset by you or the system or you are using a old torrent file that has your old passkey attached. Download the new torrent file and use the existing data in your download folder

	I'm Banned !?!?	Expand \| Collapse
	WoW!! Well that sucks.You must have really messed up your account, but you can contact a staff member to see if something can be worked out or donate to get back in. Trying to make a new account will not work here.

	Account Status: Warned	Expand \| Collapse
	This happens when you have been warned by the system or staff members. You then are restricted to 1 torrent download. This does not affect uploading though some users have reported they are unable to upload while downloading. To resolve that issue. stop your current torrent and reseed/upload 1 torrent at a time until the tracker starts the countdown then its o.k. to do the next reseed/upload, so on and so forth. Then you can continue to download the torrent you have stopped

	Unable To Read Hash ID	Expand \| Collapse
	Your bit torrent client is not sending valid torrent data to the tracker. Please contact support for your particular client.

	Unable To Read Unique Peer ID	Expand \| Collapse
	Your bit torrent client is not sending valid torrent data to the tracker. Please contact support for your particular client.

	Unable To Obtain IP Address	Expand \| Collapse
	Your bit torrent client is not sending valid torrent data to the tracker. Please contact support for your particular client.

	Unable To Obtain Port Address	Expand \| Collapse
	Your bit torrent client is not sending valid torrent data to the tracker. Please contact support for your particular client.

	Announce Offline. DO NOT STOP TORRENT	Expand \| Collapse
	The database server is offline and you need to keep your client open or your lose your stats since the announce is unable to accept your stats for your current session.

	Passkey Does Not Match Account IP	Expand \| Collapse
	This happens when your ip changes from what we have on your account profile. Simple way to solve this is to re-visit here then do a force update/update tracker on your client. We have also added a server ip field in the profile area to allow dedicated boxes that you seed/download from, Just add the ip info of that box and your good to go.

	My Download error is not listed here.	Expand \| Collapse
	You need to send in a support ticket @ theaudioscene.net

	Downloading from two locations	Expand \| Collapse
	Downloading from two location on the same torrent will result in your ratio being messed up. Since the requires its peer table to have 1 unqiue user id and torrent id data row downloading from a second location will cause each torrent to over write the others resulting in your ratio being screwed up. If your not torrenting from a second location this error happens when you don't stop your torrents and only close out your client. The devs at most of the big torrent clients have had a over wheeling plea from its userbase to not wait when a user closes his/her client. What has happened now is the clients don't bother to send the stopped event to the tracker resulting in your peer data row not being updated. So when this happens the torrent has to not have a announce update for two hours at witch then it will just wipe the data. No credits or seed bonus will be applied under this state. So its importaint to stop your torrents before closing the client to insure you get your data and the data is removed.

	Donating & Upgrades	Expand & Collapse Anwser

	How Does This Work?	Expand \| Collapse
	Simply put.. It helps us with the running costs of our servers on a per month base. A Donation will remove your system/staff warnings if you have any and exempt you for 1-12 months of future based limits and some other goodies.

	How do I donate??	Expand \| Collapse
	After you get settled in via your invitation or registration, Just visit the "Membership" page / link located below the website logo

	I do not have a credit card account	Expand \| Collapse
	No Problem, Have you considered a pre-paid mastercard or Visa?. Our how about a debit mastercard or visa? Below are some confirmed used pre-paid cards Moneymart Canada: Link Splash Card Canada\|USA: Link Money Mart, Loan Mart USA: Link The Money Shop UK: Link Or Do A Google Search For... Prepaid Mastercard, Prepaid Visa, Debit Mastercard, Debit Visa We also accept Paysafe, UKash, BitCoin, Mobile, Landline and many other methods.

	Does my email address have to match the payment method	Expand \| Collapse
	We do not require the email to match your payment acount address.

	Why should I donate	Expand \| Collapse
	Well out of the kindness of your heart?.. If thats not good enough then what we offer is below. 1, X donation for X upload credit 2, Immunity from system based limits and deletes 3, Adverts removed. 4, Some access to our offsite archive of goodies 5, Keeping us around for another month

	Target And Current	Expand \| Collapse
	Target is what it costs to run this place monthly. Ya it seems like a bit much but we are unique and require this to fully function in a automation and archive means. Current is what has been donated within the left time frame. We are open about what we collect and do not hide this information from the user base. Left is how many days remain before our next billing term Above info is readable to any registered user and is a global display text and is not directed at any one person but the community as a whole.

	Audio.Formats.and.File.Extensions	Expand & Collapse Anwser

	What does the "i" stand for on VSTi and DXi .....?	Expand \| Collapse
	When you see VST, then VSTi, then DX and DXi. The i stands for instrument, like a softsynth or sampler to distinguish it from a plugin processor, like a compressor, reverb or delay.

	There is no data on the CD when it is burned or Mounted.	Expand \| Collapse
	AKAI/Roland/Emu/K2k format CDRoms are NOTdirectly readable under Windows.You must absolutely use a program that allows you to read/export the akai format to a standard format (Wav) i/e: CDXtract (www.cdxtract.com) , Osmosis (www.bitheadz.com), Chicken System Translator(www.chickensys.com/translator) or your favorite sampling software that supports these formats.

	What is a VSTi ?	Expand \| Collapse
	VSTi (virtual studio technology instrument) was developed by Steinberg as a Universal platform for soft synths and samplers. Not all the companies bought into it. Cubase and Nuendo use it extensively. You may also hear about VST2 and VSTi2 plugins. VST2\VST3 is simply an extension of the VST format. These pass on more parameters to the host for automation. Are PC VSTs and VSTi compatible on Macs? Always assume the answer is No unless the developer makes it clear. If they made a Mac version, they will be sure to list that. Usually, developers will have a PC VSTi version and a Mac AU(AudioUnits) version, so be careful to get (and install) the right one. Usually, these days they are both on the same cd rom.

	What does AU stand for?	Expand \| Collapse
	AU, short for Audio Units, refers to a format developed by Apple for Mac OS 10.x Because there is support in Apple's operating system, AU is used by many Mac sequencers and audio applications, and is the major supported format in LogicPro. Important note: Just because Logic favors AU does not mean it will run all Audio Unit Plugins. As of Logic 7, Apple got stricter. Logic only supports AU plugins that follow Apple's guidelines and not all of them do. This is Apple's way of forcing plugin developers to follow the rules it developed. Its a good thing, as the Audio Units that do pass are less likely to crash.

	What does M.A.S. mean?	Expand \| Collapse
	M.A.S. refers to plugins that work with the MOTU Audio System in Digital Performer (Mac only), which can also use VSTi, AU and ReWire. You'll note that fewer plugins support MAS, and that's because MOTU DP users can use AU as well as MAS

	What is RTAS?	Expand \| Collapse
	RTAS is the format used by Digidesign, the maker of Pro Tools and only works on Pro Tool systems.

	What is rewire?	Expand \| Collapse
	Rewire, is a scheme that pipes digital audio from Reason and Rebirth, Project 5 and Ableton's Live to other sequencers. It basically allows you to run a sequencer inside of a another sequencers.

	Miscellaneous	Expand & Collapse Anwser

	Torrent Upload & Reseed Tutorials	Expand \| Collapse
	WoW we can't believe you actually read the F.A.Q. If anybody is having problems uploading or seeding please see this: http://theaudioscene.net/forum.php?Action=ViewTopics&Topic=2273&Page=1

	How Do I Configure My Firewall For BitTorrent?	Expand \| Collapse
	There are two types of Firewall, a Software Firewall and a Hardware Firewall, like a router for example. Both will need to be configured in order for you to use BitTorrent. Hardware Firewalls and Routers Routers have what is called NAT - Network Address Translation. Put simply it means that it will block all incoming connection attempts unless it is told otherwise. This means you need to open some ports. But you also need to do more than that, you also need to forward the ports. This is where the 'Translation' bit comes in. Your router has 'ownership' of your (real) WAN* IP address and each PC connected to it is issued with a LAN** IP address. You need to tell the router that when traffic comes in on a certain port or port range it should let through and send it to your PC's LAN IP. Here is a visual guide on how I set up my Router - it should help. Static IP You will also need to set up a static IP address. As mentioned, the router issues each PC connected to it with a LAN IP address. This can change however, for example when you reboot your PC. Imagine that your pc has the LAN IP of 192.1.11.23. So you forward the BitTorrent ports to 192.1.11.23. Then you reboot your machine and when it comes back on, its LAN IP has changed to 192.1.11.24. Your port forwarding isn't going to work anymore as the ports aren't being forwarded to your PC anymore. This is why you need to set up a Static IP, it gives your PC it's own permanent LAN IP. It'll never change, so the port forwarding will work! Remember to do it on every pc that connects to the network. WAN = Wide Area Network - the internet basically *LAN = Local Area Network - your internal network of PC's This website will help you configure your router and set up a static IP. It covers nearly all of the routers available and also provides step by step instructions for common applications. PortForward.com Software Firewalls A software firewall will work one of two ways, it will either imitate a hardware firewall and block all traffic on all ports unless told otherwise; or it will only allow specified applications access to the internet. The Win XP\ Win 7 firewall works on port configurations, and something like Zone Alarm works by granting programs access. Set your software up as the documentation says.

	How to Save messages sent by others	Expand \| Collapse
	Simple, store the message in your saved folder by checking/pressing the "Save message" button and it will never be deleted as all other messages only last for 2 weeks and then are removed.

	Ratio Wire	Expand \| Collapse
	To use ratio wire, enter in the username of the user who you would like to send the XX amount of upload amount to. The end user would have to accept it via his/her ratio wire settings located in the profile area of the site. During a pending ratio wire the amount is taking from the sender account and held until the user accepts. If the user declines then the amount is returned to the sender account.

	My Password Does Not Work	Expand \| Collapse
	Visit the login page and you will see a link to reset your password. A email will be sent that will provide you with a new password. You can of course change it after you follow the above steps.

	What is this F.A.Q. all about anyways	Expand \| Collapse
	Well it's the page of the site to help you find answers to the most common questions, It save both you and staff time. And it helps us (staff) weed out the idiots. Also known as the ESABALD factor

	Whats a turn code	Expand \| Collapse
	A turn code is our version of a verification system. You can find the turn code inside the input box aligned to the right side. It will contain a 6 digit number.

	Visually Impaired	Expand \| Collapse
	If you are Visually Impaired and can not see the Secure Image, Visit this url after you see the Secure Image: form input box. Impaired

	You send me my password in plain text	Expand \| Collapse
	Yes we did. However you can opt out of that during registration. Passwords are stored encrypted with salts in the database. We are secure. TLS/SSL transported to the destination SMTP. Your email provider has its own TLS/SSL security and when you view your sent saved password. Its over a secure connection. On top of that we hash even that password result with 4 more hashes methods and even we can't read your password. Why did you do that. Saves support ticket requests. Saves I don't have access to that email address any more. Saves I can't remember my username. We don't store sensitive information about you.

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