Analog and Digital Music Sources

Music uploaded to What.CD comes from two main sources: analog media and digital media.

ANALOG MUSIC SOURCES

An analog music source must use an analog to digital converter like a sound card to convert physical changes in
an analog medium to a digital file that a computer can read. An analog medium is an object that stores music by
being physically altered.

Examples

A tape recorder changes the magnetization of magnetic tape in a cassette tape to record sound. Plugging a tape
deck into a recording device makes a digital copy of the analog cassette tape.
A record cutter carves grooves in a vinyl record to make a physical representation of the sound. Ripping vinyl
through a preamp and into a sound card makes a digital copy of the analog vinyl.
Analog recordings can be ripped into digital music files, such as FLAC and MP3. Vinyl records are always
approved for uploads, but cassettes are allowed under strict conditions.

DIGITAL MUSIC SOURCES

A digital music source has already been encoded into a format that a computer can read, so no conversion is
necessary. A digital medium is an object that stores music in digital files (a string of binary numbers).

Examples
CDs
DVDs
Super Audio CDs (SACD)
WEB store downloads (iTunes, Amazon, etc.)
Digital music sources can be uploaded to What.CD after using spectral analysis to check for lossy transcodes.

ANALOG MUSIC SOURCES VS. DIGITAL MUSIC SOURCES

There is still much debate about whether analog and digital sources sound different. Some people prefer the feel of
vinyl and think that music on vinyl records sounds warmer and fuller. Others think that digital sources provide
an unadulterated and pristine listening experience. What.CD allows both, so you can download and make your own
judgment!

Audio Formats
An audio format is a type of computer file that stores music. Music formats are either uncompressed lossless,
compressed lossless, or lossy.

BITRATES

A bitrate is the number of bits conveyed or transferred in a unit of time. When talking about music formats, bitrate
is used in kilobits per second (kbps). When comparing files with different bitrates (of the same song), the file with
the higher bitrate has the higher quality.
For example, an MP3 320kbps (CBR) file transfers 320 kilobits per second.

UNCOMPRESSED LOSSLESS
Uncompressed lossless formats store all of the original recorded data. Since silence is given the same number of
bits per second as sound is, uncompressed lossless files are huge. The main uncompressed lossless format is pulsecode modulation (PCM).

Examples

WAV (PCM) (used on Windows)

AIFF (PCM) (used on Mac OS)

COMPRESSED LOSSLESS
Compressed lossless formats store all of the original recorded data in less space than uncompressed lossless
formats by compressing the data. By giving silence almost no bits per second and compressing sound, a compressed
lossless file is usually half as big as the same song stored in an uncompressed lossless file.
Since both uncompressed lossless formats and compressed lossless formats retain all the data from the original
recording, they can be transcoded between each other without a loss in quality.

Examples

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC)
Monkeys Audio (APE)

LOSSY
Lossy formats are always compressed. Lossy formats have smaller file sizes than both uncompressed lossless
formats and compressed lossless formats because they remove some of the original data. Usually the removed data
is in the higher frequencies that humans cant hear, however, there can be obvious audible differences between lossy
formats and lossless formats.
Because lossy formats remove data during compression (and thus lose quality), lossy formats CANNOT be
transcoded to lossless formats or other lossy formats without losing more quality.

Examples

MPEG Layer 3 Audio (MP3)

Advanced Audio Encoding (AAC)
Windows Media Audio (WMA)
Dolby Digital Audio Codec 3 (AC3)

DTS Coherent Acoustics Codec (DTS)

FILE SIZE
Heres an example of how the file size of the same song varies depending on whether the songs format is
uncompressed lossless, compressed lossless, or lossy. Lets take the classic pop song, Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne.
For reference, the song is 3 minutes, 24 seconds long.
Uncompressed Lossless WAV (PCM): 34.3 MB
Compressed Lossless FLAC: 25.75 MB (25% compressed)
Lossy MP3 320 (CBR): 7.78 MB (78% compressed)

TRANSPARENCY
Transparency is a term used to describe the audible quality of a lossy music file. A lossy file is considered
transparent if the average human cannot tell the difference between the lossy file and a lossless file of the same song
by just listening to both without knowing which file is which.
For most people, MP3 192kbps (CBR) is considered transparent.

ALLOWED FORMATS
While there are several types of lossless and lossy music formats, only a few are allowed to be uploaded to
What.CD.

Allowed Lossless Formats

FLAC
Because lossless formats can be transcoded between each other without a loss in quality, the only allowed lossless
format on What.CD is FLAC. However, you can download the FLAC and convert to ALAC (for iTunes) or
whatever lossless or lossy format you prefer.

Allowed Lossy Formats

MP3 (the minimum bitrate for MP3 is 192kbps (CBR))

AAC (can be trumped by any MP3 torrent unless it was bought from the iTunes store and includes iTunes
Exclusive tracks)
AC3 (usually found in DVDs)
DTS (usually found in DVDs)
MP3 is the most popular lossy format on What.CD. We allow AAC files bought from the iTunes store because there
are often iTunes-specific bonus tracks, and since AAC is lossy it cannot be converted to other formats without a loss
in quality. Similarly, AC3 and DTS are music formats often found on DVDs and since they are lossy, they cannot be
converted to other formats without a loss in quality.

MP3

LAME
LAME Aint An MP3 Encoder (LAME) is an encoder that converts and compresses any input audio file and
outputs an MP3 file. The resulting MP3 file can have a constant, variable, or average bitrate. What.CD recommends
LAME as an MP3 encoder because it is open source, customizable, and outputs high quality MP3 files.

CONSTANT BITRATE (CBR)

When encoding a constant bitrate (CBR) file, the user (you) chooses a preset bitrate and LAME targets that bitrate
throughout the entire file. This means that every second in the file has the same number of bits, no matter how
simple or complex the sound is. Every second in a CBR file has the same quality. Because silence is given the same
number of bits as more complex sounds, CBR files are larger than VBR and ABR files of the same quality. This also
means that CBR files have a predictable file size.

VARIABLE BITRATE (VBR)

When encoding a variable bitrate (VBR) file, the user (you) chooses a preset quality and LAME targets that
quality, letting the bitrate vary throughout the entire file. This means that every second of the file has a different
number of bits that depends on how complex the sound is at that second. For example, a second of silence would
receive much fewer bits than a second of loud, blaring music. Since VBR files target a certain quality instead of a
certain bitrate, exact VBR file sizes are more unpredictable.
LAME has certain VBR presets ranging from V0 to V9. V0 is the highest quality VBR preset and V9 is the lowest
quality VBR preset. The two most common VBR presets on What.CD are V0 (with a target bitrate of 245kbps) and
V2 (with a target bitrate of 190kbps). V2 is the lowest quality LAME VBR preset allowed on What.CD for music
torrents.
At a certain VBR preset setting, the average bitrate throughout the file is usually close to the target bitrate.
However, keep in mind that the target bitrate is just a target the average bitrate will not necessarily end up near
the target bitrate.

AVERAGE BITRATE (ABR)

When encoding an average bitrate (ABR) file, the user (you) chooses a preset bitrate and LAME allows the bitrate
to vary throughout the entire file, but the average bitrate of the file will be the bitrate you preset. This means that
like CBR, the file size is predictable, and like VBR, the quality and bitrate of the music varies throughout the file
depending on how complex the music is each second.
However, ABR is not recommended by What.CD because it is a mix of both CBR and VBR, and it is thus unable to
perform well on either. (Jack of all trades but master of none.)

Transcodes
Transcoding (verb) a file means converting from one format to another. A transcode (noun)can mean any
converted file, but is usually used in a negative context (as in a bad transcode).

GOOD TRANSCODES

A good transcode means that during the transcode process, the file has either never been converted to lossy, or the
file has only been converted to lossy once during the last step.
Examples of good transcodes:

uncompressed lossless > compressed lossless

compressed lossless > uncompressed lossless
compressed lossless > compressed lossless
uncompressed lossless > lossy
compressed lossless > lossy

BAD TRANSCODES
A bad transcode means that during the transcode process, the file has either been converted to a lossy format more
than once, or the file has been converted from lossy to lossless. Bad transcodes are prohibited on What.CD.
Examples of bad transcodes:

higher lossy bitrate > lower lossy bitrate

same bitrate lossy > same bitrate lossy
lossy > lossless

Torrenting
BITTORRENT
BitTorrent is a system that allows users to share data with each other. Information about the data you want to
download is held in a .torrent file, and other people who have added the same .torrent file in their torrent client are
called peers. When you download a file, you are leechingfrom other peers who already have the data. When you
finish downloading the file and make yourself available to upload, you are seeding the data to other peers. Although
you may have many files seeding, you will not receive upload credit until another peer leeches from you. In other
words, you will not gain upload credit for just seeding torrents, though your required ratio will be lower than if you
were not seeding torrents. It is possible to seed and leech at the same time because BitTorrent clients download
chunks of data, and as soon as your BitTorrent client downloads one chunk of data it may be seeded to other peers.
BitTorrent uses a specific protocol based on upload speeds and the number of other peers in order to choose which
pieces of the torrent to download from which peer.

CLIENTS
A BitTorrent client is a program that allows you to connect to the BitTorrent system. Think of BitTorrent like the
internet and BitTorrent clients as internet browsers. There are multiple different internet browsers with different
features, but they connect to the same internet. Clickhere for the BitTorrent clients that are on the whitelist, or
allowed on What.CD. You will not be able to connect to peers from What.CD (and thus download data) if
your BitTorrent client is not on the whitelist. If there is an x behind a decimal, that means that any number can be
substituted for the x. For example: uTorrent 2.0.x means that uTorrent 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, etc. are all on
the whitelist.

RATIO

A ratio is a comparison between your downloaded and uploaded data (this is also known as a fraction). Dividing the
amount of data you have uploaded by the amount of data you have downloaded gives you your ratio. A ratio of 1.0
is healthy because it means you have downloaded as much data as you have uploaded. Ratios significantly under 1.0
are unhealthy because it means that you are not contributing as much to the community as you are taking from it.
Ratios significantly above 1.0 are also unhealthy because it means that you are hoarding upload instead of giving
back to the community by downloading more. We realize that it may be difficult to maintain a ratio on What.CD, so
we have a ratio system to help out our users. Your required ratio is the ratio you must maintain in order to be able
to keep downloading torrents. The required ratio is calculated based on how many torrents you are seeding and how
much data you have downloaded.

Notice that your required ratio is much lower if you seed 100% of the torrents you download for at least 72 hours
each week. In fact, you would have a required ratio of 0 until you download more than 20 GB if you seed all of your
torrents! NOTE: This does not mean you should only seed for 72 hours. It is in your interest, particularly as a
new user, to seed for as long as possible. This will help maintain your ratio and help keep content available for
everyone.
If you fall below your required ratio, you will be put in ratio watch for two weeks. If you are unable to improve
your ratio in this time period, your leeching privileges (ability to download) will be disabled. In order to get your
leeching privileges re-enabled, you can fill requests or upload new torrents, as well as continue to seed the torrents
you have already downloaded. DO NOT upload torrents that are against the rules, like transcodes, mutt rips, or
duplicates. Failing to follow the upload rules, especially when you are in ratio watch, will result in a warning. If you
download more than 10 GB while on ratio watch, your leeching privileges will be immediately disabled.

FREELEECH AND NEUTRAL LEECH

Generally the exact amount of data you upload and download is recorded in your ratio. However, this is not so with
torrents that are marked freeleech or neutral leech. When a torrent is marked freeleech, it means that the amount of
data you download from this torrent will not be recorded in your ratio, but the amount of data you upload from this
torrent will be recorded in your ratio. On special occasions there may be Staff Picks (albums that staff members
recommend), which are usually freeleech. Freeleech torrents are a good way to build up your ratio. When a torrent is
marked neutral leech, it means that neither the amount of data you download nor the amount of data you upload
from this torrent will be recorded in your ratio.

PORT FORWARDING
Port forwarding allows computers on the public internet to connect directly to your computer. Most home internet
providers use Network Address Translation(NAT) to allow home users to connect as many devices to their router
(also known as a modem or wireless unit) as they desire. NAT can also prevent direct connections from the public
internet to your computer. Port forwarding tells your router or modem to ensure all requests made on a specific port
reach a specific computer inside the NAT. Your BitTorrent client runs on a certain port on your computer (you can

assign the port), and by forwarding this port, you make yourself more connectable to other computers. Using port
forwarding for connectability increases the chances that your client will upload data to a peer who is leeching.
You can learn more about port forwarding as well as get specific directions on how to set up a port forward on your
home router or modem at Port Forward. You can test your port forward by using Can You See Me and putting in
your forwarded port number to be tested. You can find which port your BitTorrent client uses under your clients
preferences (for uTorrent: Options > Setup Guide ; for Transmission: Preferences > Network).

DHT
A Distributed Hash Table (DHT) is used by BitTorrent clients to obtain lists of peers without a centralized tracker
(What.CD has its own private tracker, as do other private tracker sites). Though DHT can make it quicker for you to
leech data on public trackers, DHT is bad for private trackers because it allows peers who are not members of the
private tracker to access the torrents on the tracker. DHT should be turned off in your torrent client.

PARTIAL SEEDERS
A partial seeder is a peer who has downloaded and is seeding part of a torrent. The peer looks like a leecher;
however, he has no intention of downloading the rest of the torrent. Huge torrents like Rosetta Stone MultiLanguage MegaPack (38 GB) and a 30 CD Mozart Box Set (50 GB) often have a large number of partial seeders.
These torrents should never be downloaded in an attempt to increase ratio.

MARKING TORRENTS AS PRIVATE

When creating torrents to upload to a private tracker, there is a box to mark torrent as private. You should always
check this box, as it keeps peers who are not members of What.CD out of the peer list. This is for your security and
that of all the site members.

Spectral Analysis
Spectral analysis is a visual way to display the data in a music file. Every music note has a specific frequency:
lower notes have lower frequencies and higher notes have higher frequencies. All of the frequencies are displayed
on a spectral diagram (spectral for short), which is a graph of all the frequencies vs. time in a music file.
Frequencies are measured in hertz (Hz) and kilohertz (1,000 Hz). Humans have a hearing range from about 20 Hz
20kHz (20,000 Hz).
Since spectrals show all the data in a file, they are helpful tools to use when youre trying to decide whether or not a
song has been transcoded. Every file has a relatively standard frequency cut-off.
Click on any of the spectrals below to view it in a higher resolution.

CD / LOSSLESS
Songs on a retail CD and lossless songs have frequencies that extend all the way to 22 kHz. Since lossless to lossless
transcoding preserves all of the data in a music file, the spectral of a lossless song will look the same in FLAC,
WAV (PCM), ALAC, etc.

However, different genres have different-looking spectrals. The example above was a pop song, so most of the
frequencies were represented. But look at this classical piano song.

It looks much different, right? But its still a lossless spectral! Notice how white noise (the light purple) still
extends to 22 kHz, even though those frequencies arent used.

MP3
Different types of MP3s have different frequency cut-offs. MP3s also tend to have a shelf at 16 kHz (youll see it
in the spectrals).
MP3 320kbps (CBR) has a frequency cut-off at 20.5 kHz.

MP3 256kbps (CBR) has a frequency cut-off at 20 kHz.

MP3 V0 has a frequency cut-off at 19.5 kHz.

MP3 192kbps (CBR) has a frequency cut-off at 19 kHz.

MP3 V2 has a frequency cut-off at 18.5 kHz.

MP3 128kbps (CBR) has a frequency cut-off at 16 kHz.

TRANSCODES
How are spectrals helpful when trying to detect transcodes? Say you download a song in FLAC from a blog. The
only way to verify that this song is truly a lossless file and not a transcoded file is by looking at its spectral.
(Programs like AudioIdentifier are not reliable at detecting transcodes.)

For example, the spectral below is of a FLAC file: the file extension is .flac, it is 21.8 MB, and it sounds okay.

But whoa, does that look anything like what a regular FLAC spectral should look like? No! This file was transcoded
from MP3 192kbps (CBR) to FLAC. Its a lossy to lossless transcode, which is bad.

PROGRAMS
For spectral analysis, we recommend using either Adobe Audition (Windows or Mac OS),Audacity (Windows,
Mac OS, Linux), and SoX (Windows, Mac OS, Linux command line only). All of the spectrals that appear in this
guide were viewed in Adobe Audition CS 6.
Although you should use spectral analysis to determine whether a file is a transcode or not, you will need to use
another program to first determine what bitrate or encoding preset the file claims to be. For this purpose, we
recommend using Audio Identifier or dbPowerAmp on Windows and dnuos or MediaInfo on Mac OS.

CD Burning and CD Ripping

CD ripping is a way to extract the music files from a CD. CD burning is a way to make a CD from music files.

LOG FILES
A log file is a text file with the file extension .log. Like its name suggests, it acts as a log of the entire ripping
process and it records any errors that may have occurred. You may not, for any reason, modify a log file. It is strictly
against the rules and you will be warned for a very long time. Click here to see an example of a log file.

CUE FILES
A cue file is a text file with the file extension .cue. Cue files act as a catalog or a table of contents of a CD and
allow you to burn a CD identical to an original CD. Click here to see an example of a cue file.

SUGGESTED CD RIPPING PROGRAMS

What.CD suggests using Exact Audio Copy (EAC) on Windows or Linux (with Wine), and XLDon Mac OS. Both
EAC and XLD produce high quality rips with sufficient logs to prove that the files are up to standard.

What.CD Rules
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GOLDEN RULES
The Golden Rules on What.CD are as follows:

All staff decisions must be respected. If you take issue with a decision, you must do so privately with the staff
member who issued the decision or with an administrator of the site. Complaining about staff decisions in
public or otherwise disrespecting staff members will not be taken lightly.
Access to this website is a privilege, not a right, and it can be taken away from you for any reason.
One account per person per lifetime. Anyone creating additional accounts will be banned.
Avatars must not exceed 256 kB or be vertically longer than 400 pixels. Avatars must be safe for work, be
entirely unoffensive, and cannot contain any nudity or religious imagery. Use common sense.
Do not post our .torrent files on other sites. Every .torrent file has your personal passkey embedded in it. The
tracker will automatically disable your account if you share your torrent files with others. You will not get your
account back. This doesnt prohibit you from sharing the content on other sites, but does prohibit you from
sharing the .torrent file.
Any torrent you are seeding to this tracker must only have our trackers URL in it. Adding another trackers
URL will cause incorrect data to be sent to our tracker, and will lead to your getting disabled for cheating.
Similarly, your client must have DHT and PEX disabled for all What.CD torrents.
This is a torrent site which promotes sharing amongst the community. If you are not willing to give back to the
community what you take from it, this site is not for you. In other words, we expect you to have an acceptable
share ratio. If you download a torrent, please, seed the copy you have until there are sufficient people seeding
the torrent data before you stop.
Do not browse the site using proxies or TOR. The site will automatically alert us. This includes VPNs
with dynamic IP addresses.
Asking for invites to any site is not allowed anywhere on What.CD or our IRC network. Invites may be offered
in the Invites forum, and nowhere else.
Trading and selling invites is strictly prohibited, as is offering them in public this includes on any forum
which is not a class-restricted section on an invitation-only torrent site.
Trading, selling, sharing, or giving away your account is prohibited. PM a mod to disable your account if
you no longer want it.
Youre completely responsible for the people you invite. If your invitees are caught cheating or trading/selling
invites, not only will they be banned, so will you. Be careful who you invite. Invites are a precious commodity.
Be careful when sharing an IP or a computer with a friend if they have (or have had) an account. From then on
your accounts will be inherently linked and if one of you violates the rules, both accounts will be disabled along
with any other accounts linked by IP. This rule applies to logging into the site.
Attempting to find or exploit a bug in the site code is the worst possible offense you can commit. We have
automatic systems in place for monitoring these activities, and committing them will result in the banning of
you, your inviter, and your inviters entire invite tree.
Were a community. Working together is what makes this place what it is. There are well over a thousand new
torrents uploaded every day and sadly the staff arent psychic. If you come across something that violates a
rule, report it and help us better organize the site for you.
We respect the wishes of other sites here, as we wish for them to do the same. Please refrain from posting links
to or full names for sites that do not want to be mentioned.

DUPES
A dupe is a torrent that is a duplicate of another torrent that already exists on the site. What.CD allows many
different pressings of the same CD to coexist, as long the the CDs have different content.
For example, International Versions (especially Japanese releases) often have bonus tracks that are not present in the
original release or the US release. Uploading a release with bonus tracks when the original release has already been
uploaded is not considered a dupe because there is different content on both CDs.

Torrents that have the same bitrates, formats, and comparable or identical sampling rates for the same music
release are duplicates. If a torrent is already present on the site in the format and bitrate you wanted to upload,
you are not allowed to upload it.
Scene and non-scene torrents for the same release, in the same bitrate and format, are dupes.
Rip log information (table of contents, peak levels, and pre-gaps), tracklist, and running order determine distinct
editions, not catalog information. Merely having different catalog numbers or CD packaging is not enough to
justify a new, distinct edition, though differences in year and label (imprint) do determine distinct releases.
Torrents that have been inactive (not seeded) for two weeks may be trumped by the identical torrent (reseeded)
or by a brand new rip or encode of the album. If you have the original torrent files for the inactive torrent, you
should reseed those original files instead of uploading a new torrent.

TRUMPS
The process of replacing a torrent that does not follow the rules with a torrent that does follow the rules is
called trumping. The most common trumps are format trumps, tag trumps, and folder trumps.

Format Trumps
The following chart shows the hierarchy of format trumps.

At the top of each column in a green box are formats that can never be trumped. We recommend that you only
upload in these formats in order to prevent your torrents from being trumped by other users.
Lossy Format Trump Rules

If there is no existing torrent of the album in the allowed format youve chosen, you may upload it in any bitrate
that averages at least 192 kbps.
You may always upload MP3 V0 , MP3 V2, or MP3 320kbps (CBR) as long as another rip with the same
bitrate and format doesnt already exist.
Higher bitrate CBR (Constant Bitrate) and ABR (Average Bitrate) torrents replace lower ones. Once a CBR rip
has been uploaded, no CBR rips of that bitrate or lower can be uploaded. In the same manner, once an ABR rip
has been uploaded, no ABR rips of that bitrate or lower can be uploaded.
AAC encodes can be trumped by any allowed MP3 format of the same edition and media. (This does not apply
to AAC torrents with files bought from the iTunes Store that contain iTunes Exclusive tracks.)
Lossy format torrents with .log files, .cue files, .m3u files, and album artwork do not replace equivalent existing
torrents.
Lossless Format Trump Rules

Rips must be taken from commercially pressed or official (artist- or label-approved) CD sources. They may not
come from CD-R copies of the same pressed CDs (unless the release was only distributed on CD-R by the artist
or label).
A FLAC torrent without a log (or with a log from a non-EAC or non-XLD ripping tool like dBpoweramp or
Rubyripper) may be trumped by a FLAC torrent with a log from an approved ripping tool with any score.
A FLAC upload with an EAC or XLD log that scores 100% on the log checker replaces one with a lower score.
However, no log scoring less than 100% can trump an already existing one that scores under 100% (for
example, a rip with a 99% log cannot replace a rip with an 80% log).
A 100% log rip without a cue sheet can be replaced by a 100% log rip with a noncompliant cue sheet ONLY
when the included cue sheet is materially different from a cue generated from the ripping log. Examples of a
material difference include additional or correct indices, properly detected pre-gap lengths, and pre-emphasis
flags.

Tag Trumps
Tag trumps happen when the original torrent either doesnt have the required tag fields or the information in one of
the tag fields is completely wrong or misspelled. In the case of misspelled words, the spelling must be entirely off in
order for the tag trump to be considered (for example, missing prepositions like the or a, or a couple letters
being in the wrong order like lvoe instead of love is not enough for a tag trump).

The required tag fields are: title, album, artist, track number.
Torrent album titles must accurately reflect the actual album titles. Use proper capitalization when naming your
albums. Typing the album titles in all lowercase letters or all capital letters is unacceptable and makes the
torrent trumpable.
Newly re-tagged torrents trumping badly tagged torrents must reflect a substantial improvement over the
previous tags. Small changes that include replacing ASCII characters with proper foreign language characters
with diacritical marks (, , , , , etc.), fixing slight misspellings, or missing an alternate spelling of an artist
(excluding The before a band name) are not enough for replacing other torrents.

Folder Trumps
Folder trumps happen when the original torrents folder is not named like it should be. Folders should at the very
least include the album name, but should hopefully also include the year released and music format. Nested folders
are also not allowed.

Music releases must be in a directory that contains the music. This includes single track releases, which must be
enclosed in a torrent folder even if there is only one file in the torrent. No music may be compressed in an
archive (.rar, .zip, .tar, .iso).

Name your directories with meaningful titles, such as Artist Album (Year) Format. The minimum
acceptable is Album although you should include more information.
Avoid creating unnecessary nested folders (such as an extra folder for the actual album) inside your properly
named directory.
File names must accurately reflect the song titles. You may not have file names like 01track.mp3, 02track.mp3,
etc. Torrents containing files that are named with incorrect song titles can be trumped by properly labeled
torrents.
Multiple-disc torrents cannot have tracks with the same numbers in one directory. You may place all the tracks
for Disc One in one directory and all the tracks for Disc Two in another directory.