Here is a change from the flurry of general 0day sites we've been posting lately. Libble is a dedicated music tracker which has a user base of 6700+ and has a collection of 11000+ torrents. This well known tracker is currently accepting new signups without users requiring invite from existing members.

Site Name: Libble

Signup URL: http://www.libble.com/signup.php

Description: Has more than 11000 music torrents spreading across over 20 genres. Music files are in MP3, FLAC, M4A. WMA and OGG.

Hint: Once you complete the signup form and hit submit, the site will say that the registration is complete and will ask you to login. However when we tried it this didn't work.In this case click the confirmation link in email you get and try logging in. It will work.

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Show Your Ideas While You Are Talking!.Create and control a virtual cast of live talking characters ready to deliver an animated vocal performance for your video, web, mobile or messaging projects. Just a single photograph, recorded or imported audio, combined with transitional effects, animated illustrations and expressive emoticons, and CrazyTalk's powerful facial morphing animation technology is all you need to begin creating speaking actors, virtual guides, and digital hosts adding perfect personalities to any multimedia experience.

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• Automatic lip-sync animation from audio and typed text.
• Instant expressions and animated SFX from library.

 

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• Use mouse or handheld devices to puppet your character.
• Puppet character's behavior in real-time as playing the audio.
• Facial control panel for precise puppet performance.

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Two decent private trackers are now accepting new registrations without invites. Check them out. Signups open for Bestshare.ro and BitShock as of 31/3/2008 9.40AM Sri Lankan Time (+5.30 GMT).

Site Name: BitShock

Signup URL: http://www.bitshock.org/signup.php

Description: General 0day site. Has a good collection of music and music videos.

Site Name: BestShare

Signup URL: http://www.bestshare.ro/signup.php

Description: Decent Romania based site with almost 100% English content. Mostly scene releases but they have some unique movie packs and collections as well.

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WinRAR is a file archiver and data compression utility developed by Eugene Roshal. It is arguably one of the two main file archive programs for Windows, along with WinZip. It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, as the encoding method is held to be proprietary.

Features:

• Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7z and Z archives. Future versions of WinRAR are planned to include 7z creation.
• The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.
• Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and recovery volumes, even allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.
• Support for advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.
• Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.

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Private torrent tracker The Peer Hub is currently accepting new signups.

Site Name: The Peer Hub

Signup URL: http://www.thepeerhub.com/signup.php

Description: ThePeedHub is a general 0day tracker which tracks mostly scene released movies, music, games and appz. Decent pre times.

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The DivX Create Bundle gives you everything you need to start watching high-quality DivX videos, including DivX Video-on-Demand movies. DivX also support high compression ratios with minimal loss of quality and is a popular choice among DVDrip release groups. You will need the DivX codec to view any video encoded using divX and is therefore essential if you are doing multimedia tasks using your PC.

Features

• Playback all DivX video, including DivX ® media files
• Add DivX playback support to your existing media player
• Rent and purchase high-quality DivX Video-on-Demand titles

Included Components

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• DivX Community Codec
• DivX Web Player
• DivX Converter
• DivX Pro Codec

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CZONE, after suffering from downtime and database deletion yesterday, have now restored services of both the site and the tracker. They seem to be in the process of re uploading all torrents previously in the database.

Better yet, signups are still open; there are currently 18000+ members and according to site admins around 11000 more open registrations will be accepted before signup closure. You may want to hurry if you want an account.

A notice on site's front page now reads:
"Dear Friends,
Because of some electricity problems, independent from us, in the last days we had some technical difficulties as you all have seen.
The good news is that we took advantage of this and we added up some special features to the tracker that will optimize the activity of  all the users, like automatic verification for hit and runners, no passkey downloads and fake ratio.All of the above had determined us to give up on the old database and thus meaning that you have to re-register your accounts.You can register new accounts for free, without the necessity of an invite until we reach 30.000 users.
We'll even initiate a contest to repay you: all users that will be promoted to "Power User" will get 2 invites and "C-ZONE Elite Member" will get 5 invites.The promotion is available until we reach 30.000 users."

The site is in Romanian but most of torrents are English. CZONE was (and still is, judging by the rate of new registrations) a well sought after private tracker in the bittorrent community.

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Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and video types (AVI, ASF, MPEG, NSV), custom appearances called skins (supporting both classic Winamp 1.x/2.x skins and Winamp 3 freeform skins), audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins (including two industry dominating visualization plug-ins), an advanced media library, Internet radio and TV support, CD ripping, and CD burning.

Winamp Highlights

• New portable device features - transcoding, new sync options, USB thumbdrive player support, video sync, direct-from-device playback
• Faster ripping
• Improved AAC and aacPlus encoding
• Unicode metadata, filename, and title support
• iTunes-compatible gapless playback (MP3/M4A) and encoding (M4A)
• Optional 24bit playback
• ReplayGain support

Winamp Player Features

• Plays Music and Video Files (aacPlus, MP3, AAC, WMA and more!)
• Compatible with Winamp 2 Plug-ins
• Full Support for Classic and Modern Skins
• Plays Videos (NSV, WMV, and more!)
• Powerful Media Library
• Browse SHOUTcast Radio & TV Stations
• Browse Winamp Music Videos & Songs
• Integrated AOL Video Content (News, Sports, Movies & more)
• AOL Radio Featuring XM
• SHOUTcast Wire (podcast directory)
• Predixis MusicMagic (dynamic playlisting)
• Bundled Visualizations
• Burn CDs (Limited to 2x - 48x in Pro!)
• Rips CDs (Limited to 8x aacPlus, AAC, WMA
• Unlimited aacPlus, AAC, WMA and MP3 in Pro!)
• 50 free mp3s from Emusic
• Includes Winner of the Internet
• Surround Music Project!
• Includes an MP3 of 'Mercy Me' by Alkaline Trio
• Rip/Encode music into aacPlus, AAC, WMA, or MP3!
• Burn CDs up to 48x!

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Here is a torrent featuring 300 anime pictures and wallpapers. Images are in BMP and JPEG formats and have resolutions of 800x600, 1024x768, 1155x864, 1280x960, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.

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Czone.ro which is considered to be one of the elite bittorrent trackers, has opened signups. The surprise move comes after the site seemingly deleted all torrents and all user accounts from the database (or their DB crashed and they started from scratch). Either way, they are currently accepting new signups.

As of time of post, there are no torrents in the database. However the registered user count has shot up from 0 to 3800+ in a short while. Get yourselves an account; this is an elite tracker! (if it returns to its former glory that is).

Site Name: CZONE Tracker

Signup URL: http://torrents.czone.ro/signup.php

Description: Romania based tracker with general content. Although site language is Romanian, 99% of the content is English.

Update: (Quoted from their forums)

"there were added functional elements for automatic checking of hit and run, downloading without pass key and fake ratio.this is why we had to dump the old data base.
there is free signup up to 30 000 users. everybody that gets promoted to power user in this period (up to 30 000 users) gets 2 invites and who is promoted to elite member gets 5 invites."

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