If you are tired of seeing General/0Day torrent trackers every day, here’s a niche tracker that caters to a very specific type of torrents; Merlin (ML) is a private tracker that specializes in Science Fiction and Fantasy related content. As we highlighted in a previous article, there are some very experienced staffers and uploaders behind this tracker – it’s run by the same crew who run ACiD, another veteran torrent site in the BitTorrent community. Despite being a promising new torrent site, Merlin hasn’t exactly been a hot topic on tracker forums or blogs. This is largely due to tight rules on unwanted publicity as well as their almost permanent closed signup status. In case you were struggling to find a way into this tracker, here’s a great opportunity – the special signup key mentioned at the end of this article will allow 1000 new users sign up, with no strings attached.

Launched on March 2010, Merlin has primarily been recruiting members from their IRC invites channel as well as through the sister site ACiD. No matter how good a site’s content is, it needs active members in order to survive in the long run. Being a community oriented tracker, ML has an even stronger need for good members. This is where the open registrations come in - limited open signups similar to which is provided by the the signup key below, is a great way to increase membership without losing control.

In case you were wondering what type of content is indexed on Merlin, it’s all about Sci-Fi and Fantasy torrents. The site currently tracks 650+ releases including movies, TV shows, soundtracks, etc relating to the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. Quite a few exclusive, unique torrents as well as packs have also been uploaded. Exclusive releases can be identified by ‘Menc’ or ‘ML’ tags on torrent title and are usually placed inside ‘Merlin Encodes’ category. The screenshot which shows part of main torrent index might give you a better idea on the sort of content you can find on this tracker:

Coming back to open signups, you can use the key below to create a free account on ML. The current recruitment campaign will end once 1000 new members sign up or after 6 weeks, whichever comes sooner. If you are a fan of Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV shows or movies, you might want to check this tracker out.

Site Name: Merlin

Signup URL: http://www.merlins-loft.org.uk/Main/?act=Signup&id=8&hash=bb0b40ae4ca951ead838244ccc6fd847

Special Signup Key: yexpmf

Feel free to share this key with your friends on other BT forums or blogs. However, please make sure to link to this post so that whoever is signing up will at least know which type of tracker they are getting into. This giveaway will be pointless if 1000 members who didn’t have any use for ML signed up, mistaking it for a General/0Day tracker.

Special thanks to ML staff for the support given.

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Here we go folks – probably the most anticipated game of 2010 is finally here. Call of Duty : Black Ops is the latest installment to the long running first person shooter franchise which saw the light in 2003. Now, I read somewhere that over 5 million copies of the game were sold in North America alone, on release day itself – Black Ops is already a hit. However, that doesn’t mean it’s a perfect release – there are numerous issues present, some of the most common problems being continuous stuttering, random slowdowns and of course, audio glitches. Here’s our routine troubleshooting article for Call of Duty – Black Ops. Hopefully, this article will help you get around these annoyances and make you single player and multiplayer gaming experience better.

Stuttering, lag, slowdowns, low FPS and other performance issues

It’s no secret that Call of Duty : Black Ops suffers from serious performance issues. Unfortunately folks, there’s no magic fix like in Fallout : New Vegas to boost the FPS. However, there are some workarounds you can try, at least until an official patch is released. We can’t guarantee these fixes will increase performance for everyone, but they are well worth a shot.

Use custom configuration file to improve performance.

1. Back up your game’s configuration files which are located in \InstallPath\Call of Duty - Black Ops\players folder. config.cfg is the configuration settings file for single player mode and config_mp.cfg is for multiplayer mode.
2. Copy the configuration settings from custom cfg file located at http://pastebin.com/at8sNzkK (this was posted on NFOHump forums)
3. Replace the values in config_mp.cfg with values copied from custom file. Save and load the game.
   Note: Changes to config.cfg file reflects only in multiplayer mode. To edit settings for single player mode, edit the config.cfg file.

Upgrade to NVIDIA 260.99 Drivers

Video hardware manufacturers can do little if the fault is on the game’s side (which seems to be the case with COD : BO). However, several of our readers had E-mailed us that they got better performance when they upgraded to NVIDIA’s 260.99 WHQL drivers. You may download the driver release from this location.

Change priority of COD : BO process

Here’s a yet another workaround you can try. This involves changing priority for COD : BO Process to monimize CPU utilization issues the game seems to be having.

1. Run the game – after you get to the main menu, Open Windows Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del.
2. Locate the Black Ops process. Right click it and set it’s priority to High.
3. If you have Steam running, right click the Steam process and set it’s priority to Low.

Audio Issues, Game crashes to desktop (CTD) at launch, black screen or won’t start

Check the sampling rate

There can be a number of different reasons why this can happen but here’s a common fix you can try. We have mentioned this previously in troubleshooting posts for other games. Black Ops might crash if your sound card’s audio sampling rate is set to any value above 24 bit/48000 Hz range. To fix this issue, follow the steps below (applicable on Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems):

1. Open Control Panel –> Sound.
2. In the ‘Playback’ tab, select ‘Speakers’. Choose ‘Properties’.
3. In the Speaker Properties window, switch to the ‘Advanced’ tab.
4. Under the ‘Default Format’ drop down, choose 24 bit, 48000 Hz (Studio Quality) option.
5. Close all Windows by pressing Ok. Run the game.

Note that you should try this fix if you have run into audio issues including noisy sound, stuttering or lagging audio, no audio, etc. as well.

Disable SPDIF / HD Fill

1. Update your sound card with latest drivers.
2. Open your Sound Card’s control panel utility.
3. Look for any properties similar to ‘Speaker Fill’, ‘Speaker HD Fill’ or ‘SPDIF’.
4. If any of these options are enabled, disable them. Now run the game.

Please keep in mind that this article is a work in progress - more fixes will be added here as and when they are discovered. Check this space for updates.

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This is probably old news by now but we simply can’t ignore the fact that TorrentLeech went through it’s most significant upgrade since the trackers’ birth. TorrentLeech (aka TL), considered as the king of private torrent sites by many veteran torrenters, launched the third major revision of its tracker and web interface last night. TL v3 is a massive upgrade over the previous codebase and it’s been created from scratch by TL’s dedicated developer team. According to w00t, a TL SysOp, v3 was in development for more than a year – was the wait worth it? Hell yes. There are a number of noticeable enhancements in the new version, including many changes to visual features as well as under the hood changes that result in improved site speed, faster navigation and overall site efficiency.

First thing I noticed with TL v3 was their new slogan. TorrentLeech, which carried the tagline ‘Not Here, Not Scene’ for many years has now changed it to ‘This is what happens when you seed’. Even the logo appears to have changed. But these are probably the least important of recently implemented changes. Although this post does not aim to be a full review of TL v3, mentioned below are some of the highlights of this release, just to give an understanding about the scope of the upgrade:

• Completely new, polished looking visual layout based on a new codebase
• Revamped search engine which delivers more accurate search results, along with enhancements such as results filtering, filename searching and support for searchable, user customizable torrent tags.
• Enhanced torrent Browsing with browse by category & browse by tags options. Supports filtering by Tags, Categories, Size and Uploaded Date.
• Automatic IMDB discovery and automatic IMDB information retrieval (including cover image and adding genres as tags for the torrent) for movie and TV torrents.
• New torrent description page with a tabbed layout. All available information about a particular torrent is now organized into 5 tabs; Torrent Info, NFO, Comments, Gallery and Files.
• New invitation system and invite signup process. Invitations can be sent and tracked through the Invitations Tab in the user profile.
• Speed improvements – browsing, site functions, searches and navigation are now notably faster.
• Revamped torrent bookmarking feature.
• Enhancements to in-site PM and messaging system – this is still a work in progress.
• Plus many more

Added below are several screenshots showcasing some of the new features and visual features introduced in TL v3:

New search and browse options with category and tag filtering.

New torrent description page -  tabbed structured makes it easier to locate the information you need.

TorrentLeech main index with some of the new category icons. 

The only drawback I found in TL v3 was with the category icons. They seemed a little too similar to each other – the old icons were easily distinguishable and it was easy to spot certain types of releases instantly on the main index. Either way this issue will hopefully resolve itself as members get used to the look and feel of the new icon set.

Note that TL v3 is still in its beta phase. Like any other web development project, it’s bound to have undiscovered bugs and glitches at this stage. There are many fixes still being deployed and during the first 48-72 hours since v3 launch, TL will only be open to power users and VIP members. Any other member trying to log in at this point will get invalid username/password errors.

Additionally, make sure to update your bookmarks. If you had bookmarked an internal page instead of the TL homepage (for example the torrent browse page - http://www.torrentleech.org/browse.php ), there is a high likelihood this link will return page not found errors. Pages ending with .php are gone – either change your bookmarks to direct to TL homepage or update them with the correct internal page URL.

After having featured more than 10 TorrentLeech invitation giveaways as well as two mass invite campaigns on this blog, we have reasons to believe most of our readership are already members of this tracker. If you still aren’t in TL, don’t lose hope – while the site is currently closed for registrations, there will most likely be mass invite campaigns and IRC giveaways in future (although we don’t exactly know when). If any such event occurs we will be updating this blog as usual– stay tuned.

Site Name: TorrentLeech (http://www.torrentleech.org)

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A couple of weeks ago we posted an article about StoreMags, a release blog for all kinds of magazine downloads. While the site indexed a ton of mags, it received quite a bit of criticism from our readers primarily due to two reasons; 1. It indexed a lot of adult themed magazines. 2. You had to purchase premium membership at a certain one click hosting service to download some files. If StoreMags didn’t suit your needs, here’s another free magazine download site that you might find useful. It has a much cleaner interface and is free of adult content. The site is updated on a regular basis and true PDF files viewable on both PC and iPad are indexed, along with Hotfile and Depositfiles download links.

Just like StoreMags, Magazines Download is modeled after a release blog. New uploads are posted as separate articles and latest issues can be seen on the site homepage. If you are looking for older releases, there are multiple ways to search for them. You can either use the search box on top right corner of the page or you can look up the release in site Archive which is accessible from top toolbar. An even cooler way to discover new magazines is the ‘Root category list’ (located on the right sidebar). As you may have guessed, this is a magazines index categorized by genre. Clicking on a specific category will take you to a page which will look something like the screenshot below. It’s a in fact a well organized view which gives you easy access to all available issues of a certain magazine with the click of a button.

‘Magazines Download’ appears to index magazines from all parts of the world. However, some of you would be glad to know that majority of these releases are English, US published content which are hugely popular. As we mentioned earlier, downloads are hosted on one click hosting services such as Hotfile and Depositfiles – you can download files from these services even if you don’t have a paid/premium account. Downloading is pretty straightforward and no registration/log in is required.

[Click Here] to visit Magazines Download homepage.

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Up until now, musiCore was known amongst the file sharing community as a site which offered direct download links (DDL) to scene released music albums. However, thanks to the recent changes and new features implemented by musiCore staff, this impression will soon change. It’s no longer just a DDL forum – the site has morphed into a hybrid download engine which now offers three ways of leeching music; DDL, torrents and FTP links. For those of you who’ve never heard about musiCore, it auto uploads scene released music albums to file hosting services (and now to a torrent tracker & FTP) so that they may be downloaded by the general public. In fact, a recently pre’d SceneNotice (more info in previous article) identified this site as a ‘0sec HTTP Site Mirroring to Public’. For those of you are interested in joining, basic membership registrations are currently open.

Although musiCore is not as popular a source for music downloads as What.Cd or Waffles.Fm, it’s actually doing a great job in terms of adding new content. Around 350 new albums are uploaded by the service on a daily basis – that’s a lot of music and you don’t often see that much of new content on other similar DDL/torrent sites. And the fact that you now get to choose *how* you are going to download the files (DDL/Torrent or FTP) should make the service even more popular.

But are all these for free? Well, most of it is, but to access some features of the site, you need to get promoted to advanced members group or become a donor. Actually the user class system and membership requirements on musiCore can be a little confusing so we have presented it in a more simplified form below:

• musiCore is currently open for registration. Anyone who gets is through open regs will start as a ‘Basic Member’
• Basic members have full access to DDL links.
• Basic members do not have access to torrent downloads – However, they are allowed to upload (seed). Once you upload 1GB of data to musiCore’s tracker, you will get promoted to ‘Advanced Members’ group.
• ‘Advanced Members’ have full access to both DDL and Torrent downloads.
• Users invited  by existing musiCore members will automatically start out as ‘Advanced Members’.
• ‘Advanced Members’ will all be awarded one invite each month (if they don’t have any invites left).
• FTP access is for donors only. While ‘Advanced Members’ can log into the FTP server and view directories/files, only donors can actually download. To be honest, this part is basically a pay-to-leech operation.

musiCore offers two ways of browsing their massive index – a forum based system where music releases are organized into threads (http://musicore.net/forums/index.php) as well as using a searchable index (Log in and visit http://musicore.net/). In addition, a separate page where all DDL links (sorted by date) are added, is also available at http://musicore.net/ddl. At a glance, the forum system appears to be more user friendly – main index takes some getting used to but this too comes in very handy at times.

Screenshot above shows part of musiCore’s searchable index. Through the ‘Link Mode’ drop down, you can switch between modes of leeching. If you select ‘Default’ or ‘Filehoster’ options, you will be given DDL links on remote one click hosting services (click on a release name –> this will display a yellow colored box with a link –> click this and you will be directed to album download location). If you choose ‘Torrents’ from the drop down and click on an entry, the browser will immediately start to download the .torrent file (you may also start the torrent download by clicking on the number of seeds for a particular release). FTP links work pretty much the same way, provided that your user class has the necessary permissions. There are lots of additional features in this interface and we recommend you play with it and find out for yourself :p

As mentioned earlier, registrations for musiCore are currently open. Those who sign up through this method will start out as Basic Members.

Site Name: musiCore (http://musicore.net)

Registration URL: http://musicore.net/forums/index.php?app=core&module=global&section=register

Forum URL: http://musicore.net/forums/index.php

Tracker/DDL/FTP Searchable Index URL: Log in and visit http://musicore.net/

All In One DDL Releases Index URL: http://musicore.net/ddl/

For basic members – How to upload data to musiCore:

1. Download a music album to your hard disk from another source i.e. a torrent site or another DDL.
2. Locate the same album release on musiCore. Download the torrent.
3. Once you have the torrent loaded in your client, change its data directory so that it points to the location where you placed files you downloaded in step 1. Your torrent client will now re-check the data and start seeding the torrent (if files match).
4. You can seed several albums at the same time. Once you seed 1GB+ data to musiCore’s tracker, you will be promoted ‘Advanced Member’ user class.

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Back in early 2009, we did an article on a list of Wrestling torrent trackers that were open for signup. Here are two slightly newer sites that were not included in that update; World Wrestling Torrents (WWT) and Wrestling Axxess. WWT is wrestling tracker that’s been around for a while - and it’s probably the only gazelle based sports torrent site out there. Wrestling Axxess on the other hand is brand new and is an infant in the BitTorrent scene. Both these trackers seem to have a bright future ahead of them and might interest you if you are into Wrestling, Classic Wrestling, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) or Ultimate Fighting Champion (UFC) related video content. These sites are currently open for registration and everyone is able to sign up for an account without the need for an invite.

World Wrestling Torrents

We first featured this tracker in March 2009, when it was brand new. During the last year and a half, WWT has come a long way from being a start up Wrestling tracker to evolve into the matured torrent site that it is today. It does not have a million torrents but WWT indexes videos from all major Wrestling events – they have both  scene releases as well as internal releases by trusted uploaders. The Gazelle layout works well and it’s customized to match the site’s theme.

At the time this post was being written, WWT tracked over 1330 active torrents and had a registered user base of 14300 members. Signups are currently open.
Site Name: World Wrestling Torrents (http://worldwrestlingtorrents.net)
Signup URL: http://worldwrestlingtorrents.net/register.php

Wrestling Axxess

Wrestling Axxess is the newest specialized Wrestling tracker to hit the BitTorrent scene. It’s just been two weeks since this tracker went live but so far it’s not been anything revolutionary. However, WA appears to cover all important Wrestling events ranging from WWE, WCW, ECW, TNA, Class Wrestling as well as UFC and other MMA events. Several unique packs have also been uploaded it’s a decent enough start for any young niche tracker.

As of 11/6/2010, WA tracked 85 active torrents, all of them on free leech. Signups are currently open so go ahead and check it out.
Site Name: Wrestling Axxess (http://wrestlingaxxess.org)
Signup URL: http://wrestlingaxxess.org/signup.php

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Wake up folks, another Bond game is out. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of James Bond video games. But judging by the response this game has received in various gaming forums, it’s no secret that this gaming franchise has a large fan base from all corners of the world. Blood Stone is a third-person shooter with elements of hand-to-hand combat - its PC version was developed by High Moon studios. Anyways here’s our routing troubleshooting article for this game – it is a short post but hopefully you will be able to resolve those annoying crashing issues with Blood Stone, if you are having any.

Blood Stone Installer freezing and crashes to desktop

The most common problem people seem to be having with Blood Stone is the installer freezing/hanging or crashing issue. This seems to be related to DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Windows Vista/Windows 7 based operating systems. If your installer crashes before the installation completes, try doing the following:

1. Go to Start->Run. Type cmd.exe and press enter.
2. In the command prompt, type bcdedit.exe/set nx AlwaysOff and press enter. This will turn DEP off.
3. Reboot the machine
4. Install Blood Stone

DEP is a security measure and it’s probably not the best idea to keep it disabled. Once Blood Stone installation is complete. do the following to re-enable DEP

1. Go to Start->Run. Type cmd.exe and press enter.
2. In the command prompt, type bcdedit.exe/set nx OptIn and press enter. This will turn DEP on.
3. Reboot the machine

Fix for Audio looping, crash to desktop

This is a fix that was mentioned in TorrentLeech tracker comments section. I personally never ran into this issue nor tried the fix mentioned below. Try this if you experience audio issues or random or startup CTD.

1. Set Audio Sample Rate In Windows and In-game to 16 bit,48000hz (DVD Quality)
2. Right click "Computer"
3. Click "Manage"
4. Double click "Users and Groups"
5. Click "Groups"
6. Right click "Administrators"
7. Click "Add to group..."
8. Click "Add"
9. Click "Advanced"
10. Click "Find Now"
11. Double click "Local Service"
12. Click "Ok"
13. "NT Authority\Local Service" should show up in the list now
14. Click "Ok"
15. Close Computer Management and reboot.

More fixes will be added here as and when they are discovered.

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BitTorrent community does not have that many lifestyle related trackers. However, the few trackers out there which fall into this category such as SeductionGR, ThePlace.Bz, BitSeduce, Salad.tl, etc all seem to have a strong following and a solid footprint in the BitTorrent scene. Therefore, one would think it’s not a bad idea to start a new lifestyle themed torrent site –and that’s exactly what ElbitZ crew has done. As you may already know, ElbitZ is a well known E-Learning torrent tracker that primarily caters to educational material. uActivity is a brand new torrent site launched by the same crew. As opposed to educational stuff, this new site focuses more on lifestyle content ranging from Self Improvement, Fitness, Food, Drinking, Dancing, Health, Fitness, Seduction, NLP and Cooking to even Magic Illusions.

Although ElbitZ has been around for a couple of years, uActivity is a completely new project built from scratch. Having said that, it does have the backing of its sister site’s user base and is poised to get off to a head start – there’s already an official announcement on ElbitZ about uActivity and if I’m not mistaken EB has over 10k active members. UA hasn’t done badly in uploading new content either – it’s just been two days since the launch and already there are around 150 active indexed torrents ready for downloading.

Speaking of the content on uActivity, it’s primarily a Lifestyle, Self Improvement tracker. The official description is as follows: “uActivity is a private tracker that specializes in lifestyle content. uActivity will help you to share videos, E-books and audio files related to day to day human life. From Self Improvement, Fitness, Food, Drinking, Dancing, Health, Fitness, Seduction, NLP and Cooking to Magic Illusions and More.” Some of the available torrent categories and a few indexed torrents can be seen in the screenshot below:

Built on a customized version of TS Special Edition codebase, uActivity comes with all standard features found on a private tracker. The site is ratio based but a bonus system also exists (currently disabled) to make things easier for those who have trouble uploading back. If you are looking to be part of a new lifestyle tracker, check this out. Signups are currently open.

Site Name: uActivity (http://uactivity.com)

Signup URL: http://uactivity.com/signup.php

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If you’ve been reading this blog for long, you probably have heard about TBDEV. TBDEV is a BitTorrent tracker script that is hugely popular – it’s a fully customizable codebase that’s still in widespread use. Although we have often heard about trackers being built on TBDEV, have you ever heard of a BitTorrent invite/discussion forum and a private torrent site rating system built on this codebase? TopTBDev is one such site – it’s primarily a private tracker ratings and rankings board along with BitTorrent related discussion threads, invite giveaways, requests, tutorials, users bars and even details of torrent packs on various sites. In addition, it has highly detailed tracker descriptions complete with screenshots from all areas of particular a site. TopTBDev is currently open for signup and is accepting new members.

At a glance, TopTBDev looks just like another private tracker – its signup page and the main index will look familiar to anyone who’s used a TBDev based private tracker before. However, instead of the regular ‘Browse’ page, TopTBDev has a ‘Trackers’ button. This takes you to the main index which is a list of trackers sorted by its rating. Clicking on one of these opens a detailed description page, which pretty much contains everything from screenshots to IRC channel details and signup status of a particular tracker. It must be said that included screenshots are highly detailed – you can actually view all parts of a site without joining. Users are allowed to rate and comment about trackers of their choice – comments about a particular site are well organized and easily accessible. Note that TopTBDev appears to index all sites, including trackers that do not prefer publicity.

Then there’s the forum. TopTBDev’s forum has almost all features  you’d usually find on a regular BitTorrent discussion forum. There are invite giveaways, requests, tracker discussions, torrent site userbars, discussions of packs on various trackers, and even a ‘torrent finder’ where you can ask community help to locate a torrent you are looking for. It’s not the most active forum on the planet but it isn’t an isolated ghost town either.

Signups for TopTBDev are currently open. If you are looking to be part of a different kind of BitTorrent forum, check this site out.

Site Name: TopTBDev (http://toptbdev.net)

Signup URL: http://toptbdev.net/signup.php

Special thanks to Podolski for the heads up.

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Private torrent trackers opening signups on a monthly basis is nothing new – several invite only torrent communities such as GFXnews, AudioNews, AppzUniverse, Pro Audio Torrents, ElbitZ, etc already engage in this practice with successful results. Latest tracker to join this club is PianoSheets, a unique, Gazelle powered, torrent site which specializes in piano sheet music, tutorials, electronic books plus other educational material that will definitely come in handy for professionals, enthusiasts and students of music. So far, PianoSheets has mostly been an invite only tracker with the last public open signup happening nearly six months ago. This however is about to change – starting November, PianoSheets will be open for public registrations during the first two days of each month. In case you didn’t notice – today is the 1st of November and the the site is open to the public as we speak.

Over the past couple of years, PianoSheets has grown at a steady pace (this tracker actually started its operations back in 2004). In fact if you take a look at the statistics, you’d know that this site has done extremely well as a niche torrent tracker. As of 1/11/2010, PS had a registered user base in excess of 7000 members and tracked over 9400 active torrents. Now, with planned monthly open signups, these statistics are only going to increase and site activity further boosted. In case you didn’t know, PS is a Gazelle powered private tracker.

Just like on most non-general private trackers focusing on a specific category, content is king on PianoSheets. This tracker has some unique torrents you might not find elsewhere – piano sheet music as well as various books, educational material on a number of other musical instruments such as drums, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, organ, woodwind, etc are available for download. Magazines, lyrics, full scores, theory books and the likes can also be found. In addition, the ‘Collections’ section on PS makes it easier to discover related torrents. It’s a powerful usability feature that creates virtual torrent packs – something similar to ‘Collages’ feature often found on some music trackers. This section is easily accessible from the top toolbar. A screenshot capturing part of PianoSheet’s torrent index can be seen below:

As mentioned earlier, there couldn’t be a better time to get into PianoSheets than now (unless you are already a member). For those of you who are interested in getting in, signups will be open to the public from Nov. 1st 00:00GMT to Nov. 2nd 23:59GMT and again each month at the same time.

Site Name: PianoSheerts (http://www.pianosheets.org)

Signup URL: http://www.pianosheets.org/register.php

Special thanks to Hanzo for the heads up.

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