Post by GLRuk on Feb 5, 2009 15:08:33 GMT 1
The albums contained within the pages of this site are generally compressed into an archive format called a RAR file; this basically bundles together all the constituent files of an album (tracks, album art, tracklist etc) and stores them as one file.
For example:
greenleafrecords.com/music/160dB/2004/160dB - Hawaii Live-O [2004].rar
The above link points to the RAR archive file for 160dB's Hawaii Live-O LP. This is but one file, although it contains twelve mp3s, two jpgs and a txt file.
RAR files can be downloaded the same way you would download any other files, to open a RAR file you will need a piece of software like WinRAR or WinAce. This program unpacks the data from the RAR file and saves it to your hard disk in a folder named after the RAR archive (very similar to a ZIP file).
For further explanation, I have taken this post from warez-bb.org:
rapidshare.com/files/57208916/WinRAR_v3.71.zip <-- Download WinRAR v3.71 here
For example:
greenleafrecords.com/music/160dB/2004/160dB - Hawaii Live-O [2004].rar
The above link points to the RAR archive file for 160dB's Hawaii Live-O LP. This is but one file, although it contains twelve mp3s, two jpgs and a txt file.
RAR files can be downloaded the same way you would download any other files, to open a RAR file you will need a piece of software like WinRAR or WinAce. This program unpacks the data from the RAR file and saves it to your hard disk in a folder named after the RAR archive (very similar to a ZIP file).
For further explanation, I have taken this post from warez-bb.org:
1.What is a RAR file
RAR is the native format of WinRAR archiver. Like other archives, RAR files are data containers, they store one or several files in the compressed form. After you downloaded RAR file from Internet, you need to unpack its contents in order to use it.
2.How to handle RAR files
WinRAR provides the complete support for RAR files, so you may both create and unpack them. If you installed WinRAR on your computer and downloaded RAR file from Internet, you may double click on RAR file icon to open it in WinRAR, select all files, press "Extract To" button, enter a destination path and press "OK". Another way is to click on the RAR file in Explorer using the right mouse button. If you enabled "Shell integration" option when installing WinRAR, the file context menu will contain "Extract to ..." item.
Some RAR files can be parts of multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR you can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes. They may have extensions .rar (the first volume), .r00, .r01, ..., or .part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, ..., etc. If you need to unpack volumes, place all them to the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.
RAR is the native format of WinRAR archiver. Like other archives, RAR files are data containers, they store one or several files in the compressed form. After you downloaded RAR file from Internet, you need to unpack its contents in order to use it.
2.How to handle RAR files
WinRAR provides the complete support for RAR files, so you may both create and unpack them. If you installed WinRAR on your computer and downloaded RAR file from Internet, you may double click on RAR file icon to open it in WinRAR, select all files, press "Extract To" button, enter a destination path and press "OK". Another way is to click on the RAR file in Explorer using the right mouse button. If you enabled "Shell integration" option when installing WinRAR, the file context menu will contain "Extract to ..." item.
Some RAR files can be parts of multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR you can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes. They may have extensions .rar (the first volume), .r00, .r01, ..., or .part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, ..., etc. If you need to unpack volumes, place all them to the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.
rapidshare.com/files/57208916/WinRAR_v3.71.zip <-- Download WinRAR v3.71 here