Guide: How To Download

1. The 1st step is to download Azureus, which is a program you install on your computer that gives you the ability to download torrents.

Download Azureus here: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php

Choose the download location closest to you.

2. Install Azureus by double-clicking the azureus icon that you just downloaded.

The Azureus install will begin, choose "I Agree" and follow the rest of the prompts.

3. Browse our archive of mixtapes and when you find what you want, click where it says "attachment".

4. Right-click on the torrent and choose "Save As", then a dialog will appear asking you where you want to save it. Saving it to the desktop should be just fine...now click "Save"

5. Now right-click on the torrent file you just saved and choose "Open With", then select Azureus.

5a. Alternatively, if the "Open With" dialog does not appear for you, open Azureus then goto File > Open > Torrent File and choose the torrent file you saved.

6. The torrent will now open in Azureus and begin downloading.

7. When the download completes you will see the torrent move to the lower section in Azureus. This means you
are seeding. Seeding means you are sharing the download with others. It is VERY IMPORTANT to seed, this is how the torrent community thrives, be sure to keep those downloads open!

NEED HELP?

Visit the best archive of torrent/azureus help: AzureusWiki

More Torrent Links/FAQs:

A GREAT BitTorrent FAQ: (http://dessent.net/btfaq/)
Official BitTorrent homepage: (http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/index.html)
File Soup's FAQ (http://www.filesoup.com/faq.html)

Torrent Terms (Borrowed From: http://dessent.net/btfaq/):

Torrent
Usually this refers to the small metadata file you receive from the web server (the one that ends in .torrent.) Metadata here means that the file contains information about the data you want to download, not the data itself. This is what is sent to your computer when you click on a download link on a website. You can also save the torrent file to your local system, and then click on it to open the BitTorrent download. This is useful if you want to be able to re-open the torrent later on without having to find the link again.
In some uses, it can also refer to everything associated with a certain file available with BitTorrent. For example, someone might say "I downloaded that torrent" or "that server has a lot of good torrents", meaning there are lots of good files available via BitTorrent on that server.

Peer
A peer is another computer on the internet that you connect to and transfer data. Generally a peer does not have the complete file, otherwise it would be called a seed. Some people also refer to peers as leeches, to distinguish them from those generous folks who have completed their download and continue to leave the client running and act as a seed.

Seed
A computer that has a complete copy of a certain torrent. Once your client finishes downloading, it will remain open until you click the Finish button (or otherwise close it.) This is known as being a seed or seeding. You can also start a BT client with a complete file, and once BT has checked the file it will connect and seed the file to others. Generally, it's considered good manners to continue seeding a file after you have finished downloading, to help out others. Also, when a new torrent is posted to a tracker, someone must seed it in order for it to be available to others. Remember, the tracker doesn't know anything of the actual contents of a file, so it's important to follow through and seed a file if you upload the torrent to a tracker.

Re-Seed
When there are zero seeds for a given torrent (and not enough peers to have a distributed copy), then eventually all the peers will get stuck with an incomplete file, since no one in the swarm has the missing pieces. When this happens, someone with a complete file (a seed) must connect to the swarm so that those missing pieces can be transferred. This is called reseeding. Usually a request for a reseed comes with an implicit promise that the requester will leave his or her client open for some time period after finishing (to add longevity to the torrent) in return for the kind soul reseeding the file.

Tracker
A server on the Internet that acts to coordinate the action of BitTorrent clients. When you open a torrent, your machine contacts the tracker and asks for a list of peers to contact. Periodically throughout the transfer, your machine will check in with the tracker, telling it how much you've downloaded and uploaded, how much you have left before finishing, and the state you're in (starting, finished download, stopping.) If a tracker is down and you try to open a torrent, you will be unable to connect. If a tracker goes down during a torrent (i.e., you have already connected at some point and are already talking to peers), you will be able to continue transferring with those peers, but no new peers will be able to contact you. Often tracker errors are temporary, so the best thing to do is just wait and leave the client open to continue trying.

Downloading (Which is also referred to as "Leeching")
Receiving data FROM another computer.

Uploading (Which is also referred to as "Seeding")
Sending data TO another computer.

Share rating (Which is also referred to as your "Ratio")
If you are using the experimental client with the stats-patch, you will see a share rating displayed on the GUI panel. This is simply the ratio of your amount uploaded divided by your amount downloaded. The amounts used are for the current session only, not over the history of the file. If you achieve a share ratio of 1.0, that would mean you've uploaded as much as you've downloaded. The higher the number, the more you have contributed. If you see a share ratio of "oo", this means infinity, which will happen if you open a BT client with a complete file (i.e., you seed the file.) In this case you download nothing since you have the full file, and so anything you send will cause the ratio to reach infinity. Note: The share rating is just a number that is displayed for your convenience. It does not directly affect any aspect of the client at all. In general, out of courtesy to others you should strive to keep this ratio as high as possible, of course.