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Originally Posted by andrei
haha... thanks for the tip. I'm using dime for quite a long time and i didn't know about the quotation marks thing. It was always a hassle to find bands with more common names.
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Quotation marks will only take you so far, though - when the band's name is basically stopwords ("filler words like the, a, who, where, do, and many, many more", the Wiki says), you need to go with percent signs. For example, a search for "the only ones" won't bring you back jack squat, but
%the only ones%
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-browse.php?search=%25the+only+ones%25&cat=0&inclde ad=1
will work.
Having said that, other acts will always remain a nightmare to find unless the uploaders include special words like "whotorrent", "yestorrent" and the like in the torrent's name and/or description. The recent flood of Can torrents sure is awesome, but without an ad-hoc word like "cantorrent" they're insanely hard to locate if you're not on top of
bt-dimeadozen-org or follow the links posted here by fine cats like us
. If you search for %can% right now, you'll get an overwhelming bunch of 13,636 results that'll make ya wanna shoot yerself in the face.
Additionally, when dots are involved, you should do a coupla searches: one with 'em and one without 'em; for instance:
"m. ward"
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-b...t=0&incldead=1
"m ward"
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-b...t=0&incldead=1
And then there are of course the plus and minus signs, which some Dimers don't realize need to be appended to
every term (or phrase between quotation marks). Off the top of my head:
"sonic youth" +providence
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-browse.php?search=%22sonic+youth%22+%2Bprovidence& cat=0&incldead=1
+"sonic youth" +providence
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-browse.php?search=%2B%22sonic+youth%22+%2Bproviden ce&cat=0&incldead=1
Quite the change, huh? I'm not sayin' - I'm just sayin'...