Anime-Sharing Lossless Recruitment

[Zero2DS]

Konnichiwa! ^^
The music division of Anime-Sharing is going to recruit some people to help us rip and distribute music.

The current staff roster for Anime-Sharing Lossless is:
Leader: Zero2DS
Active Members: Checkmate, Coolio, Ignis, Lavo, strayer, DiSa, Kureko, N3k0, Ekureiru, Cirno, Toss, Shinnmoso
Reserved Members: firev1, Gdragonx
MIA: Hennoji, Sengoku Nadeko
Retired: Cocona

Since we don't have enough members to accomplish all the OST ripping we have set before us, we are looking for fresh blood...
We only require a simple offering of time and bandwidth, or to be precise:

1. The willingness to spend time on ripping music.
2. Currently we have enough staff, but we wouldn't mind more experienced and dedicated people.
3. Have a decent internet connection. A full album can range anywhere from 300MB to 1GB, so uploading at 50kB/s will take 2 or 6 hours, respectively. For this reason you really should have a stable upstream of at least 50kB/s (or 400kb/s, if you want the number in bits) and the possibility to leave your PC running during that. You can test your upload speed here.
4. Japanese skills are a bonus, but not required.

Now a quick Q&A in case you don't know who we are and what exactly we are doing:
Q: What kind of music do you rip?

A: Most eroge OSTs are never ripped, so this is our main focus. We also do anime OSTs and normal music, but that is mostly on a case to case basis. Basically if it comes out of Japan you can do it, but most tasks/priority will be for/on visual novels.

Q: So far you only did FLAC releases, is that all you're doing?

A: In the beginning ASL only released FLAC, keeping Checkmate's a certain person's preferences in mind. Now that we are going to address a larger public we will include VBR MP3 files; mostly V0.

Q: What about CBR 320kbps?

A: Please read up on the differences between VBR and CBR, as well as those between FLAC and MP3 - you will come to understand that CBR releases are pretty much never a good idea. If you don't want to spend time researching just take our word on it, we know what we are doing.

If you are interested in helping out please contact Zero2DS via VM, PM, the Staff Application forum, or in our IRC channel ( [email protected] ). We are looking forward to work together with you to bring more quality releases to the community!

*EHM* new policy regarding ASL's Recruitment:
- Applicants needs to have a minimum of 30 posts.
- Successful Applicants will then enter a trial period of 2 months.
- In this trial period, you will be required to rip at least 2 jobs/Month.
- ASL members are also required to communicate through our IRC staff channel regularly
- Any member absent from IRC staff channel for 30 days without giving us notice will be kicked out.

[Zero-Shadow]

what does rip mean ._.; sorry for newbie quesiton

[Cocona]

what does rip mean ._.; sorry for newbie quesiton

It means to copy music from a cd to a computer or any other device for which you have the option to rip. "Ripping" is the process of copying music from CDs to a computer's hard drive. Generally, this process involves more than simply copying, as music CDs use an uncompressed audio format, whereas most computer users prefer compressed formats such as MP3 and WMA. For this reason, ripping is performed using a dedicated media program rather than the operating system's standard copy function. The word is used to refer to all forms of media. Despite the name, neither the media nor the data is damaged after extraction.

Alternatively you could always do this to find out.

[joe_black1111]

my download is 1.55mb/s.. upload is 0.43mb/s.. my ping 77ms.. u guys think i can join this.. im newbie soo.. what u guys think..?

[Zero2DS]

we are quite aware of your eagerness if you please can you VM me your speedtest.net result?
its not all about upload speed, at least if you can be patient and leave the upload on until its finished...
after that you can found either me(Zero2DS), Firev1, or GdragonX on the irc to start the tutorial...

[joe_black1111]

VM..? what that..? speedtest.net..? how..? fill me in with the detail..? ehehe..

[Coolio]

Speed test is on the first post posted by Zero here. VM is Visitor Message. Simply click on his name and type in whatever your message is. IRC is a Chatbox for our forum. Details are already provided on the first post. here's the link though. http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/a...-channel-3749/

[Zero2DS]

go to the link www.speedtest.net and test your internet speed in there.... the result can be fetch after you do the test by clicking share the result<<< or a button that sounds like that...
VM is a visitor message... you can access them by clicking my name and press view profile

Anyway.... We are getting quite enough member and thinking that its time to close the thread...
We will still be accepting applicants till 6 april.... thank you for those who have sent the application to me...
If you havent got any reply please wait a bit I'm too much occupied with work at the moment...

[Alice_Margatroid]

I'm over at Touhouian (Anime transcoding Group)

We do Anime only currently though we would love to start a joint with Anime-Sharing...

All the music we Do is Touhou based..

This is what we got: http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=194198
its updated with new releases

[Zero2DS]

@alice_Margatroid i sent a mail to you thanks