Downloading via XDCC

[Ignis]

By now, most if not all of you must have heard how the Megaupload takedown has caused an indirect domino effect to most other major file hosting services. For people like us involved in content sharing and downloading, this ultimately means inconvenience caused by dead links among other things. More details about this have been discussed here.


What does this have to do with XDCC?
Lately, we have been seeing posts/comments/messages asking us to reupload certain ASL releases. Normally, we would just reupload the requested files, but with the current state of file hosting services, chances are you would be told to try downloading from torrent or XDCC instead. Unlike torrents, XDCC does not depend on seeds and the files will always be available on the bots unless something unexpected happens. This is especially true for older releases, which obviously are more likely to have dead links.


What do I need to download from XDCC?
An IRC client, that is all (okay, also an Internet connection and sufficient disc space). For XDCC to work, you cannot use a web client like Qchat or Mibbit. You need a standalone IRC client, e.g. mIRC, Irssi, XChat-WDK, KVIrc, HydraIRC, etc. Some clients might require you to tweak some settings first before you can download smoothly via XDCC. For this tutorial I will only be giving an example each for mIRC and Irssi, two clients I use. For other clients please refer to their respective manuals.

Please note that these are just standard settings meant for easy downloading. For guides on connecting to an IRC network (in this case Rizon), please consult your client's respective manuals.

• mIRC:
  Tools -> Options -> DCC. Check the "auto-get file" option and adjust it as shown on the picture below.
  
  
  Then click the "trusted" button and key in our bots' hostmasks (if you have no idea what hostmasks are, simply entering their names in the format shown below should suffice). AS|Sena is our FLAC bot and AS|Hinata is the MP3 one.
  
  
  And finally, go to DCC -> Ignore. Choose the "accept only" option and key in *.rar.
  
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• Irssi:
  Simply type the commands below, one line at a time:
  

  /set dcc_autoget ON
  /set dcc_autoget_masks AS|Sena!*@* AS|Hinata!*@*
  /set dcc_autoresume ON

  

How do I find what I want?
There are two ways:

1. Go to our XDCC parser and find what you want. It automatically interprets spaces as underscores, so do not worry about them. Found what you are looking for? Good. Click on the item you want and you will see a pop-up box with the syntax you need to paste in your IRC client.
   
   
   
   And that is all you need for your download to start. You need to stay in the channel (that is [email protected]) at least until the transfer is complete. The bots will not acknowledge your DCC request if you are not present in at least one of the channels where our bots are.
   
   Please note that:
   • Javascript is required to use the parser, so you may want to (at least temporarily) disable NoScript and the likes.
   • Static content on the parser is cached by our CDN service. This means that your search results may possibly be outdated by up to 24 hours and newly added releases may not appear immediately. For newer releases, please refer to the alternate way below.
   
   
2. Alternatively, join [email protected] and use the !find (or @find) trigger to find what you want (e.g. !find StylipS). The bots will then send you a notice containing the search results.
   
   
   Our bots automatically announce new releases as they are added, so feel free to lurk in the channel to get our new releases faster than anyone else (with the exception of staff, of course).
   
   And that is all.
   
   This thread will stay open for questions, NOT general and/or unrelated comments.