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Posted by Silverbolt, 30 January 2008 · 424 views

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Do the highlighted numbers in this image seem strange to anyone? I uploaded the same episode of Idoling!!! to two places: Mediafire first, then Jpopsuki. Jpopsuki is reporting 33 completed downloads and 10 peers in the swarm. Mediafire is reporting only 12 downloads. In other words, more people chose BitTorrent over direct downloads. Why would people choose to download from my pathetic 150 KB/s upload when they could possibly max out their download bandwidth by grabbing the files from Mediafire? Mediafire is wicked fast and allows multiple simultaneous downloads. I can easily get 1.8 MB/s while downloading from Mediafire. Also, let's not forget about the ratios at Jpopsuki, requiring users to stick around and seed for a while after downloading. There's no need to seed or upload at all if people download from Mediafire.

To be honest, I've been worrying about this ever since I moved the Idoling!!! uploads to Mediafire. The Idoling!!! episodes I uploaded to Jpopsuki would always get around 60 downloads. After moving to Mediafire, the downloads dropped to less than 20 per episode. The download count difference for the Snow celebration PV is even worse: 170 downloads at Jpopsuki and 48 at Mediafire. When I moved the uploads to Mediafire, my purpose was to make things more accessible for fans, but it hasn't worked out as well as I hoped it would.

So, what happened? Well, I think there are two big factors here: non-fans and non-English-speaking fans.

I think the non-fans contributed a lot to the Snow celebration PV download difference. There are a lot of people who will sample music from artists that they don't necessarily like. Even looking at just Jpopsuki, Idoling!!!'s PVs and singles got many more downloads than the TV show episodes did. Their singles (even the Pokikki Medley single) got well over 100 downloads. Ganbare Otome (Warai) and Snow celebration even got over 200 downloads. Jpopsuki is a general place for Japanese media downloads, so just having Idoling!!! files there exposes the group to non-fans and gives them a chance to sample Idoling!!!'s music. Non-fans don't come to my Mediafire site because they don't know about it, and they probably don't care about it.

I think the non-English-speaking fans contributed to most of the TV show download difference. Most, if not all, of the people who download episodes of Idoling!!!'s TV show are already fans of the group. So, they've gotten used to checking Jpopsuki for new episodes. In the descriptions of the torrents I uploaded shortly before the move to Mediafire, I made sure to notify everyone about the move and provide a link to the new place. So, how did I lose over 40 downloaders? They either didn't read the description or don't understand English. My guess is that most of them didn't read the description because they don't understand English. There are a lot of non-English-speaking users at Jpopsuki, and I bet most of them don't even bother looking at descriptions because they look like big jumbles of text that they can't understand. I feel the same way when I visit a non-English language web site.

So, how can I get more people to come to the Mediafire site? Well, in the Christmas SP torrent, I included a readme.txt that had a short message and links to the Mediafire site and the Idoling!!! thread at Jpopmusic.com. It won't overcome the language barrier, but I'm hoping that some people will at least look at it and become curious about the URLs in the file. I really don't want to upload every Idoling!!! file twice, but I don't want to stop uploading to Mediafire because it is much faster and much more accessible to people. I'd much rather try to shift people over to Mediafire than upload solely to Jpopsuki again.

Of course, if anyone wants to upload Idoling!!! files to Jpopsuki (or any BitTorrent tracker) for me, feel free to do so. All I ask is that you put a link to my Mediafire site and a link to the Idoling!!! thread at Jpopmusic.com. :P




Hi,

I started downloading Idoling eps, from Jpopsuki tracker until I found out about your mediafire site.

Thanks a lot for all these, very entertaining.
hEy~ Thanks for ur efforts in uploading to mediafire... chance upon idoling!!! and search for it... found tat jpopsuki didnt have much seeders... den ur site was found! thanks so much.. i get to c the older episodes to know more about idoling!!! <3 are there any idoling forums for fans? been missing H!M... so idoling!!! is next up for me!!! thanks again~!!

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