Grab 8GB worth of songs from the SXSW 2017 Festival
The SXSW music festival is a long standing event at which hundreds of artists perform each year to festival goers.
Music is also made available on the SXSW website, and it is also made available as one huge torrent package each year.
We talked about this back in 2012 in Download More Than 35 Gigabyte Of Free SXSW Festival Music already.
A torrent is created each year featuring songs that artists performed during the festival. The archive dates back to 2005, and the most recent torrent just got uploaded to the site.
 SXSW 2017 Festival Music Torrent
The SXSW 2017 torrent features a massive list of 1201 mp3 songs from hundreds of artists. You may not have heard of most of the artists, unless you are into independent or local music.
While that may make you shy away from the torrent, 8 Gigabytes may take a while to download, it may also help you discover music that you'd never come into contact with otherwise.
Still, it is a shot in the dark. One thing that you may do is visit the official SXSW music site, the Music Bloggers Guide to SXSW, or SXSWFM, an online radio station that streams music 24/7.
Especially the radio station may be useful, as you can let it play in the background while you are doing other things on your computer. It highlights artist and track names which helps you further.
If you check out the SXSW torrent website, unofficial as it states, then you will notice that you can grab torrents from 2005 to 2017. Back in 2012, you could use the site to grab 35 gigabytes of music. Another 39 or so Gigabytes were added in the past five years, so that you may grab about 75 Gigabytes of free music from the site all in all. That's thousands of songs from a lot of artists.
Closing Words
The SXSW torrents have a lot to offer, but it is mostly a shot in the dark as the performing artists are probably best classified as independent or local, and not superstars. This does not mean that the music is bad, only that you will have to listen to the music to find out whether you like it or not.
If you like music discovery, or are a collector of music, then you will certainly want to start up your favorite torrent application to download music from SXSW.
If you are not, you are probably better off listening to the Internet radio station instead.
Now You: Have you downloaded SXSW music before?
Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?