etree
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| Exchange of concert recordings | |
| operator | etree community |
| editorial staff | Mike Wren |
| Registration | optional |
| On-line | 1998 |
| http://etree.org/ | |
etree (from English electronic tree ) is an online community founded in the summer of 1998 made up of music lovers, archivists and historians that deals with the exchange of recordings of concerts ( bootlegs ). etree pioneered the distribution of lossless compressed audio material over the Internet .
Surname
Based on the tree-like organization of bootleggers, which was common before the Internet, the recordings along a tree - engl. tree - distributed, etree is now the form of organization in the electronic age, an electronic tree - engl. electronic tree .
History and technology
etree was founded in the summer of 1998 by ten members of two other respected online communities (Sugarmegs Audio and PCP - People for a Clearer Phish) and grew at a breathtaking rate. In February 2001 there were over 12,000 users exchanging recordings over almost 300 FTP servers.
Was after the exchange of recordings initially handled mainly via FTP, in 2001, the peer-to-peer - file sharing protocol BitTorrent designed for etree. (For a long time, etree was the only torrent directory that was referred to in the official FAQ .) When BitTorrent gained popularity and the availability of freely usable FTP servers with good connections to universities and companies was increasingly restricted, the Use of FTP servers steadily declined - while the project grew exponentially. In 2004 only a few FTP servers were still in use.
Data compression techniques are used to make the transmission more efficient . Initially, the older format Shorten was used, now the more modern, free, still actively developed FLAC is the preferred format.