Guide For Newbies At Hf, Uploading, Downloading, Attachments Options

[deewani]

IMPORTANT LINKS!
HF Guidelines: http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?act=boardrules
Announcements Section: http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showforum=47
Help http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?act=Help

The most common question I keep seeing over and over from new members is How do I download?, which leads to the question, How do I upload?, because of the ratio system. So I am writing this topic, so I don't have to dig out previous topics where I've helped folks before, this way I can easily find my post and refer them here, hopefully it will be helpful in the future.

Please read the above 4 links first!

After reading the guidelines you will realize you need to compress your mp3s. You have to use a software like winrar or winzip to compress your mp3s before uploading to the board, and the files have to meet the requirements as listed in the guidelines. And then you have to maintain a 1:2 upload to download ratio (in other words, for every 1MB you share, you can download 2MB), so if the ratio is above .50 under your name, you can download with no problems. You can upload, however, at any time. You can find winrar free here:

CODE

http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

If you still have problems uploading, make sure you have compressed (.rar or .zip) the .mp3 files.

Whenever you REPLY or create a NEW TOPIC you should see a window like the one below.
You will see the file attachments box with a BROWSE button, click on that and browse to your file, then you have to click "Add This Attachment", and then you have to wait as your browser uploads the song to page. After that is done, (can take a while depending on your ISP speed) you click the Add Reply button to make your post. You will be able to tell when it's done because your page will no longer be loading, it will refresh, and you will see a white box with your attachment inside it, it will read something like "you have used 4 mb of attachment space for this post......." and you will see a Remove button (deletes the attachment) and an Add Into Post button (which shows the attachment inside the post, not necessary, but nice to use). Good luck!!



More help with the softwares here:
http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=17216
and
http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=6074
More about bitrates:
http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?s=&a...st&p=425594
Help on transcoding to lower bitrates here:
http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=35280

If I have referred you to this post, and you have further questions, ask them HERE.

[80s90srule]

Don't know if this is the right place to ask but couldn't any other place.

I posted few attachments/songs few days back at
http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=30034
but they haven't appeared yet.

Let me know where I went wrong so that I can rectify my mistakes in future.

[deewani]

After looking at the 5 posts visible to me I don't see any place where you have indicated that you have uploaded tracks, I don't mean this post: http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?s=&a...st&p=452348
Rather, I mean I don't see any posts that have all the information you should have posted when posting a file, and a lot of times if that info is not there, Admin will not approve the uploads, but it is odd that I don't see any edits by Admin either. Admin would know for sure why your posts did not show up, if you did provide all that info, it could be that there was a server glitch? Anyways you can try again and see what happens. Please read the first post in this thread, read all the links it leads to, that way you will avoid deletion, You will see that you need to provide info in your post such as album year artist music director song name duration bitrate etc etc. Also you can not upload an mp3 file unless you compress it first into .rar or .zip format.


EDITED TO ADD: I guess you got the hang of it now since you edited the post in the link above and added songs successfully. Cool...