The 2006 mix is here! It’s good. You want a copy. I want to give you a copy. Let’s work together.
Here are some ways you can get it:
1. The Old-Fashioned Way: Snail Mail
If you still enjoy listening to actual, physical CDs—say, in your car or home stereo system—I will happily mail you one. As always, I spent quite a bit of time putting it together, and my heart swells with pride at the thought of you carrying it with you through the years, showing it to your children, having it placed in your coffin next to you, that sort of thing.
Just email me your physical address—realish [at symbol here] realish.com—with the subject line, “Dave, man, you rule. Really.”
However. If you’re a modern sort, and listen to music only on your iPod or other mp3 player, and intend to rip the CD immediately to your computer, let me urge you: don’t. The music will then have been encoded and compressed and re-encoded and re-compressed, leaving you with crappy, low-quality files.
You deserve better. You deserve high-quality mp3s. If you just want mp3s, please see delivery methods 2-5, below.
2. The Nifty Person-to-Person Filesharing Way: Pando
There’s a small, safe, and very nifty person-to-person filesharing program called Pando. It allows me to send big files or folders to you, and you to me (much bigger than email can handle). I recommend it. When you click on the following link, you’ll be prompted to download and install the program. Then you can download the mix.
You can read more about Pando here, if you like.
3. The Super Cutting Edge Firefox Way: AllPeers
For those of you who use the Mozilla Firefox browser rather than Internet Explorer—and I deeply hope that includes all of you—you’re probably familiar with “add-ons,” little widgets you can add to the browser to make it do various cool things. One of them is called AllPeers. Once you install it, you can share files with a private network of people, via the browser. You have to see it to believe it—it’s really cool.
Anyway, you can install AllPeers, then look for “realish.” You’ll see the folder available to download. Just leave your browser running.
4. The Dummy-Proof Way: Box.net
I have the mix stored online through a service called Box.net. You can download it from there via your web browser.
The catch is, you have to sign up for a box.net account. It’s free and only requires an email and password.
Once you’ve signed up for a box.net account, go here. You can click through and download the files individually, but that would take a while. Instead, click the little orange arrow at the top, next to the words “Music Mixes.” Choose “zip folder.” That will add all the files in the folder to a .zip file and start downloading.
The downloading will take a while. What can I say? It’s a big mix.
5. The Best, i.e. Bittorrent Way: Pirate Bay
If you’ve ever downloaded a bittorrent file, you know how sweet, fast, and secure it is. If you have a bittorrent client, you can download the mix from popular filesharing site Pirate Bay (yes, it’s perfectly legal … as long as you only download my mix), here.
If you don’t have a bittorrent client (a small piece of software that downloads bittorrents), well, good, you’re not a geek. I highly recommend uTorrent for its ease of use. Once you’ve installed the client just go here and click to download the torrent. That’s when the magic happens.
(Incidentally, you can also download last year’s mix, via this page.)
If you don’t want to install Pando or AllPeers, sign up for a box.net account, or download a bittorrent file … I got nothin’ for ya. Nice knowing you. Enjoy your arid, music-less life.
Questions? Email realish [ at ] realish.com, or leave a comment below.