On Fri Jul 2nd, 2010 5:55 PM EDT VF wrote:
>Boy...I don't know how to
> start this....I'll just get straight to it.
>
> Significant life changes have occurred for me such that I am
> leaving ALL file sharing and surround/hi-res hobby activities,
> with immediate effect.
>
> No, I'm not in trouble. It's the exact opposite. Something
> wonderful has happened. (No, I'm not having a baby, nor have I
> married (yet)...keep guessing...)
>
> The reason is that I have resolved to pursue a dream in real life
> which is far, far greater than anything I could ever do in the
> surround world. It involves a likely brilliant career, a
> completely different way of life and set of values, and is
> essentially a 'new' life.
>
> I was committed to this community and wanted to give it what I
> knew it's been always needing, but has never happened. I was
> working on something that would have been the biggest thing in the
> surround world (or at least the surround 'file sharing' world,
> which is maybe about 2/3 the size of the greater surround scene
> anyway).
>
> I might as well 'announce' it now, since it's not gonna happen
> anyway.
>
> I was planning, for over a year, a gazelle-based (à la What.CD)
> BitTorrent tracker for surround and hi-res music - the first true
> audiophile tracker and ultimate go-to place for sharing and
> finding anything in our beloved formats. It was my big project, I
> put all my resources and skills into the thing and spent
> considerable time planning and making preparations and networking
> throughout the surround/file sharing worlds, to make the dream
> happen.
>
> It was not just going to be a torrent tracker, but it was to have
> a public DDL release blog for outreach (serving as a mojave
> replacement at same time), and a massive internal (and a mirrored
> external) audio wiki on all the formats where I would collate all
> the obscure info and knowledge into one place and make it a
> massive resource, so that instead of endless repeated discussions on the same topics happening
> all the time, people could simply browse the wiki and just learn
> all it there. Some of the completed pages I have at http://groups.google.com/group/surroundsound/web.
> Anyway...enough of all this, you get the point. It was going to be
> a paradise, where nothing we could imagine wasn't possible...
>
> And for ages I wanted to tell you all about it, but because of
> what turned out to be endless months (and in the end, a whole
> year) of delays due to what I know was fate standing in my way and
> not letting it happen (it's a loooooooooooooong story, it's longer
> than longcat!),
> I didn't want to excite people, and then only disappoint them with
> what at times felt like a tunnel with no light at the end of it. I
> had to keep the news all to myself, and just a few of you, for the
> good of the group. But once ready, the site was going to be our
> new home, replacing this primitive google group and the - I'm
> sorry, but we all know - inferior file sharing method that is the
> hub.
>
> In truth though, the project and all the things associated with
> it, was a burden for me, a thorn in my side - something stubbornly
> standing in the way of what I knew all the time, was what I should
> really be doing with my life.
>
> Recently, a few catalysts have played out in my life, and my love
> for my RL dream has overcome even the passion I (now past tense:
> had) for the tracker project, and if you've known about my passion
> for 'TS' [the codename for the project] over the last year, you
> would agree that this is something pretty huge happening in me.
>
> And it's been very emotional.
>
> I know some of you will be disappointed to hear that I'm
> 'leaving', but at the same time I think all of you understand
> what's best for a person in their life. I now have peace, and am
> happy, but life's all about sacrifices for the sake of what you
> want to really do, and I've now taken the right choices
> regarding this.
>
> I'll still be here, i.e., logged into the hub, I just can't be
> expected to have any obligations or expectations any more, and I
> will have extended absences (from the hub) too. And I'll no longer
> be checking the google group, i have de-subscribed and also won't
> be checking the vf.surround gmail address regularly either. The
> best way to contact me (if it is an important matter) would be via
> PM in the hub. The most important thing for me now is to spend as
> little time in here as possible and to not be obligated to
> anything here.
>
> So if I do not respond to hub PMs immediately, or at all, please
> understand that it is because I am either away or too busy to
> chat. It's not because I'm being rude. My life has changed and so
> have my habits.
>
> My role has now changed to 'casual surround/hi-res enthusiast and
> listener', and even then, ONLY when I can spare the time (like
> when I'm relaxing and having time off)...from my busy rl schedule
> and commitments.
>
> However...There's one other 'big thing' that I have been working
> on, with the help of a few unnamed key people (which will indeed
> affect the [u]entire[/u] surround/hi-res world, not just the file
> sharers), which in contrast I intend to see finished (and look
> forward to doing so). This is because it is something I can
> 'finish off', and then be done with it, as opposed to an ongoing
> commitment of time and care.
>
> And this: is the cracking of the SACD format (I think most of you
> know from my hints in previous months of this anyway - as in,
> DVD-A was cracked, and SACD is finally going to be cracked too - a
> method for copying the ACTUAL files off the disc (and then you can
> convert the DSD files to PCM via software that I've already released),
> and even, a method for burning 'SACD-R' on a normal blank DVD, and
> being able to play it back in your SACD player - which I hope
> eventually can work on the majority if not all SACD players - it
> works on a few so far, with the method we're using - 'so far'.
> I've been fighting to get SACD cracked for two years now(!),
> quietly, but thankfully this dream CAN become a reality. The Oppo
> PCM method was just an interim method since development in SACD's
> cracking was so slow, until more recent times.
>
> So though I am no longer an uploader or file sharer, I look
> forward to being able to back up my own SACDs and I know you'll
> also appreciate it very much.
>
> I also was slowly working on other projects/goals, like a DVD-A
> watermark defeating system and open-source MLP encoding being
> implemented into the DVD-A tools project so that people wanting
> full res surround MLP home-authored DVD-A discs no longer have to
> pirate discWelder/surcode in order to do it.
>
> All these things are possible, if others want to make the effort
> in making these things happen. The role I have played in many of
> these things (ripping, authoring, encoding/decoding of the of the
> dvd-a/sacd formats) over the years, as always been lobbyist,
> helper, enabler, spearheader etc...well - others will have to fill
> that role and make the effort if they want the DVD-A watermark
> system defeated, or the other things I mentioned...I will give
> some contacts to lokkerman and maybe eventually you guys can get
> it done...
>
> But I'm out of the scene, and it has no place in my life anymore.
> I want to spend as little more time now in this as possible. It
> was dictating my life.
>
> Now, I must get down to business -
>
> - Lokks is now the active manager of the google group...fox, I'm
> sure you're fine with that....
> - Lokks is now the active administrator of the hub ('owner', if
> you will, and indeed, successor to King Julian - so it's now King
> Lokkerman - er...I ordain thee 'Lokkerman, King of the Hub' -
> there, it's official). All hub inquiries and matters are to be
> directed to him and he will add and screen new members and be the
> custodian there from now on...
> - Now this is the important matter to discuss. Hosting of the hub.
> The hub is currently hosted on a seedbox which slx was previously
> using for his own seedboxing, and kindly let me host it on there
> while he was using it. For the past two months he's no longer been
> using it so I've been paying for the monthly rent which is 35
> Euros.
>
> In past times, we (i.e. me, and at times, RW) have hosted the hub
> just from our homes and it's been fine, but I eventually moved the
> hub to slx's server because a. I was now paranoid due to being a
> future tracker owner and didn't want to host it on my own ip
> address and b. a dedicated server is the most reliable setup
> anyway.
>
> But a home-hosted hub should be fine as long as the hoster has a
> super reliable internet connection and hosts it on a computer that
> never ever is turned off, etc...
>
> RW might want to step up and host it once again like in times
> past, I'm not sure. This is a call-out to whoever would like to
> step up to the job. It does not require any admin/maintenance work
> (apart from changing the welcome message in the server software
> when/if Lokks wants to change it at any time), you just need to
> keep it running reliably all the time for the group.
>
> And also, this must be done before July 20th, which is when the
> billing period for this month ends for slx's server. I'm sure
> everyone would prefer one of us to host from their home rather
> than everyone contributing towards a monthly 35 euro cost to keep
> it going on the current server.
>
> But either way, it is no longer my burden and if no one wants to
> step up to take over hosting, I'm not going to do anything about
> it. Except for merely keep a backup file of the config files for
> anyone who wants in future to take up the noble role of hub
> hoster.
>
> ALSO - I hope someone can take up the 'releases' idea in the hub,
> which I was working on. It would actually make the hub almost as
> good as a website (and torrent tracker) anyway, and would make the
> hub good enough to serve the community's needs for a long time. In
> fact, if committed to, it's good enough for you all to stop
> torrenting on demonoid or RS'ing on the blogs and all gather into
> one happy family on the hub (and speeds would be excellent, due to
> how the new system would work), and just use VPNs if you're
> worried about your IP address. I'm not going to make the tracker
> now, so this might be your only hope of a unified and quality
> surround file sharing community.
>
> If anyone wants to try and take up the idea (it's not that hard,
> really....) I can show you the links to the script, and possibly
> even help with it...so if you want to make a better place for
> yourselves, that's the easiest avenue I can see for making it
> possible.
>
> So that's that...
>
> I love you guys. You know I do. I'll miss you too, and will try to
> drop in when I can, but cannot be expected to in any way...
>
> With all past paranoia regarding my identity and privacy dropped,
> I sign off with my name:
>
> Glen
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