SOADFans FAQs (frequently-asked questions)

Its your browser problem, To fix this do the following steps (read carefully) :

Solution for FireFox

1 - Open your FireFox Browser

2 - Open Tools > Options > Content

3 - look down and find "File Types" and click on "manage"

4 - search for wmv format and click on it, then click on "change action"

5- choose " save them on my computer"

6- repeat the step 4 and 5 for the other formats : mp3, avi, mpeg, mpg and rm

You're done

Solution for Internet Explorer:
check this guide:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;177976

System of a Down official released (albums, cds, dvds and others) are only available for sale from any store, we do NOT offer these official releases for download ever so, please dont bother asking nor put download links for such thing in the forums.

Sure!
you can always create a request thread in the Downloads forum. please make sure you search first before creating new threads, you might find your request already posted there.

You can simply upload your downloads to any free host such as:

http://rapidshare.com or 
http://megaupload.com 

Remember to search first if the download was already posted before to save your time and effort.

The only way to do that is the following:

1- Download the file Directly to your computer

2- Upload the file you have downloaded to your itunes

If you have troubles downloading the files, then make sure to Check this out.

Here's the kinds of downloads and format and so on, Downloads qualities are:

1- Proshot 'video':
means professionally shoot version, usually a TV rip materials and of course that goes for Videos only bootlegs.


2-Amateurshot / audience 'video'
means someone from audiences who have attended the concert have recorded with their handcam thing, the quality of  this version of downloads may vary from concert to another, however some people can record some very good but it never are close to proshot as they usually use only 1 camera thing.


3- Standard audio bootleg

a high quality audio bootleg, usually a radio rip or rip from a video file (a
proshot one).

4- Audience bootleg
someone from audiences who have attended the concert have recorded with his/her audio device, the quality of this
version of downloads may vary from concert to another, however some people can
record some very good ones,  sometimes it could be near standard high quality audio bootlegs.

Many ways, here:

1- File sharing
the most reliable and easiest source on the internet for getting general Downloads, file sharing programs are too many out there like:
limewire, kazaa, sharaza, IRC channels and torrent for more detailed and better info about file sharing, check this great thread:

http://www.soadfans.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-1080.htm


2- SOADfans Downloads - section
You can find All the demos and besides the band have sang in SOADFans Downloads section and from time to time, the section might add new materials.

3- SOADfans Downloads Forums
One of the most busiest SOAD forums on the internet, this forum alone get over 40,000 visits per day.
**REMEMBER: this forums is completely sharing based, everything in this forums is copyrighted for the fans and its dedicated for the fans as well. You can freely share your SOAD items with people here and you can freely ask for a download as well.

Follow this simple guidelines before you post a download item:

1- Make sure the file is NOT a password protect by any other SOAD website
its not allowed for any password protected files to be shared in the forums,
even if you're the webmaster of that website the only password allowed is soadfans.com or soadfans.net or the name of the member (soadfans member) if
he/she would like to put a password, apart from that its not allowed.

2- Give proper credits:
if you haven't recorded the show by yourself, then its highly recommended to give credits for the person/group/entity who did this. like ripped by ... or
recorded by .. etc

3- Upload to free hoster sites
a pretty great thread and HUGE list of free space providers are listed in this
thread: http://www.soadfans.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-4570.htm 

4- Contact one of our Mods and they will help you out

It means one of the following reasons:

1- the zip file you downloaded, wasnt downloaded correctly or complete and you need to re-download it again.

2- you're trying to open the file from the web instead of saving it on your computer, that usually result some problems to the zip files.

3- for the best resutls and faster downloads, use download manger software such FlashGet, its free, safe and fast. you can get it from
HERE

There's a bug in the paging option, in fact there's no 5 pages, all the downloads are exist in one page.
That will be fixed so soon.

Yes you can

You need to extract the Zip file first.

To Extract zip files, simply download free winzip program and use it to extract the files and then, you can play it or burn on a CD.

winzip is free program can be downloaded from:
http://www.winzip.com

The answer of this question exist in the following link:
http://www.soadfans.com/FAQ-id_cat-4.htm#q13

You Can't Upload Videos directly to the website, instead, you can upload your videos to one of the free host websites such as:

megaupload.com


rapidshare.com


mediafire.com



Then You can share the links by creating a thread in the Downloads Forum.