It uses an unsupported tracker plugin for an unsupported forum system. Smithstorrents has probably passed its sell-by date.

There are tools that will help you convert to something that suits your needs better, should you need it. In both cases, the goal was to preserve them in the best available quality. Some of you might find the FLAC files to be an inconvenience. Alternatively, the archive is available via Google Drive, PM me your email address and I’ll add you. Your torrent software will let you choose which parts of the archive you'd like to download. It’s not my torrent and I’m not seeding it, so I’m afraid I can’t help if it doesn’t have seeds, but it seems well-seeded at time of writing. I have no idea why I still can’t find a good Jensen version of Wonderful Woman, but I shouldn’t focus on what’s missing but on what great recordings we have. I’d like to have a good copy of the Decibelle and Drone demos.

I’d like to archive Grant Showbiz’s sounddesk recordings, but despite a friendly pub conversation, those remain in his attic. Some of that got put on smithstorrents, some of it did not.

Old VHS tapes were dusted off I collected ticket stubs from eBay I shamelessly plagiarised clippings and photos from other sites and I saved and sorted any time anything Smiths-related showed up on the internet, TV or radio. Sometimes fans would remaster to improve sound quality or to stitch together tapes to create full recordings. More rarities were uncovered and often live recordings were direct from the master tape. A turning point was when Steve Catterall at Soundsville International started sharing what he had recorded when he unofficially toured with the Smiths. Gradually people started sharing what they had and the site built up some momentum. There were already low-quality MP3s on the internet but I wanted to try and collect the best possible versions at the highest possible quality. In 2006, I established that I could start sharing these recordings with other people on the internet using torrents, so I set up smithstorrents and offered up what I had. From that point, it turned into something of a mission to go to the record fairs and collect rarities and live recordings. It was before the internet so until that day all I knew of were the albums in the record stores along with a few singles. I was amazed that there were live recordings of my favourite band. In the 1990s I found a bootleg of The Smiths at a local record fair. Hello! I’d like to share my large Smiths collection with you.

The smiths remastered 2011 torrent