Tik Tak

[merlin55]

My friend and I have been searching for a long long time for any albums of "Tik Tak" the finnish band. We can't find a place to buy all their albums or even downloads online. If anyone can help that would be great! ^_^

[nindanjoe]

Re: Tik Tak

Is this Tik Tak?:

[youtube]pd_b9zlkkDc[/youtube]

If so, Main site?: http://www.tiktak.fi/
Fan club?: http://gruphepsifansokagi.forumzen.com/
Lyrics?: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/t/tiktaklyrics/

This is just the start though, I haven't really looked yet.

[merlin55]

Re: Tik Tak

okay that video is not them as far as I know but that main site in finnish is....

those sites I've seen though and stuff and lyrics and stuff don't help. I just am looking for downloads of the albums or something.

[nindanjoe]

Re: Tik Tak

lol, sorry for not explaining. I know that you were looking for downloads, everything in that post was for verification purposes. The lyrics are absolutely important because if that's their songs, then I will have a much better chance at finding downloads. Also, the video and main site help when identifying them. For example, if there's a forum on them with downloads and they have pictures of them, then I'll be know for sure that's the group you're looking for. Here's some of my process when searching:

1) Identify and learn who and what I'm looking for
2) Initial search to ascertain difficulty in finding what I'm searching for
3) If I find there's some difficulty, I have to find out what exactly I'm looking for. Either ask the person looking for it (easy) or I have to learn everything about what I'm looking for, even if it leads me in the wrong direction (takes a long time).
4) If it's easy, post links, post source.

In this case, if I want to find Tik Tak, I essentially have to learn everything like a fan would just so I can determine if it's actually Tik Tak or something else completely. I do thank for the main site and video confirmation. The lyrics would help, but hopefully the main site will negate. However, I have run into a situation where a music group changes companies and their old singles/albums are not on the new site. If the lyrics are indeed verified, then I have a backup solution for searching.

[merlin55]

Re: Tik Tak

here is some info to help the search.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktak

the wikipedia article lists the albums, I'm mostly looking for the last 3 albums that were released. Newer stuff I'd definetly except though too if found.

some of their music vids/on stage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=003DvmGI0Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaQG5yv8paA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezkx5caBLt8

That one above I realize now is a song by the band "Hepsi" called "TikTak" simple mistake so don't worry about that Nindanjoe. lol.

Good Luck.

[nindanjoe]

Re: Tik Tak

Ok, this is quite difficult. At first I was attempting to steal music from last.fm, but then yesterday I ran into a site with higher quality WMAs; 128kb/s for last.fm and 192kb/s for the latter. Oh, this is for the album Ympyrää (10.11.2003). I can upload that one if you're interested. I did find a bunch of ed2k links, if you and your friend are interested in giving those a try, but there's no guarantee in getting the files plus it'll be incredibly slow. There's also Limewire and WinMX to try out too. Napster seems to have 1 album, but I don't know their quality and I don't know if catching their streams is easy or not. They do have a 7-day trial going on.

Well, I am quitting the search for this, not completely, I just won't attack it like a bull stampede. Every now and again I'll give it a look. Hopefully I gave you enough information for you and your friend to continue the search.

Oh yeah, I also capture some streams from finetune.com for Hei me soitetaan...oikeesti! (mini-lp) (3.11.2004), but it's 64 kb/s, 22kHz MP3s. Coincidently, I found ed2k links for the DVD of that. :)

EDIT: Interesting development. I got 4 albums from eMule, and I was just doing it for fun. Overnight, no less. Usually things take forever and a day on eMule. By the by, those were the only 4 available on the ED2K network. I have found some finnish stores that have the albums, the problem is I don't know if they ship internationally. I do have links to a few stores, I'll just post them and let you and your friend sort it all out. That'll be the next post.

[merlin55]

Re: Tik Tak

As usual your help is greatly appreciated Nindanjoe! Thankyou ^_^

Any albums and songs you have manged to get please post here.
Even if they are not that great of quality I'd still be interested.

[Victoria]

Re: Tik Tak

Do you need Ympyrää or Jotain Muuta Ja Jotain Uutta?

[nindanjoe]

Re: Tik Tak

What I got is below (along with the quality), I'll be uploading them through out the day. Although Xizer has access to the 2 albums he mentioned, he just might be able to get them up faster them me. :)

TikTak.-.Frendit.(Platinapainos.2CD)-.by.Sukiainen.-.192kbps.rar [135MB]
VBR

Tiktak.-.Jotain.muuta....Ja.jotain.uutta.rar [124MB]
192kbps

Tiktak.-.Myrskyn.Edella.-.FI.-.2005.-.MAN.rar [74.3MB]
VBR

TikTak.-.Ympyraa.[Finland.-.2003].rar [60.8MB]
192kbps

[Victoria]

Re: Tik Tak

Meh, I'm too lazy.

You can let nindan take care of it.

By the way, his shit is transcoded.

[nindanjoe]

Re: Tik Tak

By definition, everything is transcoded. All the encodes of episodes, transcoded. Every single audio file, no matter where you get it from (e.g. CD, DVD, Ogg, FLAC), is transcoded.

Speaking of that, here are some albums:

Tiktak.-.Myrskyn.Edella.-.FI.-.2005.-.MAN.rar [74.3MB]
http://anonym.to/?http://www.mediafire.com/?cbj294zz9mk

TikTak.-.Ympyraa.[Finland.-.2003].rar [60.8MB]
http://anonym.to/?http://www.mediafire.com/?bm1vjhxma3h

EDIT: some more:

TikTak.-.Frendit.(Platinapainos.2CD)-.by.Sukiainen.-.192kbps.rar [135MB]
http://anonym.to/?http://www.mediafire.com/?9vzyyueg6vv
http://anonym.to/?http://www.mediafire.com/?dubuwftll2i

Tiktak.-.Jotain.muuta....Ja.jotain.uutta.rar [124MB]
192kbps
http://anonym.to/?http://www.mediafire.com/?6ezkdd9mt0x
http://anonym.to/?http://www.mediafire.com/?2m34sys2g1f

EDIT 2: Last one that I have:

Hei me soitetaan...oikeesti!_(mini-lp)_(3.11.2004)_64kbps_22kHz_MP3.rar (16.15 MB)
http://anonym.to/?http://www.mediafire.com/?ds7ibv3lcmg

[Victoria]

Re: Tik Tak

No.

If you get an audio file from vinyl, for example, that is not transcoding.

I don't think you know what transcoding is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcode

Transcoding is a term only used for lossy-to-lossy conversions.

Converting from FLAC to MP3 for example is only called converting.

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: Tik Tak

Transcoding is a term only used for lossy-to-lossy conversions.

Converting from FLAC to MP3 for example is only called converting.

Misuse of the word doesn't change its meaning.

In terms of verbs, the prefix trans- means to go from one thing to another.
i.e. - trans-port, trans-form, trans-[s]cribe etc.

Trans-code just means to transfer information from one code (digital format) to another.
Anything converted from a digital format to another is transcoded.

FLAC is a digital format.

[nindanjoe]

Re: Tik Tak

No.

If you get an audio file from vinyl, for example, that is not transcoding.

I don't think you know what transcoding is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcode

Transcoding is a term only used for lossy-to-lossy conversions.

Converting from FLAC to MP3 for example is only called converting.

Actually, that's where I got the definition from:

Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion from one (usually lossy) codec to another.

Although I have to admit, I was thinking of everything minus the vinyl. I hadn't even thought of that. Either way, the definition there says it. Usually lossy, it can be lossless. At the time I thought WAV/PCM was a codec. If it is, then I stand by that unless you can provide the evidence otherwise. The graph page and topic you sent me also showed that as well. By going by what they said there, converting the audio from the CD to an MP3 qualifies it as transcode by what they said and showed.

EDIT: Ultra Magnus beat me to it again, sort of. :)

[Ultra Magnus]

Re: Tik Tak

EDIT: Ultra Magnus beat me to it again, sort of. :)

Always one step ahead.