[viiv]

Seriously.
I can often find the torrent but it is usually dead. Sometimes, if it is not dead, it will never fully download.

I'd say I have about a 50% success rate in finding the usable torrents for the particular music I want.

Anyone have tips or tricks to increase my success rate? Or is this just the nature of the beast?

[techieMoe]

Most music is not available legally via BitTorrent. Unless you are specifically referring to artists who willingly offer their content via torrent files this discussion is against the forum rules:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ums-rules.html

If you are talking about legal torrents from independent artists (or famous artists who released something in a torrent, such as Nine Inch Nails) then the best advice I can give you is keep trying.

I've tried downloading obscure Linux distributions before via Torrent and it's really a gamble whether there will be 10 seeds, 1 seed, or no seeds at any given time of day or day of the week.