downloading music

[mesman00]

so what programs are people using these days to download music. i left uni a couple weeks ago, and now i don't have access to the local network where i used to get all my music from. so, what are the good programs to use these days?

[URAMetroid]

Something that starts with a K and sounds like a green marshin in the Flintstones.
Or Apple's new iTunes, but I don't thing you have a MAC (I don't).

[ra5555]

Use Kazaalite, you will be able to find nearly every song there.

here is a link: http://www.k-lite.tk/ :)

[URAMetroid]

With Kazaa lite you can find anything you want,
hear are some of the thing's you can find:

MP3's
Video's
Program's
image's
Virus's
:saint:

[AlphaWolf]

You forgot broken MP3s, crap quality MP3s, and RIAA tainted MP3s.

[Eagle]

Yeah, like just use IRC, you can find all you want on newnet.

[Slougi]

I quite like the soulseek network. On windows get your client from www.slsk.org , on Linux use pysoulseek.

[Stezo2k]

yea i use soulseek too, nice program, has a lot of music i like (trance) hehe direct connect & newgroups are a very nuce place to get em too, nice and real files :)

[Trotterwatch]

One thing I hate about Kazaa other than the bugs mentioned above, is that it has a habit of deleting downloads for no apparent reason. As I'm on a 56k this means I am weary of downloading any file above 10 megs using Kazaa, as the chances are anything above that will auto delete - I've reinstalled etc the only fix I have is to use an older version.

[Plisco]

Originally posted by Trotterwatch
One thing I hate about Kazaa other than the bugs mentioned above, is that it has a habit of deleting downloads for no apparent reason. As I'm on a 56k this means I am weary of downloading any file above 10 megs using Kazaa, as the chances are anything above that will auto delete - I've reinstalled etc the only fix I have is to use an older version.

That has never happened to me. Are you talking about Kazaa lite or the original kazaa

[Macca]

kazaa is only good when you use a verifieds guide, you then know that the file is good and real. Also its shithouse for newly released files as they take a while to spread

Bittorrent is a great program for newly released files if you know a good torrent site. (torrents.cx is great but down atm). it is shite for old files though.

[Vchat20]

i stick to k-lite. so far ive got 3+ gigs of KNight Rider episodes downloaded from it. hehe. (one of my new favorite TV shows. :saint: )

[alexa999]

Go Here: http://www.winmx.com/ and download WinMX. It is very user friendly and you can find almost anything there. I found an ISO file of Morrowind 3 and the full version of Final Doom. Plus its free.:) I use it.:)

[URAMetroid]

Originally posted by alexa999
Go Here: http://www.winmx.com/ and download WinMX. It is very user friendly and you can find almost anything there. I found an ISO file of Morrowind 3 and the full version of Final Doom. Plus its free.:) I use it.:)


WinMX is OK if you want to find easy to find stuff, but very hard to find image files (I mean ROM's ISO's etc.), Kazaa is much better and has more users online, about 4,000,000 and over 864,000,000 files, so it's very simple to find anything (and it has better download speed too).

[AlphaWolf]

Kazaa is the only p2p client that I disable sharing on :P

[URAMetroid]

Originally posted by AlphaWolf
Kazaa is the only p2p client that I disable sharing on :P


I don't share, I only download, way don't I share? Because 56K modems only upload at 33.6K, and I download at speeds up too 800K:D .



Originally posted by alexa999
...I found an ISO file of Morrowind 3 and the full version of Final Doom. Plus its free.:) I use it.:)


I forgot to add you can find "Final Doom" on the Internet with no P2P app.

[Acorn]

As always with file sharing the more you have to give/the more people you know with more to give will get you better results. It used to be if you knew where to find the online emmm sites, and how many good FTP connections you had. Then napster came along and revolutionized that with P2P sharing, but even napster used a centralized "hub" (and not just one).

They died because of it, oh well, but still I don't think the massive "everyone connected to each other" networks are very efficient, inc. kazaa, gnutella, winmx, ect. There are good at making the statement "you can't shut us down" yes, maybe, but its hard to find quality sources, or rare shit. Supprisingly its a lot easier to find "rare" things, and downright easy to find ISO's/ movies/large things in a more compact group of users, say only 1,000 or so, on a better program. My favorite for this is direct connect (use DC++ for a client) but there are others. The ease and quality of finding/speedily and reliably downloading stuff makes it worth the slightly harder setup and location of initial sources (its not that hard, takes like 5 mins more).

Advantages:
Speedy Searches (doesn't take 20 mins to start getting decent results that reflect whats avalible, only takes 5 seconds)

Better content (for many reasons, one being the ability for closed groups to moderate and impose requirements

Faster sources are easier to find

More control over what goes back out, and how stuff that comes in comes in (although DC++ still doesn't give me the ability to do split downloads, boohoo) Aka more features.

Disadvantages:
If yer on 56k you can't even get in to most groups.

Its moderated, if you don't have anything to share you can't get in to the good groups, and you can't share crap even if you want to.

Takes time to find the good groups.



From experiance the private groups are the best, on one with only 400ish people I can find anything I possibly want, and the average share per person is 100GB with 25k of avalible upload bandwidth (on average). Ok, theres my advertisment for smaller group software over the massive P2P's, since no one else had mentioned them much (stezo).

The best thing to do would be to use all the programs, each one for whats best suited to it.

And BitTorrent Fing rocks.

[AlphaWolf]

I don't share on kazaa b/c I only use it as a last resort. When you do find something on kazaa, its almost always in crap quality, and it downloads extremely slow. I honestly think that emule is far better, I share on that one 24/7. The authors of emule have tweaked the algorithms so that its almost as easy to get rare stuff as it is to get common stuff. Plus, on emule the only thing you can fake in a file is the name, but no matter what, the signature hash is almost impossible to fake. The RIAA/MPAA can't do their dirty file corruption work on emule.

[Tagrineth]

Originally posted by URAMetroid
WinMX is OK if you want to find easy to find stuff, but very hard to find image files (I mean ROM's ISO's etc.), Kazaa is much better and has more users online, about 4,000,000 and over 864,000,000 files, so it's very simple to find anything (and it has better download speed too).

Have you used WinMX much?

I have yet to find any Saturn ISO's on KaZaA. And I get less than half as many results as WinMX for PSX- er... 1. God damn Sony.

Music in general is also easier to find on WinMX, at least for me.

ROM's, OTOH... well, actually, I've never tried on K. Heh.

Anyway, the only thing I find more easily on KaZaA is videos. =)

[Vchat20]

Originally posted by Tagrineth
Anyway, the only thing I find more easily on KaZaA is videos. =)

that is true. i have already gotten about 5 dvd rips off of kazaa so far within the last month.

[lario]

Some people share a lot on WinMX. :o :rolleyes:

[AlphaWolf]

Originally posted by Tagrineth

I have yet to find any Saturn ISO's on KaZaA. And I get less than half as many results as WinMX for PSX- er... 1. God damn Sony.

ROM's, OTOH... well, actually, I've never tried on K. Heh.


As I use both, I can say that your better off finding it on emule than winmx. Roms especialy, took me less than a day to get the whole goodgen, goodsnes, and goodnes sets.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Originally posted by URAMetroid



I don't share, I only download, way don't I share? Because 56K modems only upload at 33.6K, and I download at speeds up too 800K:D .





I forgot to add you can find "Final Doom" on the Internet with no P2P app.

That's with V.90. With V.92, you can have uploads go faster
than 33.6k speeds.

[.::]BTZ[::.]

Im using an excellent program called Shareaza