Author Topic: p2p music? (Read 5717 times)

AceTKK · « **on:** November 14, 2005, 09:06:36 pm »

Anybody have a favorite program? Apparently WinMX is no more so I was wondering what ppl are using now.

thx,

-Ace-

Jabba · « **Reply #1 on:** November 14, 2005, 09:13:53 pm »

Torrentspy and BitComet...

pointdablame · « **Reply #2 on:** November 14, 2005, 11:07:11 pm »

Quote from: Jabba on November 14, 2005, 09:13:53 pm

Torrentspy and BitComet...

As much as I love torrents, I find them less than spectacular for music. You have to download whole albums, which is not a big deal in and of itself, but you also have to contend with the fact that you ONLY find the most popular stuff.

If you like ANY music that could be seen as obscure, you're mostly screwed. I really miss the days when you could hop on a p2p prog and get any song you wanted.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 14, 2005, 11:08:17 pm »

limewire works well for me when i just want 1 song

im all about torrents though

pointdablame · « **Reply #4 on:** November 14, 2005, 11:09:41 pm »

I never tried limewire. Is it full of spyware?

Scott84 · « **Reply #5 on:** November 14, 2005, 11:39:54 pm »

most of them are.

TalkingOctopus · « **Reply #6 on:** November 14, 2005, 11:41:39 pm »

I find DC++ the best for full albums.

xar256 · « **Reply #7 on:** November 14, 2005, 11:42:11 pm »

Shareaza is your best bet.

Harry Potter · « **Reply #8 on:** November 15, 2005, 09:00:15 am »

Bearshare is good. Just get a hacked full version or you'll be spywared.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #9 on:** November 15, 2005, 09:00:54 am »

limewire has no spyware

Harry Potter · « **Reply #10 on:** November 15, 2005, 09:10:34 am »

I used the latest version of limewire a while back. Only gripe with it is that it's written in Java and is therefore slow as all hell. Menus don't respond properly and slows the rest of the system right down.

MaximRecoil · « **Reply #11 on:** November 15, 2005, 09:13:24 am »

Quote from: xar256 on November 14, 2005, 11:42:11 pm

Shareaza is your best bet.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 15, 2005, 09:14:41 am »

really? maybe it was your PC, its real fast on my PC

Harry Potter · « **Reply #13 on:** November 15, 2005, 09:23:40 am »

Considering I'm running a P4 3.0ghz with an overkill graphics card, I doubt it.

They apparently switched to full java only recently so you may have one of the older (better) versions.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 15, 2005, 09:25:16 am »

hmm, i havent updated it in a while. but i have it on my work computer which is semi crappy, and my gaming rig at home and both run smooth. oh well

Jess-- · « **Reply #15 on:** November 15, 2005, 11:09:13 am »

I have been using Emule for quite a while now, no issues that I have found
www.emule-project.net
pretty much everything available

ChadTower · « **Reply #16 on:** November 15, 2005, 11:13:38 am »

Emule has more spyware in it than your average AOL machine.

Jess-- · « **Reply #17 on:** November 15, 2005, 11:34:26 am »

not if you use the older versions

ChadTower · « **Reply #18 on:** November 15, 2005, 11:48:04 am »

Yeah, I want to find older versions of a shareware app that has tons of alternatives and may or may not still contain more spyware than a 1982 Russian satellite.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #19 on:** November 15, 2005, 12:41:47 pm »

another vote for limewire....

mine doesn't have any spyware that's being detected at least

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 15, 2005, 12:47:28 pm »

limewire ftw!

AceTKK · « **Reply #21 on:** November 15, 2005, 01:50:45 pm »

thanks for the tips guys. I feel the same way about torrents for music; it's too difficult to find what you're looking for and you can never grab just one song. I have Shareaza also but it's really a resource hog and always bogs down my connection.

I gave LImeWire a shot and it really worked well. I'm not crazy about having the Java processes running in the background but the program itself is great. Thanks for the advice.

-Ace-

ChadTower · « **Reply #22 on:** November 15, 2005, 01:53:00 pm »

It's amazing, back when everyone used Napster, the big complaint was that it was hard to pull whole albums.

Now that you can pull 20 albums at once, people complain that you can't pull just one song.

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #23 on:** November 15, 2005, 01:57:23 pm »

the only time i ever use limewire is if i want a song like now, within a couple minutes. otherwise i just grab the whole album on torrent

missioncontrol · « **Reply #24 on:** November 15, 2005, 01:58:35 pm »

I never wanted whole albums I didn't want to

Sephroth57 · « **Reply #25 on:** November 15, 2005, 02:12:50 pm »

eh, most cds i listen to i listen to the whole thing

ChadTower · « **Reply #26 on:** November 15, 2005, 02:39:31 pm »

Because once you put an mp3 file onto your hard drive you can never remove it again. It's like, permanent, or something.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #27 on:** November 15, 2005, 02:44:23 pm »

do you realize how many clicks are involved in the process

ChadTower · « **Reply #28 on:** November 15, 2005, 02:56:40 pm »

Clickwuss.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #29 on:** November 15, 2005, 03:01:06 pm »

hey it's better I reserve my clicks for more important things.....

like prOn for example

Crazy Cooter · « **Reply #30 on:** November 15, 2005, 03:15:10 pm »

Quote from: AceTKK on November 14, 2005, 09:06:36 pm

Anybody have a favorite program? Apparently WinMX is no more so I was wondering what ppl are using now.

thx,

-Ace-

I used to connect to the alternate "parts" of p2p through winMX. You used to be able to stay off the main line. I don't know if it's still set up that way or not. I haven't downloaded a song in probably 4 years. Napster was nice because you could grab that waaaay obscure tune. If I want a full album, I borrow my brothers. Somehow he ended up with all the cd's when we left college

... but I got the games

.

pointdablame · « **Reply #31 on:** November 15, 2005, 04:05:37 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on November 15, 2005, 01:53:00 pm

It's amazing, back when everyone used Napster, the big complaint was that it was hard to pull whole albums.

Now that you can pull 20 albums at once, people complain that you can't pull just one song.

you're talking about two entirely different situations.

I constantly use torrents to download entire discographies of bands that I enjoy, and it is by far the best way to do so.

However, if I happen to find a single that I like from the next one-hit wonder while driving home from school, why the hell shoudl I waste my disk space and bandwidth for that? I just want one song.

Two entirely different situations. And not enough torrents use a proper file structures so that you can download only the songs you want

ChadTower · « **Reply #32 on:** November 15, 2005, 04:11:18 pm »

You would not be wasting bandwidth or disk space. You can delete the extra stuff when it's finished, reclaiming disk. Unless you are paying per gig downloaded or something, bandwidth is pretty much a nonissue as well.

If you want the ability to pick one song, go to a pay site. That's how they do it.

JoyMonkey · « **Reply #33 on:** November 15, 2005, 04:13:50 pm »

FYI; If you use a BitTorrent client like Azureus you can pick and choose which files inside a torrent you want to download, so you don't need to download the whole album.

Like most of the junk I download, I gets me muzak from usenet (using Newsbin and/or Newsleecher- Newsleechers Super Seach rawks!).

pointdablame · « **Reply #34 on:** November 15, 2005, 04:16:15 pm »

Quote from: JoyMonkey on November 15, 2005, 04:13:50 pm

FYI; If you use a BitTorrent client like Azureus you can pick and choose which files inside a torrent you want to download, so you don't need to download the whole album.

Thats my point. You can do so, but only if the file structure of the torrent is such that the files are seperate. If the entire discography of a band is stupidly plunked into one massive .rar file, you can't do anything about it.

pointdablame · « **Reply #35 on:** November 15, 2005, 04:16:54 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on November 15, 2005, 04:11:18 pm

You would not be wasting bandwidth or disk space. You can delete the extra stuff when it's finished, reclaiming disk. Unless you are paying per gig downloaded or something, bandwidth is pretty much a nonissue as well.

If you want the ability to pick one song, go to a pay site. That's how they do it.

It's still a waste of my time if I only want one song. And for the record, I DO go to pay sites as well, that's not the point of this argument.

I'm also a subscriber to Rhapsody, which I really enjoy, and purchase songs from.

ChadTower · « **Reply #36 on:** November 15, 2005, 04:24:53 pm »

Ah, sorry they are wasting your time.

rchadd · « **Reply #37 on:** January 12, 2006, 07:03:51 pm »

havent used winmx for ages. just tried it tonight and its dead.

i'm only interested in finding a few mp3 song files...so what is best p2p system to use for that?

Jabba · « **Reply #38 on:** January 12, 2006, 07:46:26 pm »

Quote from: rchadd on January 12, 2006, 07:03:51 pm

havent used winmx for ages. just tried it tonight and its dead.

i'm only interested in finding a few mp3 song files...so what is best p2p system to use for that?

Guy at works swears by Emule. See above...

xar256 · « **Reply #39 on:** January 12, 2006, 09:59:23 pm »

I swear by Sharaza...See above...

Xar256

<edit>...So my spelling sucks...Sue me...


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