Best Napster replacment?

[Nebakanezzar]

what do you guys use to trade music files?


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[CraigRT]

General hardware?? lol... Napster209 (seen at newgrounds.com)

I use Gnucleus because it does a very good job at re-connecting if the connection is lost, and an excellent job of resuming broken downloads.
I also use Direct Connect for DivX.

Direct Connect

download Gnucleus from Download.com

 

[Sugadaddy]

Your other thread got moved because it didn't fall under the General HARDWARE category...

 

[Wandere]

Try LimeWire before deciding on a final version. Music, mpegs, etc...

Limewire

Gnutella Client.

Java based (I think), my resources usually go to crap on this Celery 300A/128 Ram system after a little bit.

-Wandere

 

[Diable]

I use IRC. Its not as easy to use as some of the others but the amount of songs available is better then all the other file sharing programs.

 

[Rapamatic]

I'll second Limewire

 

[oldfart]

Morpheus

 

[gemstone]

iMesh and Morpheus. Both are really easy like Napster.

 

[Atlantean]

try kazaa, probably the best one that is out there currently

 

[illusion88]

Are you guys forgetting the glory of Aimster? Or have you just not seen the light yet?

 

[Atlantean]

What do you mean glory of aimster, what is so great about it, I had it, and it didn't work very well, maybe I was using it wrong, oh well.

 

[nycxandy]

I second Morpheus.

 

[illusion88]

works fine for me. I like it better then Imesh because i can search bitrates as well. I like that

 

[J3anyus]

I'm amazed nobody's said this yet...Audiogalaxy Satellite. Only has music, but it has every song you could ever think of (and more). Yes, it comes with Spyware, but if you run Ad-Aware after installing it, the Spyware can be removed.

 

[stingrae]

AUDIOGALAXY ROX!!!

 

[abaez]

A third for audiogalaxy, search for ANY song.. I mean ANY song and it will most likely come up in one way or another.

It's a bit confusing at first but after you get the hang of it it's great.

 

[azeker1]

It's all about AudioGalaxy. You won't believe the selection! If it isn't there, it doesn't exist! British pop? Spanish grunge? Celtic ballads? French techno? Chinese classical? It's all in there! Morpheus is very cool too, but nothing I've used even touches the variety of Audio Galaxy. (Imesh is great for movies & such, but I don't use it for MP3s).

 

[0beron]

I use Morpheus. Just try to find the one with the biggest member base. All of them seem to work ok.

 

[gsaldivar]

I use Bearshare and Audiogalaxy (awesome!).

BTW both Kazaa and Morpheus were sued this week by RIAA bastards

LINK

 

[d1abolic]

Audiogalaxy is da sh!t.

 

[resinboy]

Audiogalaxy is now bowing to the music industy as well: I did a search for a King Crimson song, and got a " the copyright holder won't allow download or distribution of this song " message. Sucks!!!!!!!!


Resinboy

 

[Zoltarc]

Lurking in NMP3 forums get my vote

 

[thorin]

Kazaa

Kicks Butt! Select your download, then select "Find more sites". Your download is split into peices (load balanced ie: 1MB from this slow guy will take the same time to complete as 15MB from this fast guy), then re-assembled, Kazaa completely kicks butt for anyone with better then dialup access.

Thorin