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[athakur999]

The only problem with Morpheus/Kazaa is that, from what I can tell, you can't download any MP3s above 128kbps. It's okay for listening on the computer but for burning onto a CD and listening in the car, I like a higher bitrate. I've been using WinMX to connect to some OpenNap networks which works pretty well too. Unfortunately no multisource downloads like Morpheus

 

[BigCat]

One more fruit to the basket.
Did anybody try limewire?

 

[Greatwolf]

I like Direct Connect. No spyware on it either

 

[kaizersozei]

Direct Connect is really good.

 

[athakur999]

LimeWire is okay, but it's slow, has ads, and installs Spyware. If you want to go Gnutella, then, IMHO, the absolute best client I've used is GNucleus. It's open source and does multisegment downloads like LimeWire.

 

[Jenova314]

<< If you d/led Kazaa, you'll need this : ad-aware. It has a bunch of spyware programs in it, if you've noticed pop-up ads on pages you know don't have popups, that's a good sign. D/l and run that program and it'll find all the spyware on your computer. >>



exactly what i needed! thanks man i was getting sick of the kazaa popups

 

[MarkieMark]

i guess i will be the 500,001th

hahaha

 

[Photon]

I agree, Morpheus is better. Also, I've heard about kazaa having some issues with running almost like a distributed computing app and using your processor a great deal. Possibly just a bug in an older version. Oh, and Morpheus has a cooler name.

 

[gil11542]

WARNING--this may be of interest LINK

 

[jkellynewyork]

I like WinMX the best. I find that it brings up much more search hits than Morpheous or any others. You should try it out if you have not have done so already.

 

[jawgee2k]

Hey athakur999,

To unlock the 128kbps bitrate in Kazaa & Morpheus, go into your registry, search for "limitbitrate" & set it = to 0 instead of one. Now you should be able to come up with MP3s over the 128kbps rate.

I like my MP3s encoded at 192kbps. It's a nice trade-off between file size & quality.

 

[Seizure]

i wouldn't recommend Kazaa because it installs spyware into your pc that monitors what you do and sells the info to other companies. Morpheus on the other hand don't have spyware, but they do give you popup ads when you have the program running. Both Sharing programs use the same networks so Kazaa and Morpheus are almost identical. The good part of morpheus over Winmx and stuff is that morpheus let's you download from multiple people at once, thus greatly boosting speeds. Downloading from 5 people each at 5kb/sec = 25kb/sec overall. Etc. And if one person disconnects, your download still continues.

 

[VisionsUCI]

hehehe... i've been using them for a while. UCI monitors the ports and limits bandwidth, but we can still d/l, though slowly.

 

[taserT]

Does anyone know of a file sharing program that doesn't use port 1214? My stupid cable company (i have cable modem) blocks port 1214 so i can't use morpheus or limewire!

 

[hkssupra69]

Thanks for the tip jawgee 2k! Something so little has just made my day.

 

[Uclagamer_99]

is there a problem w/ morpehus and winxp? for some reason the first time i run morpheus after an install it works fine, but after that i get runtime errors after the musiccity webpage finishes loading

 

[NauTiKa128]

<< Hey athakur999,

To unlock the 128kbps bitrate in Kazaa & Morpheus, go into your registry, search for "limitbitrate" & set it = to 0 instead of one. Now you should be able to come up with MP3s over the 128kbps rate.

I like my MP3s encoded at 192kbps. It's a nice trade-off between file size & quality. >>



hm.. just tried that rite now & it didn't seem to do the job.. i even restarted the computer (winXP)..

 

[hkssupra69]

Hey nautika, do you have one or both installed? I have both installed on my computer so I changed it for both and keep doing next find until all the keys are changd.

 

[johto]

<< Does anyone know of a file sharing program that doesn't use port 1214? My stupid cable company (i have cable modem) blocks port 1214 so i can't use morpheus or limewire! >>



um ok... well, morpheus and limewire are totally seperate things, they dont use the same port.

Morpheus/Kazaa/Grokster = use FastTrack P2P technology
Limewire/Bearshare/about 200 more clients = Gnutella P2P technology

Don't know about what port Morpheus and the like use, could very well be 1214.
As for Gnutella clients, the default port is something in the 6000s (I don't recall specifically) but many clients let you change the port you use.

Otherwise, Direct Connect (which is its own thing) lets you change the port as well.

 

[Silex]

Irc is still the shiet guys. Assuming you want to learn how to use if you don't already. Direct Connect is nice albeit that it's different and feels like irc, but wuth a user interface. Direc Connect can be the bomb if you guys got the hookups to servers that arent public. It's exactly liek irc in that manner where you need to manually search for the hub addresses yourself on the net or what not. Amzing noboy has mentioned Hotline yet. It's a pretty gnarly file sharer too and can get the job done. Many more than this too, but those shoudl keep you busy in any case. And mind you guys (all of you) that the file-sharing community only grows if you also share and not just leech! I preech that everywhere I go ...

I tend to hate file sharing utilities that won't let you change your port which is why direct cnnect is too kool for us college students. Port can be changed .

Eh...heck I might as well say this one too...Aimster

 

[NauTiKa128]

<< Hey nautika, do you have one or both installed? I have both installed on my computer so I changed it for both and keep doing next find until all the keys are changd. >>



:Q that worked! thank you!

 

[NauTiKa128]

but u kno wut sux though.. u can't set "quality" in search to 192.. I did a search & it's mostly 128kbps.. only a few 192's.

 

[jawgee2k]

Hey guys,

I had trouble with Morpheus when I upgraded to WinXP. I figured out I had to delete my Morpheus .dbb file every single time before I started up Morpheus. I found this batch file somewhere on Google & it solve all of my Morpheus boot-up problems. Note: You only need to do this if you are having probs starting up Morpheus in XP!

Type the stuff that's in between the lines below into notepad and save as morpheus.bat in the root of Morpheus.

Then, make it a shortcut on your desktop, rename the shortcut to, say, Morpheus and change the icon (choose from the original morpheus icons in the morpheus.exe directory). Always use this shortcut to run Morpheus... never having to delete the db folder again

Here's what you need to type:
__________________

cd db
del *.dbb
cd ..
start morpheus.exe
exit
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Good luck!

 

[AndyTriboletti]

Direct Connect rocks!

 

[Sunmansfx]

Both of them have backdoors, so be careful when you use them. I have a list of 50 such clients...check them at Napster Alternatives