Napster 2.0 beta 7

[konichiwa]

Here is it...Beta 7. I haven't tried it yet, but I'll report back on the differences, etc.

http://dl.napster.com/napv2b7.exe

http://ftp://zdftp.zdnet.com/pub/private/sWlIB/internet/internet_tools/napster.exe

 

[Digobick]

Downloading it now.

<Edit> Wouldn't surprise me if all they added was more ways to ban you. :|

 

[konichiwa]

Looks to me like the only difference is they have two extra tabs up by Search, Hot List, Chat, etc...one is called &quot;Home&quot; and the other is &quot;Discover.&quot;

&quot;Home&quot; is just like help, it's IE inside Napster...except the web page inside the window is http://www.napster.com/client/home.html instead of http://faq.napster.com (which is the one in the &quot;Help&quot; tab)

&quot;Discover&quot; seems to be a ploy by the Napster guys to make their service seem more Legal. )) Again, it's an IE window...the website it's displaying is http://www.napster.com/client/discover.html. It's where you &quot;discover&quot; new artists that have signed up with Napster's New Artist program or whatever they call it. Oh, here you go:

<<New Artist Program

Welcome to Napster's New Artist Program. Find the best up-and-coming musicians by typing a band name in the search box, or browse the list of genres below!>>

 

[hubbs]

I finally got back on napster. I was too lazy to find them registry keys so I formatted yesterday now I can get back on FINALLY!!!

 

[konichiwa]

Heh. You shouldda asked.

http://unban.cjb.net

 

[hubbs]

I guess that Scour Exchange was working for me so I didn't really have a nead to get unbanned either. But whatever I got napster back. It's all good

 

[obeseotron]

Too lazy? It's a lot more effort to reinstall windows than to find a few keys. Napster works very well now, I'm not sure exactly what needs to be changed at this point. It has a good search function, and it is an easy way to find singles and popular CDs. It still isn't good enough to replace a good FTP search.

 

[Prodigy^]

this is crap! I'm not saying Napster is bad, but where the hell are the improvements?

STILL no remembering window/tabs positions
STILL no search over 100 results
MOTHERF'N integrated web browser crap.

I don't care *that* much about the latter cus I'm on flat rate ISDN and have enough time, but it must suck for those on 28k. plus, this is generally a way of saying &quot;we're going the realplayer-way&quot; which, as we all know, suckssss.......

 

[AMB]

i didn't see any improvements, i think that napster is good for d/l songs, but it doesn't tell you new releases or the charts, which would be useful

 

[konichiwa]

Most of the stuff on the charts suck, anyway. But if you insist, you can just go to www.billboard.com or www.mtv.com or whatever chart you want to see. But think...Napster's not going to integrate that, because that aims specifically at illegal mp3 trading. How many artists on the top (10, 50, 100) promote napster? Maybe 5%.

 

[Eli]

5%? I'd say more like .5% :Q

 

[duragezic]

Blah, bunch of crap that no one wants like Home and Discover. And you know what really angers me? When you search and it brings up the results, it doesn't sort them by ping like all the other Napster's did. Wtf? Hehe, that is annoying because every single time I do a search I have to go click 'Ping' to sort it and it doesn't save it either.

EDIT: Oh, at least they fixed that Hot list. It didn't work for me (or a friend) in beta6 though it did in all other betas before that...

 

[PowerJoe]

Does it have resume? If not, screw the new ver

-PJ