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Dev
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
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 Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject: What's Your Favorite P2P Music Downloading Software? |
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I like Bearshare and Limewire. The downloads come very fast. I haven't had any problems with viruses. Good stuff.
I was just wondering if there are any other good software?
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Music Download Site? |
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| It's not a site, but Soulseek is still pretty good. |
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Lizara
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Limewire... but I've been seeing too many of those stupid www.buylegalmp3.com ads at the top of all my searches. If I wanted to buy legal mp3s, I wouldn't be using Limewire, now, would I? |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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If it ain't on Limewire, it's on Soulseek - but never the reverse in my opinion.
Those two for me. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| Bit Torrent for now, but I'll have to give the above a try, I guess. |
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wormholes101
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:53 am Post subject: |
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OiNK is probably the best torrent site.
Soulseek I think is a primitive p2p but it has the goods. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah Soulseek gets slow transfer rates (fastest I've seen, and this is rare, is 40kbps) but it's a good place to find semi-obscure stuff. Sometimes even really obscure things. |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:08 am Post subject: |
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| I'm a Limewire guy.. |
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The King of Kwangju
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: New York City
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| Bittorrent and DC++ |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I think I've downloaded every possible song I ever wanted. But I do use Soulseek to occasionally tease out what not. I stay away from Bearshare and Limewire. Maybe they've reformed their ways but they were major spyware installers. |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| I think I've downloaded every possible song I ever wanted. But I do use Soulseek to occasionally tease out what not. I stay away from Bearshare and Limewire. Maybe they've reformed their ways but they were major spyware installers. |
that was my experience with BS and LW. |
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dodgybarnet
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
Location: Directly above the centre of the earth. On a kickboard.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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The problem with many services (Kazaa / Bittorrent / Emule) is that loads of the people hosting files are either:
A) Dumb, so share broken or crappily recorded files/songs, or
B) Server farms setup by the RIAA or MIAA that share intentionally broken files/songs so as to increase your likelyhood of having to muck about finding a real file, which is tedious.
That's why I like DC++ as all the other users are geeks. Geeks care about the quality of their shares, and as it's not as popular, the RIAA/MIAA don't have any farms setup.
Additional MAJOR issue:
In many countries (Canada, UK, etc) it's not illegal to DOWNLOAD (for personal use), but it is VERY ILLEGAL to UPLOAD (share)
Most torrent-like services force you to share a file as you download it, thus forcing you to break the law. DC++ allows you to share certain files, so you can share legal stuff (shareware files, certain TV shows etc) but download anything.
Clearly in Korea this isn't an issue, but back in the real world it's something to keep very much in mind |
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happygirl
Joined: 20 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| limewire pro. fastest downloads i've seen yet |
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skconqueror
Joined: 31 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 2:33 am Post subject: |
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| dodgybarnet wrote: |
The problem with many services (Kazaa / Bittorrent / Emule) is that loads of the people hosting files are either:
A) Dumb, so share broken or crappily recorded files/songs, or
B) Server farms setup by the RIAA or MIAA that share intentionally broken files/songs so as to increase your likelyhood of having to muck about finding a real file, which is tedious.
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This is not the case with bittorrent, sorry you are lumping it in with the wrong crowd dodgy |
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wormholes101
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2006 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| skconqueror wrote: |
| dodgybarnet wrote: |
The problem with many services (Kazaa / Bittorrent / Emule) is that loads of the people hosting files are either:
A) Dumb, so share broken or crappily recorded files/songs, or
B) Server farms setup by the RIAA or MIAA that share intentionally broken files/songs so as to increase your likelyhood of having to muck about finding a real file, which is tedious.
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This is not the case with bittorrent, sorry you are lumping it in with the wrong crowd dodgy |
I'd have to agree with skconqueror on this one. A good BT tracker has (either private or public) has comments sections which serve as feedback as to the quality of the files. Some tracker's mods will even delete crap uploads (skipping, re-encodes etc). Occasionally one will slip through but in general it's 95% all good. |
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