neil
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This isn't much about head-fi, but hey, admit it -- you've used Napster once or twice in your life, and you liked it when it was something worth using...
After weeks of my buddy nagging me to try it, I finally downloaded the Morpheus client over at www.musiccity.com. He claimed it was far better than Napster, but didn't elaborate on why -- so I decided to check it out myself.
It is better than Napster. The primary reason it is better then Napster is that if 20 people have the same file that you're downloading (which eventually, at least that many people will) then your client will establish connections with multiple people simultaneously effectively boosting your download speed significantly.
So lets say that 5 different people have freebird.mp3, it will calculate the speed/pipe of each person, and assign a chunk of that file to each person so that you're downloading the largest chunk from Mr. Cablemodem Guy, a medium chunk from Mr. 128K ISDN Guy and three smaller chunks from Mr. 56K Guy. Okay, that's a cheesy example, but hopefully you catch my drift.
Morpheus allows you to search all different types of media, not just MP3 files. These include pictures, movies/MPEG/AVI, sounds/music, and general software ZIPs, etc.
The file organization is very good too -- it breaks it all down into media type, then category/artist, etc.
Anyone else try Morpheus?
After weeks of my buddy nagging me to try it, I finally downloaded the Morpheus client over at www.musiccity.com. He claimed it was far better than Napster, but didn't elaborate on why -- so I decided to check it out myself.
It is better than Napster. The primary reason it is better then Napster is that if 20 people have the same file that you're downloading (which eventually, at least that many people will) then your client will establish connections with multiple people simultaneously effectively boosting your download speed significantly.
So lets say that 5 different people have freebird.mp3, it will calculate the speed/pipe of each person, and assign a chunk of that file to each person so that you're downloading the largest chunk from Mr. Cablemodem Guy, a medium chunk from Mr. 128K ISDN Guy and three smaller chunks from Mr. 56K Guy. Okay, that's a cheesy example, but hopefully you catch my drift.
Morpheus allows you to search all different types of media, not just MP3 files. These include pictures, movies/MPEG/AVI, sounds/music, and general software ZIPs, etc.
The file organization is very good too -- it breaks it all down into media type, then category/artist, etc.
Anyone else try Morpheus?
