[chadbang]

I've been bummed out since the death of Napster (okay, not everything has to be audiophile quality for me to give it a listen.). Hotline is too damn slow, and everytime I try to find a new mp3 site, I end up running into bogus sites laden with 18 million java pop-ups. Does anyone know of a decent place to find mp3s?

 

[Redwoood]

Try http://www.audiogalaxy.com


But I didn't tell you...

Bye

Redwoood

 

[hongda]

www.bearshare.com
www.limewire.com
hmmm...... can't think of anything else off the top of my head. these two programs sometimes can eat a lot of bandwidth because of the almost continuous queries.

 

[pigmode]

I've been using WinMX. It works faily well.

 

[Redwoood]

Is this peer-to-peer like bearshare and limewire?

I hate these gnutella programs. They eat massive bandwidth and don't scale.
Try audiogalaxy, it has a somewhat strange user interface but once you get used to it you'll see it a lot more files than any other service I know.


BTW: For those who really like the napster way of doing things, there's napigator which let's you select one of the numerous free servers out there that work with the napster protocol.

 

[neil]

I've been using Morpheus. Can be found here. What's really neat about Morpheus is that if 8 other people have the same file, it parses up the job between the 8 different people and can accelerate your download rate significantly.

 

[AtEase]

The problem with Morpheus (and Kaaza on which its based) is that it doesn't seem to allow sharing of songs with a bitrate higher than 128Kbps. Which is okay if you are just trying to sample stuff you'll potentially be buying, but even then at best mp3 at 128Kbps sounds passable, and frequently it sounds plain awful (since so many people pick poor encoders i.e. Xing, or use poor setting i.e. plain stereo rather than joint-stereo...). Anyway, I usually use winMX.

 

[chadbang]

Thanks Redwood, that's a very sweet site. I'm loving it. You're right about the interface being a bit awkward, but it's every bit as good as Napster otherwise. I wonder how long it will be up. Well, until then.... Thanks again.

 

[bil]

Quote:

Originally posted by AtEase The problem with Morpheus (and Kaaza on which its based) is that it doesn't seem to allow sharing of songs with a bitrate higher than 128Kbps. Which is okay if you are just trying to sample stuff you'll potentially be buying, but even then at best mp3 at 128Kbps sounds passable, and frequently it sounds plain awful (since so many people pick poor encoders i.e. Xing, or use poor setting i.e. plain stereo rather than joint-stereo...). Anyway, I usually use winMX.

There is actually a method to bypass the 128kbit filter on Morpheus. You must be familiar with editing registry entries in windows.

Open up regedit and navigate to hkey_current_user\software\morpheus\

Simply change the value of the LimitBitrate from a 1 to a 0. Close regedit and load up morpheus and you're all set. Enjoy

-Bill

 

[jonpile]

USENET!

It pre-dates the web, and it will still be there after we're all dust and the earth is run by cockroaches. There is a lot of good stuff out there, and usually the server is in the rack at your ISP so the speeds are blistering.

I've been especially lucky with concert bootlegs from Soul Coughing among others.

If you don't know what usenet is, you'll have to do a little research. Don't just go to www.usenet.com - do some google searches instead. (I don't have a news tutorial handy - anyone?)

-jP

 

[bil]

I find Morpheus much more convient. What makes it esecially good is the segmented downloading and the bitrate filter. Also some ISPs limit their newsgroup server bandwidth. Quote:

Originally posted by jonpile USENET! It pre-dates the web, and it will still be there after we're all dust and the earth is run by cockroaches. There is a lot of good stuff out there, and usually the server is in the rack at your ISP so the speeds are blistering. I've been especially lucky with concert bootlegs from Soul Coughing among others. If you don't know what usenet is, you'll have to do a little research. Don't just go to www.usenet.com - do some google searches instead. (I don't have a news tutorial handy - anyone?) -jP

 

[coolvij]

I just tried AudioGalaxy yesterday....HATE it....back to limewire...

 

[jaskin]

limewire's pretty good esp. the newest version. Much like napster but it lacks the selection

 

[wab]

AudioGalaxy is awesome IMHO. I can find everything I want there, even the most obscure stuff you can think of.

 

[mistermurph18]

ive seen at least one person give limewire, but i would not recommend it unless you are positive that you can keep your files hidden from major companies for copywrite reasons. limewire has a share/unshare files and i was almost sued by MGM even though i had pressed unshare. Also, my computer started working 10x better after limewire was completely removed. Its a risk i was willing to take before, but not anymore. iTunes would be great if they opened a subscription service.

BE CAREFUL WITH LIMEWIRE, LOADS OF SPYWARE!!