5 Things I hate about Shareaza (hehe get it?)

[evilmegaman]

I have five things I hate about Shareaza!I will list them:

1: Can't find what I try to search for.

2: I can't download anything cuz it is always Queued.

3: It has a bad advanced GUI

4: The Reviews can be misleading.(does this count?)

5: The Bitzi ticket option is just bloatware currently.

To the creator these things should be reviewed by you carefully and then you can see the "bad side" to all great things.:shy

[stecbine]

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"I have five things I hate about Shareaza!I will list them:

1: Can't find what I try to search for.

2: I can't download anything cuz it is always Queued.

3: It has a bad advanced GUI

4: The Reviews can be misleading.(does this count?)

5: The Bitzi ticket option is just bloatware currently.

To the creator these things should be reviewed by you carefully and then you can see the "bad side" to all great things."

Really?

1.I have found everything I have looked for so far (I only get MP3's though) from new material to old school all genres of music! I used to dj so I like it all believe me EVERYTHING!

2.I have had a few RARE songs queued for a day or two but I ended getting them! Patience.

3.I have tried almost all the major P2P apps. & this is my favorite for the GUI clean & simple with the abiltity to change between 2 styles!

4. Reviews are often misleading for everything.

5.No idea what the Bitzi Ticket thing is or does & I don't care I get what I wan't & it works so I am HAPPY!

Mike & your team you have done an amazing job! Keep it up I look forward to whatever else you can possibly cram into this sweet baby!:heart

SHAREAZA #1

[dreams]

This bitzi thing you are referring to is the sharereactor of gnutella. Run a search in it and a lot of times it will have a magnet for you to download the item searched. When more people submit their files, more files will be found to be downloaded. Dont knock it until you try it. It works.

[TC75580]

That might be true about Bitzi, but you're not going to find every file your looking for on there. Not even close to it. Anyway, what I hate about Shareaza is it uses Schemas to tag files instead of the unofficial standard ID3. The amount of files you will find on Shareaza may be a bit limited compared to other networks, but overall Shareaza is good because of all the options it contains.

[Deep Thought]

Well, i have dial-up, and so far, 340 out of 350 files that i have attempted to download were queued, and yes, i made sure every attempt was from a different person, and yes, that took a very long time with dial-up.





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[Rish]

The fact that most of the time u find yourself queued is mainly down to the network (Gnutella) rather then the client itself.

I reckon it has easily one of the best interfaces for a Gnutella client.

[evilmegaman]

Well I finally got the new version and it's great! I take back a few of the things I said but it's VERY far from perfect.

[method77]

@stecbine
You got everything you needed???? You must be the only one who did that! Gnutella sucks big time!

[evilmegaman]

And Fasttrack doesn't?:mellow

[evilmegaman]

Well maybe a new network...

[neoufo51]

Actually, Gnutella is a VERY usable network with pretty decent speeds. You just have to use a good client to get that performance. The best I've seen so far is Lime/Freewire, which gives my dial up buddies a 5.6k average download speed, and my broadband friends up to 200k speed. The problem with Gnutella is that the connections to hosts so that you can search the network are VERY fragile. So far, the best cure for it has been ultrapeers, a Fasttrack-WinMX creation which without it, Gnutella would be the biggest pain in the neck.

The only real cure is a new Gnutella standard protocol, (0.7 handshake?) one that uses Ultrapeers exclusively and to their maximum potential

[evilmegaman]

EXACTLY! You are totally right! Thanx for clearin that up!

[thegreatorangepeel]

Well, i have dial-up, and so far, 340 out of 350 files that i have attempted to download were queued, and yes, i made sure every attempt was from a different person, and yes, that took a very long time with dial-up.

I'm on 56k dial-up in the middle of nowhere, and every file I've tried has downloaded. is your dial-up a 14.4 or somthin'?

Gnutella has to be redesigned

There were some experiments with data walking between comptuers on P2P networks, with some very positive results that could resolve the flood search problem that can result in things like, poor search results, and slow mulit-source downloads. I think that arctical was posted here even...