I'm looking for something...

[iShadowcat]

A file sharing program...now it has to be unique in a sense...

What I use:
Soulseek to get "full albums"...
eDonkey2000/Overnet for software and such...
DC++/BCDC++ for everything in between...

I'm looking for a program to get regular individual songs on, now, I'm anti-FastTrack so please don't reply with anything FastTrack related, I've tried WinMX...waiting for 4.0 personally...too much queue...I then tried Ares, Shareaza, XoloX (before it became a Morpheus rip off), Piolet, AquaLime...but none of them seemed to satisfy me...so what I want to know is what program do you use for individual song downloads? No specific qualifications really, just no FastTrack...thank you all.

[shawners]

mIRC which can take to sift through the messages and the fonts. For individual songs i use shareaza, but since you use that and only want sertain songs. I cant suggest any great program. DC you have to have so many specifications. BT is good for full albums. The only place i get my individual songs is from www.allofmp3.com Theres topics and searches you can find to search the forum here or visit it. None satisfy my craving for individual tracks. I have to find the users whos sharing a high byte rate.. and sometimes songs are messed up due to hashing of beeps and fake songs into files.

[ducttapeBigSexy]

Go LimeWire - the newest version doesn't have any extra software packaged it in (i just installed it today and ran spybot - nothing came up). Great speed, and I can usually find every song i'm looking for with at least 192 or higher quality.

[shawners]

are the sources alot? and have you came up with corrupt files?

[Ken17625]

Have you tried Fasttrack?

[Whistler]

Bittorent - azureus or abc both great clients. Easier than irc imo.

[rebirth]

umm I've been on the internet since I was 10...and I still don't kno what IMO means...lol....soo....

oh, right...LimeWire...PAH ...such a RAM waster. I personally prefer Neutered Bearshare (ripping out its guts with Spybot and AdAware) Umm...Bittorrent is sexy...and you will be sexy if you use it. Oh, and eMule will give your future wife constant and unwavering orgasmic feelings whilst you are in the same room as her...if you use it of course.

[ccc1005]

I personally prefer Neutered Bearshare (ripping out its guts with Spybot and AdAware)Well, you can also use the lastest Bearshare betas, which I use a lot and they do not contain adware or spyware. Also I use Bearshare a lot for songs, and have yet to find a fake (this would be the same for Limewire, Guncleus, etc since they are on Gnutella) I find the Gnutella network as a whole pretty good for finding quality songs and avioding fakes, primarily because it doesnt have the hash exploit that FastTrack has, so inserting fakes is harder to do.

[rebirth]

Well, you can also use the lastest Bearshare betas, which I use a lot and they do not contain adware or spyware. Also I use Bearshare a lot for songs, and have yet to find a fake (this would be the same for Limewire, Guncleus, etc since they are on Gnutella) I find the Gnutella network as a whole pretty good for finding quality songs and avioding fakes, primarily because it doesnt have the hash exploit that FastTrack has, so inserting fakes is harder to do.

but if I use the beta, I have to update constantly...then I have to leave my computer alone with Bearshare to hash it out (literally)... all 6000 or so of my files...it has to rescan them all and insert them into my library...I hate it...so I just neuter it

[ccc1005]

rebirth, just upgrading you should not have to rehash the files..

Do you uninstall/reinstall, or just install over the old version? I just install over the old one and I never have to rehash on my comp.

[Star Guitar]

Ummm...hi, iShadowcat...(blush)...its nice to see you around again...uh...

...Yeah, I just recently started going through my collection, and as far as I can tell, when it came to individual songs, I would download mass songs from some particular artist or similar name (usually through winmx), and then I would filter our the junk from the good stuff. That, and I ran lots of streamripper back in the day.

I suppose it would depend on what you're looking for.

I listen pretty much to anything electronic, where pseudonyms are like M&M's and there can be ten versions of any one song. I just hunt for what I like. I would google up any group or genre I liked to see if there were other similar songs or groups related to it. That method worked best for me. Now, I still use a mix of Winmx and Azureus. I don't get as many songs as albums now, but...ah, I'm not saying anything you surely don't already know...and...uh...

..yeah...good luck...

:heart

[broadwayrock]

I use soulseek for all my music and ed2k for its growing number of lossless albums. So if your taste for 'full albums' is the same as your taste in individual tracks then stick to soulseek.

[shawners]

its easier now days to download the whole album and discard the rest of what you dont want. You may find 3-4 good songs in their you like that the artist hasent released to radio yet.

[Chewyfood]

what ISP do you use? If you have Comcast here in philly, you might as well rule out usenet. They only give 1 GB download per month.

If you feel that is enough for you, then go ahead and try it out. A good program for people just starting out in Usenet is GrabIt! (www.shemes.com). Has that Windows XP feel, nothing complicated and very easy to set up.

If you have comcast, you need to log into the main e-mail account (search around) and find the place to sign up for the Giganews account. They will send you a log in and password on the main email account. Im pretty sure its only one account per main email, which stinks.
Once you get that setup, you use that username and password, along with the giganews server in GrabIt!.

Once you get everything all setup in GrabIt!, go over to www.newzbin.com. Its the best usenet indexing site out there. Its free to see what has been posted and where it exists on usenet, but you need to become a paying member (or an editor) to see the particular files which each post points users to.


Usenet is absolutely great for getting full albums. I dont think VERY highly of it for single songs though.

The only thing about Usenet is that its a crapshoot. Its a crapshoot in that, programs like Kazaa for example SHOULD have the file you seek somewhere, and should be downloadable where as Usenet is dependent upon someone requesting it, and someone uploading it.



I would say Blubster/Piolet, but you seemingly already tried that.