Napster to Gnutella

[theshortone]

Hey, I am trying to make Napster v2.0 beta 8 connect to Gnutella through LimeWire's router which is router.limewire.com or w/e it is. If i can find out where napster has the string server.napster then i can make it connect to gnutella instead of the Napster servers. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appriciated. :tol (just had to put in that smile LOL!)

[Compy]

Since when can napster connect to gnutella? Gnutella is decentralized and napster is very centralized, not to mention the protocols for both are completely different... you are quite confused on that matter it seems.

[mp3MaStA88]

Hey, I am trying to make Napster v2.0 beta 8 connect to Gnutella through LimeWire's router which is router.limewire.com or w/e it is. If i can find out where napster has the string server.napster then i can make it connect to gnutella instead of the Napster servers. If anyone can help me it would be greatly appriciated. :tol (just had to put in that smile LOL!)
this would be great if it actually happened. Actually making the once master commander, NAPSTER, connect to one of the greatest networks now, GNUTELLA. If anyone could help this guy, that would be greatly appreciated! I would definately use it again although the napster program itself is copywritten, so some of the code would have to be changed.

[Montoge360]

There is a program called Napigator, which is a standalone program along with a plugin for napster. You launch the external Napigator program, then, choose which OpenNAP server you want to connect to. Then, upon selection, it launches Napster making it connect to the OpenNAP server you selected.

The only problem, is it appears to be unsupported. The latest version is 2.08, and was released Dec 2001, and the Napigator homepage is offline. Plus, I doubt you'll find very many OpenNAP servers even if you tried. Anyways, good luck in your research!

Here's a PC World article on Napigator, and after reading, the article appears to be just as old as the program.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,7407,00.asp

[zaphodiv]

Napster is dead, stop molesting it's corpse.

>this would be great if it actually happened.

Please stop talking nonsense about things you don't understand.

Napter had two things in it's favour.
1)A central server that allowed search of all shared files
2)It had all the users. There were no other networks of anywhere
near it's size.

You don't get either of those things back by making an
old napster client connect to gnutella. You might as well take
a gnutella client and rename it napster.

Napster didn't have hashlinks, could not restart a dropped
transfer, only shared music and towards the end they had
to split the network in two and it still failed to start
half the transfers because the servers were overloaded.

>Actually making the once master commander, NAPSTER,
>connect to one of the greatest networks now, GNUTELLA.

The best current network is a matter of opinion.

[mp3MaStA88]

any progress with this idea?

[mp3MaStA88]

any luck w/ this project?

[Neglected]

It might be possible...if you could code the Gnutella network into the same protocol, but I doubt you will be able to....